Are all C6 Zs pre-broken in

[LBC6]

Just wondering, like how every Ferrari, Lambo most Porsches the FordGT has about 50 miles on them at the factory then the Odometer is started once it leaves. So if you pick a new Z you can get on it from the get go or do you have to ease it in?

[painrace]

My recommendation is to drive the car until all parts and fluids have reached temperature. The time depends on the ambient temperature. Once everything is hot, run the hell out of it. You cannot keep your foot in this car so you can only get on it in spurts but do it a few times. I don't think you will have any problems. If you do, it is under warranty!

[RFC2]

Originally Posted by painrace

My recommendation is to drive the car until all parts and fluids have reached temperature. The time depends on the ambient temperature. Once everything is hot, run the hell out of it. You cannot keep your foot in this car so you can only get on it in spurts but do it a few times. I don't think you will have any problems. If you do, it is under warranty!

That should be in the owners manual

[NYCHASM]

Originally Posted by RFC2

That should be in the owners manual

I'd think twice about "getting on it" just because the temps are up to snuff. All new cars generally require some break-in period. Read the manual...that's why they supply it!!

Charlie

[IT L GO]

Originally Posted by NYCHASM

I'd think twice about "getting on it" just because the temps are up to snuff. All new cars generally require some break-in period. Read the manual...that's why they supply it!!

Charlie

I agree, getting on a new vehicle is VERY bad advice

[f430]

Originally Posted by LBC6

Just wondering, like how every Ferrari, Lambo most Porsches the FordGT has about 50 miles on them at the factory then the Odometer is started once it leaves. So if you pick a new Z you can get on it from the get go or do you have to ease it in?

Ferrari delivers the cars with approx. 50 miles on the odo, but the owners manual states the motor should be kept under 5000 rpm for the first 620 miles. I'm sure the Z will have a break in period as well.

[DJWorm]

Some absolutely, really STUPID ADVICE given above !!; especially about "getting ON IT" immediately.

Anyone who treats a brand new $75,000 sports car in that manner should be shot.

2006 C6 Z06 Break IN Procedure direct from the 2006 Corvette Owner's Manual section/page 2-21:

First 200 miles:
- NO HARD STOPS

First 500 miles:
- 55 MPH OR LESS
- NO CONSTANT SPEED
- NO FULL THROTTLE STARTS
- NO DOWNSHIFTING

Over the next 500 miles to 1,000 miles total:
- INCREASE SPEED AND LOAD GRADUALLY

At 1,000 miles the engine will be sufficiently broken in, the brake pads and brake rotors bedded, the clutch surfaces will not be glazed but will function pproperly and the transmission and differential gear faces will be burnished in. The burnishing of the Tranny & Diff gears takes the longest.

I recommend changing the oil & filter at this time (1,000 miles) and following the maintainance schedules thereafter.

[greenshirt77]

Originally Posted by DJWorm

- NO DOWNSHIFTING

No downshifting??? Am I missing something here?

[mike1952]

Originally Posted by DJWorm

Some absolutely, really STUPID ADVICE given above !!; especially about "getting ON IT" immediately.

Anyone who treats a brand new $75,000 sports car in that manner should be shot.

2006 C6 Z06 Break IN Procedure direct from the 2006 Corvette Owner's Manual section/page 2-21:

First 200 miles:
- NO HARD STOPS

First 500 miles:
- 55 MPH OR LESS
- NO CONSTANT SPEED
- NO FULL THROTTLE STARTS
- NO DOWNSHIFTING

Over the next 500 miles to 1,000 miles total:
- INCREASE SPEED AND LOAD GRADUALLY

At 1,000 miles the engine will be sufficiently broken in, the brake pads and brake rotors bedded, the clutch surfaces will not be glazed but will function pproperly and the transmission and differential gear faces will be burnished in. The burnishing of the Tranny & Diff gears takes the longest.

I recommend changing the oil & filter at this time (1,000 miles) and following the maintainance schedules thereafter.

great advice...thanks!


