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Originally Posted by alcheng (Post 3631837)

because it says in the driver's manual they don't recommend "warm-up" the engine, even the 370z manual say that too.

They recommend drive off with a slow speed.

quote from the video description:

"Cars with electronic fuel injection do not need to be warmed up before lightly driving off. This is because fuel injected engines can compensate for temperature changes. Cold engines run rich to compensate for poor fuel atomization. This means extra fuel is injected into the combustion chamber.

Now fuel is a solvent, so when extra fuel gets on the cylinder walls, it washes away the oil from the cylinders and pistons. Less oil on the cylinder walls means less protection, and because the oil is cold it makes it harder for it to be replaced. This means the longer you spend with your engine cold, the more wear you’ll have. Idling the engine doesn’t put much heat into it, so the car remains cold for a long duration.

If it’s cold outside, you can wait 15-30 seconds to ensure that oil is flowing, but you don’t need to wait for the engine to be warm. It will heat up faster by driving the car lightly. By heating it up faster, the oil gets to operating temperature more quickly, and this is what you want to prevent wear. If it’s really cold outside, the time it takes to scrape off the windows so you can see will be plenty of time for oil to start circulating, so you can get in and go once you can see out the windshield. "

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Revving it to 5k+ within 10secs of starting it up on a cold day isn't applicable to that article. Do you do that to your car after its sat in sub 20* temps all day?

Tachometer when shifting to 2nd & not paying 100% attention.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...69eaf9ab5a.jpg

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Seriously i thrash first like a boss. I hit the limiter on 2nd over the weekend. Was like fun fun fun crushing dissapointment when no more fun could be had

Its nice to get some nice spirit into corners.

I'd define 'beating your car' as working the vehicle at the upper limits of either the machine or the driver. Because this is where you will get the most mechanical wear, fluids will break down, and physical stresses are at their peak... Meaning this is where you are purposefully applying as much damage to things as you think you can get away with and not walk home.

For me the determination 'to beat, or not to beat' really depends on the parts cost of the car. This is because driving at the mechanical limits is turning the Laws of Thermodynamics into Fun, and there's always a price to pay for this.

Take my Abarth for example; this is a car I well and truly beat on.

It has a really bad case of Little Man Syndrome and will happily respond to any and all challenges (including Challengers, which generally stand no real chance unless they're halo models). It gets autocrossed, quarter miled, and every red light and on ramp is a chance to prove something... And the little 1.4L under the hood is wound incredibly tight and is usually supplied with ~30 PSI - and it makes north of 220HP. So every nut, bolt, and seal in the thing is subjected to incredible stress when I'm hooning it.

If I did not perform maintenance on the car in accordance with this style of driving, it'd last maybe 90 days.

But because I tend to take the whole thing apart and inspect it monthly (wheel bearings... If you drive like a lunatic, check your wheel bearings for play...), I can get away with it. That and and replacement parts for it are stupidly cheap; I replaced everything from the turbo to the tailpipe on the Abarth for what the short tails cost on the Z...

So I beat the crap out of the Abarth, and I expect I will continue to do so for another decade. :driving:

I beat my car with a sack of Valencia Oranges, doesn't leave a bruise and shows em who's the boss.