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running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:26 pm
by harpo
any body know the running in period for a rapido 225 kit
Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:30 pm
by mark
what clearance is the bore ?
Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:34 pm
by Muttley McLadd
Four or five hundred miles.
Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 9:41 pm
by mark
the reason i ask is because if it has 3thou clearance it will need 1000 or more miles, 3.5 thou prob 5-600 miles and 4 thou about 1-200 miles in my experience
Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:01 pm
by Muttley McLadd
Did it come from Rayspeed? I'd give it a careful check. It could be a variable clearance.
Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 10:16 pm
by FREAK
get it checked ,i had 2 last year that dropped a ring down the exhaust port within 25 miles of new

Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 3:18 pm
by mark
i had the same with my 250 rapido sadly

Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 3:56 pm
by soosh
Muttley McLadd wrote:Did it come from Rayspeed? I'd give it a careful check. It could be a variable clearance.
My barrel had 3 thou from them once.........either side

Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:04 pm
by Muttley McLadd
soosh wrote:Muttley McLadd wrote:Did it come from Rayspeed? I'd give it a careful check. It could be a variable clearance.
My barrel had 3 thou from them once.........either side

Amateur.. I had one with one thou' clearance at the bottom. And ten thou' at the top.

Re: running in period rapido
Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 8:41 pm
by Dazza
I think the secret to a well behaved Rapido ( after clearances are proved ok )is a religious (boring) running in regime, I ran my second ( first one also snagged a ring in the exhaust port at tick over) in for a 250 miles around town at 30mph 250 miles at 45 mph and the remainder at 50 mph.
I bought a gamin forerunner gps which kept me to the speeds exactly and kept a track on the mileage.