9,000 on a S2000 or RX-8. The point I was making was that, while a race engine is unreliable at it's unreal specific output, when you drop RPMs or boost off of it it becomes very reliable. Take the Cosworth XF, at 16,800 rpms and making 900 hp it was really unreliable, the XFE does 12,000 rpms and makes 750 hp. It was the same engine minus some of the more pricey and persnikety parts. The engines were unbreakable by the previous standards. Doing this down tuning was what I meant by going to street spec.
Okay I was too general about Japenese cars, but my aunt has a first gen Prius and she has no troubles. As for the trucks, I wouldn't know since I've never driven nor known anybody well that drove one. The rs200 was a while ago, look at the Evos and STi they are similar.
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The reliability clearly goes down, but that it doesn't immediately die proves that it is over built stock. Although the American cars have made reliable engines, they are also much lower tech. So, the fact that Japanese engines have more parts to fail and still work is just fine.
However haven't we strayed from the topic of this blown engine? Yes, I know I caused it, sorry. I have a question about the GM-V engine, is there a specific aspect of this engine that causes this issue?