POLL: Has Your engine died with less than 10k miles on it?

[travellinbob]

I had a 13bturbo last about 2000klm\'s until it sucked a unifilter throught he T04. After that it still ran for a while but compression was down. My own stupid fault
 cheers, michael Oh and I would love to know what they actually expect from their engines also. If you go bug injectors, big single and about 1bar of boost then only drive the car on weekends (and cane the arse off of it) thne do you really think it will last 40,000miles??

[Ricco_04]

I\'m still yet to be convinced of an engine doing more than 60k without a rebuild, in stock form.

Previous owner of my car did 99,750 miles on completly stock car before it became hard to start. Reason for rebuild was low compression.

I also believe that if you reuse any parts in a rebuild than you can\'t expect to be pushing big mileage - just my opinion though.

[Prof]

Mr car had 76000 miles on it before the water jacket cracked and failed over a very cold winter :driving plus it probably wasn\'t looked after as well as it could have been by previous owners

[antnicuk]

sorry,  i should have made it a bit clearer, i was refering to FD\'s,  my elford had nearly 100k on it and was still going when the turbo II engine went in.

[Ricco_04]

Yes mate - this is for the FD

[efiniste]

my original FD engine went at 70,000 (water seal). It had been untouched up until that point.

[sparkgap]

6k after a rebuild by and then a refit by Nemesis (who failed to uphold warantee before they went bust) - blocked injector and detonation.
Probably what killed the original engine at 60k.
Injectors weren\'t checked by refitters.
 
Take heed everybody, if your rx7 dies early then you\'ll need to find out what caused it.. I think I just found out what caused mine..

[Travis]

This thread is very scarey:( now anyone with the rebuild dvd\'s wana send me a copy pm me lads;) )

[AtomicRex]

I have a K-Series engine in my Atom....It did a total of 37 hours....and then a £5k rebuild

There are so many advantages for having a rotary...although the fuel economy (I use economy in the loosest of words) 5mpg is a little crap.....it is so cheap to maintain.

The race engine Ive got now cost a 1/6 of the price the K-Series cost to build, and although it is a fantastic engine doesn\'t produce 400hp!

Still 650bhp per ton is quite good fun...think I will need to up the number of rotors to even start getting close to that in the current car.

[AtomicRex]

Oh and on the point of Warantees...one of the main reasons for going to Carl is because he warrant\'s his engines.  I think that is worth a fortune...even though Carl doesn\'t charge the most...even if he did it would be worth it just for the back up!!

[antnicuk]

there are still a lot of people who have not posted that have definately had engines that didnt last very long

[stuart wizy]

my first fd after 1500 miles built with new housings due my dikhead mate turning boost up above a bar on std twins std injectors std fuel pump and std ecu! full det with a smashed apex seal and side seal.

[LRP]

anybody got an answer as to why the original engine last alot more miles than rebuilds or is it because they spend along time standard? Then we get hold of them! and push them harder?

[Travis]

kinda puts an insight into why tuners rebuild warranty\'s arnt worth the paper they written on :2Rolleyes

[Jit]

anybody got an answer as to why the original engine last alot more miles than rebuilds or is it because they spend along time standard? Then we get hold of them! and push them harder?

The new engine has closer tolerances...ie not worn plates or worn rotors...all the side seals are correctly clearanced as well and they all are built with new bearings and ancillaires whcich are less likely to fail.