Dave T-S

Yep, shall be doing an interim oil change on ours too.

Russell, think of all that extra money you are saving towards the oil by only putting 95 RON in......

russell hayward

Quite right.

Fuel costs me nothing, so I will use Super from now on anyway.

I was under the impression it was less critical with the 7 than, say, with the P1, which I always run on 97 + booster for obvious reasons.

I shan't listen to my Dealer anymore. Should have known better anyway. They thought the I/C waterspray worked by itself. Didn't have the heart to tell them the dash light was flashing because the tank was empty !

[Edited by russell hayward - 4/20/2002 7:07:58 PM]

ScottishMenace

Got mine on Thursday and done close on 600 miles now. A quick trip back to Scoobymania next Friday and I will be well over the 1000 miles. Don't know where I would be without that red light and the buzzer at 4000 revs. Its soooo very tempting.

Dave Allan

Neil Smalley

Just remember that the 4K limit stays in place until after the 1000 mile service. Be that service at 900,1000, or 1100 miles+

It's the combination of mileage and swapping the thin running in oil out that frees us of the bondage of the 4K limit, not just miles alone.

Incidentally, if I recall Euro WRX's don't have the 1000 mile service. Does the Euro STI?

ScottishMenace

Not sure about the Euro STI but I am going to get Scoobmania to do it anyway which will probably be bang on 1000 miles.

T5NYW

iTrader: (4)

I had 158 miles to do so went to cardiff back via Ross to Hereford then to Listers Worcester (worked it out with Autoroute) and crossed the line at Listers 1002 miles Computor not alltheir cracked up to be. LOL

Tony

[Edited by T5NYW - 4/20/2002 11:56:08 PM]

ScottishMenace

Nice one Tony. How are you driving it now?

Dave Allan

T5NYW

iTrader: (4)

Dave,
A lot quicker now set bleep for 6Krpm so in low gears 1st 2nd giving reaction my time changing at 7Krpm 3rd & 4th 6.5Krpm 5th & 6th 6krpm if I was on motorway
I did have it set on 6.5Krpm but found I was over rev'ing it in the Low gears after 3Kmiles will be used to the car and switch Road Runner off


Tony

ScottishMenace

You got me all envious now, first I could not wait to actually get the car, now I got it I cant wait to be allowed to drive it!!!
Just think of all those anti-bug eyes scoobynetters out there who haven't a clue about what they are missing hehehe

Dave

mutant_matt

Quote from Diesel:But surley Diesel, whilst that makes sense, that will create a lot more heat and heat is the enemy of a new engine. Isn't one of the reasons for running in is that the metal has to expend and contract and when new, if too much of this goes on, damage can result?

Quote from Neil SmalleyNeil, firstly, that's not how motorbikes are supposed to be run in (well according to the manual and people in the industry that I know). For example, my bike manual says something like keep it to 4000rpm for the 1st 100 miles and don't run the engine for more than an hour. Keep it to 5000rpm for the next 500 miles and the running in Service is then at 600 miles. After that, don't run up to the redline @ 11,500rpm for more than a couple of seconds until 1000 miles and then it's fun time Now I've followed this procedure and have a fast, well running bike which requires not a single drop of oil between it's (single ) annual service. It's now three years old. When it had it's recent 3rd year service, I was chatting with the mechanic and he said that they (my model of bike) usually drink quite a bit of oil but he agreed with me that that was probably down to people not running them in properly.

I've always thought (and I think that my experience has shown me) that running in properly will produce a car which is probably not quite as quick/loose but will run reliably for a long time with no problems.

Matt

P.S. My bike gets thrashed within an inch of it's life EVERY time it goes out, sees the redline extremely frequently and is often held somewhere near to the redline, normally at least once a ride for more than a couple of seconds....


[Edited by mutant_matt - 4/22/2002 8:16:37 AM]

Neil Smalley

Cheers matt.

I was told that by a bike mechanic who used to work on Race bikes. So it figures that he would'nt mind rebuilding his engine a few times in order to get a faster bike..

Chris L

It'll be interesting to see if the STIs follow the pattern of earlier Scoobs. I've found with my MY01 that in the last few thousand miles (now around 14K) it has loosened up a lot. The car feels a lot quicker. When I go the car (with 800 miles on the clock) it was very tight and gradually freed up, but I was surprised at how different it feels now. It is certainly more noticable than it was on my old MY00 which I ran from new for 42K miles.

Moral of this story could be: Don't buy a car from Danny Fisher

Cheers
Chris

Diesel

Must say I completetly made up what I posted regarding running in being a nonsense - sorry! Rioja power!

Mind you I just don’t really get the logic or black art of it all and was hoping to be thrown out the window with that posting. Didn't happen (yet) though.

Instinct tells me not to take an STi on a trackday straight off the boat - but all these specific rev limits and all that??? If a crank bearing is at it’s new and tight end of tolerance, and needs to shave metal off the touching surfaces to sit comfortably, then this has to and will happen whether you are going uphill in 5th or sideways in 2nd!

D

mutant_matt

D,

That's the point of oil, the surfaces do not touch and if they do, that's one big bill for a new engine please

I think the main point of running in is to (gently) get the metal used to expanding and contracting....

Matt

Diesel

Well in that case Matt, the cooling fan should always be on, and you should run a thicker antifreeze mixture with those 'icy white' bits in it - like the chewing gum

I remain unconvinced! So cynical yet so young (errr, ish)!

D