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It will also help warm up the tranny and diff much quicker. It is much better than letting it warm up till 3 bars (ap1) and hitting it while your diff and tranny is still cold. Not good.

 

There's no need to sit and wait for the temp gauge to rise. Unless it's during the winter when it's below freezing and you use dino oil- you should then let the car sit idle for at least a minute before driving. Otherwise it's perfectly fine to drive off after starting her up.

 

its ok to drive to car as soon as you start it but I wouldnt recommend it. I would still wait anywhere from 30 seconds - 1 minute to get all the fluids flowing nice and let the engine warm at idle a bit. But you shouldnt sit there for minutes waiting the car warms up a lot better when driven. That being said drive it easy the first couple minutes until the vehicle is fully warmed up. The s2k does have a rev limiter which limits you from reving past unsafe RPMs when the vehicle is not fully operable.

 

hes right, these arent evos that are very cold blooded. the ecu has many procautions built right in, to protect the motor.

 

you still have to make sure the oil is warmed up a bit before you drive out.

At least 30 seconds or a minute for the oil to circulate through the system before you drive out. That's what I do.

on top of that you transmission needs time to warm up to, which takes longer for it to warm up.

But I think the most critical part is to stay below 4000rpm when it's at 1 bar.

lol "cold blooded~"

BTW, I like your rims. poser

 

I HAD EM FIRST!!!!! im a ASA OG buddy!

 

Agreed. You shouldn't sit and idle for any extended period of time. Idling is the worst thing for your engine, even when cold.

At most, I'll let it sit for 30 seconds before driving, but usually I just start up, wait 5 seconds, then go.

 

I've read about this as well. They say it could actually hurt the engine to just have the oil stand there while being heated up. I forgot why.

 

Its normal. Mine starts out at 2, then I let it go 1.5 before I drive. Takes about a minute.