Warming up car

I thought there was a thread on here somewhere about this but couldnt find it.
I found this interesting.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...warm-up-your-car/?src=arb_fb_m&mag=roa&dom=fb


Ride safe,
AAron

 

Shouldn't do that with motorbikes, either.

 

While I don't neccessarily disagree, here in the frozen tundra, I think ATF, gear oils and other petro products in the engine bay benefit from a minute or 2 of engine heat and low load circulation before throwing it in gear. More than 5 minutes, yeah, that's probably counterproductive.

Although I do like a warm car, and in 30 years of owning cars, most of mine have gone 150,000 miles or more without any oil related failures.

 

More than few might be pissed when they realize that $300 remote start option wasn't worth it.

 

I warm up the car for my sake and not the cars. I would rather be comfortable temperature wise than driving for a couple of minutes freezing.

 

OK, so here goes....I'm in the paddock with the bike at say 70F. I usually run the bike (it's FI by the way) to get it up to temp before heading down to pit-out and the subsequent start....Bad thing?

 

Known this for years. Don't care, I'm not scraping ice at 4:30 in the morning and I like sitting down in a warm seat. Only thing I won't warm up is a diesel with a newer emissions system on it.

 

Nope. I hit the remote start from my office when leaving work. By the time I get to the jeep, it's blowing warm air. I don't keep a car more than a few years and I didn't buy a jeep because I was concerned about mpg.

 

Back when I had to leave for work before dawn, I kept a 1000 watt convection heater on the passenger side floor of my car. During cold weather I parked the car every evening with the heater connected to a drop cord to my deck.

When I went out to get the morning paper, I plugged the drop cord into the outlet on the deck. By the time I was ready to leave, the car was warm and the frost was melted off the windows. If there was snow or ice, it was loosened enough to be brushed off.

When I left, I only had to disconnect the heater from the drop cord, start the car, and go, in a warm car with clear windows.

If I had been living in the Great Frozen North, I would have installed a block heater for the engine.

 

Some warm up of a diesel engine (especially if turbo) is a good idea, IMHO. A couple of minutes if it's winter, maybe a minute in the summer. Don't just jump in, hit the starter and start pulling that 20 ton 5th wheel. Use your block heater in the winter too. I keep mine plugged in to a remote switch so I turn it on as soon as I think I'm going to use the truck (winter only, of course).

 

Have you seen gp teams warm their bikes up? I just copy what they do.
Meaning don't let it idle, and warm it up like a two stroke, if the bike is completely cold you have to warm it some or it won't be up to temp by the time you get to your grid on a cold day imo

 

My garage stays at 40 or so even when it's below 0 outside. Insulated garage door and living space on 3/6 sides helps.

problem solved.

 

The engine tolerances on your bike are nothing like a motoGP bike.

Unless you're racing something that was never sold with headlights and turn signals, I wouldn't worry about warming it up more than 30-60 seconds to get the oil circulated.

Just my $.02

 

I just like to hear the sound though..

 

Grew up in North Dakota. In high school, my car was parked outside.

On a normal January morning, I'd have frost on my windows 1/4 inch thick and it was more solid ice than just frost.
So to fix that situation and save 20 minutes or more of chiseling ice off my windows we did this (school started at 8:30 am):

- About 6am my Mom, the early riser, would plug my cars block heater in to warm the oil
- At night when I got home we draped old sheets over the front and rear windows the frost adhered to the sheets and we just peeled them off in the morning, shook the frost off them, and had clear windows with no scraping
- When my Brother and I were ready, we'd get in the car and let it (1976 Dodge Monaco, think same car as in the Blues Brothers movie) idle for about a minute to get the oil/coolant/tranny fluids circulating then proceed.

It was maybe 10 minutes to school. Anything else was a waste.

 

My truck is a leased company truck. It gets run before I get in no matter what the weather. Summer it is run to get the ac going, winter is heat. All I care about is my comfort.

 

Heck yeah. I change my oil often enough with good stuff I'm not worried about this. Plus I don't keep cars long enough to really care, for me it's about comfort.

 

Your bike has no where near the clearances compared to a GP bike.

 

I know that's already been mentioned