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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 10:15 AM
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Ok guys , who out there has the highest mileage LS1 Camaro~Firebird~Corvette that has never had the valve covers off ???
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 11:56 AM
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Just took mine off for the first time to do a cam swap at a 122K, but I'm betting there area lot higher out there.
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 12:03 PM
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Well , so far , "YOU DA MAN" !
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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182,xxx miles. Just put on new exhaust.
Next is suspension and heads/cam.
Daily driver tho not raced.
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 03:06 PM
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lol...put a cam in at 60k, spun a bearing at 92k. It was run pretty hard though. it was driven 55,000 miles in the last 2 years...
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 06:15 PM
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There are several C5s on CF well over 200k. The highest numbers I have seen reported are over 300k.

Here's one guy listing all the reported service work at 232k.
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Old Aug 4, 2007 | 07:47 PM
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well mine made it to 104,000 with no problem ran strong, but i got the itch and im doing a h/c swap
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I'm about to hit 193k now. A lot of those miles were city, too. With me (a horrible lead foot) behind the wheel since 40K, I've had zero engine problems. A lot of clutches and two rear ends, though. Hell, I'm still running on the stock alternator. I think I'll have to make a big ordeal out of it when I finally kill this thing. It's never been run at a track, but trust me, it's had A LOT of abuse on the street.
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Originally Posted by Gannet
There are several C5s on CF well over 200k. The highest numbers I have seen reported are over 300k.

Here's one guy listing all the reported service work at 232k.
They all seem so excited about it and all the guys on the corvette forum always say to drive the car every day and enjoy it instead of making them garage queens, but trying to sell a high mileage C5 to one of them is like trying to sell Kryptonite to Superman.
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Old Aug 15, 2007 | 05:09 PM
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I'd take a hi mileage c5 but no one wants to sell for a decent price. They all want stupid money because it's still a vette.

I think there was a guy posted on here a while ago had over 225k on his fbody
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130k just did a cam at 127 on the 3rd rear, and 3rd clutch 5 a/c compressor, like 8th p/s pump keep blowing the front seal out and it takes out the alt... good thing the alt has a lifetime warranty :0)
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