Break-in period

[Nurburg_beast]

Thank you all for the replies! Yeah I was also considering just taking a longer route and lengthening my trip to work. Looks like that is the right way to go!

 

[takemorepills]

Remember, an engine is basically a compressor. Any moisture in the air it sucks in is condensed by the pistons, and either goes past the piston rings or the exhaust.
Once everything is nice and hot, the moisture will find it's way out.

Like Bumflik said, go the long way around and even do at least one good WOT run to get everything well past "up to temp".

The VR30 is a good engine, treat it right and it will last a good long time

 

[Bumflik]

This the type of car you love driving. Make it last and take long drives.

 

[CPerdomo]

... ive noticed one of the short comings of my auto... in the first 1-2 or 2-3 shift in manual mode there is a noticeable delay at times like its confused. so lets say im in 2nd at 3K rpm on throttle and I hit the paddle ...ive noticed it will sometimes rev all the way to 5K then shift to 3rd. the higher gears seem ok but the torquey low gears it hesitates. its definitely not anything like a DCT im used to...

And thus the reason I switched my Nismo AT for the manual. I couldn't stand that delay...

 

[trackratZ]

Well, I'll be bumping redline often at ZCON next month track day, for now varying RPMs locally since I'm only at about 3.5K miles on the 6MT. Looking forward, but will monitor brakes and heat soak mainly in hot AZ.