I'd agree...I think...with changing the oil at 20 miles.I don't see what harm that could do?
"The main thing is to load the engine by opening the throttle hard in 2nd, 3rd and 4th gear". Well..."hard" is relative.Do they mean...just below redline,or what?
Breaking in a spendy motor is pretty scarey in some respects.It's got to perform and last MANY MANY miles....unless yer plannin on ditchin it within several thousand miles...you know.Some guys do just that.Run em really hard....from the gate...then sell em like in 20,000 miles and such.And on to the next one.
If ya get it wrong...somehow...yer stuck with it.
"The main thing is to load the engine by opening the throttle" .AND....decelerating as well.IDK.Kawasaki doesn't say..."baby the engine'.It says to NOT go past the recommended rpms in the given window of mileage.They know nobody is gonna stay exactly perfectly at those recommended RPMs.Passing 4K in the 1st 500 miles is most likely NOT gonna harm anything.It didn't mine anyway.Besides...they've already run em...probably close to redline at least once to record the HP and Tq.Going to redline isn't needed anyway...it produces it's max values below that.Gonna remember that with my new baby.
Ya...I ran er up to like 5k,6k a few times as I was in the 500 mile range.But NOT straight out first engine startup and run.No way.I gave er a few miles first,just to get everything moving okay and not forcing anything too quickly.But I didn't baby her either.By 500 miles,I was getting into the 6k range.At around 700 miles,8K several times...and by 1,000 miles...I opened er up all the way and then decelled all the way down.A couple of times at least.Changed oil at 200 miles...and again at 600,and again at 1,000.Rode er for about 2000 miles and switched to full syn 10/40 Motul.Never looked back.She ONLY started using a bit of oil AFTER I had run SEVERAL top speed runs..like maybe....10 or so.I noticed a tad bit of oil consumption,but no smoke.That's when I decided to stop doing that.Normal riding(agressive)again and the oil consumption dropped off a bit.1 Bad's the guy who suggested I stop doing those high end runs.So I did.
My valves were virtually perfect spec at 24,000.No adjusting in between.Kept my oil changed around every 2000 miles or so.There were NO flakes or sediment at the 2nd oil change.Couple if tiny pieces of clutch material(fiber)...but that was it.Teensy tiny...about the size of a large grain of sand.
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