Mike

[bjaber]

Could be worse...when I got new 4.10's put into my 96 Impala SS, the gear shop said to drive for no more than 15 minutes at a time and not more than 55 mph. Every 15 minutes, pull over, let it cool for 20 minutes, then repeat until first 100 miles. After 100 miles, so the same but pulling over every 30 minutes. Worst thing about that is the day I picked it up, I had to rack that first 100 miles on it that very night and then drive 200 miles on open highway to drop off the car at my friends house who did a T56 conversion on it. Talk about embarrassing on CA I-5 up the central valley doing 55 in the right lane getting passed by big-rig semi's blasting their air horns at me. Then having to pull over at the truck stops every now and then wait for the ring set to cool.

But once I broke them in... what fun! T56 with 4.10's in a 4500 lb sedan... talk about drifting!

[MSiska]

Ummm...this is all good advice. However....has anybody been to the plant when after the vettes come off the line and started they drive them over to the dyno and rev the piss out of every single vette that comes off the line for about 5 minutes? Go ahead and try to convince me that a new vette needs breaking in when I've seen this done four years in a row when I visited the plant at the Z06Fest....

[johniew398]

Originally Posted by DJWorm

Some absolutely, really STUPID ADVICE given above !!; especially about "getting ON IT" immediately.

Anyone who treats a brand new $75,000 sports car in that manner should be shot.

2006 C6 Z06 Break IN Procedure direct from the 2006 Corvette Owner's Manual section/page 2-21:

First 200 miles:
- NO HARD STOPS

First 500 miles:
- 55 MPH OR LESS
- NO CONSTANT SPEED
- NO FULL THROTTLE STARTS
- NO DOWNSHIFTING

Over the next 500 miles to 1,000 miles total:
- INCREASE SPEED AND LOAD GRADUALLY

....

55 MPH or less during the first 500 miles. Let's see, I am picking mine up at the NCM, and I don't think I am going to
be doing 55 MPH going back home, not seriously speeding but
can you see everyone wondering what the hell is wrong with that guy.

Those instructions are for a regular Vette. I did follow those instructions for a week or so after I picked up my 02 Z and
after watching everyone blow past me, I called the dealer.

I had to talk to the "break-in specialist." Know what he told me? He said just drive it like you are going to drive it.

I will take it easy the first 500 miles but not doing 55.

[FredLewandowski]

I'm not sure about the final engine test at the St. Catherines Ont. Engine plant, where the Z06 engine is made! But in the 70's at the Tonawanda NY engine plant all the engines, small blocks and 454's, were run on a test stand on "Natural gas".
They were high reved! If anything was to break, that was the time, before it ever went into a car!

[NYCHASM]

Originally Posted by johniew398

55 MPH or less during the first 500 miles. Let's see, I am picking mine up at the NCM, and I don't think I am going to
be doing 55 MPH going back home, not seriously speeding but
can you see everyone wondering what the hell is wrong with that guy.

Those instructions are for a regular Vette. I did follow those instructions for a week or so after I picked up my 02 Z and
after watching everyone blow past me, I called the dealer.

I had to talk to the "break-in specialist." Know what he told me? He said just drive it like you are going to drive it.

I will take it easy the first 500 miles but not doing 55.

Hmmm...now let's see...
Who do I think has more experience and who do I think gives THE BEST advise when it comes to Corvettes...hmmm.

Oh yeah, I'd really have a whole lot of confidence in the suggestions of a dealer's "break-in specialist... You can't be serious!

And...you'd REALLY be concerned about what other people were thinking if they saw you driving at 55?

Charlie

[Jfreez]

I read an article that said all LS7s are "hot tested" before they leve the enginge dept.

This tells me they have been revved up at least once.

Breaking in involves the whole powertrain and breaks, so I would be on the conservitave side for at least a thousand miles.

The GM recomendations seem highly coservative, I think 70 in 6th would be more than fine.

Just make damn sure that sucker is warm before heading out.

Use good sense and it will be fine. They guys that want to burn through a set of rear tires before they get out of the lot will never have a car that lasts no matter who breaks it in.