Quote Originally Posted by punkr6
x2, either it seals or it doesn't. Look at any type of race car and you will see them build motors and instantly run them to red line. if it leaks there is other issues... LOL at breaking in a gasket of any kind.
The problem with using a race car as an example they rebuild the motor after each race anyway.

To be truthfully. 500 miles isn't alot. And I think the term break-in is being thrown out of portion here. I think it should be call preventive maintance (double checking after putting some good road mile before red lining it and really fu**in something up). So drive it 500 miles retorque your fasterns double check all your components that was removed and do and oil change ( get all that trash out especially before throwing some rpms). And as one poster said checking the CR wouldn't be a bad idea for piece of mind.