BMWAF
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I respect the break in period but I prefer to break it in a different way. A long time ago I read a compelling site online (I looked but couldn't find it) written by a race car/bike mechanic and his method just made sense to me.
His method was pretty simple. Take it relatively easy day to day but from time to time, as the time passes, smoothly rev the car right out to the limiter and then let the engine slowly reduce its revs back to being suitably calm. This gives the engine varying loads to deal with in a relatively gentle way. I think this is especially true with cars that have an overhead cam - It seems silly to me to never engage the DOHCs for the first x miles/kilometers!
This has worked far my cars so far but, lol.. YMMV.
His method was pretty simple. Take it relatively easy day to day but from time to time, as the time passes, smoothly rev the car right out to the limiter and then let the engine slowly reduce its revs back to being suitably calm. This gives the engine varying loads to deal with in a relatively gentle way. I think this is especially true with cars that have an overhead cam - It seems silly to me to never engage the DOHCs for the first x miles/kilometers!
This has worked far my cars so far but, lol.. YMMV.
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