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Old 05-27-2009 | 12:05 PM
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aprox 190000. still runnin great with throttle body rebuild and a few other small items
Old 05-27-2009 | 01:58 PM
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Silver Rose at 254K and still going strong.
Old 05-27-2009 | 02:04 PM
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216k miles before I started my work. At leask 25k miles with Autothority chips.
Old 05-27-2009 | 04:27 PM
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216k miles before I started my work. At leask 25k miles with Autothority chips.
What? you're saying a motor will only last 25k with Autothority chips?
Old 05-27-2009 | 05:36 PM
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I bought my car with 226,000 miles on the clock. I did however buy the car with the engine out and in pieces because it needed a rebuild. That said there was no indication it had been rebuilt before that.
Old 05-27-2009 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by sebastian944
What? you're saying a motor will only last 25k with Autothority chips?
Well, those are the chips that run lean on boost.

I mostly meant that it wasnt 216k stock miles.
Old 05-28-2009 | 02:33 AM
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150,000 miles. Burns a bit of oil, leaks a bit more. Leak-down and compression numbers are great, though; less than 4% in all cylinders.
Old 05-28-2009 | 03:09 AM
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Odometer died at 200k, so an estimated 205k miles with no record of a rebuild, except I added an upgraded cylinder head, used an MLS gasket and gave it a little extra head torque (for the 25psi boost) some 30k miles ago.

Last leak-down was done maybe 10k miles ago showing about 2% on all cylinders and it still feels like it has it ... so I am impressed by Porsche.
Old 06-28-2009 | 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by theedge
Well, those are the chips that run lean on boost.

I mostly meant that it wasnt 216k stock miles.
Lean? I thought Autothority chips and MAF run rich...

110,000 miles here
Old 06-28-2009 | 08:35 PM
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I'm trying for the longest rebuild running Think its been 3 years now
Old 06-28-2009 | 10:46 PM
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8 years, 148,000 miles of proper abuse. No major issues, no oil leaks, burns a fair about of oil when I'm on high boost, no smoke and nothing noticable other then adding a qt every 1000-1500 miles.

I believe the bottom end of my engine has never been touched.
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88 model with 280k Kilometers here.
Old 06-29-2009 | 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by xtaC
88 model with 280k Kilometers here.
wow!! that's very impressive. I'd like to hear more from this thread...
Old 06-29-2009 | 02:06 AM
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Don't screw around with these cars, and keep up the periodic maintenance, and these cars are damned near bullet proof.
Start modding, park it for a long time, get slack on maintenance, then all bets are off. My current car has 167k.


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