Where did you hear that Karl? I saw a video from Chrysler on the
assembly of the Viper, and there is no "engine break-in". There is a
"test and evaluation" phase where the chassis is run on road simulator,
but that is less than 15 minutes in total. Once its passed that test,
assembly is finished and its crated and shipped. They also made mention
several times of how the Viper used "high quality Mobil 1 synthetic"
right from motor assembly.
I suspect that with the tight tolerances on these high performance
engines that there is less "wear in" than there is on standard run of
the mill engines so maybe the synthetic has less impact.
Craig
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Craig Baltzer - Anjura Technology Corp - Ottawa, Ontario
cbaltzer@anjura.com - (613) 727-1411
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: KARL MOLTZAN [SMTP:kmoltzan@mymail.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 1997 11:27 PM
> To: dakota@ait.fredonia.edu
> Subject: RE: Synthetic Oil
>
> On Sun, 14 Sep 1997 21:48:22 -0400 Craig Baltzer
> <cbaltzer@anjura.com> wrote:
>
> >Kind of interesting that a number of the big 3 are using
> synthetic
> >(typically Mobil 1) as the factory fill on their
> hi-performance engines.
> >Chev does on the Vette, Chrysler does on the Viper, and I
> believe that
> >Ford may on the Cobra. Can't be much of a break-in problem
> if they are
> >using it as factory fill...
> >
> >Craig
>
>
>
> Except that engines are run and broken in before the
> engines are installed in the cars and trucks we buy.
>
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