Do you guys recommend letting the engine idle down before driving off?

[Zig]

I'll add that the old "let it idle for 30 seconds to a minute to let oil circulate" has nothing to do with modern oil pressure and flow in an engine like the Coyote.

I was watching my hot oil pressure at 74 psi or so while driving at 2000 rpm or a little more and thinking, "Back in the old days my oil pressure would never get that high no matter how high I revved the engine.

Yeah, back in the 10psi per thousand rpm rule of thumb days, I let it idle for about 30 seconds to a minute, especially on the cars that had a choke (as those would die if you drove and the choke came off too early). On the "racing" type street cars with large carbs that had no choke, I had to leave my foot on the pedal a bit to keep the rpm up a little to keep it from dying at idle, and on cold days pump the pedal some to give the accelerator pump a work squirting extra gasoline into the venturi. Big cam, big carb, cold day . . . not a turn the key and go proposition.

You know you have an interesting setup when you could pop a condensation smoke ring on a cold day during warm up.

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[Junkyard Dog]

You know you have an interesting setup when you could pop a condensation smoke ring on a cold day during warm up.

I was a bit of an idiot when I was young, always pushing the boundaries on compression and camshaft lobe size.

Oh, this camshaft says it does not start until 3500 rpm? Perfect for my one car daily driver!

3.73 gears with no overdrive is also just perfect for a drive all the way across the United States, oh, and ship it to Germany to drive on the autobahn with no speed limits (lesson 101 in how to rebuild a small block Chevy while in a foreign country)

 

[Zig]

I was a bit of an idiot when I was young, always pushing the boundaries on compression and camshaft lobe size.

Oh, this camshaft says it does not start until 3500 rpm? Perfect for my one car daily driver!

3.73 gears with no overdrive is also just perfect for a drive all the way across the United States, oh, and ship it to Germany to drive on the autobahn with no speed limits (lesson 101 in how to rebuild a small block Chevy while in a foreign country)

Stall converter, heck I don’t want no stall. - lol

 

[Junkyard Dog]

Stall converter, heck I don’t want no stall. - lol

That one was a 4 speed - Lesson 102 in Torque Capacity Ratings and how there ain't never been no 1960s/70s GM transmission built to handle what this dorky 80s kid was building to install in front of it. But, yeah, having a manual transmission made the camshaft and rpm range easier to live with.

If I had known about all the technology coming in future decades I would have not wasted all of my money on car parts back then and just invested it so I could be really rich today and by all kinds of really fast cars . . .

 

[LouG]

But now the question, do we get aggressive with cold tires or chill just a bit until we notice a pressure increase?

Go for it, take a vid.

 

[LouG]

You can grab an go if you want, no skin off my chin.

Why would you let your tires warm but not your engine/transmission/rear?

Tyre warmers in the garage? Very cool. Well not cool, but you get my drift.
Drift, geddit?
I'm here all week.

 

[Zig]

Tyre warmers in the garage? Very cool. Well not cool, but you get my drift.
Drift, geddit?
I'm here all week.

I got a handle for that. 🫣

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