Warming Up With Forged Pistons

[The Bogan]

1. Start car

2. Idle for about a minute to let oil pressure build up

3. Drive off boost till it reaches normal operating temps

4. Skids

Works for me

[discopotato03]

Generally late model engines warm up a lot faster than older ones , my Evo 6 warms up really quickly and its an iron block alloy headed four banger .

Also remember the temperature most are seeing is the water temperature not the head block or piston temps .

My RB25 is a cold cow of a thing and takes longer to heat up than I reckon it should , the temp also falls quickly on long downhill runs on cold nights . New genuine thermostat going in very soon .

[Adriano]

I let my trucks idle for long enough for there to be oil on the thrust bearing before i push the clutch in, about 3 seconds, then off up a long hill, 600.000km original turbo and motor cant be too bad for them

[Missileman]

1. Start car

2. Idle for about a minute to let oil pressure build up

3. Drive off boost till it reaches normal operating temps

4. Skids

Works for me

This works for me too.

[JonnoHR31]

By the time you start the car and select a gear you have oil pressure (unless something is seriously wrong), just drive the f**k*ng thing. Aslong as you're not thrashing the crap out of it before the oil warms up it'll be fine.

As a few people have said, letting it sit and idle before driving does more harm than good.

[StevenCJR31]

^^^ rotaries always blow seals, nothing to do with warm up

It's not about money why people do it. Idling at 2-3% load compared to driving it at 10% load can more than halve warm up period.

Even heavy truck engines alternate cylinders so only half are firing to load up and warm the engine faster

^^^ just pointing out how fragile rotaries are regardless of wether they are warmed up or not

Edited September 16, 2012 by StevenCJR31

[SiR_RB]

Not to mention fouling plugs if idling for too long (especially colder range ones)

I start and idle for about 30sec then drive normally off boost until oil temps move to 70degrees or higher...

Then I start the process of squeezing air down its throat