My friend Alan just had his second motor let go due to coolant seal failure. His FD has ~145k miles, with 70k on the original motor and the rest on the motor that just died, an early RP 3mm seal race motor. It had just recently tested all 7s for compression.

We met over a year ago b/c he was selling it, but I was able to convince him otherwise and we've slowly been resurrecting his 7. This is but a minor roadblock; his 7 will be on the road again with the help of one Pluto

 

Hell i was wondering the same thing. I try to shy from anything higher than 100K due to the mielage even though it has another motor. But it's hard to say since I'm sure not many peeps have accumulated quite to 200K yet. That's quite an amount.

 

I thought BATMAN was over 200K on his black '93 R1. Haven't heard of anyone higher

 

Yeah Batman had like 180k a year or two ago, and I think at that time he had been through 5 motors but I could be off a little.

 

just for the record coolent seals can pretty much let go at anytime...with a high miles cars I would be more worried about suspension...bushing and whatnot...which can actually add up to almost the cost of a motor also...

 

Yea what johnny said plus also something that you can't do anything about and that's frame rust. Just comes with age. Once she hits the 100K mark though, be weary of replacing many parts.

 

Well, alan's fd has been a Texas car for the last 5 years he's owned it, so no rust to speak of yet...

 

Yeah, rust hasn't been known to be a big FD problem. Manufacturers do a pretty good job at rustproofing these days.

 

todd ho of k2rd has 196+ on his fd, we dont have the history of the car so who knows how many motors it has had. alains car is on motor #5 and it is a 93 touring. it has no rust but 900lbs of bondo

mike

 

107 on mine o and its the original running 12.8s before i took it off the road to do my single conversion

 

Oh man that's good to know for future reference . Guess it's all the owner keeping it good shape and doing the requiried maintenance!

 

I guy named Steve Wickeslesser (sp?) on the big list had a 93 with 218K for sale a couple years ago.

Jeff

 

post pics of the shitty condition FD