If i get a motor built fresh and plan to turbo it, should I put it in the car and break it in without the turbo installed, or drop everything in together and then break it in?

 

Im going to break my motor in without the turbo on it and install it after my engine and clutch are broke in all the way..

 

hahaha...


my roommates comment was "break in??? wtf??? boost the **** out of that bitch..."

 

Dumped my entire new motor in the car and broke it in on the dyno last saturday

 

here's how I'm gonna do it...

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=878397

 

looks good, sounds like earl knows his stuff.

 

what I did was break it in naturally aspirated. My reasoning was that this was a freshly built engine and if I'm going to run into any problems, I want it to be as simple as possible to troubleshoot.

This helped out greatly when I ran into an oil consumption issue. It all turned out to be that my rings on #1 were inline, but the bottom line was there were fewer factors to investigate.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dennis &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what I did was break it in naturally aspirated. My reasoning was that this was a freshly built engine and if I'm going to run into any problems, I want it to be as simple as possible to troubleshoot.

This helped out greatly when I ran into an oil consumption issue. It all turned out to be that my rings on #1 were inline, but the bottom line was there were fewer factors to investigate.</TD></TR></TABLE>

what do you mean that your rings were in line?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JoeD427 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

what do you mean that your rings were in line?</TD></TR></TABLE>

All the compression rings and/or oil rings were lined up so oil/compression could travel past the piston..

 

gotcha thanx

 

any more advice guys?

 

follow earl's method