Black Stone Report

What type of ‘break in’ driving did you do?

Drew42025 said:

What type of ‘break in’ driving did you do?

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I pretty much followed the book. I am sure I had a few blips over 4500rpm, but definitely stayed conscious of it and tried to avoid it.

084runnerltd said:

I pretty much followed the book. I am sure I had a few blips over 4500rpm, but definitely stayed conscious of it and tried to avoid it.

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very disciplined. haha.... we had ours doing 150+mph first couple hundred miles, lol.

Twisted Tuning said:

very disciplined. haha.... we had ours doing 150+mph first couple hundred miles, lol.

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Luckily the drive to my house from the dealership was 1,000 miles, so the break-in period was short, time wise.

I am too soft on my cars. After selling them I always regret not cutting loose a little more...I will have to take some pages from your playbook.

084runnerltd said:

Luckily the drive to my house from the dealership was 1,000 miles, so the break-in period was short, time wise.

I am too soft on my cars. After selling them I always regret not cutting loose a little more...I will have to take some pages from your playbook.

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Yea man, most of us buy cars to enjoy them. So I say hell yea, enjoy it!

To try and keep these in same thread. Here is mine from just under 6000 miles

Here's another oil analysis. My engine is all stock, and about 200 track miles on this oil. I'm going to put Castrol 5w40 (BMW LL01) in it for my next few track events and then send in a sample again. Seems like this engine might not care what kind of oil you put in it.

Twisted Tuning said:

very disciplined. haha.... we had ours doing 150+mph first couple hundred miles, lol.

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Same! Hahah

Here is mine after 1650 miles.

7 Months/3,616 Miles
Followed Break-in Procedure Up to ~2k Miles
Last 1.6K miles was a mix of spirited back-road driving & a couple lead footed highway trips in the TN mountains.

Here's my oil analysis for Castrol 5w-40 after 400 miles at Road Atlanta. Looks like this car doesn't care what kind of oil is in it.

sun573 said:

Here's my oil analysis for Castrol 5w-40 after 400 miles at Road Atlanta. Looks like this car doesn't care what kind of oil is in it.

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How did you do your break-in? Follow the manual or drive it like you normally would from day 1?

Dannyvandelft said:

How did you do your break-in? Follow the manual or drive it like you normally would from day 1?

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Picked up the car on Friday and was at the track on Saturday. An oil change at 1000 miles after the first track day.

WALMART SUPERTECH 5W30 full synthetic $14 for 5 quarts. On flex fuel tune and I do track the car. Change oil every two track days, oil analysis has been great. Supertech is dexos1 Gen 2, API SN, and ILSAC GF-5 approved. Only reason it's so cheap is because they pay zero for advertising, distribution, or race sponsorships.

Confirmed with some other drivers at the track I go to that they have been getting lead in their analysis after using the unleaded 100 octane there. Supposedly the tank for the unleaded race fuel used to be the tank for the leaded race fuel. So am confident that the lead in the sample is from fuel and not from bearing wear.