New guy here for info

I've been looking around for a fun to drive car for a while now, and I've always had speed3's and speed6's in mind. I actually drove 1 1/2 south of here to drive a nice looking speed3 at a Ford dealership a year or so ago. It felt very clogged up, like a clogged cat or blocked intake. It just refused to Rev high and ran outta steam early. We walked away from it. I read the "what to look for" thread and read through that today and figured I'd register to ask a few questions.

I've been looking at everything from g35s, c5 vettes, wrx wagons, and gti's. G35s are mostly ratted out and beat to hell, c5s have ecu issues for the affordable years, wrxs, well, head gaskets. Gtis are kinda quirky. So looking at the speeds, I'm not seeing a lot with high miles. 184k is about the highest I've found. There's 13 speed6's for sale on cargurus, but a lot of them are iffy. Most have 4+ owners. Are these cars destined for new motors at that mileage? Kinda like the audi 4.2 v8s and their timing chain issue?

Another issue is actually looking over the car. Anything I find is more than likely gonna be a plane flight/drive back away. I have buddies on the tundra forum that could probably look a car over if it's in the right city, but other that it would be sight unseen, which seems like a no-no with these cars.

This car would be a play car as I have a work truck, and my personal 02 tundra with 329k miles on it. I have 3 taurus SHOs pending sale right now. I'm mostly done w/fwd, that's why I'm leaning towards the speed6. Any advice or suggestions is much appreciated.

 

The newest speed 6 is going to be 17 years old now so your going to have multiple owners on most of them. The reason you don't see a lot of high mileage is simply that they broke. They were only made for two years in small numbers and basically some parts are hard to find so a minor breakdown ends up parking the car

The motor however is basically the same as the ms3 so no worries there about parts. Some of the early cars blew up due to a bad factory tune but with a good tune the motor is reliable

 

speed 3s power is really addictive, even for a 4-cylinder