Running In

[Epic XR6]

Hey all

I have just had an engine built for my ute and the engine builder who built it said you should never idle your engine for to long due to your doing damage that's why turbo timers are a bad idea, reason being if I understand it correctly, when your car idles everything is loose inside, the bearing etc which means they are not under load which reduces the life of your engine.......when I had the new engine put in I was told to drive it like I would drive any vehicle due to your running the engine in the way u drive it, none of this hold it at certain speeds or gears nonsense. So far car has been running sweet no dramas, and will hopfully this month have the finall tuning done with max boost etc (not tuned to max due to dyno braking).

Turbo timer's arent a bad idea, There the keep oil up to your turbo's bearing's while it's still spinning (not lettting it run dry)

Keeping it idle for a few mins makes sure your turbo is spining at it's slowest speeds (least exhaust pressure's @ idle).

Turbo's can keep spinning after and engine has been shut off for a few min's so you want to ensure this spinning time (with no oil pressure feed) is the least amount you can get it.

Idling an engine during the run in phase is definatly bad, But after that it takes a while for and idling engine to glaze up.

Look at taxi's they idle alllll day but last forever, it's because they are kept warm 24/7 so once again Let your engine warm up and cool down.

[southside]

Strap it to a dyno and do some 1/2 3/4 and full throttle runs! u get to break in everything AND... u get 2 see the power outcome :D

[Wenier]

The question is what did he do? Did you leave some lines outside the dealership since you should have said vehicle by now.

[Epic XR6]

Superchargers are directly related to engine rpm so if you turn the engine off the S/C wont be spinning at all (zero engine rpm).

Turbochargers free spin on its own bearing and will take around 20 - 50 secs to stop spinning after the engine is turned off.

All cars should be be allowed to idle down not just turbo cars.

If you've been giving your car heaps around town and the temp is up, let it idle down this will keep the coolant flowing through the engine.

When you turn your car off the engine actually gets hotter for a short period, because the water pump has stopped the flow of coolant and all the hot water is sitting in one spot still trying to transfer the heat away from the engine.

[Arkayne]

The question is what did he do? Did you leave some lines outside the dealership since you should have said vehicle by now.

Car clocked 1,600 km's today, so it's now "run in", as FPV put it in their guide book. I simply babied it for it's first few hundred, giving it a squirt now and then but never seeing over 4,500 revs. Once 600 kays were on it, I gave it a nice run from 40-160 or so and also cruised at high speeds varying my revs, speed and gears.

I have yet to do a standing 0-100 run, but very keen to see how it churps in first, as changing gears from first to second, or even second to third give a nice workout for the traction control.

[nathanway]

wen get our cars back we normaly dont rev them over 4k dont use more than half throttle and dont cruze at the same speed for more than a few minuets at a time for 5000ks and I have to say I strongly disagree with the guy that said drive it like u stole it that's a good way to make a new engine go boom

[Gonadman2]

My brother went through his first set of rear tyres in his VE SS-V ute in the first 3000km's. The guys at the tuning shop he went to said it was the most power they'd seen run over their dyno in stock form (from a VE SS) when he had it tuned in 2009. I guess there might be some truth to the drive it like you stole it run in procedure? I'll try and dig up his dyno logs...

[Joota]

any videos mate?

[Buf-Phoon]

don't hold your breathe he ain't been spotted here since 3 August

[f6mark]

just hold it flat.. :sungum: