moderate........but god its hard not just absolutely step on it every time i get in it

 

I beat the car like a cracked out prostitute that owes me money...and I do so everyday for the most part (20+ a month).

No point in buying it and upgrading it to drive it civilised. I also am blessed with a wide selection of good twisty roads, nice long straights, and a lack of enforcement outside the city limits.

 

I had a question, does beating the car damage the engine faster? Is it more 'hazardous' than driving conservatively?

 

The worst things you can do to your car are:

1) Driving without letting the car warm up, I wait until Oil Psi drops to 60 or the stock water temp gauage hits minimum bar

2) Turning the engine off without letting the car cool down, especially after hard runs

3) Driving on a bad tune/bad gas that causes lots of knock

4) Neglecting fluid changes and proper maintenance

5) Installing mods without proper supporting mods

As far as driving the car hard... it's not nearly as bad as all the above things, but it has been proven time and time again that RPMs kill engines... if you are the type of person that wants to rev to 8500RPM every time you're on the road, then you are definitely doing damage unless you have a full built motor... and even then its questionable

 

I dont beat on it...

 

Thank you. I was just curious.

 

Well, apparently 8500rpms is known to break rod bolts If you keep it to the factory redline/fuel cut, the motor will last longer than you care for. I redlined my Nissan almost every time I cranked it up, had a lot of track miles on it, and I sold it at 160k miles still going strong.

As long as you properly warm up, cool down, and change the fluids, you can rev it out as much as you want and it'll probably last longer than you want to keep it.

If you don't drive it hard enough, you could get oil sludge buildup.... just a thought.

 

Because mine is a daily driver and I enjoy having a liscence, good MPG, and hate paying tickets and high insurance, I don't "beat" on the Evo on the street. In fact, I find it hard to safely open the car up to its full potential on the street, and I'm only running stock boost at the moment.

But canyon runs and AutoX, that's the only time I drive it really hard.

IMO "beating on" primarily means any of the following:

hitting rev limiter or revving unnecessarily high
dropping the clutch/launching/burnouts
slamming the steering to full lock
unusually hard or sloppy shifting
anything that puts unusual and/or unnecessary wear on non-consumable parts (tires, brakes, clutch etc)

Most other stuff is just driving it the way it was designed to be driven

 

Every day baby. That's why I bought this car

 

Well when i did drive my car i beat on it like a i beat my meat. Beating on things is healthy and perfectly normal. Keeps things from getting backed up like carbon build up and other things etc.lol. Ill say i kept it moderate seeing i still get laid it keeps things at a safe level for being full of rage.

 

If I'm in any of my sports cars they are getting driven like a sports car, trust me!

 

90% of the time i shift at 2.5-3 rpms, never red lined it, shifted ~5-6 rpms 10-15 times.

 

Beat on mine every time i drive it just not for very extended times. I try to track at least once a month.

 

I dont beat on mine at all pretty much. I mean i red line it mayb once a day but shifting at around 4 max in town and what not. I try not to beat on it much because the state troopers now have there like base office for the whole upper part of my state less than 2 miles from my apartment, and they all know what the car is, and some know me very well. Ive had a few bikes and troopers for some reason think they can stop them, lol.

 

I probably redline like 35-50 times a week.