[01pewterz28]

Originally Posted by ZL*Won

Question from a new guy. I was told that break-in was 500 miles. Now at 400 and trying to be good. Please don't tell me it's 1500.

Sorry Bud 1500 miles
http://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427474

I am with you I am at 1200 on my 17 SS (put 1152 of them on the drive home and whole 48 miles since 4/14 :( at this rate it will take me until 12/31 to hit the 1500 mile mark.

[hawk02]

Originally Posted by 01pewterz28

Sorry Bud 1500 miles
http://www.camaro6.com/forums/showthread.php?t=427474

I am with you I am at 1200 on my 17 SS (put 1152 of them on the drive home and whole 48 miles since 4/14 :( at this rate it will take me until 12/31 to hit the 1500 mile mark.

I just completed the 1500 mile break-in yesterday. Took me 5 1/2 months to finally get there.

For me, the hardest part of the break-in was not being able to drive at one constant speed. Made driving on the freeways a real pain. I'm looking forward to finally being able to use the cruise control.

[nancygrl]

Originally Posted by ZL*Won

Question from a new guy. I was told that break-in was 500 miles. Now at 400 and trying to be good. Please don't tell me it's 1500.

Sorry....500 miles is for dry-sump Corvette Stingrays. but on our ZL1's it is 1500 miles...so you've got 1100 more to go....cheers....

[01pewterz28]

Originally Posted by hawk02

I just completed the 1500 mile break-in yesterday. Took me 5 1/2 months to finally get there.

For me, the hardest part of the break-in was not being able to drive at one constant speed. Made driving on the freeways a real pain. I'm looking forward to finally being able to use the cruise control.

Yes that has been a problem as well when I drove home I was going 70, 72, 77 for 1152 miles and 20 hours.

[hawk02]

Originally Posted by 01pewterz28

Yes that has been a problem as well when I drove home I was going 70, 72, 77 for 1152 miles and 20 hours.

I sing your praises. I thought I had it bad driving my 5th gen the 100 miles home from the dealer. I would have been a raving lunatic if I had vary the speed for 20 hours.

[MoreSpeed]

I made it through break in and now have a few autoX's under my belt. This things sounds absolutely diabolical at high RPM. Loved it before. Really love it now!

[17CamaroZL1]

Originally Posted by nancygrl

I'm finally there, I can now have even more fun

Let er rip tater chip!!

[cwebster]

Originally Posted by nancygrl

I'm finally there, I can now have even more fun

HaHa! Yeah! Freedom!

Can't wait to hear about your first track visit.
Let 'er rip!

[mlee]

What took you so long..

[Zepp]

I've taken several road trips since buying my car two weeks ago, I have 100 more miles to go!!! Two more days and it will be past the 1500 mark WooHoo!!!

[catdog]

OMG this is painful, car now has 45 miles on it...

The throttle is much more linear and nicely responsive than on the 2SS

Crazy torque at even slight throttle and that exhaust in track mode is SICK!!!! love it!!!

It handles awesome!

[datboi448]

Put 400 new miles the past 3 days, 600 more to go!

[jffarraro]

You guys are depressing me....I've not even taken delivery yet and I'm dreading the break in. I'm going to have to drive it on several 2-3 day trips or its gonna take FOREVER.....

I was wondering, I read a post somewhere that true metal break in occurs in the first 20 miles (ie. set the rings, etc.). Theory is you should make a few full throttle accelerations to 4K RPM and then a few 1/2 throttle accelerations, again not exceeding the 4K - then move into break-in rules as documented Anyone else heard of this? I have experience with both superchargers and turbos and the thought of sending full pressure to an engine with less than 20 miles on it makes me nervous.

J

[NW Sam]

Just hit 500 miles. I had the dealer change the oil Mobil 1 .
1000 more miles to go .