3100/3400 Longevity?

[Maple Leaf]

How long can a stock engine last? How many mile/kms have you guys seen?

My 98 lumina has a original transmission and engine, With original intake and head gaskets. Simple put it never been apart. Just hit 230.000km the other day.

It doesn't use any oil or antifreeze but hearing so much about there "problems" I am going to be changing the intake gaskets in the spring.

With doing so could this engine see over 300.000 km?

The transmission shifts great. I replaced the filter a few months ago and fluid changed, it was surprisingly pretty clean internally.

Thanks for your time!

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[3100]

I've seen them hit 400-500k kilometers. Well maintained there's no reason they can't last a long time

[95SleeperAcheiva]

Lack of maintenance is what kills them. Even something as simple as putting off that weak thermostat wears on them premature. Change her fluids regular, warm her up before taking off in the morning, clear her throat on occasion, (let her rev out that gear change), and she can go forever. Oh, stupid car wash that does an under-body spray every other day helps tons too, especially in winter.

Making American motors last for a long time is not a new concept. I personally have had a 400k+ mile Olds 350. It was still pulling 160 compression and running when I pulled it out of the cutlass it had been in for 30+ years.

[robert 1980]

What if i warm my 3400/3500 hybrid up all the time.Use castrol gtx every two thousand miles.But beat the piss out of it 85% of the time?How long then

[Merc6]

Only thing scares me is how everyting on my car was "suppose to last 100,000 miles" and I got the car at 107K. I'm just glad it was an old lady with all the sears reciepts in the glovebox.

[95SleeperAcheiva]

hey Merc, you always take pics of your car at Severence shopping center?

Too bad you're an east sider. I'm in the Parma area.

And at 100+, I'd be more worried about the trans. Them I wouldn't put past 150k.

[19Cutlass94]

The trans on mine is starting to go. 1-2shift is very sloppy and its ony 146K on the clock. Motor still runs great.

[Merc6]

It was the closest open area to snap pics of it as is before I start modifying it. Parma isn't that far our car club sometimes go to the Spaghetti Warehouse in Akron.

How hard/easy is it to do a tranns swap?

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[95SleeperAcheiva]

Car club? which one? I'd like to get in on that come spring. Doing this all by internet feels lonely :P

[Merc6]

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In the event would it be possible to rebuild it with the internals of the Regal Series II trans parts or would that trans bolt up? it apperars those trans *cough* and engines are all over the west side Via Ebay and Pull-A-Part.