Short driving trips

[dondonbabyraptor]

Short trips just means your oil life is alot less but otherwise you will be fine with letting your engine warmup before driving, as with most turbo cars letting it idle for a few minutes before pulling out of your parking spot is ideal.

I often take a good bit of short trips here and there living in the city and all. I tend to let my car idle until the RPM drops from 1200 idle to 900 idle, indicating things have settled a bit. Generally 30 seconds or less of idle= 15-20 degrees temp change until it settles and I drive it easy until the cylinder temp is settled at 194-198. I am not sure if this helps, but from your comment it seems to be the right move.

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[jmurph]

I often take a good bit of short trips here and there living in the city and all. I tend to let my car idle until the RPM drops from 1200 idle to 900 idle, indicating things have settled a bit. Generally 30 seconds or less of idle= 15-20 degrees temp change until it settles and I drive it easy until the cylinder temp is settled at 194-198. I am not sure if this helps, but from your comment it seems to be the right move.

Engines are made to run af certain Temps for tolerances, it doesn't really matter but it's 39 seconds of piece of mind to my ocd

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

Engines are made to run af certain Temps for tolerances, it doesn't really matter but it's 39 seconds of piece of mind to my ocd

That's what I was thinking. Totally agreed on the peace of mind bit.

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