I start Henry, go and have a smoke, inside to clean teeth, jump in and away - never fails. Maybe being the son of a truck driver has imprinted this into my pea sized brain - dad would sit there for 5 mins letting the oil warm up(along with the fam in the car too!!)

Hooroo

Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

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Rob Forsyth
Miniot!!

Without a choke
to start sit and turn over for a good 30s sometimes a minute pumping acc. every 5 seconds to see whats going on.
If it gets going.
It will die at least 4 times before i can drive off.
If i can drive off then,
i sit for a minute, revving, trying not to stall, then take off,
dies
silly mini.
turn on, then do a skid, and it then works until i have to stop, and then the engine stops instantly,

no warm up though,
the warm up is the skid i think, if anything

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I like to let mine sit for a couple of minutes before i take of, this usually get's it up to C by the time i'm at the end of the street..then when i hit the hustle and bustle and need to scoot around through gaps she's right and ready..

I always wait at least 30sec..and if not warm..keep it under 3k..

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i start it watch the temp gauge wait for 160 deg then i'm off
makka

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No choke starts first kick most of the time then as soon as oil pressure is stable I'm off, it's idling a little low for the cam and will stall if left at idle too long (easy fix just haven't got off my lazy butt to adjust the idle screws )

i set off straight away as i'm usually running late.. i go easy for a bit, then i go HARD

Weber fed... No need for the choke

Wait for the fuel pump to stop ticking,
Give it two pumps,
Hit the key,
And drive very casually until its at least at the bottom of 'N' for a few minutes. I guess i won;t give it a real rev for at least 10 mins.

I have a $3500 hole in my pocket for this engine, and i'm not about to go and kill it in the first 10 minutes of daily driving.

But i do need to get it dyno'd... I just need a break from 55 hour weeks at work.

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I'm the same as most. I start it up and head off shortly there after. I try to avoid hammering it until it's warmed up. I might be a little more careful when the new one is finished though
Ziff

yea i was wondering about it too..
apparently i got the original log books and instruction manual it says that you dont need to warm your engine up..but those were the days....and im still running on an original engine...so ya..

i usually try to start it normally(which fails),pull the choke,think of the way im going for a while,release and drive it off slowly...then yippie...sydney's traffic automatically heats up my engine..esp if i cross the damn bridge...

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Im normally running late for work, so i rarely get a chance to warm up properly. what i usually ahve to do is start, most of the tme with about half choke, run and rev lightly a couple times, then back out of the garage and down the driveway gingerly. if i have time i let it sit and go and close the garage then just take it easy and choke is usually fully closed within a kilometer.

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I wait till the gauge moves off "C" before going, that's like about 3 mins of idle... Small price to pay for reliability!

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So what's the diff between letting an older style motor warm up, and then jumping in a Commonwhore or Falcon and turning the key and just driving straight off?

Surely it's the same principal for both engine types, yet no one seems to warm up a newer car!

With todays oil as long as you wait a sec or to for oil pressure there shouldn't be a need for "warming up"

Well, I think the theory is that even though oil might be flowing, the clearances will be "cold". Once the engine gets up to temp, the pistons, valves etc will all be fitting together as they're supposed to. Our '76 Merc 280 was quite clattery until it had run for a couple of minutes as the various parts expanded to their 'true' dimensions.

There's a substantial difference between a modern Jap engine and an A series. The A series is made principally from mahongany, for example, although the camshafts are granite (Mk I Cooper ones were slate and are to be avoided). Engines made between 1962 and March 1964 were subject to the Labour Government's notorious 'valve tax', so only cylinders 1 and 3 had any valves. The Union movement in the early seventies meant that with a four day working week, and staggered shifts, you were actually quite lucky to get a complete engine. Some were shipped without pistons and relied entirely on vibrations from the heater for motive power, and yet they still managed third place at Le Mans. Go figure.

I just start the thing and drive off. Even when it is minus 6? There is no need to warm up the engine before driving off. My engine has been doing this since 1998 and it has not had the head off in that time.

Just what do your neighbours think about your RC40 as you warm up your engine for ten minutes? Be thankfull for gun laws!

The bloke next door has a V8 Commodore and he idles it and revs it for about 5 minutes before he goes, it pisses me off having to listen to a lumpy Holden V8 at 5.30 in the morning. Sometimes I just want to kill him.