Comments by "driving 4 answers" (@d4a) on "Engineering Explained" channel.

I'm a huge fan of your channel and your work and I have watched almost all of your videos. This is the first of them that has disappointed me. So you've read parts of three owners manuals, sat in a car, quoted one engine builder, and that's supposed to be engineering explained? Where's the engineering and the explanation? Some of your older videos had more useful information and explanations in 1 minute than this one has in its entirety. I won't go into a debate on engine break in because its such a controversial issue but I will say this: No amount of easy break-in will save an engine with imperfections or improperly set tolerances, nor will flooring it to the rev limit ruin a properly built engine. An engine that gets damaged from flooring it during break-in was bad in the first place. There is no arguing against that. I'm not saying there is a single way of breaking in every engine or that this or that way is the right one, but putting a clickbait-ish video thumbnail with "don't floor it" is not the standard engineering explained has set over the years. Why do car manufacturers don't tell you "Please rev your engine along its entire rpm range"? Maybe its because they have a legal department and maybe because they would wake up the next morning with a million lawsuits from a million morons that crashed their corvette. "I was just doing what it said in the owners manual bro! I want a 3 million for emotional trauma". Sorry for the long comment. I do not mean to criticize, belittle or start an argument. Things like engine break-in are not black and white and there is no single perfect way, especially not one that stems from a few owner's manuals and some chit-chat, and I think you know that better than anyone, so please give is us some good ol engineering explained with facts and details.
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