The shop I work at regularly sees vehicles with 200k + miles. My 1990 hoda accord has 400K on the original motor and trans. 400K on a rotary is is pretty impressive though.

 

400 on a trans (auto, I assume) is probably just as impressive. Hell, my wife's 99 millenia transmission only made it to 70k before taking a big **** and locking up in the middle of the road. It now has 75k more on the rebuild.

 

there are plenty of Toyota's out there with well over a million miles...

Land cruisers, Heluxs, exc.

 

my boys N/A had 260K on original motor he bought it with 190K and around 200K we installed a water injection kit with 2 water nozzles in the UIM on the secondary runners and blocked off the oil metering and ran pettis protek R premix, and when the motor blew because he turbo ed it with 260K (Dumb ***) the rotors where shiny clean and the only damage was where the rear rotors apex seal got chewed up. Im pretty sure that motor would have gone another 100K easily even the coolant seals where in great shape and car had no mud.

 

I put 525,000 miles on my 82 RX w/12A engine without a rebuild. All I ever did was replace a water pump two or three times, rebuild the Carb a couple of times and a few alternators. No kidding.

I use premix in my RX's and recently I started using it in my Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptors (I own a Cab/Taxi Business). That two cycle oil keeps the carbon from accumulating in the engine.

 

WHO BUILT THESE ENGINES?

 

wow!!!!! 400k miles nice job keeping it running...just curious if it will pass the inspection...

 

Uh, some japanese dude in a Hiroshima factory about 20 years ago.

Is this a trick question?

 

Really? Seriously?

I have to say that I don't believe this. What do you mean by "plenty" any way? How many? I'm gonna need some supporting evidence before I just take your word on it.

There's so much that can happen to a vehicle during it's lifetime, whether it's engine related or not, that would cause the car to hit the boneyard before ever achieving even 200k miles - let alone a million +.

400k is impressive on any engine in my opinion.

Cheers,
Cody

 

Some guy here in milwaukee put a million miles on his late 80's saab with out a rebuild or any major engine work. It was in an artical in the milwaukee journal sentinal a year or 2 ago.

Pre GM saabs, FTW!

 

I know a number of farmers/ranchers down here that routinely put over 300k miles on their work trucks. One older couple that is good friends with my father he said he doesn't get his money out of a truck if it doesn't get at least 250k before it dies.

 

Most honda's I've seen with ~200k miles smoke pretty bad.

Awesome! 400,000 miles is a lot of miles. How's the Chassis holding up?

Side note: Some Diesel motors will run a million miles(mostly semi's), but not as fun or fast as a rotary.

 

A few months ago there was a 95 civic with 990k miles on it on craigslist, I believe. The guy bought it new and drove it coast to coast for business. Said it was on it's 4th or 5th clutch, timing belt, but original motor and tranny. The car looked new in the pics and he said it still looked and drove excellent and his mechanic believed it had another 200k+ left in it at minimum if properly maintained.

 

See, that doesn't sound unbelievable to me. It's when people say, "oh yeah, no biggie, plenty of cars make it to 1,000,000 miles before a rebuild" - that's when I call bologna.

But, back on subject, that really doesn't look so bad inside! I'm assuming you'll rebuild it and give her another go 'round?

Cheers,
Cody

 

thats just insane

 

Wow. 400k miles on a rotary is very impressive! I bet the rotor housings are junk. Usually on a street car about 200k miles for a NA before the thing starts smoking, 150K for turboed rotary and the seals break. That's what I see.

 

damn..good ****. how well did that thing run??

 

Hah... I beg to differ, have you ever drove a modified diesel? With just a programmer they will run in 13s. Last time I run my Dodge Diesel I was just below 14.5s in a 1/4mile and thats with tools and other crap in the back. Daily weight around 8200lbs. It is definitely fast and ffffffuuuuuunnnnnn.....

 

Oh no... I've seen it! Big Desiel trucks running 13's whoopin on 5.0's, and camero's!

Some are fast and I didn't say desiels can't be fast, just said not as fast or fun AS A rotary...

Rotary Power!