hey everyone! just wondering what other people do, before they drive. I have been trying to idle my engine running one minute before driving, but mine is just past break-in and ive been trying to baby it anyways... just curious! thanks!

 

I always do if its cold outside. I let the engine and turbo warm-up. It's starting to get cold here so I'm starting to do it everytime I get in.

 

I always do atleast 2 minutes. You are supposed to let the engine warm up becasue of the oil for the turbo. The owners manuel says to.

 

yep.always let it warm up until the needle goes past the c

 

No, it's a bad idea.

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and on and on. If I let my car idle for 30 seconds and then go, it is warmer 30 seconds after that than if I let my car sit and idle for a minute and a half.

As long as you aren't flooring it or revving it up until the coolant gets some heat in it, you will be fine. Letting it idle to warm up is killing your engine. As for the turbo, stay out of boost and you won't have to worry about whether the oil is hot or cold. DON'T IDLE!!

 

It is more important to idle the car after running hard than at startup. It is not a good idea to push hard in any car when it is cold, especially a turbo.

I always wait until my oil pressure has dropped from 6 bar at idle to 5 bar (This usually happens just as the temp meter passes the C) and never push until things are completly warm.

 

Very intersting! I didn't know.
So, I start my car let idle for 30sec maximum and drive very slow untill the temp gauge reachs its normal condition position, then I'm able to rev to the redline.
Is it correct?

 

The temp gauge on the Evo measures water temp. What you are really waiting for is for the oil temp to come up. I usually wait until my engine has been up at temp for a little while and I feel that everyting is at its normal operating temperature.

Then I push

 

Well, I don’t really care what people says, they have their believes and I have mine. I always let the car idle for a period of time before driving of. The length of that period is depending of the ambient temperature but I do keep it pretty short and then just don’t push the car until it has reached proper working temperature. Have one thing in mind though, just because your temp gauge shows normal it doesn’t mean that your oil has reached that same temperature. It takes A LOT longer for the oil to heat up, anybody with an oil temp gauge that can verify this for me and give some figures?

 

They heat up at almost the exact same rates.

 

I don't have time figures for you, but I can verify that the oil temp comes up much slower than the coolant temp.

I let the car idle until the stock temp guage starts to move (verified to be 130 F with AEM EMS data logging) and then drive it gently until my oil temp gauge starts to come up (50 C on guage, 122 F) before I really hammer on it.

Keith

 

I always let it idle unitil the temp moved passed 1/4 temp then drive slow unitl closer to half then rew it up and hammer on it.

 

I usually let my car warm up for about 5min. or so when it is cold. I have remote start to so when I come out of a store it is warming up as I walk to it. Kind of nice.

 

What remote start system did you go with? I am seriously thinking about this for the winter.

Keith