Calibration Tales

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Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

Modern engines no longer need break-in, but it's better to drive them carefully for a while to be sure nothing was built wrong.

My Corvette engine didn't need break-in when I got it; every Corvette engine is run at wide open throttle, through a full tank of gas, at the factory. Before it goes in a car.

But a conductor? It does not need break-in. Perhaps where it is joined is questionable; bad solder jobs, sloppy connections, are all revealed only after being run for a while. But if made correctly, they do not require "burn-in", or "break-in", unless they are temperature sensitive and need to warm up for every cycle of operation.

Modern drag race and circle track engines need to be broke In for the most part although not like engines of old