So close....

[RS GORDINI]

just drive it normal,putting some load on the engine in higher gears helps it bed in.Dont floor it from cold and dont thrash the nuts out of it for a few hundred miles.Thats running in a modern engine.

 

[miner154]

Back when I was a kid I remember cars with 'running in' signs on them and they had to use a special running in oil

It's not just the engine that has to run in various parts cn take a couple of hundred miles to bed in such as brake pads so taking it easy for 600 miles is more of the makers covering their bums. Still I kept mine to below 4000k mostly on running in but did once or twice once well warm did take it up to 6k

 

[Alex_225]

I think the argument for and against running in will always have two sides.

Personally I'm on the side of caution. Let's face it, the worst case scenario by running in may that the engine makes a couple of bhp less than one driven 'normally' or driven 'hard' from new.

Funnily enough Turbo, I plan on taking the Gordini for a drive down to Goodwood for the Breakfast meet.

 

[TURBO]

Funnily enough Turbo, I plan on taking the Gordini for a drive down to Goodwood for the Breakfast meet.

il drive your 225 if you want them both there :mrgreen:

 

[DarrenD133]

mines has been given death since day 1 and it goes like a champ after appropriate warming the engine had mines a year on feb and ive only done 7500k had my first service on 5k ish witch was done on november 2010 and me getting a job as a valetor it was treated today as well its never been so clean :lol:

 

[singlespeed]

the worst case scenario by running in may that the engine makes a couple of bhp less than one driven 'normally' or driven 'hard' from new.

Or, if driven too gently, theres not enough combustion pressure on the piston rings to bed them into the bore and wipe the oil from the cylinder walls, leading to glazing of the oil onto the cylinder wall, leading to high oil consumption and a rebuild.