I'm curious how long most of the modders in here waited before installing bolt-ons and having a custom tune. Did you wait for the 500 break-in miles and jump on it, or did you give it some more time? I've read that the LS2 "wakes up" after a couple thousand miles.

I'm at 250 miles now and it's making me having to wait!

Thanks in advance!

 

no time like the present

 

Well, I was thinking at a minimum I'd wait the mandatory "break-in" 500 before having the tuners push it on a dyno.

 

i did heads and cam at around 50 miles.....

udriveslow

 

I did all of my mods right at about 400 miles (Kooks headers, Kooks high flow cats/with mid-pipe, Corsa sport exhaust). It didn't seem to affect anything. Good luck!

 

i wouldnt worry about bolt ons or a tune affecting anything break-in related.......

however, i wouldn't put my car on the dyno before the manufactors recommended break-in.

 

 

I started modding with bolt ons after about 2000 miles.

 

I like your style, I too was romping on my '06 Z at around 60 miles or so. 500 miles, who needs some stinky 500 miles?

Thanks

 

I started the day I got it home from the dealer. The dealer is about 5 miles away.

 

As soon as I could scrape the money together. Been doing one thing at a time.

 

11 miles.

 

it wont matter how many miles are on things that are moving (ie exhaust, headers, air filter) you just have to worry about internal parts such as rods, crank, pistons, cam, etc. most people dont really do anything internally anyway right off the bat unless they are hard core or want to just continue spending money. doing things like exhaust and intake are fine off the bat. i probably wouldnt do a tune until the break in point because you tend to change fuel and rev settings which can affect internal parts. just my $.02

 

Mine found it's way to MTI for a head/cam package with 467 miles on the odometer.

 

800 miles, that was how far I had to drive it from the dealer in Kansas City to Austin. Was nice and broken in when I got home that night. 11 hour drive.
Kooks long tube, high flow cats, x pipe, borla, vararam, preadator, 160 stat.

 

We've done lots of brand new off the floor cars here, incl. supercharging and dyno pulls. If they are brand new, we usually do a heat cycle on the dyno bone stock for initial break-in. We have 2 07 C6's in here right now with one getting an APS kit and another getting a Magnacharger both have less than 100miles.

 

the vette a few 1000 before mods just to make sure that everything was working ok.

The SS Trailblazer I just bought I am at 200 miles and mods are happening

At ECS I see cars that come directly from the dealership right to the lift for changes

 

You are ready!

 

With Kerbeck Corvette so close to us (largest vette dealer in the world) we often have cars delivered from there to us before the customer even drives it. I will usually put 100 miles or so it to make sure it's ok, then H/C, S/C, bolt on's, what ever. Then it's delivered to the owner.

 

I’m all for modifying one’s car but you might ask yourself how important is your factory warranty? My local dealership is aggressive in denying warranty service for anything even remotely related to a performance modification. I was told even something as innocuous as a tune would likely jeopardize warranty work on an engine and possibly more due to the factory specs being altered. I understand why and frankly I wouldn’t expect GM to pay for warranty work on an altered vehicle. If your warranty is a concern, you might ask the service manager at your local dealership what their position is prior to making a performance mod.

The provisions of the Moss-Magnusson Warranty Act may afford some ‘protection’ of warranty services but IMO and for all practical purposes it will be virtually impossible to fight GM should they elect to deny warranty service.

IMO modify your C6 as soon as you want but be willing to accept the likely loss of warranty service related to the modification and be willing to bear the financial consequences.

My 2005 C6 has been exceptionally reliable and trouble-free and my desire to modify it outweighed any concerns I had about the loss of warranty services. I owned my C6 about 17 months before I had the LPE 403 motor installed and performed some other modifications (with a few more mods coming soon).