[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #895 Engine break-in procedures

["George Schweikle" <schweikg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:26:25 -0400
> From: "Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>
> Subject: RE: [alfa]Proper engine break in
>
> This is one of those topics that comes up on the list from time to time.
>
> During one of those threads, I speculated that engine manufacturers
> today broke engines in, perhaps prior to installation, to weed out the
> bad ones and reduce the possibility that it would be done improperly in
> the customer (or dealer) hands.
>
> I had a bunch of people tell me a manufacturer wouldn't have time for
> that, but then a digester who works for an auto manufacturer confirmed
> what I had suspected - that at least some manufacturers run the engines
> through a sequence of 'tests' that also serve to perform some sort of
> break in under controlled circumstances.
>
> So, in my mind, there is a huge difference between what you can do and
> how you can drive a car with a new engine off the dealer lot, and how
> you can drive a car with a freshly rebuilt engine.
>
> YMMV, I know what's worked for me in the past and I'm not about to
> change..
>
> bs


Digesti,

Regarding manufacturers running engines before delivery. A few years ago,
during a visit to the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, KY, we were asked to
step away from the front of a newly minted C4 Corvette about to run 100+ MPH
on their chassis dynamometer (!). This was beyond the end of the assembly
line, and we were told it was done at regular intervals. It made quite a
noise.

Alfa content: not with my new car...

George Schweikle
Lexington, KY
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