Posted: 1/25/2006 3:52:48 PM EDT
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Almost died trying to stop and take this picture. I thought it was cool. 87 nissan sentra. eh, never mind  |
It just took 5 miles to get it to that 
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1985 Ford F150 with the straight 6 engine. It was my dad's truck for 10 years or so, and he drove a delivery route. He gave it to me when he thought it was on it's last leg. I've owned it for the last three years. Photo of it rolling over 300,000 miles. Edit: The tranny has been rebuilt, but the engine is untouched. The straight-6 (LS6?) has a reputation of being a 300,000 mile engine. (so I'm scared to drive it now) 
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I had a Nissan Stanza Wagon a 1987 if I remember correctly. It looked like a minivan wit 2 sliding doors. It had just turned over on 100,000 when my cousin gave it to me after sitting about 18 months. He said the front end was about to fall out of it and the computer was out making it run rough. A can of heat in the 18 month old gas fixed the computer problem and a new tire fixed the front end. The thing had 3 tires with less than 500 miles on it.Why the moron only bought 3, I'll never know.It had 299,987 miles on it when the tree fell on it. |
I had 118,700 today.  ETA in my '97 Explorer. The bastard was nearly perfect mechanically up until about 100,000 miles, then the tranny went out (not a big suprise) and now I am having 4WD/drivetrain issues. That, and the fucking heater won't work, and will cost $1000 to fix (fuckers at Ford screwed it up in the first place by putting the wrong part in the blender door box when they built the truck). FUCK, no more Fords. |
you need to fill up. |
enigma2yOu:
Well, let's see. Probably an average of 2k rpm. A car probably averages about 20 mph over it's life span. 2,000 rpm, 60 minutes in an hour =120,000 revolutions per 20 miles. 5,000 segments of 20 miles each equalling 100k miles. 120,000 X 5,000 =600,000,000. That's my guess. Six hundred million revolutions per 100k miles. Give or take 10 to 15 revolutions 
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now that is funny. I would guess that the average MPH would be a bit higher, like 30 or so, but lets just say your right. Isn't it damn crazy that we are able to make an engine do over a billion revolutions without a glitch. I think it is. I know some of you will say, "duh, there is oil to help and stuff", but regardless, I think it is pretty neat. |
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