New SHORTBLOCK. Break-in advice???

[Grape]

rings don't seat if you are being a pussy. cylinder pressure behind the ring drives it into the cylinder wall

[Captain Crawfish]

run the piss out of it!

[zemog]

fuck it, of course you wont hurt it..oil changes are an old wives tale too

my genius lazyass brother ran a car for 80k miles with no oil change , went longer than i thought it would...lol

[robs97snake]

Did you get the forged stuff??

Nope. New aluminum block but they polished my heads when they machined them.

[robs97snake]

OK OK OK. I have decided to drive it hard a couple times and get it up to like 6k rpm for now.


Another question....should I wait until I get the first oil change to remove all the ring and cylinder bits or go crazy now and THEN get my oil changed?????

[Cobraman]

Nope. New aluminum block but they polished my heads when they machined them.

tisk tisk.

[robs97snake]

tisk tisk.

I'm happy that the insurance covered the $5,800 repair and I only had the $500 deductible

[whitetrash]

I'm happy that the insurance covered the $5,800 repair and I only had the $500 deductible

then you should follow your builders advice so you dont break it again and be out of pocket

[46Tbird]

Another question....should I wait until I get the first oil change to remove all the ring and cylinder bits or go crazy now and THEN get my oil changed?????

Why would it matter what we say? You already have your mind made up.

[greenbullitt]

Why would it matter what we say? You already have your mind made up.

yup

[jnobles06]

There have been tons of research done in this area and he has a valid ?. Unfortunatly almost all of the ring seat happens in the first heat cycle an engine goes trough. After that it doesn't matter. I alway run a fresh motor long enough to make sure there are no leaks and then I take it out and leave it in first gear, hammer on it and let off an let then engine compression brake it self this really puts load on the rings and seats them in. Do this three or four times, let it cool and change the oil. After that its fair game.

x3. was told by my engine builder to drive it at about 2k for a few minutes, then 3k, then hammer it, then take it home, and change the oil. he said that is all the break in that is needed.

[Cobraman]

I'm happy that the insurance covered the $5,800 repair and I only had the $500 deductible

shoulda gone forged, especially if insurance was footin' the bill! moar POWAAAA.

[Cooter]

x3. was told by my engine builder to drive it at about 2k for a few minutes, then 3k, then hammer it, then take it home, and change the oil. he said that is all the break in that is needed.

THAT's an engine builder!

[racrguy]

The engine in my race car has never had an easy day in its life. Almost every time it starts it sees RPM north of 7k with a lot of WOT. In fact, I think the easiest time it had was when I first put the engine in a car and started it to check for leaks, it ran 30 seconds or so, it was shut down and taken to a dyno, and that happened in 2006, hasn't been freshened up since. Food for thought.

Edit: I've replaced the valve springs in it once, and I did the intake gaskets at the end of last season, it will get a freshen after the end of the year.

[robs97snake]

shoulda gone forged, especially if insurance was footin' the bill! moar POWAAAA.

...yeah if insurance would have paid for it