You get on it hard yet?

 

Yeah, make sure you run it like you intend to right from the start.

 

Good deal... glad yours was that simple. I drained my truck of fluid, changed the t-stat, and drained it again... had a buddy tow me to and from FMS to get my gears & posi put in. I got fed up, and pulled the head to find gasket was backwards.

 

I've had it up to about 50% throttle so far. I should go more? I've heard lots of different things about how to break it in. My machinist/builder told me to drive "normally" - not to baby it but not to thrash it either.

 

If it's built right, you really can't hurt it. The rings need pressure to fully seat well. When I worked at Gibbs, they made full Dyno pulls, pull after pull on the new motors till the torque numbers stopped climbing and then they knew the rings where seated and it was ready to race

 

So what are you intial thoughts of the new setup compared to your old setup? How is the tuning going?

 

Is that how you would do a brand new motor in your daily driver?

 

I would, and have!

I've aways beat on my motors once I know there's not any leaks or other problems. The more pressure the rings have, the better they will seal, at least that my opinion. I've never had a problem..well except for my first one, and that's a WHOLE nother story about being 16, unknowledgeable and forgetting to install the cam retainer plate

 

Thats how the old tymer that owns one of the performance shops I deal with breaks all of his motors in. On the dyno till the tq stops rising. Change the oil and go beat the **** out of it on the street. I did alot of reading on break-in procedure before I broke in my 418 and I broke it in beating teh **** out of it. The cylinder walls look just like they did when I built it which leads to me to believe that my heads were my oil consumption problem like alot have told me. There is a thread in the internal section about breakin might want to take a look. It has a link to a motorcycle expert who tells you how to break your motor in right.

 

Im sorry that made me laugh, atleast you got it figured out