2012 370Z Oil Temp

BigT

I'm actually glad you brought up an evo. I bought a brand new Evo X back in '08 that had 8 miles on it when I drove it off the lot. What was the first thing I did? A WOT pull from 2nd gear up to 4th gear. This is quite literally as soon as I passed the vicinity of the dealership. Why did I do this? I wanted to break the piston rings in the hard way. I didnt launch the car until 16,000 miles, but I shifted hard and boosted every single mile before that. It didn't burn one lick of oil and I owned the car until 28k miles. It hit 27psi on the stock turbo almost every single day and I never had a single problem with that car. It sounded smooth as butter and it actually shifted a ton better then my friend's Evo X's.


To add to this topic, I called the dealer I bought my Z from last week. I wanted to schedule an oil change as my break-in miles are almost complete and also to verify that when I do bring the Z in, they will always use the specific Z oil. The service manager confirmed that they are using the correct oil and then began to give me a whole lecture how breaking in a brand new car doesn't really exist like it used to. He actually told me, "yea the manual says 1200 break-in miles, but that's not really it. They just don't want anyone "breaking" the car before they learn to drive it." So, yea... He then politely told me not to schedule an early oil change.

LakeShow

I broke in the car under 4k for 1,400miles and now at 3k with Synthetic Mobil 1 and everything seems to be working very well and very powerful.

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SMJane_Again

I found this link that seems to corroborate what you're saying to some extent. Granted, it's focused primarily on motorcycle engines, but I have to imagine there's some crossover for this approach. Link below.

New Engine Break-in Procedure

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ImportConvert

Your car, your business.

Had a crate motor that was broken in your way, and used tons of oil. Broke my 'vette in my way, and never used a drop past the break-in period.

As to "leaning to drive the car", that sounds good, until you consider that they don't advise heavy towing with trucks for a certain time, etc. etc. Your service manager would also make a great bartender.

SS66

I have to agree with you dealership contact comments. Old school GM big blocks etc. would run 70 -80 thousand miles with some starting to smoke etc. Cars engineered today are totally different. Engines built today run for 200 thousand plus miles with no major issue other than the normal maintence.

ImportConvert

That's because of the cheap material used in the blocks, etc.

I have taken cars in on trade from OLD ladies who never revved it beyond 3K rpm. Yet NONE ever came back for snapping rings when some kid bought it from us. (Former Ford employee). Why? Because the blocks are a lot better (or the cylinder liners, car dependent), and don't wear so readily. No "ridges" of import are formed on them to snap rings like older cars developed, which is why you used to be told that if a car had been babied for 50K miles or whatever, never un-baby it or it will die like a dog.

SS66

I agree with your comments 100 percent. Engineering and much better materials 100 percent. Love the hell out of my new Z but they will have to pry my dead cold fingers off that old BB car. LOL and yes I will be dead someday.