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Well, you better tell his trusty mechanic to bring a compression gauge and tools for removing the spark plugs with him. The only way you're going to get any idea at all of what kind of life that engine has left in it is to do a compression test. If the owner is unwilling to allow a compression test, then you don't want to buy that vehicle anyhow.

Since I'm fairly confident that there's no way that vehicle only has 14,000 miles on it (14,000 on a rebuilt engine is a possibility though, but there's a big difference between a car with 14,000 miles and an engine with 14,000 miles since there are a lot more things that can wear out than just the engine. Transmission would be a bonafide concern at that vehicles probably mileage.) it's unlikely they'll want to allow one.

BTW, this happens to be one of the things I do for a living.

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T.V knows his way around cars pretty well too. He's worked on his ride at my garage before.
 
Sometimes. Not always. How the vehicle has been maintained is probably more important than who it's made by. Some engines are unquestionably more typically reliable than others, but any engine that's not well maintained has equal potential for problems.
 
True, but I never hear of Chevys on the road that have 250,000+ miles on them. I hear of Toyotas and Hondas that do, but I've never heard of a non-Japanese car that's running with so many miles. I'm sure there are some, but not very frequent. It's gotta mean something.
 


My F150 has 510,000 miles on it. It's an '85. My '85 S-10 had 430,000 miles on it when I sold it. Both have had the engine rebuilt exactly once each. Again, it's all about the maintenance and and how it's driven/abused.
 
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At any rate, I might replace the fan, and I'm trying to figure out how to separate this old CPU fan from the heatsink and use that and additional cooling, most likely aimed at cooling the GPU as it likes to hit 75C under load....
 
Hope you're not planning to see much improvement over the stock cooler with that. That's pretty much what that is, is a stock cooler. I doubt you'll see any performance increase in cooling, and might even see a decrease depending on the application. What is this going on?
 


Learn both. Nothing that says you have to be limited to one thing, and you seem to be capable of picking things up fairly easily with a little bit of research so I'd think understanding the basic or even more involved aspects of automotive tech shouldn't be that big a stretch if you can learn to understand the intricacies of how a power supply works.
 


But with computers I have a purpose. I'm going into computer engineering, and computers are things I can actually afford and do a lot of stuff with. I can learn all I want about cars, but realistically I'm not going to be putting that knowledge into action.
 
I was also hugely limited by space, seeing as I have only about 70-80 mm of height clearance... I haven't fully paid it, and IF my friend(who has current custody of it) has my blessing to sell it if possible before Tuesday and give me my money back. In which case I can probably save up some more.
 
Yeah, for low clearance models the selection is rather limited under 30 bucks. You can get a much better cooler than that one for less than 25 bucks, but they're going to be about 20-30mm too tall so the one you went with or the Rajintek model are probably your best options for the price.

 
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