Originally Posted by WarmAndSCSI

Well after reading the actual first post of this thread and the complete premise, I figured it would be very useful to chime in on what this guy should do once he does have a new engine. Everybody getting replacement engines will be in this boat and have the choice to make...

I am not a professional mechanic (i.e. I don't do this for a living), and I do not market any kind of product, so I have nothing to gain from giving advice on this issue except knowing that a few more people will have properly broken-in engines if they at least partially listen. I do an extreme version of points A-D that I described, but through at least a dozen times of firing up a new race engine and TWICE now with 2 brand new high-performance import engines, this has worked for me. I challenge you to find somebody who can give that kind of advice who doesn't also build engines for a performance shop for a living...