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how hard can I push my 152,000mi engine?

thanks

 

Bullitt347

I have been doing it wrong this whole time

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Right up until the point it blows up....lol. The real answer is: It depends. It depends on how those miles were accumulated, it depends on how the engine was taken care of...ect, ect. ect.

 

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I have personally done heads, cam, intake on a 200k mile stock engine and drove the hell out of it. I sold the car a while ago but it's still going strong. I don't think I would wind it up past 6k but I wouldn't baby it either.

 

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gotcha

 

justin82

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I push it hard sometines...about 4800rpms feels goofy, and I get scared, so I let off

 

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previous owner babied it....owner before, not sure...I just want to push it to 5500rpm..or so, just to see...but don't want to break it

 

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4500-4900....ok, but get scared

 

General karthief

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Good oil, good maintenance, beat on it like it's a step child!
You can look for an engine to replace it but you may or may not need it, hard to predict

 

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beat on it...seriously?!...I don't want it to go to

 

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That term is a figuare of speech, personally I drive my car hard, if it breaks I fix it. The engine is probably the most durable part of these cars.

 

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karthief said:

That term is a figuare of speech, personally I drive my car hard, if it breaks I fix it. The engine is probably the most durable part of these cars.

Click to expand...

ok, man

 

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I'll beat it

 

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Run it!

 

General karthief

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To get down to reality, these engines don't do anything past 5k stock anyway, I've winged mine past 6k several times only because I just let the tire spin get away from me, most times I hit second gear about 4-4200, same with third, I run cheap tires on the rear, I just wanna have some fun and impress the grandkids, they think my car is a rocket ship.

 

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Keep it under 5K RPM and you should be good.

Back in the day I had buddies that would find out they had no oil in the car, add it, and then put another 50K miles on their 5.0's. Honestly, these are one motor that you really can't kill if you wanted to. Most of the 5.0 death's I've seen are from adding copious amounts of HP.

But, 250-300HP stock 5.0? Keep oil in it and it should last longer than the body.

 

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man, I wish it was 300hp

 

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Push it as hard as you want. Mine has almost 178k on the short block, and I still shift it at 5200-5400 rpm. I have a GT-40 intake, GT-40p heads with stock cam and 1.7 rocker arms. If the intake and heads are stock, revving it higher than 5k is unnecessary. Mike is right, these engines will last a really long time if cared for and not being constantly over-revved (or boosted or sprayed).

 

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You could always run a compression test. As long as the cylinders are within 10% of each other, romp on it.

 

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If they're not within 10 percent.....drive it like you stole it....you need to take the motor apart anyways

 

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With that mileage I would worry more about the tranny than the engine if I was going to beat on it.