So I'm about 3/4's done with my valve/plugleak/rings project, I had
planned about 2 days total for the job and it has been well over
a week already cause of some time restraints and a few mistakes
I've made while working on the engine; I'll tell y'all all about it
soon (w/pics!), mainly about what a P in the A all this has been
while at the same time a very enjoyable learning experience.

...anyway, my question:
Does one somehow have to break-in NEW RINGS on a 10k engine?

Only valve seals were changed and valve seats redone; both the PISTON
and CYLINDER were/are in very good shape but I changed the rings anyway,
all else including timing-chain tensor was ok and head bolts were torqued
as close as possible to what specified in manual, sorda (maybe a bit tightish).










PLEASE advise, thx

Original thread and process pics here:
(process pics to be updated on weekend)
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1246924611/0#0

Wish me luck, will fire-up tomorrow (hopefully)
Thanx

Did the valve seals fix your oil consumption. Im about to do pretty much this same deal in a week or so.

My 2 cents,...  Avoid full throttle,.. avoid steady cruise,.. vary throttle, lots of accel/decell..... 600 miles...
In a hurry?.... Accel/decel  a lot,... for an hour.... still nothing over 5k rpm's....
You want to scrub both sides of the rings for a while... before you stress things too much,... then change the oil and filter,... then do what you want...

Drag racers don't have time for 600 mile break-ins... they do a series of accel/decel's before pushing to WFO runs...

I did a couple of break-ins runs, in the passenger seat of a friends 10 sec. 69' Chevy Nova,.... Scared the sh!t out of me!....
He said,..."Yeah,... It scares the ****! out of me too,... You should feel a 1/4 mile run..."
When he gassed it,... I thought something blew up!....