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Old 05-05-2006, 05:37 AM
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I believe that the owner manual indicates that you should allow the engine to warm up for about a minute prior to driving. I haven't read this in a while so of course I may be wrong and in the event that I am, please correct my statement.
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Originally Posted by animeS2K,May 4 2006, 11:31 PM
I was under the impression that it was better to drive your car gently to warm it up than to let it idle to warm up - better oil distribution or something...
read the owner's manual. it tells you to let the car warm up for 1 minute and then you can drive. you dont necessarily have to wait for the revs to come down to normal, and in fact, i believe it helps to drive it at that point.
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Originally Posted by IIGQ4U,May 5 2006, 07:37 AM
I believe that the owner manual indicates that you should allow the engine to warm up for about a minute prior to driving. I haven't read this in a while so of course I may be wrong and in the event that I am, please correct my statement.
doh, beat me to it.
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someone said this before, but think about if you were woke up from bed in the morning, and that moment you had to run a full damn sprint down the street, what happens? Possibly nothing, but you could pull a muscle or something of the sort, it certainly wouldn't feel good, and we wouldn't want our F20-F22's to pull a muscle or have a bad feeling, now would we?
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Originally Posted by whitemistress2k,May 4 2006, 07:27 AM
Let your 3 bars show on the gauge and then
It doesnt take long to warm, b patient... dont be a member of the "moron" club...
actually SAE recommend a light load driving instead of long idle.

the car warm up fastest under lightload, it doesn't require a long idle(such as waiting til the third bar)
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin S2k,May 4 2006, 06:55 AM
technically VTEC isn't really even a verb in any way, shape, or form. technically "VTEC" is ALWAYS on and working. we just use it as a commonly accepted verb/action.


and by the way, if you try and VTEC when the engine is not warmed up, you will hit what we call, the moron limiter. as in, you'd have to be a moron to want to rev this car up that high on a cold engine. so the moron limiter kicks in and saves you from yourself.
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Originally Posted by iam7head,May 5 2006, 02:05 PM
actually SAE recommend a light load driving instead of long idle.

the car warm up fastest under lightload, it doesn't require a long idle(such as waiting til the third bar)
that was my point - not the 1 minute idle at startup which I often do, but letting it warm to 3 bars at idle.
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Remember that it's not only the engine that needs to be warm before VTEC. Your transmission gets warm only if the car is moving.


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