Drive a Sports Car 'Hard' to keep it Clean - Any Truth?
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Look drive your car however you want to or however you think is best and deal with the effects/consiquences. I DRIVE my Z, but not 100% of the time. Like the saying with hookers, booze and partying goes...... everything is best in moderation
Look drive your car however you want to or however you think is best and deal with the effects/consiquences. I DRIVE my Z, but not 100% of the time. Like the saying with hookers, booze and partying goes...... everything is best in moderation
Mix the style of driving. The car's engine is like the human body. If you never push it hard when it's young/new, don't expect to drive it like a race car later on down the road and think the engine won't crap out on you. Also don't want to overpush it too in the beginning as well for premature failures. Just don't stress too much and have fun w/ the Z. It's got a solid motor for the most part and only thing u really have to worry about is the transmission on older Zs.
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Car Talk covered this not that long ago. I tend to agree with their opinion on this one:
Dear Tom and Ray:
I am writing to you to settle a disagreement that my dad and mom had when I was a kid (in the 1970s) and my wife and I currently have.
Does an engine ever need to be floored (hard acceleration) to "blow out the carbon"? Was that merely an excuse for my dad to show off his 1967 Hemi Dart at stoplights? Or was there actual benefit for the hard acceleration once in a while?
I use that same excuse with my wife at stoplights (in a much slower vehicle). Neither my mom nor my wife believes it has any benefit, and they think it would be just fine for the rpm to stay at or below 3,000 for the lifetime of the engine. What do you think? - David
RAY: I think I'm going to ruin your day, David. Because I have to break the news to you that your wife and mother are absolutely right.
TOM: In the '70s, cars had carburetors. Carburetors let gasoline slosh into the cylinders. And with all that excess gasoline, a buildup of carbon was a much more common problem.
RAY: There was a school of thought that suggested that running the car at high speed would help clean the caked-on carbon off the valves and pistons.
TOM: But by "running the car at high speed," they meant taking it on the highway for a long, high-speed drive - not stomping on the gas at a stoplight and leaving a lime-green AMC Pacer in the dust.
RAY: Then there were some high-performance cars that had four-barrel carburetors. Two of the barrels opened up for normal, moderate-speed driving. And then, when you needed a lot of gas for high-speed driving or hard acceleration, the other two barrels opened up.
TOM: And if you never stepped on the gas hard enough to open up the two high-speed barrels, they could get gummed up and eventually fail to work. So that was another reason to "blow out" certain high-performance carbureted cars back in the day.
RAY: But cars haven't had carburetors since the 1980s, David. They all have fuel injection now, which meters the gasoline so precisely that carbon buildup on the pistons almost never is a problem. So neither of those old justifications for stomping on the gas holds water today.
TOM: Your wife and mother are correct. A modern car can spend its entire life never exceeding 3,000 rpm, and be completely happy and fulfilled - mechanically, spiritually and emotionally.
RAY: In fact, stomping on the gas and making jackrabbit starts is terrible for the car. It shortens the car's life because of all the stress it puts on the drivetrain components.
TOM: So it's time to catch up with the times, David. You're in for a little humiliation when you have to apologize to the women in your life. But don't worry - you'll look good wearing those pants up around your chest while mumbling, "Yes, dear."
Dear Tom and Ray:
I am writing to you to settle a disagreement that my dad and mom had when I was a kid (in the 1970s) and my wife and I currently have.
Does an engine ever need to be floored (hard acceleration) to "blow out the carbon"? Was that merely an excuse for my dad to show off his 1967 Hemi Dart at stoplights? Or was there actual benefit for the hard acceleration once in a while?
I use that same excuse with my wife at stoplights (in a much slower vehicle). Neither my mom nor my wife believes it has any benefit, and they think it would be just fine for the rpm to stay at or below 3,000 for the lifetime of the engine. What do you think? - David
RAY: I think I'm going to ruin your day, David. Because I have to break the news to you that your wife and mother are absolutely right.
TOM: In the '70s, cars had carburetors. Carburetors let gasoline slosh into the cylinders. And with all that excess gasoline, a buildup of carbon was a much more common problem.
RAY: There was a school of thought that suggested that running the car at high speed would help clean the caked-on carbon off the valves and pistons.
TOM: But by "running the car at high speed," they meant taking it on the highway for a long, high-speed drive - not stomping on the gas at a stoplight and leaving a lime-green AMC Pacer in the dust.
RAY: Then there were some high-performance cars that had four-barrel carburetors. Two of the barrels opened up for normal, moderate-speed driving. And then, when you needed a lot of gas for high-speed driving or hard acceleration, the other two barrels opened up.
