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Old 02-08-2011, 09:10 PM   #8 (permalink)
redpoint5
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My intention is to construct a grill block, but I severely injured my back, so it will probably wait until next cold season. I drive a stick, so that tends to increase my warm-up time since I do not rev my engine as high as an automatic would. Of course I'm not going to do something excessively unsafe, and I do park in the garage to avoid frost. My commute is only 15min, so no temp can chill me in that amount of time.

Block heaters are just more effort than I'm willing to give. The grill block will have to do for now. After that I have no mods planned to improve mileage, except maybe LEDs, which is more for the fun factor and less about mileage.
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