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Originally Posted by drivejumpfly
What are the service intervals for the first 3,000 miles? I was planning on driving it across country back home if I found one.  |
Don’t worry about it, it’s pretty easy to do a good breakin safely on public roads. Let it warm up properly and drive it under 4500rpm for 150 miles, but do make sure you regularly load the engine up in that rpm band. Don’t lug the engine under 2500 rpm, but make it do some work between 50% and 80% throttle. After 150 miles most things that are needing to be worn in will be, so you can open up the RPMs a bit more. By the time you hit 500 miles I’d feel comfortable to wring it out (not beat on it yet though). As for the constant RPM thing, just don’t use cruise control for the first 500 miles. It’s not so much about constant speed, they’re worried about the engine sitting at a constant low load and you wont get proper cylinder pressure to seat components while they’re still wearing in. That’s why I mentioned making the engine do some work in the 50-80% throttle range, between 3k and 4.5-5k rpm.