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At the risk of sounding a little anal-retentive or suffering from a mild form of OCD (which could both very well be the case) I just wanted to put this out there and see whether anyone else knows more about this.
Here's the thing, I've bought an Alfa Romeo 8C recently and fully tuned it, after that I gave it an oilchange before driving it like I always do, then after doing about 200 kilometers (or roughly 120 miles) I gave it another oilchange (again like I always do) and a 3rd when it reached roughly 300 kilometers (yep, you've guessed it) since 300 kilometers (or roughly 180 miles) seems to be the point when any car reaches its peak amount of horsepower.
It's just a pattern I more or less use automatically on most cars when bought new and seemed logical (although the oilchange straight after reaching 300 km is just to see how much power it's going to end up with).
The 8C finally reached 658 Bhp using this method, yesterday someone online offered me another 8C for a new M3 and since this seemed like a good deal for me I decided to take it.
Again I fully tuned it (and a first oilchange), set it up exactly like the first one and jumped in the online open lobby and had tons of fun racing it and totally disregarded the mileage (like you would) and when I had done about 270-290 kilometers I decided to give it an oilchange and again about 20-30 kilometers later to get it to its peak.
Turned out it had 650 Bhp after that, 8 less than an otherwise completely similar car with almost completely similar mileage.
Is this difference going to be temporarily or permanent, can't do an engine-rebuild right now since the mileage apparantly isn't yet high enough for that.
Maybe someone can shine a light on this matter, maybe after rebuilding both engines eventually it's going to be evenly matched again.
And to be clear, I actually really like this aspect since it apparantly pays to maintain your cars properly, just wanted to point out it does seem to make a difference, 8 Bhp on this car, maybe much more (or less) on others.
Here's the thing, I've bought an Alfa Romeo 8C recently and fully tuned it, after that I gave it an oilchange before driving it like I always do, then after doing about 200 kilometers (or roughly 120 miles) I gave it another oilchange (again like I always do) and a 3rd when it reached roughly 300 kilometers (yep, you've guessed it) since 300 kilometers (or roughly 180 miles) seems to be the point when any car reaches its peak amount of horsepower.
It's just a pattern I more or less use automatically on most cars when bought new and seemed logical (although the oilchange straight after reaching 300 km is just to see how much power it's going to end up with).
The 8C finally reached 658 Bhp using this method, yesterday someone online offered me another 8C for a new M3 and since this seemed like a good deal for me I decided to take it.
Again I fully tuned it (and a first oilchange), set it up exactly like the first one and jumped in the online open lobby and had tons of fun racing it and totally disregarded the mileage (like you would) and when I had done about 270-290 kilometers I decided to give it an oilchange and again about 20-30 kilometers later to get it to its peak.
Turned out it had 650 Bhp after that, 8 less than an otherwise completely similar car with almost completely similar mileage.
Is this difference going to be temporarily or permanent, can't do an engine-rebuild right now since the mileage apparantly isn't yet high enough for that.
Maybe someone can shine a light on this matter, maybe after rebuilding both engines eventually it's going to be evenly matched again.
And to be clear, I actually really like this aspect since it apparantly pays to maintain your cars properly, just wanted to point out it does seem to make a difference, 8 Bhp on this car, maybe much more (or less) on others.
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