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Old 03-24-2008, 07:32 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by 69BirdX View Post
It is never needed to warm and engine with a cold start becasue at idle an engine runs rich until it is warmed. This rich mixture allows oil to be burned ooff the cylinder wall creating more wear. Its better to let your car warm up by taking your time driving.
Yeah, but if your carb doesn't want to behave nice because of no choke, then you'll probably just stall out. EFI doesn't need any warmup but 30-60 seconds is not a bad idea to get the oil flowing before putting a load on it.
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