good insight or total b.s.?
I’m not reading all that.
Cliffs?
The cliffs is in the title.
:pat:
A very good read.
But really, as suggested in your title, who knows?
its one of those things that you can almost look at it from both ways and be right.
But, if you do a hard break in, it lets your piston rings makes grooves in the wall and they seat themselves better. So I hear.
cliffs’ notes:
Drive it super hard for the first 200 miles or so. Lots of heavy throttle, then let the engine do the braking.
Don’t use synthetic oil at first, and don’t let it idle or cruise on the freeway.
What he’s saying seems to make sense. No one on this board will ever need this info unless they rebuild an engine though … he’s talking about the first 20 - 200 miles ONLY.
I did this with my 1992 dodge colt (recommended by my god father who’s a mechanic) and to be honest everyone thought me/my dad were nuts but I put over 300,000km on that motor and it was still way over the service limit. at around 300,000km I swapped it out for a talon motor and when I sold it to another guy he was shocked at the compression it was holding (can’t remember the exact numbers).
take this with a grain of salt though, my dad and I took really good care of the car (premium fuel/oil. regular tune ups). drove it as hard as you could drive a 98 crank HP car 