FC3S Murray's never ending build.

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Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

2200!! I hate you again Brian I am gonna start hitting the highway for short 40 mile trips to a town called Cascade. Great falls is 56,000 people and from one end of town to the other is about 10 miles man. 577 in maybe 9 day total drive time is pretty good for MT.

Well in all fairness, I did take 2 nights to do a 150mi jaunt each night, I went to Daves twice - 600 miles there, and AC over the weekend. 350 miles, so that's about 1250 out of the 2200 right there.......... BUT.... I also had that week long rebuild stretch where she wasn't running at all.... slacker

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

"If anything Sean, I would run 128:1 during the breakin. After breakin's and dyno's are done with, I would reduce it to 256:1 or thier rec'd 1/2 oz/gal"

Wouldn't I want less pre-mix on break in for a better "dig in". More lube = less friction so less wear on parts BUT I want wear right now correct?

I've always been told that more premix during the breakin is a good thing. Reason being, you don't want too much dig in, you want the parts to seat, not overheat, not gouge, no be over stressed. After everythings seated and running well and broken in, there is less stress, less pressure points if you will.

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

You know of some baseline oil temp ranges by chance bro?

Depends on alot of things, personally I wouldn't worry until you start seeing 220+ oil temps and even those are acceptable. Lower would be better but 230 is an eye opener, 240 is like The temps you described are just fine. I wouldn't worry at all. When under a more constant load, you should see oil temps 10-20*hotter than coolant. More than that and I would worry about the exchanger. I went a little to big I think, let me rephrase that, I went a little too small but ducted a little too well. I generally see 170* coolatn and 160* oil on the highway. When sitting in traffic in wonderful jersey on the way to AC, coolant hit 186 and oil hit 210. As soon as traffic started moving again it took about 2-3 miles for the oil to get back down to 160's.