Just rebuilt 4age using excessive oil, Rings didn't Bed?

[PrettyCoolWagon]

Curious, how do I get negative rep' accompanied by this comment "Anything at all to contribute to the OP??"
Is there actually something negative about reconfirming a good link that relates directly to the OP's post?

I'll wear the neg rep - no probz... just curious what the thinking is?

[wiso]

maybe he just has it in for you coolwagon

While this thread is recovered I will post up my results.


Against alot of the advise in this thread I did leave the engine in the car with the crank in and rehone the bores. I turned the crank to the side, wrapped it in a rag and taped it over. very difficult to do with the limited space. then ran the honer up and down a few times slow speed quickly up and down to roughen them up again. looking at the rings there was stuff all wear on the outside of them, only the top one had a little bit of scraping on it. So i reused them and hoped I wouldn't regret it. for some reason the splits in the oil rings had all moved to the exact same point. I guess this wasn't helping the issue originally. I certainly didn't put them in like that, by the rings instructions it said make them an inch appart each way, thats what I did. But this time I did as per BGB which is opposite corners.

As per the the kick ass website I ran it hard. really loaded up lots of WOT and big overrun down the hills. changed oil at 250km, 1000km, 25000km, then ran my normal light semi synth oil at 5000km.

Car now has 6000kms since doing this and over the past 1000km its used almost no oil. It only gone down about 1mm on the dipstick.

[TERRA Operative]

Curious, how do I get negative rep' accompanied by this comment "Anything at all to contribute to the OP??"
Is there actually something negative about reconfirming a good link that relates directly to the OP's post?

I'll wear the neg rep - no probz... just curious what the thinking is?

Some people are just pedantic retards.


I ran my brothers Sera in the same way as wiso (as on the linked site) and we checked the oil last night, not a drop used in 5000+kms.
Going good, and the economy has been improving by about 20-30kms per tank of fuel.

[andrew_mx83]

i ran in a motor last monday that i just built for someone, took it for a run out in the hills, 80-90% throttle most of the time and some overrun, started by not going over 3000rpm and then some spurts to 4500 by the end of the night (about a 150km drive)

we stopped to grab a drink after 50km and there was no smoke on startup or giving it a rev. very happy. its still feeling tight over 5000 due to pretty tight clearances all round and the hot cams will go in this weekend, a few more miles and we can start to ring it out a bit and see what its like up top.

[dangdang]

As per the the kick ass website I ran it hard. really loaded up lots of WOT and big overrun down the hills. changed oil at 250km, 1000km, 25000km, then ran my normal light semi synth oil at 5000km.

Car now has 6000kms since doing this and over the past 1000km its used almost no oil. It only gone down about 1mm on the dipstick.

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Yeah, honing in the car, probably not how I would do it but I suppose if done carefully and as cleanly as possible its no big drama.