Engine life?

[Alley]

Approx how long do these viper engine and trannys last under normal driving conditions? With some hard miles, ie: drag or road racing. I got a LS1 and I know with the aluminum heads and block they can start to give at around 70k miles. So I'm wondering how long one of these beasts will last?

 

[Torquemonster]

The answers are varied - you'll find some people had great runs and a few got bad runs - like any American car.

There's several done over 100,000 miles - I'm pretty sure Joe117's has done the magic ton as one example.

I've heard of a guy that fitted magnesium con rods as an experiment - that's not relevant to stock - but that car went over 100,000 miles with those rods in and was not nursed!

Given a good basic engine the V10 should do 100,000 miles if looked after no problems at all - but it all depends upon how much track time etc.... be interesting to hear some experiences on this thread.

 

[garolittle]

Bump. Any more 100,000+ stories out there?

 

[SNKEBIT]

there's no reason a car built these days can't go 100k+. Look at some of these 4 bangers that are overworked and run forever. Technology has come a long way baby!!!!!!

 

[Fishtail]

If everything is well maintained like oil changes, coolant and other fluids I can't see why our Vipers couldn't go over 100K miles? Not too many people have a Viper as their everyday driver so I don't think the miles will go that high on too many cars that aren't being driven.

-Lou