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Originally Posted by MinnesotaNice
Thanks for commenting on this ...
So you start EOC right away? I'd think full temp would take a good while at say 35 on city streets.
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Yes, I start EOC right away. And true, reaching full warmup would take a while on city streets, especially in a Minnesota winter. My house is only .72 miles from the interstate on-ramp so I'm in a different situation from what you're suggesting.
BUT you will get it warmed up a lot sooner if you set up an effective grill block.
Regardless, I'd start EOC as long as it's not so d**n frigid out that you're afraid to do anything but let it idle. We get plenty mornings in the 20's ºF here and I get rolling within seconds of startup, and EOC as soon as I'm not going uphill.
As I wrote a few posts back, the car is going to run rich till it's warmed up. No way around that. If it
IS going to run rich, I at least want to get the max possible miles out of that quantity of fuel. So I'm going to EOC and whatever else I can think of to maximize it. Letting it burn more fuel than needed does make it run better once it's warmed up, but you're not getting any distance for that fuel you've burned.