How do you break-in your new engine?

ZKindaGuy · 08-23-2009, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by spearfish25

There are a few issues with this post and poll. With the post...this has been asked and answered innumerable times. A quick search will get you answers much faster than any replies here. Regarding the poll, your choices don't follow any break-in plan I've ever heard of. The Nissan owner's manual suggestion for break-in isn't even included (keeping RPM below 4k until 1200mi).

I know...I realized I left the manufacturer's one out so I tried to edit the post but I couldn't edit the poll choices itself. So I tried to delete the poll and re-enter it but I couldn't delete it either. So that is why I said to assume the second one as the manufacturer's recommended. The second choice of the three choices is the closest to that of the manufacturer and is in the spirit of being in the middle of the two extremes.

Sometimes when reading someone's posting you have to think of what it is saying in its overall spirit of meaning instead of with excrutiating letter-of-the-law exactness. If people would do that in this world then perhaps things wouldn't be so strained all the time between people.

View Poll Results: How did you go about breaking in your new 370Z engine?
Baby the car - never drive over 55 and never put the foot into it for the first 1000 miles.	20	24.39%
Drive it <= 65 MPH and give it the hammer for a few seconds now and then.	31	37.80%
Drive the bitch like you stole it.	31	37.80%
Voters: 82. You may not vote on this poll

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