Positive Comments About The Cts

October 21, 2004

Its been a brisk scottish day up here, cold and wet around 5 c in the morning and the car seemed a bit nippier, maybee that is just my imagination, but i remeber someone saying the colder the air the better?

Any hoo another positive comment on the CTS, thats me kept a S type jag honnest, and the price difference is?

October 21, 2004

Thanks for the replies, and one more thing.

How long does it warm up " -20 deg. celcius??? The standard Corolla 1.6 manual says 30 seconds is enough!

What is the time it takes for the CTS to get to the condition when you can thrash it???

October 22, 2004

Bzn

I tend to wait until the temp gauge is sitting dead in the middle, then you can put the car in to lift right up to 8000 revs, if the car is cold i have noticed a rev limit of 7000 revs comes in to play, no so sure how long it's going to take to warm up from -20, but i had it last winter around -10 and it didn't take much longer to warm up than normal.

Cheers :arrgg-matey:

October 22, 2004

Bzn
I tend to wait until the temp gauge is sitting dead in the middle, then you can put the car in to lift right up to 8000 revs, if the car is cold i have noticed a rev limit of 7000 revs comes in to play, no so sure how long it's going to take to warm up from -20, but i had it last winter around -10 and it didn't take much longer to warm up than normal.
Cheers :arrgg-matey:

I agree with that, I'd always let it fully warm up before giving it some boot.

October 22, 2004

Thanks for the replies. I was just thinking whether I need to be prepared to install a pre-ignition heate (i.e. Webasto)...

October 22, 2004

Guys,

at low temperature, air density is higher and humidity lower. This means that more oxygen gets into the cylinder and hence max power is higher. So the car is more powerful the lower the temperature and the lower the altitiude.

Also, a common practice is to warm up the engine at idle and then use full power. This is wrong because the transmission is not warmed at all with this process! The best way is to operate the complete vehicle not at idle but at low speeds for some minutes and the whole powertrain should be well warmed up before you full throttle it. It doesn't really matter if you wait for 5 more minutes before you ligt it!!!!!

October 22, 2004

Guys,
at low temperature, air density is higher and humidity lower. This means that more oxygen gets into the cylinder and hence max power is higher. So the car is more powerful the lower the temperature and the lower the altitiude.
Also, a common practice is to warm up the engine at idle and then use full power. This is wrong because the transmission is not warmed at all with this process! The best way is to operate the complete vehicle not at idle but at low speeds for some minutes and the whole powertrain should be well warmed up before you full throttle it. It doesn't really matter if you wait for 5 more minutes before you ligt it!!!!!

That's what I was trying to say, but just wasn't clear. I always just pull off as soon as I start the car, I don't bother leaving it to warm. I just take it easy until the engines fully warmed up. I've heard it's not good for the engine if you let it warm up at idle all the time (not that I know why).

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