currently looking at classics and seena few nice ones lightly modded, i.e. running 320bhp or thereabouts

all sti's .. but there mileage is 70,000 (uk miles not km!) or above..

original engine

would you risk it now? with them being old? or hold out for one thats had a rebuild..?

considering i wont have money for rebuild if i was to buy the car now lol

everythign seems documented.. such as service history and any work done.. etc.

whats your take on this?

 

It depends how its been treated.. their are afew people on this forum that have got them running on the original engine well over 70K

 

whosee got the highest mileage classic on original engine?

as for how its been reated.. i dont know.. i can just run off the service history which seems fine with oil changes every 4k since imported along with timing belt etc.

most say they were imported around the 40k mark been in the country for a few years

 

my fathers 93 wagon is on 113k on its original engine, and he certainly doesnt drive like an old manny!

 

mines on 153 thousand and now its gone bang no compression on num 4 piston

 

what sort of power are they running?
standard?

the reason i ask is the ones ive seen fro sale have bretahing mods plus a remap.. would that affect engine life?

 

but saying that 153k is really good! i normally hear of rebuilds before 100k on scoobys, not sure if thats due to mods or big end

 

If looking at a JDM car, I'd try to get one with only the one UK owner, and who has pretty much mapped it straight away after delivery into the UK, by a reputable mapper i.e. all of SN's usual suspects.

(Obviously all the normal things to look for on high performance turbo'd cars apply too).


JGM Simon ran a Classic up to a monster (pardon the pun) mileage - 193k miles IIRC! And a lot of the initial mileage was on the stock ECU!, IIARC.

 

My 98 turbo has 119,000 on the clock, with original engine - had it 7 months, mo major problems as yet.... no modifications on it.

 

I might be wrong, but I don't think getting them remapped straight away is a concern for the earlier models up to about 98/99 when japan had the higher octane fuel introduced?

Think I read one of JGMs post once and he had a wagon on its original engine and it done 180ish before it went bang, someone did ask how long it'd been in the country before it'd been mapped etc but forgot to have a follow up read to find out the reply.