Doing this as a poll to take a look at some stats of this forum...

 

What are the stats for?

 

48,000 original engine. 93 black R1 stock

 

A buddy of mine is considering getting a FD. I've told him that their reliability is questionable (mostly due to the lack of knowledge early on regarding how to care for them). My own personal experience has been pretty good. My first FD had 62k miles on its first engine when I bought it. The secondary turbo went south around 65k (4.5k turbo replacement), but other than that it was pretty good (it had a downpipe when I bought it and I did a vaccum tube job while trying to diagnose the turbo problem). My secondn FD had 79k miles on its first engine when I bought it. It's going on 82.5k now and it runs even better than my first after I got the turbos fixed. That being the case, I did a considerable amount of research prior to buying both my first and second FDs and have learned how to do most of the maintenance on the FD. My current FD has had 2 coolant changes, 2 bottles of Redline FI cleaner run through, 3 oil changes, transmission fluid change, diff oil change, brake pad/fluid change, fan switch mod, plugs/wire change, O2 sensor change, fuel filter change and 5 aftermarket gauges installed (boost, water temp, A/F meter, fuel pressure, and EGT) in 3.5k miles.

I told him that I'd get some concrete statistics regarding how these cars hold up...

 

114,000 on first engine....2,000 on rebuilt engine & turbos.

 

on my old VR 102k miles stock motor

on the R1 81k first motor at 87k now.

 

The poll is alittle misleading. Some might have had 105K on 1st engine, but have only 5 K on 2nd engine wi thno problems. If you can only vote once, how can a person vote for less than 25K on their 2nd engine.

question should just be, how many miles on engine before it was replaced?

25K or less
50 k or less
75 k or less
100k or less
100k or more

doesn't matter if its the 1st or 2nd. And if you haven't replaced it yet, don't vote. Gives a better life expectancy of the engines without the confusion.

TIm Benton

 

94 PEP w/15K on original engine.

 

First motor: 48,907 miles

Second motor: Eh, why bother?

 

103k Before Rebuild Now 109k

 

What the hell? Are these additional engine replacements covered under warrantee? Do you have any idea why they keep dying on you?

 

94 - 7500 miles on car and 1st motor
93 - 62,000 on 1st motor.....2nd motor installed soon

Eric: is this C-west Eric? If so.....what are you some kind of balla or something? 5-motors?? That sucks huh? How's it coming along?

 

Eric: the car is in Cali. right now getting the motor ported and ceramic seals. It should be back together next week.....then it goes to XS for some tuning. I can't wait to have it back......I've been working on my girls car but not quite the same as mine

Sorry to go off topic......I'll email you Eric....still the same addy?

 

46k and still running great. (Knock on wood.)

 

53k on first one..

2nd one running strong, but it only has about 5K on it

 

95K on first - coolant seal failed

135K w/ 40K on reman motor - side seal failed

135K w/ 0K motor is being rebuilt by KD Rotary

 

90k coolant and oil seals GONE! getting rebuilt,street ported, etc at jr's rotary performance

 

89k Stock turbos needed rebuild, 98k AST broke overheating Engine. 16k on Reman and going strong. Trans rebuilt at 109k 114k on car.

 

68K 1st motor, no thanks to dip-sh$t original owner that did not know what changing the oil meant. Low compression.

9K miles now on reman, 1500-2000 mile oil changes, pre-mix religiously (forgot one fillup). Comp test recently, 7.8 both rotors, multiple tests.

 

99k and still pulling strong.i change the oil every 1000-1500 miles.

 

13K on original engine...butter