And by once I mean 5 times.... On the same car... Inside of 6 months..

 

Y'all must have been doing some thing really wrong, thats kinda unheard of.

 

I replaced SledgeHammer's once, only by choice. Just to be safe. Never had an issue.

 

Nah.. each part went out at a different time so we replaced things one by one.. It was gay and the car still runs like ****. Basically lt1 ftl.

 

I traded in a 95Z a couple of years ago with the original opti spark and water pump at 162k miles. It wasn't the best running car out there but it still would hit 150 and was good for low 14s.

 

Wait I've heard this story before, but the last guy that told it said the car was carborated, got over 100mpg, and the FBI came and took it..

 

You're not oldschool.. unless you saw jack wendel pull up in his barbie doll vette.. his first car made within the last 20 years

 

Actually I bought it from my sister that used it to commute from DFW to OKC a couple of times a week. The first 60k were normal metroplex driving but the last 100k were put on in a couple of years and were nearly all cruising at 60-80mph.

You run into problems when the platinum disks fell off the plugs, raising their gap from .050" to more like .070" and having them wear substantially faster. Couple this with crappy factory plug wires and yeah it'll burn things up. Even a conventional distributor would have problems. Throw some new plugs in and set the gap to .035", put on some good wires and the thing should last a lot longer.

Also if the water pump leaked, it'd destroy them. Washing the engine could kill one and the all too common leaking intake gasket would let oil seep into the electronics if ignored.

My 93Z though on the other hand had took 3 optis in less than a year. That was a crappy design! My other 95Z went 62k before I did a motor swap and decided to replace the opti with the new engine but it still worked fine.