How wrong is it to drive hard after cold start?

[jmack]

My cold routine is cold start, wait for high-idle revs to drop, drive mildly for a few miles until temps are up to normal, then flog it all you want.

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[Zooks527]

The coolant and cylinder head may be up to temp after a mile, but that seems awfully short for the oil to be.

Unless, of course, you're behind a school bus and it takes you 20 minutes to go that mile.

 

[NoVaGT]

The oil takes x3 the time to get warm that the coolant does.

EB doesn't have an oil temp gauge? How about an oil pressure gauge?

 

[Torched10]

If the OIL GAUGE says it's warmed up, drive it like you stole it....have a pp1 auto car


NOT the temp gauge, the OIL gauge.

Color me stupid but where's oil gauge temp.i have oil psi,but don't see gauge for oil temp

 

[opengl]

As others have mentioned, OIL temperature is what you want to be up before driving hard. Your coolant gauge can be centered and oil still under 100 degrees. It takes 15-20 minutes usually for oil to come fully up to temperature.

 

[Zooks527]

Color me stupid but where's oil gauge temp.i have oil psi,but don't see gauge for oil temp

It doesn't have one, and you can't get it to display on the glass dash in the GT, even though the manual implies that you can. The stupid goes to FoMoCo here, but that's the situation.

For my car, I bought the GT350 gauges (oil pressure / oil temperature) online and swapped out the GT PP1 gauges (oil pressure / manifold vacuum) in the center of the dash. Cost a few hundred dollars and took less than a half hour to put in.

Plug-and-play in both the GT and the EcoBoost, assuming you have a model with the gauge-style center dash trim. If you put it in an EcoBoost, however, you lose the Boost gauge. In either car, it doesn't support MyColor, but I think it looks fine as-is at night.

Link to the gauges follows. Price has gone up around $50 since I bought them in the spring. https://parts.autonationfordwhitebearlake.com/oem-parts/ford-instrument-cluster-fr3z10849e?c=bD0xJm49U2VhcmNoIFJlc3VsdHM=

 

[DonnieO]

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[NoVaGT]

Color me stupid but where's oil gauge temp.i have oil psi,but don't see gauge for oil temp

It doesn't have one, and you can't get it to display on the glass dash in the GT,

I'm very confused.

My car has oil temp in the center;

And I'm pretty sure 401A cars have this;

 

[Zooks527]

I'm very confused.

My car has oil temp in the center;

If your car was a 401A with the glass dash, that display wouldn't be available. Which is phenomenally stupid.

And I'm pretty sure 401A cars have this;

The one on the left is cylinder head temperature. The one in the middle is oil pressure, not temperature.

 

[NoVaGT]

If your car was a 401A, that display wouldn't be available. Which is phenomenally stupid.


The one on the left is cylinder head temperature. The one in the middle is oil pressure, not temperature.

Center gauges, L to R; Coolant, Oil PSI, Oil Temp?

Or is the right gauge Diff or trans fluid temp?

 

[IrishStallion]

Oil temp and Trans oil temp should be into normal heat range before flogging.

 

[Zooks527]

Center gauges, L to R; Coolant, Oil PSI, Oil Temp?

Or is the right gauge Diff or trans fluid temp?

Coolant, oil pressure, transmission fluid temperature (automatic only).

The differential temperature display shows as a circle with a pair of axles coming out of it.

 

[hyzteric]

Thank you all for the advices. I think I know what to do (or at least what I'll do )

I don't have an oil temp gauge.
I have cylinder head and inlet air temp.

Maybe there is a way I could activate oil temp gauge with odb setting?

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