Jay_Laifman(at)countrywide.com writes:
Timing: Set the timing using the static method to 8 degrees, then
adjust
once the car is running using the timing light method. Obviously you
have
to be able to set some ball park before start up!
What is the "static method?" Smitty said to set the distributor so
that the end of the vacuum advance is pointing nearly 90º to the engine.
Oil: He suggested 30 or 40 wt Valvoline Racing oil - not hi-po oil. I
do
not know if that has detergent.
I don't know either.
Start up: remove spark plugs, crank over to 20 psi, put plugs back in.
Start. Set idle at 2500. Drive to normal operating temperature ranging
the rpm between 2500 and 4500/5000 rpm with and without load, but not
lugging. Drive car for 1/2 hour before letting idle below 2500. My
notes
do not indicate if that 1/2 hour was from the first drive. It does not
look like it. However, I am pretty sure I was having so much fun that
my
first drive was well over 1/2 an hour.
I saw on a TNN show, Shadetree Mechanic, the cam break-in procedure and
they, like Jarrid, said to run the engine at 2000-2500rpm for 40 min
without exceeding that rpm. Also said not to load the engine during
break-in.
Christopher
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