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It will last 100,002 miles.
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160,937.619 kilometers. Depending on where you are. |
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I have 50k miles on my supposedly cursed, recall ridden model year 2013. 15-20k of those are very hard track miles.
Like others said, maintenance is key. Limiting your tire selection to 200tw tires doesn't hurt either. My maintenance schedule on my track only car is oil change every 6ish track days (averaged about 25-30 track days/year in 2017-2019), brake fluid once at the beginning of the season and again somewhere around June/July. Diff and trans fluid at the beginning of every year. Seems to be working good. After seeing blown up subies and reading all the FA horror stories I have started to think that I am on borrowed time. But she just keeps going.
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The reality is we are probably looking at well under 1% that had failure due to actual defects in parts or design. This is in line with any other car ever made, even the mythically "bullet proof" ones of fanboi lore. The number due to driver abuse/screwups, poor maintenance, bad modifications (tunes, overboost, etc) and other issues not related to the actual cars will be the vast majority.
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People have such a negative opinion on the FA that running engines go for relatively cheap. I refuse to rebuild one of these. I will just swap in a running one (prob a 2017+ engine) when the time inevitably comes.
Side note: I met a guy at a track that had an IAG engine and I could not believe how much he paid for it. I can swap in used engines 3 times before I got to that amount!
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I'd prefer not to risk losing another engine on track. If the rod bearings look slightly worn and on the looser side of spec, I will swap another set in and call it a day. If they look bad I will likely just get a new short block. Checking the rods should be doable with just pulling the upper pan assembly off.
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Clean, properly filled oil= longevity. The recall issues were a roll of the dice. Either the tech knew what he was doing or he didn't. Mine didn't. 3K miles in and that was all she wrote. To add insult to injury he didn't tighten the clutch fork so in the middle of the freeway with a rod knocking, the clutch went out in the middle of stopped traffic. |
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Money shifted it to what appeared to be 9k once. That was a scary event. |
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PSI means nothing.
14.5PSI out of a 13G is not the same as a a GT286 or a GT3582. That number also changes with mods. PSI is just a measure of restriction. The actual power output is what really maters in this case. |
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If I ever boost my FA20 its going to be a baby turbo with boost by gear and a damn good tune targeting around 300WHP and 230-250WTQ on e85
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