Another head gone on a 1kz

[HGMonaro Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close HGMonaro]

Re: Another head gone on a 1kz

My old girlfriends dad bought one brand new...

My parents bought one of the 1st (JB) ones.. an Auto too! It did 278,000kms, pretty much trouble free. Only thing that cause some drama was the ignition cutout on the auto tranny selector chucked a wobbly a couple of times. Want to hear the funny bit.... they traded it on a 1st series Magna! It only did 220,000 trouble free K's before it was traded on a Eunos 500 (think fancy Mazda). The Eunos has had a multitude of things go wrong... Just to add to this little story, I had a JD Camira (poverty pack manual 1.6) that I did about 80,000K's in... drove it flat out everywhere, just added petrol and a couple of oil changes. Traded that on a N13 Nissan Pulsar SSS (same Camira motor) and it did 230,000+ k's before I traded it in. It was still going strong. I know of a few other Camira's that couldn't be killed, so in my experience, they don't deserve their terrible reputation.

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Re: Another head gone on a 1kz

[quote="HGMonaro I know of a few other Camira's that couldn't be killed, so in my experience, they don't deserve their terrible reputation.[/quote]

I know this is getting off the topic of the original post but..... I managed to break the crank shaft in mine. Lucky I had just got off the Mitchell Freeway (in Perth) and wasnt that wasnt on the Gibb River Road at the time. After spending two pay packets in a row on repairs I decided enough was enough.