Warming up your engine

[mikell]

Under 2000 rpm for the first mile, then drive normally. I live at the end of a small lane that happens to be about a mile long - so, when I clear the end of my street, I'm good to go. And, the neighbors think I'm a responsible kinda guy.

[skr]

i start it, go open the gates ,get back in and drive . so it idses about 30 seconds. shift in second at about 1500, third at 1800, and then let it roll at 50 km/h and 1500 rpm in third for about 1 km on a very unpopulated road till i get on the main road
long time ago i used to drive a renault 16, 1.4l, 4 cyl, webber carb, and it had a little lever under the dash u had to pull so it whould run. pulling it enriched the mixture so much that if u smelled the exaust it whould smell like a gas station. in our country we called it "shock lever". if u pushed it back too soon the car whould stall, and if u forgot it like that id whoul burn something like 20l/100 km.