Maniacs at seaports, engine abuse

[AudiBiTurbo at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/21/2003 9:21:10 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
armanmik at earthlink.net writes:
Something else often neglected is warm-up. During the great fuel crisis of 
1974 (composed of equal parts of hysteria, jingoism, stupidity, greed, and 
oh yeah, a 1% drop in oil production), the advice was "drive off as soon as 
the engine starts - idling to warm up the car wastes fuel." Guess what - 
this is DEAD WRONG. A cold engine must be run richer to run at all (that's 
what the choke does, richens the mixture at start), and has major 
drivability issues - and pollutes like crazy. It also wears out more 
quickly - the excess fuel (if not completely vaporized) can wash the oil 
off the cylinder walls, and shorten engine life.

Mike,
I beg to differ.  This is often true of carburated cars (Especially 
"emissions carburated" vehicles) and EARLY FI.  Not water-cooled Audis, and ESPECIALLY 
not with Motronics.

Regards,
Mark Rosenkrantz
AudiBiTurbo at aol.com