How many miles til she blows?
#1
How many miles til she blows?
I know a guy with a '93 Z28 who blew a head gasket at 138k, another at 125k. Just wondering what the average is for an LT1 to blow (head gasket, rod, anything).
I just clocked 147k and am starting to get a bit worried. Car runs great but mileage--ouch.
I just clocked 147k and am starting to get a bit worried. Car runs great but mileage--ouch.
#2
Re: How many miles til she blows?
On the other side of the LT1 thing the Impalas, cop cars all that guys routinely find crosshatch in the bores at well over 100K, blown motors seem to only come from catastrophic failure and are unpredictable, headgasket failures are rare to say the least. Actually almost all the stock bootm motors that do fail seem to be bearings on modified motors and not necessarily shortly after a cam and even this is rare.
#4
Re: How many miles til she blows?
I started a thread about 2 weeks ago about how many miles before head gasket problem ? my Z blew at 131,000 miles and my T/A has 109,000 miles so I was wondering the same thing. There is a guy on here with 262,000 miles with no engine problems and my frinds 95 T/A with 210,000 hard driven miles has had no internal engine problems also. Keep you fingers crossed.
#6
Re: How many miles til she blows?
Originally Posted by Trmpt63529
most likely the first one was done correctly, thats why he had to do it again.
Yeah i'm a retard... i meant incorrectly! the number one cause of a headgasket leaking is overheating the car..... they usually don't blow because of high miles...
#7
Re: How many miles til she blows?
Originally Posted by Trmpt63529
the number one cause of a headgasket leaking is overheating the car..... they usually don't blow because of high miles...
#9
Re: How many miles til she blows?
Originally Posted by 97WS6SCharged
Head gaskets don't blow till you're doing something silly. My stockers lasted till 78k miles before I lost one. And that was with 20k miles of blower action.
Looks like I'll just have to keep going til she pops. I bet I'll get a lot more miles out of her, really good/strong car.
Thanks for the replies
#12
Re: How many miles til she blows?
Originally Posted by jdizzell
If you change your fluids as OEM specs and don’t live in 6,000 rpm range, your head gasket and internals should last forever.
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