Average Life Span Of An Rb20det

[lows_13]

Whats an average life span of an RB20DET usually expected to be?

I realise there are a lot of variables which will increase/decrease the life span of the engine,

but if everything was pretty well stock, what's the most Km's someones got out of one of these engines?

I'm looking at a care today that has 155,000 on the clock, it a 93 R32 type M, that seems a tad high....

[WazR32GTSt]

that's normal if the car is in good condition...

do you really expect a 13yo car to have less than 150,000kms on the clock??

[lows_13]

I've seen plenty come over with under 100k on the clock, just wanna know what the maximum Km's someones got out of an RB20DET.

[Roy]

If they have std turbo and ECU then i dont see why 250,000kms shoudl be a problemn provided servicing has been looked after.

My original RB20 was ripped out at 175,000kms after a woopsie with spanners (not the engines fault) and it was foufn to still be in good niv, with a very clean head and bottom end looking healthy. That on an engine that would have done at a guess 7-10 track days a year for almost 5 years...which was somewhere around 3,000-3,5000kms of track wotk...not bad for a std engine built by Nissan in 1992

[Cubes]

I've seen R32's with supposive 60,000-100,000km's on the clock that look in worse condition (interior wise) than my 206,000km R32.

[MerlinTheHapyPig]

it's a difficult question to answer, for a few reasons

- it's hard to tell the kms on an engine in a car that came from japan, because alot of them have their speedo's wound back and you have no idea if it's the original engine in the car of if they've had to rebuild / change motors

- running aftermarket turbos with high level's of boost will dramatically reduce engine life!

Speaking from personal experience, my rb20det, whilst fairly stock, get's a lot of thrashing, in the form of drifting it once a week for the last year, and it's still going strong. I've got friends who are blowing sr20det's left right and centre, but the rb's been put under similar level's of abuse and still going strong.

The car has 114,000kms on the clock and when i first got the car at 98,000kms it was showing 150psi compression across all cylinders. No idea what sort of history it had in japan, but i've been serviceing it every 4,000kms with good oil.

Anyway, 150,000kms is nothing to worry about, i'd expect these engines to last well over 200-250 thou kms if it's fairly stock and well looked after. rb20det's have had a reputation for being relatively bullet-proof.

[Mr Italy!]

I've seen plenty come over with under 100k on the clock, just wanna know what the maximum Km's someones got out of an RB20DET.

No, you've seen pleanty of odomoters with less then 100k, you havent seen many R32's under 100k on the engine.