Am I doing my car a disservice?
09-22-2015, 02:35 PM
#41
Sure, if you go 3,500 you blow out some but full red line more. The question is if the soot stasis at the 2k rpm level is harmful. I doubt it is.
Engines are so enormously much better today than before as are the fuels. The wisdom of our ancestors may have been valid in C2 days but today is likely all superseded and obsolete.
Like over in bike-land where I mostly exist, there is still raging about proper break in procedures. Very likely, as with autos, there is none needed because the new assembly procedures are vastly superior to the crude methods used 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.
If mfgs still recommend this, it's to make the purchase seem more valuable than it would otherwise and in bikes, so the newbie doesn't kill himself right out of the box. After all, in bikes it's a common and inexpensive bike which can break 3.0 secs on 0-60 and almost all of them break 12 secs on the quarter with some breaking 10 seconds.
Performance like this in the hands of a new owner needs at least the 600 miles to get used to.
Engines are so enormously much better today than before as are the fuels. The wisdom of our ancestors may have been valid in C2 days but today is likely all superseded and obsolete.
Like over in bike-land where I mostly exist, there is still raging about proper break in procedures. Very likely, as with autos, there is none needed because the new assembly procedures are vastly superior to the crude methods used 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.
If mfgs still recommend this, it's to make the purchase seem more valuable than it would otherwise and in bikes, so the newbie doesn't kill himself right out of the box. After all, in bikes it's a common and inexpensive bike which can break 3.0 secs on 0-60 and almost all of them break 12 secs on the quarter with some breaking 10 seconds.
Performance like this in the hands of a new owner needs at least the 600 miles to get used to.
09-22-2015, 04:16 PM
#42
Le Mans Master
Yea...I agree with your break in reasoning. But I still somewhat used the old school method of break in on my 2009 Dyna. Being air cooled and with so much weight being slung around I figured it couldn't hurt. And while Harleys are definitely better built these days...I still think the overall motor design still has its short comings.
Gee, look at the HD. One cylinder blocks the airflow to the other and the rods are still knife and fork - yet it's as reliable as a Goldwing. That's astounding, really.
09-22-2015, 04:33 PM
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09-22-2015, 05:35 PM
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09-22-2015, 07:36 PM
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But a 160hp 1200cc bike? Cool!
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