New Evo Break In
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New Evo Break In
Question for you guys. Im deployed right now but will be buying an Evo X when I get back. My question is should I wait to get home to buy my Evo or buy it at my parents house and drive it back home. I have heard that when you buy a new car that its not a good idea to just drive it on the highway unless you are varying your speed. Also its a good 500 mile drive.
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Question for you guys. Im deployed right now but will be buying an Evo X when I get back. My question is should I wait to get home to buy my Evo or buy it at my parents house and drive it back home. I have heard that when you buy a new car that its not a good idea to just drive it on the highway unless you are varying your speed. Also its a good 500 mile drive.
So far got it tuned and been running amazing since day one. Its been 4000+ miles so far.
good luck with your decision ;p
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There are definitely different opinions on the proper way to break in. FWIW I have always followed the recommended break in, so for the first 1000 miles with the evo I tried to make sure I varied speed, stayed below 4K rpm, etc. I've never had an issue with following the recommended break in on any vehicle, but I've never tried a different method either.
So unless you can get a much better deal at your parents or don't have dealers near you, I'd recommend waiting until you get home.
So unless you can get a much better deal at your parents or don't have dealers near you, I'd recommend waiting until you get home.
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you read the manual? that thing is like a thousand pages....
for what it's worth I would not buy a new car and drive it 500 miles away when you can just by the car at where you going to... new car engines are broke in, but they don't break in every part of the car.... actually the vast majority of everything on the car is not broken it,, just the engine
for what it's worth I would not buy a new car and drive it 500 miles away when you can just by the car at where you going to... new car engines are broke in, but they don't break in every part of the car.... actually the vast majority of everything on the car is not broken it,, just the engine
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Yea I keep hearing different things though. This website kinda has me by the ***** right now,
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
Just makes sense for some reason. Just wish I could find hard proof that it would work and that it does actually make a difference.
http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm
Just makes sense for some reason. Just wish I could find hard proof that it would work and that it does actually make a difference.
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I guess I'm going to end up beating the hell out of mine . I've redlined at 1,000 miles
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they want you not to boost for xxx miles to seat the rings.. you can seat the piston rings in less than 2 miles..
Boost away. Besides when you get a brand new car, they always have like 7 or 8 miles on them, what do you think those are? Just beating the **** out of the car.
Boost away. Besides when you get a brand new car, they always have like 7 or 8 miles on them, what do you think those are? Just beating the **** out of the car.
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i boosted the **** out of my car while burning mad clutch (learned manual on it) and no problems other than greddy being loud in bumper to bumper and giving me a morning headache.
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Question for you guys. Im deployed right now but will be buying an Evo X when I get back. My question is should I wait to get home to buy my Evo or buy it at my parents house and drive it back home. I have heard that when you buy a new car that its not a good idea to just drive it on the highway unless you are varying your speed. Also its a good 500 mile drive.
While the rings seat a lot quicker now on cars than in the past, one thing that doesn't go away is the tempering of the metal. That's achieved via heat, pressure and time. Let it have that before you push the metal to the limits of the strength of materials. That's why there's still a break in period, for ALL the metal parts that take a load.
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I had a motorcycle engine builder tell me to break engines in the way you plan on using them. His logic was, if you break it in easy, when you get to hard driving, you'll be breaking it in again only at higher revs. Not sure this advice applies to our engines...maybe.
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you read the manual? that thing is like a thousand pages....
for what it's worth I would not buy a new car and drive it 500 miles away when you can just by the car at where you going to... new car engines are broke in, but they don't break in every part of the car.... actually the vast majority of everything on the car is not broken it,, just the engine
for what it's worth I would not buy a new car and drive it 500 miles away when you can just by the car at where you going to... new car engines are broke in, but they don't break in every part of the car.... actually the vast majority of everything on the car is not broken it,, just the engine