Car Break-In, is it necessary??

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Is break-in necessary

  • No

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • YES, I now win

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Don`t know, never been in one car long enough to know

    Votes: 3 14.3%
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Veyrone Tone
I see rooms on-line titled "Break-In", is it necessary?
Have you done it and actually noticed a difference or is it just something ppl do?

PS, according to another thread, you have to drive the car for 280mi. to break it in.
How many laps on your favorite track is that?
 
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Veyron Tony
I see rooms on-line titled "Break-In", is it necessary?
Have you done it and actually noticed a difference or is it just something ppl do?

PS, according to another thread, you have to drive the car for 280mi. to break it in.
How many laps on your favorite track is that?
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Well if you want maximum HP an engine can give you then yes. I have no clue but as most courses are from 2-4 miles long somewhere between 70-140 laps will do. Not hard since most races I'm in are at least 15 laps it doesn't take long.
 
Delta795
Well if you want maximum HP an engine can give you then yes. I have no clue but as most courses are from 2-4 miles long somewhere between 70-140 laps will do. Not hard since most races I'm in are at least 15 laps it doesn't take long.
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Delta795
I know, but I don't think I have even completed 1 lap there. Not my cup of tea.
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Neither mine. I usually end up breaking them in while doing seasonals. So I have to keep towning down hp lol
 
Only needed for NASCAR, and let Bob handle it.

Anything else, just put an air filter in there or play a different room if it is that much of a problem.
 
elric718
Only needed for NASCAR, and let Bob handle it.

Anything else, just put an air filter in there or play a different room if it is that much of a problem.
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^^This, only if you're doing spec races will you benefit from engine break-in.

I never do them, so I never need to break-in my engine. I let nature take it's course.
 
Veyron Tony
I see rooms on-line titled "Break-In", is it necessary?
Have you done it and actually noticed a difference or is it just something ppl do?

PS, according to another thread, you have to drive the car for 280mi. to break it in.
How many laps on your favorite track is that?
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A car is fully broken in and reaches it's peak power after roughly 300 kilometers or 180 miles, and to keep the car to the same level of horsepower you need an oilchange roughly every 200 kilometers or 120 miles.
There is a difference, the car gains a significant amount of extra horses in a lot of cases.
 
Ok guys, now I see two ppl who "now" :sly: win, but like I said, is that because the car is broken in or you`ve driven enough times around the track, you own it?:)
 
There's quite a few reasons for 'breaking/running in' a car. Nascar was my original testing ground for this and it is quite necessary there as you will see between 5 and 10mp/h difference on a car new or run in. I use it for Nascar and drag racing as both require the best possible speed and most power to get the best results. Around a track with many different turns it will always come down to driver skill over this though. So if you're just racing circuits i'd suggest focusing more on learning the track as it's far more valuable to be able to take corners faster than be faster in a straight line.

Corner speed and exit speeds are far more valuable than straight line speed on a circuit.

On the testing grounds over 1/4 mile distance it can make up to .1xx of a difference, in Nascar I used to average 222-224mp/h with a fully broken in car but only 218-222mp/h in a fresh unbroken car. Hope this helps answer your question.
 
Veyron Tony
Ok, someone who has broken a car in, how fast (in #'s) was the car before, and how fast is it now?
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Depends on the car..

I.e, the Nissan CALSONIC GT-R comes with 496 bhp from the NCD, after 180 miles/300 km and an oil change, the engine now produce 518 bhp.

So you could say that the engine gaines around 5% power after break-in and an oil change.

22 bhp does indeed have an impact on lap times. It's not like the car is totally different, but if you're able to push it 100%, you'll see the difference, no doubt. 👍


MNP
Around a track with many different turns it will always come down to driver skill over this though.
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Amen! 👍
 
#`s 13 & 14 , seem to have real experience with cars that have been broken in, thanx.
# 15, I`m not too sure about, lol, sorta reminds me of the guy who put his Leaf Academy car in a race against 3 Bugatti`s, on the X-Track... we came across him going the wrong way on the backstretch, and it wasn`t pretty.
 
If only you want the car to have as nice condition as possible ready for showdown at the time of acquision of the car in the garage, definitely you'll need your machine to be broken in so that it earns a little bit of supremacy against other competitors in a single race - if you don't care about such slight advantage of power force and take it for granted that only thing a car should serve as is just to function well as it does, then you don't have a chance of getting your vehicle to undergo the process anymore.
 
I only do it to cars I drive enough to notice a difference. Like NASCAR cars or cars I drag race with. If I do opt to break them in I'll put Bob in a endurance before I go to sleep with whatever car. Breaking them in gives you an extra 30 or so HP, i think. Not a whole lot but it can make the difference.
 
I always break cars in for my racing series so I don't get left behind too much in race 1. For seasonals, etc I don't bother, they break in at there own pace. SO no, it is not necessary but depends on your intended use.
 

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