600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

Well last week i finally got my new engine up and running, and i only got to put 100 miles on it... and I've been itching for boost again, so last night i went out for a drive and put 500 miles on it. so now it has 600 miles. Is it considered broken in yet? or should i slap the turbo kit on and let it slowly have a taste of boost?

Or did this engines nuts already drop and its ready to kick some ass now???

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

IMO, it's ready for an ass beating. Change the oil and rip it up. I'm sure some people will disagree and tell you to run it for 50,000 miles N/A and keep it under 1500rpm, but that's my opinion. ;)
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Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

what's left to break it? at this point your rings are seated, your seals have seen a few heat cycles, I don't know why people wait 200,000 miles on new engines. my favorite part is when people get jdm engine swaps and they think they have to break them in, like they weren't driven in japan, or they were rebuilt on the boat over to america.

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

i ran my car for 26 miles before i turboed it and my compression is 190 aross the board after 6000 miles of 10 psi abuse

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

wow, 10psi for 300hp, you and phiz must be champion tuners.

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

nah the 300 will come next week. i finally have time to wire my 3 bar and hit my 18 psi....i was just drivin it to work all summer

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

well i ask this cause my worst fear would be to spin a bearing, but i guess everything should be fine... im gonna slap the turbo back on and change the oil, do you guys open up your old filter and check inside???

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

Factory turbo engines arn't broke in then turboed ::) Put the boost to the fucker. Every engine I built was warmed up shut off, warmed up shut off. Drove around to check for bugs, Shut off. Then RAPED for life. I never have problems with them ;)

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

no...

but i would boost already if i were you...

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

worried about spinning a bearing? you think it takes your oil 2000 miles to find it's way inside the bearings?

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

my freshly built d16 saw 40 miles then got a healthy dose if 8psi. and it likes it... 600 miles???? boost that bitch!

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

vrrrrrrooooom... pisssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


;D

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

Boost it already man. :D

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

i just thought of something, where the ---- did you go to put 500 miles on it?

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

I was going to say something about that.. must've been a fun drive 8)

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

If I had to do anything different, I would have put the turbo on and drove to the dyno. Get it tuned right from the start and you won't have to be embarrased like me. :-[

D16y8 17psi 235whp/222tq. :-\

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

ya take your time, wats the rush? you already know what boost feels like....

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

the way you are supposed to break in an engine is not by putting a zillion miles on it but by taking it to the limits right off.
Its more complicated than that and i had a link to a website about engine break in but basically what i did with my car was as soon as i got it up and running and warmed u; i took it out on a country road and ran it to redline with 4psi of boost in 2nd and third gear. What this does is it'll seat your rings faster and get them used to the punishment they'll take.

Otherwise when you take a trillion miles to break in a motor your rings take longer to seat and all the other mess in your motor isn't used to punishment yet.

and pretty much if your motor can handle that then it'll handle anything. if its going to develop any problems its going to do them right then (like when i spun a bearing in < 20 miles on my last motor) not 60000 miles later.


also make sure your ---- is tuned; too lean or too rich and you'll ---- something up. I had trouble with the wiring in this motor and the computer kept dumping in fuel and washing down the clinders. my rings were wore before i even had teh car running. It's showing it now with some ugly blowby at 12psi.
Good thing i planned on some vitara pistons with new rings anyway :p

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

man i redline my ---- once it warmed up..
did what the motorcycle guy said..(some of u should remember)
drove it for like 20 minutes. changed the oil and there are TONS of metal powder kinda ---- in the oil.
i had it boosted after like 20000 miles (out of $$)
of N/A redline abuse.
runs like a champ now but yet i don`t have balls to a compression check. :-X


BTW, i`d repalce the IM gasket anyway. :P

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

ya, just redline your ---- right away, I wonder why all your motors are blowing up?

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

this from the burnout masta.. ;)
aslong as its not a rotary you can pretty much beet on it from the get go

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

I didn't build my motor, I just put it in. oh wait, I did do a head gasket on it 2 times and it's still fucked, but there's not much I could do about that besides pull the block and have it decked, and that has nothing to do with ring seating or bearings or anything like that.

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

dipshit i didnt say go out and rev the ---- out of it.

you systematically push the motor to redline a few times with load to get the rings to seat. then over time drive it like you'll drive it and the rings; bearings and all the other ---- will break in as you go.

and my first motor blew because i didnt check clearnances; the rings on my new motor are going because the cylinder walls were being washed down with fuel causing them to wear prematurely.

Re:600 miles... is it ready for boost???
 

I had the machine shop bore the cylinders out within the piston manufacturers specs... then they cut the crank, balanced it and sold me some oversized bearings... they test fit everything before i picked it up, even then i checked and double checked everything.. and everything was right on the money... so tommorow morning i put that bitch together again.