On The Cover: A new, or freshly overhauled engine - including top overhauls - needs to be broken in. we're primarily concerned with seating the piston rings, but anytime an engine has undergone major work, it's appropriate to treat it as unproven. For more details see the article beginning on Page 16. Image by Patrick Allen/Dreamstime.com.
By the time you read this, my Debonair should have a freshly overhauled engine holding down its nose. The story of how all that came to be is best told with a few adult beverages, but the bottom line is I will soon have a new hole in my wallet and a zero-since-major-overhual IO-520. This […]
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