i was just kidding, relax. btw, i am almost at 50k miles on my '04 - does that count? i've only had it for a 2.5 years though. the first guy put on 38k of those miles.

 

77k and original engine

 

Expo rebuilt his engine.

 

36k right now on original engine...

 

24K on my 04 - damn 4 mile commute!

 

I have a 6 mile commute. Its what I do AFTER the commute that racked up miles

 

If I had kept my original 8 and all things stayed the same, I'd be at around 80k right now. The second 8 I swapped into (also a 2004) is going to hit 50k next month...which is only 2 months earlier than the warranty would have expired.

Time to buy some F/I? Nope...not in this economy.

 

56k on original engine... and climbing fast...

I bought the car in March of '08 with 28k on it...

 

this is the perfecttime to buy F/I some kit's are going for cheap....My warranty runs out next month so i'm shopping around right now for a Greddy Kit!

 

Not trying to go off topic, but I never understood why people wait till after their warranty is up to perform a major mod like that. I personally would go that route while the engine still had fairly low miles (under 25k) for obvious reasons, but also, if something did go wrong, I could at least have the option of pushing my luck by taking out the F/I and seeing if I could get whatever happened with the engine repaired under warranty. Adding turbo after 50k miles in this car to me is like deciding to become a football player at 35. I guess I just want to keep my 8 for as long as possible.

 

well if you add a turbo your not going to be just taking it off and going to the dealer, thats for sure. you would spend so much time and work trying to take everything off and make it look stock again that it would just be WAY cheaper to pay to have it fixed.

 

Mine had 15k on it when I bought it this summer. I've put 5k on it since though. The guy barely ever drove it.

 

i just passed 27k on my 04 bought her 8 months ago with 24 on it

 

Correct, that was around 110,000 miles miles. I now have 128,000.

 

im at 54K on my 2005 =]]]

if that counts.

 

I had 117,800 on my early build 04 AT, before swapping it to MT. I've put roughly 4k more miles on it since mid summer and the swap.

 

Just curious, did you swap it because the engine failed or becuase you wanted a 6P engine? Could you have went longer?

 

109k and running like day 1

 

IT was weak/marginal compression, technically under mazda standard for renesis engines. But it started and ran normally...idled exceptionally well. The only way you could tell it was weak, was that it took 2-3 good seconds to fire up and run during cranking. Part of that is no doubt due to the shitty starter rpm as well, the thing did turn exceptionally slow.

I feel it could have gone to 150-175k, based on what I saw when I tore it down.

No, I only pulled it out to do the 6P/6MT swap.

 

Thats good to hear, pretty cool you pulled off the swap. Are you still the only one on these boards to pull it off or have other people done it?

 

Im at 84K KM, how much is that in miles? Like 50-55K?

 

The only person in the country/world to have done it the way that I did, to my knowledge. That is, not going with an alternative engine swap (13bREW, 13bRE, 13bt, 20brew, etc.), while retaining stock functionality (no one would ever look at my car and say "hey, that used to be an auto" because it looks like a stock 6MT).

 

BB 04 50xxx OE, title come may. Looking 4ward to FI also.

 

Was there a thread started for your swap Rotary Resurection? I looked and don't know what it would b called?

 

Auto to manual swap maybe?

Look in the automatic specific section...it is at the top.