RE: Warm up procedures

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

> > Depends on how old the car is. Modern fuel injected engines 
> with synthetic 
> > lubricants require no warm up before driving. However, no 
> engine should be 
> > asked to work hard or rev high until it has reached a 
> reasonable temperature.
> 
> Michael, did you not just contradict yourself?
> 
> Seems to me any engine (well, maybe I should say 'dry sump' comes to 
> mind) that has sat for a time might not have a good coating 
> of lubricant 
> on the moving parts. Ergo "warm up".
> 
> I've only driven one car that doesn't need a warm up. An 
> electric car. The 
> lubricant for that engine is rated 3w9 or some insanely low number.

There's a difference between 'driving' and 'working hard' or 'revving
high'.

You can drive a car with minimal warm up (just need to give it a few
seconds for oil to circulate), but I wouldn't recommend driving it hard
until it's completely warmed up.

bs
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