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Beautiful evening, wife needed milk, had to be Tuscan, roof off, perfect perfect perfect 15 mile round trip it is then.
Taking it easy, warming it up, after one mile some corsa type person up my backside, really you think? About mile later engine at 40 degrees, TT up my backside, back off, revs, dump valve, backs off, revs, dump valve and repeat for about half a mile. then we hit the dual carriage , no traffic just perfect..... and I really really wanted to show him the twin pipes, but engine at 45 degrees so no........ He come level with me window down shouting GO GO GO!! I wanted to, but still at 50 degrees and 2500rpm. I just had to smile (hard to explain the warm up procedure at 65mph). He sped of disappointed in me....
Make me feel better and tell me I did the right thing...
Anyway cracking drive back ........
Taking it easy, warming it up, after one mile some corsa type person up my backside, really you think? About mile later engine at 40 degrees, TT up my backside, back off, revs, dump valve, backs off, revs, dump valve and repeat for about half a mile. then we hit the dual carriage , no traffic just perfect..... and I really really wanted to show him the twin pipes, but engine at 45 degrees so no........ He come level with me window down shouting GO GO GO!! I wanted to, but still at 50 degrees and 2500rpm. I just had to smile (hard to explain the warm up procedure at 65mph). He sped of disappointed in me....
Make me feel better and tell me I did the right thing...
Anyway cracking drive back ........
To be honest there's a load of old folklore in an effort to mask shonky quality components. Id never thrash an engine from cold, but hopefully your using a multigrade synthetic oil, at 40 degrees a brief run at say 5k won't hurt, and the load on the followers reduces with rpm....
Christ when you run the cams in you start the engine and hold it at a high idle from cold.
Christ when you run the cams in you start the engine and hold it at a high idle from cold.
50 degrees? Surely that's fine to get to to 5k revs. perhaps not 7500.
Also, you did the right thing not being baited/goaded by other people.
You don't have to google far to find something about a couple of guys having a bit of a blast, one crashes/dies/kills someone, the non-crashing party is also responsible because witnesses saw them "racing"
Also, you did the right thing not being baited/goaded by other people.
You don't have to google far to find something about a couple of guys having a bit of a blast, one crashes/dies/kills someone, the non-crashing party is also responsible because witnesses saw them "racing"
The guidelines for warm up that came with my STR8SIX rebuild are simply keep under 2.5k revs until 60 degrees oil temp is reached.
I'm inclined to follow that to the letter no matter how frustrating that is on a journey that finds you on a dual carriageway a long way from being up to temp.
I'm inclined to follow that to the letter no matter how frustrating that is on a journey that finds you on a dual carriageway a long way from being up to temp.
stevieeg said:
The guidelines for warm up that came with my STR8SIX rebuild are simply keep under 2.5k revs until 60 degrees oil temp is reached.
I'm inclined to follow that to the letter no matter how frustrating that is on a journey that finds you on a dual carriageway a long way from being up to temp.
Fair enough, that's the instructions you got after shelling out for a rebuild! Can't blame you for following them to the letter! I'm inclined to follow that to the letter no matter how frustrating that is on a journey that finds you on a dual carriageway a long way from being up to temp.
Fwiw I've always done this on my two Tuscans, both of which had powers rebuild by previous owners.
http://www.mytuscan.co.uk/howdo_main.php
Gives a little more leeway to use the car whilst it warms and gets it up to temp faster too.
Still takes an eternity on a cold morning though!
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