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Old 10-04-2013, 07:27 PM   #66
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Originally Posted by retrosmiths View Post
I just do what most of you guys are doing: wait for the idle drop, drive gently until the temp needle is 1/4 of the way from C, then WOT.
Oil temps do not match water temps. It takes oil temps longer to reach a "safe" temp
for WOT. On my other cars, I always waited for 160F oil temp before I went WOT.
That usually occurred a good 5 minutes or so after water temps hit 190.
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