Probably mostly attributed to that strut tower brace. What are you doing for break in?

 

I mean more procedure-wise what are you doing for break-in? I know there is controversy around how to properly break in modern engines so I'm always curious to see how different people do it. Like are you doing a specific kind of driving? Staying below a certain rpm? Modulating the rpm up and down? Doing acceleration followed by deceleration to allow the engine to pull high vacuum? Those types of things

 

Damn thats a very good compression number for up here.

 

So you are following Total Seals gapless ring recommended break in procedure? What does that entail?

 

Looks great.

 

About to take it to the tire shop. Was hearing a ticking noise. Screw on top of tire....

 

Thread reopened.

Lets stay on topic please.

 

Drove my car to work today. Rolled the windows down and then back up, manually of course.

 

resealed the leaking headlights

 

Losing blinker fluid again?

 

hoped someone would run into it

 

Took it to Cars & Coffee

 

That's funny, or sad.

 

Replaced the radiator after the stocker broke. Terrible ******* job. Easy as pie but the weather here in AZ isn't exactly "wrench friendly" at the moment.

 

Yeah to hell with that job in this heat

 

both lol.

I cant really justify getting rid of it in the shape its in. hail damage n all. if someone wrecked it, well I would be forced to find something else and give Eric and I a project to partout

 

Tbh, I didnt think about hail damage when I was insuring it. Didn't seem worth the extra cost. kinda wish I did now

 

I didn't either till my ls got some damage, now all my cars are covered. Its so cheap to do that I look at it as if im putting that money back in the bank for when it happens.

 

I don't remember if you said but are you setting up your car to run regular or pulleying down and running premium or E85? When you get it all sorted you ought to put up a video doing some pulls or something.

 

2,000 more miles for break in?

 

Drove my car for the first time in about 3 weeks

 

Just vinyl wrap and molded it myself and made the cuts

 

It says it's a good idea to "mildly" load the engine but then, in a roundabout way, they also say if you can run the engine hard for a much shorter break in period ("one night racing on the track"). That's what interests me. Is it better to break it in easy over an extended period or is it better to break it in hard and fast. Alternatively does really make a difference either way? That's where I usually see people disagree. I would infer that you could make a hard pull during your extended break in period and you would still be operating within total seals recommended procedure. With my car I broke it in easy for just a short while before going WOT mainly because I had to go WOT for data logs to get my car tuned and I couldn't find anything official that suggested I would do any harm by breaking it in under high load .

 

That's so weird looking. Youd have to have a gull wind setup just to get in

 

it looks like one giant side window