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Originally Posted by Silver Surfer
Darin,
After picking it up from the dealer, how many miles of doing the break-in do you advise before getting the oil change?
I know you said to do hard accelerations as far as up to 90mph, but is their a certain rpm that we shouldn't hit or stay at??
o and on as far as warming the engine up should we let it sit in idle for 10-15 mins or is it better to just go and drive it around the city doing 20-30 mph for 10-15 mins, before you start doing the break-in???
Yeah, i know your probably thinking is their anything else i want to ask.. lol, but I really want to know what I am doing and get it RIGHT the first time.. So the car will perform at its BEST!!
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I am glad you asked (re-asked) the question about oil changes. On the automatic cars myself and other tuner friends of mine have found that the majority of them run very rich air fuel ratios from the factory when they are new and this has been contaminating the oil. I changed mine at 1400 but after looking at it and smelling it I really wish I would have changed it earlier. It was very contaminated with fuel and was very dark for only having 1400miles on it. If you follow the break in method your break in will be done after about 450-500 miles and you can change the oil at that time. I would not wait till 1400-1500miles to change it IF you follow the break in procedure.
As far as speed is concerned, I will not tell you to exceed the limit or break the law. I will tell you that I take it to 90-100mph on ever run but I had plenty of shut down area and didn't have to get on the brakes. If your in a place where your scared of getting caught exceeding the limit your more likely to get on the brakes hard and this very bad on new brakes. Go find a place that is safe, isolated and in the country then do some runs up to what ever speed you feel comfortable with. Its not the top speed that's important, it the load on the engine and how many times you do it.
I drove around for 20 minutes to warm up the rear end and transmission.
Dont worry, just run it hard and it will run hard for you!
