Winter Warm Up

[sabeo.m]

Anyone tempted to startup their baby during winter storage? I know it's not a good thing necessary to let the car idle, but man i miss hearing her fire up!

[stlrj]

What harm would it do?

[sabeo.m]

Originally Posted by stlrj

What harm would it do?

Moisture primarily from what I gathered. Personally i've always practiced the warm up for 30 seconds and go keeping the rpm's low during warm up.

[sugarwood]

During winter storage, is it bad to start your 911 and let it idle for about 15 mins?

[yellowperil]

Today, drove mine for 2 hrs.

[yellowperil]

[pavegeno]

Drove it like I stole it for 3.5 hours! Temp only got to about 180F. Winter performance tires were great as always on the bends and curves. This is looking west into France from the mountains of the Black Forest. She needed a nice hot bath when I got home. Beautiful sunrise...didn't apply any effects to the picture.

[yellowperil]

Nice pictures, Pave. Looking at France? Wow, sounds like fun!

[Reiver]

Not a good idea unless you are going to get it up to operating temp. Letting a car sit for 3-4 months is no issue at all as long as you've put stabil in the gas.
If you just idle your tranny stays cold while your engine warms and even if you burn off the moisture in your engine the tranny will sweat internally.
Mine would sit for 6 months at a whack while I was OCONUS and fire right back up no issues.

[sabeo.m]

Thanks for the link- nice read. Some very good points, both ways. Awesome pic's as well- i would love to take the car out for a spin, but theres way to much salt on the street right now.

[steely]

Originally Posted by sabeo.m

T..... but theres way to much salt on the street right now.

you said it. I was jonesing to drive a week ago, but they sprayed down so much brine.

[Fixer]

Got mine out for a couple decent drives last week before the blizzard. It was idling a bit high, need to look into that. I start to miss my Porsche drive when the car's put away after about 3 weeks.

[porterdog]

C4 saw 120mph today.