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I was thinking about this reading the N/A V TT reliability set of posts in another current thread.

 

I have to my knowledge the original J-Spec turbos.

 

I bought the car with only 15,000 miles (25K) and now it's now covered approx 130,000. Still pulling strong, thanks.

 

I guess there's no point JP replying to this :D

 

1) Lbm's tubbies: 130,000 miles

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Get Branners (I'm sure it was him) in on this as he said before that he/they had a Supra with over 250,000 miles on it and it was still on the original turbos.

 

If this is all a lie, feel free to ban me for an hour :p

 

Either that owner never used boost or I'll see you an hour. ;)

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Get Branners (I'm sure it was him) in on this as he said before that he/they had a Supra with over 250,000 miles on it and it was still on the original turbos.

 

If this is all a lie, feel free to ban me for an hour :p

 

Thats alot of time for you to miss out on on posting :D

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Get Branners (I'm sure it was him) in on this as he said before that he/they had a Supra with over 250,000 miles on it and it was still on the original turbos.

 

If this is all a lie, feel free to ban me for an hour :p

 

No, that's true, there's a US spec on 300,000 plus on original tubbies.

 

Anyway, mine are 70k and counting.

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It may even present Josh with a chance to drive his car instead of post on the forum dedicated to it ;)

 

My car is an NA-TT (purchased as such, didn't source the engine) so I don't know how many miles it has covered nor whether the turbos are stock to said engine etc.

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It may even present Josh with a chance to drive his car instead of post on the forum dedicated to it ;)

 

My car is an NA-TT (purchased as such, didn't source the engine) so I don't know how many miles it has covered nor whether the turbos are stock to said engine etc.

 

:p

 

 

Well I'll contribute to the thread. My Supra has now done 79,200 miles but as it was singled for a couple of years you'd have to check with Si (bignum) as to how many miles it had done without the original turbos then calculate it.

 

Still pulling strong and whoopin' ass! :D

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I don't see it now, but I know that it did over 300,000 on original turbos, never had the head off, and was on the original auto gearbox too. I think it did Portsmouth to north of Scotland at least twice a week, sometimes more often. Still ran strongly at 300,000 + miles, but the suspension (original....) was pretty tired.

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If this is all a lie, feel free to ban me for an hour :p

 

How about 6 months :D

 

75k still going

 

I think CW knows of a mkiv thats into high miles on the original turbo's, mines nearly 132,000 miles

and going strong on original turbos, gearbox, diff, driveshafts and wheelbearings :)

 

thats great grandpa

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My car had done approx 96,000 miles on the j spec turbos.

 

Was running at 1.2 bar for around last 2 years. Was driving fine with no known issues. Having stripped the engine now for the single install and rebuild I found that there was a significant amount of play on the turbos. Having seen them I would say they are shot. Strange though as they were pulling hard until I removed them.

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My Jspec had about 66k on them, when I went single there was some slight damage to one of them but wasn't noticable when driving.

 

My car had done approx 96,000 miles on the j spec turbos.

 

Was running at 1.2 bar for around last 2 years. Was driving fine with no known issues. Having stripped the engine now for the single install and rebuild I found that there was a significant amount of play on the turbos. Having seen them I would say they are shot. Strange though as they were pulling hard until I removed them.

 

 

 

Mmm, makes me wonder if mine really ARE still "good to go"...?

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Mileage isn't a true representation of reliability though it it? My car has done 58K miles and i got it with 56K on it. In the time I have had it it's been on boost (2nd turbo) about 15 times. Most of the the time I am pottering about round town looking the shizz..!!

 

If a car has done 300K miles it's been on the motorway and off boost most of it's life.

 

H.

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