ORIGINAL: Flyboy Dave
RC-FIEND....
....you are missing the point. Downunder is not trying to break-in his engine.
He is purposely running the engine excessively rich to dis-spell the "sky is
falling crowd's notion" that running a new ABC engine in a "four stroke mode"
will cause engine failure.
FBD.
You are correct chuck....I misspoke in this sentence....
"Not one manufacturer has said that running an engine sloppy rich will hurt it....ever".
I meant to say "four stroking"....that is the topic of this debate. The person at
Mecoa that made the blanket statement about "ABC engines being damaged by
running them rich"....was incorrect. Perhaps some of the super tight K&B's could
be scuffed....
....but I doubt it.....show me one.
Our friend down-under is about to dis-spell that blanket statement....I already know
it to be false for a fact....when I broke in my first ABC engine, a S.T. .46 in 1977.
I four-stroked the snot out of it, and it was still running perfectly when I sold it
last year to a friend.....and I mean perfectly, or I would not have sold it to him....
...over 25 years later.
Rev on, my Brother.
FBD.