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You only say that because you haven't seen mine.

Ha! At least a couple of times per month I comment on how "the car she didn't need" gets used so much. It took me a couple of weeks to talk her into ordering that one, but I'm glad I persisted. And more importantly, so is she.

I didn't realize how well the OE intake works until changing the filters on my girlfriend's TRX the other day. Felt a little bad having gone past 22,000 miles when the book says to change them at 20K, but was pleasantly surprised to find the "dirty" side being darn near as bright white as the...

As long as it hasn't been idling the whole time it'll be fine. Dust washes off.

It does. Otherwise the jack stands would be unnecessary.

I thought you knew, 2ndAmend. Half of those miles are achieved by idling the car in gear on jack stands.

From what I can tell EricG didn't do anything to his 'Cat today...but he's lusting for a V8 Pacer.

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Why wouldn't you? Judging by your driveway photos it doesn't look like you're hitting an Interstate on-ramp within a few hundred yards of leaving the house, making me think that by the time you do have to/want to get on it a little, the oil is probably up to 100 degrees or so. If you needlessly...

Let's hope you'll never need a crate engine.

You probably should, regardless of how long the frames and bodies last. And what do you do if it's -14? Leave the engine idling for days?

Really? Does the Furd manual say so, or is that your interpretation? My vehicles sure seem to be ready to run once the engine does.

Your pickup was on high idle, in an effort not to idle. It knows better.

I do let them warm up before asking them to actually work. In my case that's done by driving up the driveway, then about two miles or so of gentle driving, or whatever distance it takes to get the oil up to at least 150 degrees or so. This obviously takes less time/distance if the trailer and...

You should've asked me two years ago, before I sold a few.. Now I'm down to just three of them. But it's basically irrelevant. I can't even abuse a rental vehicle by idling it, so why would I subject my own to it?

I couldn't care less what the EPA thinks about it, but I want the engine to warm up faster...so I drive instead of idling. If at what looks like it'd be a three or more minute stop at roadwork, I shut the engine off. Did I mention that I don't like to idle? Not my vehicles, not myself.

Can't say that I'm up on EPA tests or ratings, either. All I know for sure is that our mileages in late model vehicles generally exceed their ratings by quite a bit. Of course, we really don't know what any city mileage would be. Back-in-the-day cars, huh? To me, those didn't really have any...

It is possible. But is it likely that a European car manufacturer had the foresight to include that sound advice in the Sixties? Besides, since when is warm-up included in the EPA ratings? I thought that was based on city and highway driving, not falling asleep at the wheel and forgetting to...

At that mileage it should pretty much be broken in already, and not much left for the magnets to catch. In the first 500 miles they tend to catch plenty. Of course, when/if you start seeing metal debris on them at some point in the future, it is not good.