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Originally Posted by DoomsdayJesus
Getting pretty tired of all the unqualified advice in these threads, and the threads in general.
You can do it the way the manual says, and it could save you a lot of heartache down the road. Or you could listen to people who post on internet forums with their online degrees in mechanical engineering saying it's a worthless lawyer label.
Do the break in properly and you won't have to worry if you're the reason why the thing's got reliability issues down the road. You can always be more conservative or do it longer, it won't hurt it.
But honestly, in the big scheme of things, you're break-in will take a month or two AT MOST. You're going to own the car for years if you're most people.
Be patient, do the break-in.
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Lets both do dyno runs at the 60K mark and see who makes more power and who has more/less oil burn/1000k. Granted the dynos will have to be the same, with similar weather, and same mods or none at all! I truly believe there is something to be said about breaking a car in a bit harder than the manual states-I had almost 25K kilometres at the time and laid down 172 whp on a dyno jet-completely stock (at a place that tunes and builds 500-1000 HP Mustangs), and I haven't burned a drop of oil at all.
Here my post of how I did mine and with the dyno info
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showp...0&postcount=26