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Old 04-18-2017, 02:42 PM   #28
Martinjlm
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Originally Posted by ParisTNDude View Post
Great looking car. I suppose the worst thing that could happen is to have your engine crap out at 36,001 miles because you didn't follow the break-in recommendations. I suppose you could rationalize the engine blew for some other reason, but you would never know. I followed the 1,500 mile break in recommendation and feel good about it. I took it to the drag strip shortly after that and it ran wonderfully well.

The color is KILLER!
In my experience with remanufacturing, issues with not following break-in procedure manifest in the short term (2 - 3 years) in oil consumption issues and sometimes piston slap issues, but most notably in long term (60k - 80k miles) cylinder and ring condition issues. When we get 60k mile blocks in that look like they are 100k blocks, its usually from a long history of oil consumption and rings scraping grooves into the cylinder walls. Our teardown / root cause analysis experts usually attributed this to not properly breaking in the engine and having the rings and seals seat improperly.
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