Originally Posted by
Chris Peralta
For me with an RB (Made by Novarossi) the best way to tell is get the engine up to running temp 220ish and stop the engine, remove the glow plug, and turn the flywheel. If you feel any metal pinch when warm then it's not broken in all the way. If you wait till there is no metal pinch when the engine is cold you might be running 3 gallons of fuel thru that thing in your street before you get it to the track.
That makes sense. I had a few RB C6's...
Originally Posted by
Maximo
I run them much harder during the first 2 gallons then you show in your videos...... As the engine loosens up you will see a couple things happen.... One is temps will gradually drop, the more you run the engine, the cooler it wants to run... And the more you run it, the higher the idle becomes unless you lower the idle gap........Judging from your video it is going to take you quite a long time to breakin the engine... Your doing too much sitting and idling and not enough actual running.......
Is this Neal, from RCCNA?? long time right?? LOL
The video is just a clip and really is just a snapshot of me running it, I spent most of the time going over the camcorder with my Son
. I am running it harder than that really and there is healthy smoke, but I get the feeling what you're saying is "RUN THAT BITCH!"?
Originally Posted by
Maximo
When I fire up a engine I idle for 5 minutes to seat the bearings, then the engine is run continuous for as long as I can....usually at least 1 hour on the bench, and sometimes up to 3 hours depending on the engine...Then on th track it is tank after tank non stop
Question....I gather you are saying it is healthy for the engine to run it CONTINUOUSLY, considering the conditions are maintained good smoke, good tune, good temps and this will make the engine run optimally in the long run? I don't want to take forever breaking this motor in (I have a BTT mounted up in my RC8.2 waiting for its first taste of Nitro so I have my work cut out for me) and I want it to run like a raped ape, just want to be clear. I have jacked up a few motors in my time.