Toyota Runx Engine replacement

[ponder]

Did you know it is against the law in Japan to have a motor in your vehicle that has done more than 100 000 KMs?

When a car in Japan has reached 100 000 KM, the motor is swapped out with a new one and importers such as Japan Auto buy them and get sold to us.

We recently bought a Toyota Corolla 1.8 engine from them,that engine was in perfect condition, it even had a sticker of the KM when the engine was removed (it was in Chinese but there were numbers)

The roadworthy requirements over there are also extremely strict. I've had a look at some of those jap cars they import for countries around SA and they are in pretty good shape with low mileage. I would not worry to much about buying a jap import engine, it's a big business in the US modding market.