High mileage

smog7 wrote: do most of you guys still compete/race with these high mileage beauties?

250,000 miles on the Miata and that car can boogey around a race track like no other. I don't expect to retire it until it dies or I get bored with it and sell it.

Lowest to highest.

97 E150 - 112000+ showing, odometer broke three years ago. The tow beast.

99 Chevy Venture - 162000 The wife's ride.

83 RX-7 187000 The toy. Goes to every autocross I can make

97 E150 249000 Partners work van.

95 E150 326000 Employees work van

99 E250 369000 My work van. This one gets about 50-60K a year on it since I bought it.

I have about decided it's cheaper to fix them than it is to replace them. All of these will be on the road for a long time to come.

those econlines are tough! my '87 is low miles at 125K but my dad's work vans usually got almost 200k by the time they would start to lose cylinders and get tranny noises.. not as much as your vans but my dad usually overloaded them by 500-1000lbs from day 1 and floored it constantly to make up for the slowness of the extra weight. that and he selected work trucks by testing all of them at the dealership and buying the fastest one, so they were definitly 'stressed' often...

When i totaled my Escort I was at about 280k, wasn't using any oil, and the AC was still blowing cold.

Wow, plenty of impressive mileages here!

My diesel Peugeot is nudging 200K miles and runs like a champ. But this model has been known to reach a million.

joey48442 wrote:

93celicaGT2 wrote: My 92 Celica has 230k on it. I'm not sure if the Escort has 158k or 258k. As an interesting aside, someone on FEOA.net just bought a 94 Escort GT i believe it was, with over 650k miles on it. BALLER.

For that matter, how can you be sure its not 58k? Or 358k. Or even 458k? Joey

Carfax showed an odometer roll, and it's not quite clean enough underneath to be 58k. I also believe it was driven for a long time unregistered. I'd place my bets on 258k. It's nowhere near beat enough for anything higher, and it wasn't clean enough that it was pampered. If it had 358k, it would have blown up by now from previous owners. I've only put 2k on it so far.

smog7 wrote: do most of you guys still compete/race with these high mileage beauties?

The 230k Celica is my "race car."

My 91 Escort just passed 300,000 miles 2 days ago. It was a grandma car for 70K, then grandaughter got it for her daily driver/pizza delivery until she toasted the clutch at 131K when I got it for my pizza delivery use. I drive this car hard too! Uses no oil on the original engine with no lifter tick. Still gets 34 mpg in deliver mode and over 50 mpg on its 2 long trip on the interstate.

I just bought another 91 Escort with only 24,000 miles on it...with a blown motor...go figure!

Bruce

Rufledt wrote: those econlines are tough! my '87 is low miles at 125K but my dad's work vans usually got almost 200k by the time they would start to lose cylinders and get tranny noises.. not as much as your vans but my dad usually overloaded them by 500-1000lbs from day 1 and floored it constantly to make up for the slowness of the extra weight. that and he selected work trucks by testing all of them at the dealership and buying the fastest one, so they were definitly 'stressed' often...

My E250 is on the second engine. The first pitched a rod at 298000. It's in the shop now for the third transmission. The last time it crossed a set of scales it topped out at 7400#. All that is hauled around by a 4.2L V6. If your foot isn't on the floor, you aren't going anywhere. I don't see how the poor thing stays together at all. If it blew up again tomorrow, I couldn't complain. I got my moneys worth out of it. I would probably rebuild it again and run it another 100K+

Edit: the 7400# is just the usual load. Next week it will hit the road for a two hour run pulling a 20' trailer with four door packages on it. Figure another 2500#+. Hope the guy does a good job on the tranny this time. The first one lasted 2 days.