I'm directing this question to Walter Atkinson, but I think it will be of interest to the entire Lancair community -- plus any other homebuilder group.

I have a factory new Lycoming engine on my Lancair (IO-360-B1F).  It came from the factory having been run in their test cell for a little over an hour (standard run-in, I did not ask for anything special).  It even came with a test log sheet and a nifty litle certificate that says "No further run-in is required".

I plan to run the engine for the first time this summer, although I will probably not be flying for another year.  Should I be limiting this engine run to just a few minutes at idle power only, or can I feel free to run it up to 2500 RPM and exercise the controllable pitch prop?  Should I worry about glazing over the cylinder walls or has the factory run-in taken care of that?

I know it is not fully broken in, but could I be damaging it (glazing the cylinders) if I do this wrong?

After I do this, I'll probably put the dehydrator plugs back in, plus plug the exhaust pipes and reconnect a silica-gel bottle to the crankcase breather tube, but I probably won't "pickle" the engine.

For what it is worth, the engine has a cooling plenum so I should be able to run it for awhile without overheating.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

- Rob Wolf