This 'running in' an engine thing is like the 'holy grail'!
I really do believe we are all getting far too hung up about it!
The engines in the 4/4 and Plus 4 are just 'another' of 100,000's of thousands of GDi's and Sigmas that have adorned Ford road cars for years... and Morgan just drops them in to their cars! There are huge numbers of those Fords worldwide, owned by peeps who just buy and drive, lease cars and even rentals! How often do you see a Ford 4 cylinder, stranded on the road side through a terminal engine failure? I would wager, not very often!
Added to this, how many high mileage Morgans do you see? Let alone cars that have been owned by 'one careful owner' since new!
Personally, I would just get in and drive the car. Enjoy it, give it a little respect of course, but I think all these variations of 'running in procedures' probably based upon the hand built engines of old, are simply not relevant today.
A good point. Even if running in is ignored and the car is driven normally from the start, so long as the oil changes are adhered to modern engines are good for 200k miles or more. This equates to more than a couple of lifetimes for a Morgan - and even if something did go wrong, it's not like Ford engine bits are exactly hard to get hold of.
