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Originally Posted by maxwedge
118 should be top speed based on oe tire ratings, kinda tough on that 16 year old drivetrain though.
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Yeah, I guess. I'm weird that way I suppose. If my motor/tranny is gonna grenade under stress I'd rather it did and get it over with so it can be dealt with.
Now that being said, I've bought a few older cars that had very cream puff, no silly-stuff existences until I bought them. I wouldn't dare run them hard until they'd been "weaned" back into aggressive style driving gradually. Some of the things I've seen under valve covers and in oil sumps on cars like that, combined with watching elderly customers give a perfect low mileage cherry to a younger relative and having it disintegrate in weeks have led me to believe some patience and a few oil changes are called for in advance of any clowning.
That '77 Mercury with 40,000 original I bought a few years back from the 92 year old original owner for example...funniest thing, the antenna stuck straight up until the first time I had it on the highway, then it developed the typical slight rearward angle...I honestly think that car had never been over 50 mph in it's life...woman was in her 70's when she bought it new...
I gave that car nearly a year before I really put the spurs fully to it.