TOM: And if you never stepped on the gas hard enough to open up the two high-speed barrels, they could get gummed up and eventually fail to work. So that was another reason to "blow out" certain high-performance carbureted cars back in the day.
RAY: But cars haven't had carburetors since the 1980s, David. They all have fuel injection now, which meters the gasoline so precisely that carbon buildup on the pistons almost never is a problem. So neither of those old justifications for stomping on the gas holds water today.
TOM: Your wife and mother are correct. A modern car can spend its entire life never exceeding 3,000 rpm, and be completely happy and fulfilled - mechanically, spiritually and emotionally.
RAY: In fact, stomping on the gas and making jackrabbit starts is terrible for the car. It shortens the car's life because of all the stress it puts on the drivetrain components.
TOM: So it's time to catch up with the times, David. You're in for a little humiliation when you have to apologize to the women in your life. But don't worry - you'll look good wearing those pants up around your chest while mumbling, "Yes, dear."
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Car Talk covered this not that long ago. I tend to agree with their opinion on this one:
Dear Tom and Ray:
I am writing to you to settle a disagreement that my dad and mom had when I was a kid (in the 1970s) and my wife and I currently have.
Does an engine ever need to be floored (hard acceleration) to "blow out the carbon"? Was that merely an excuse for my dad to show off his 1967 Hemi Dart at stoplights? Or was there actual benefit for the hard acceleration once in a while?
I use that same excuse with my wife at stoplights (in a much slower vehicle). Neither my mom nor my wife believes it has any benefit, and they think it would be just fine for the rpm to stay at or below 3,000 for the lifetime of the engine. What do you think? - David
RAY: I think I'm going to ruin your day, David. Because I have to break the news to you that your wife and mother are absolutely right.
TOM: In the '70s, cars had carburetors. Carburetors let gasoline slosh into the cylinders. And with all that excess gasoline, a buildup of carbon was a much more common problem.
RAY: There was a school of thought that suggested that running the car at high speed would help clean the caked-on carbon off the valves and pistons.
TOM: But by "running the car at high speed," they meant taking it on the highway for a long, high-speed drive - not stomping on the gas at a stoplight and leaving a lime-green AMC Pacer in the dust.
RAY: Then there were some high-performance cars that had four-barrel carburetors. Two of the barrels opened up for normal, moderate-speed driving. And then, when you needed a lot of gas for high-speed driving or hard acceleration, the other two barrels opened up.
TOM: And if you never stepped on the gas hard enough to open up the two high-speed barrels, they could get gummed up and eventually fail to work. So that was another reason to "blow out" certain high-performance carbureted cars back in the day.
RAY: But cars haven't had carburetors since the 1980s, David. They all have fuel injection now, which meters the gasoline so precisely that carbon buildup on the pistons almost never is a problem. So neither of those old justifications for stomping on the gas holds water today.
TOM: Your wife and mother are correct. A modern car can spend its entire life never exceeding 3,000 rpm, and be completely happy and fulfilled - mechanically, spiritually and emotionally.
RAY: In fact, stomping on the gas and making jackrabbit starts is terrible for the car. It shortens the car's life because of all the stress it puts on the drivetrain components.
TOM: So it's time to catch up with the times, David. You're in for a little humiliation when you have to apologize to the women in your life. But don't worry - you'll look good wearing those pants up around your chest while mumbling, "Yes, dear."
Dear Tom and Ray:
I am writing to you to settle a disagreement that my dad and mom had when I was a kid (in the 1970s) and my wife and I currently have.
Does an engine ever need to be floored (hard acceleration) to "blow out the carbon"? Was that merely an excuse for my dad to show off his 1967 Hemi Dart at stoplights? Or was there actual benefit for the hard acceleration once in a while?
I use that same excuse with my wife at stoplights (in a much slower vehicle). Neither my mom nor my wife believes it has any benefit, and they think it would be just fine for the rpm to stay at or below 3,000 for the lifetime of the engine. What do you think? - David
RAY: I think I'm going to ruin your day, David. Because I have to break the news to you that your wife and mother are absolutely right.
TOM: In the '70s, cars had carburetors. Carburetors let gasoline slosh into the cylinders. And with all that excess gasoline, a buildup of carbon was a much more common problem.
RAY: There was a school of thought that suggested that running the car at high speed would help clean the caked-on carbon off the valves and pistons.
TOM: But by "running the car at high speed," they meant taking it on the highway for a long, high-speed drive - not stomping on the gas at a stoplight and leaving a lime-green AMC Pacer in the dust.
RAY: Then there were some high-performance cars that had four-barrel carburetors. Two of the barrels opened up for normal, moderate-speed driving. And then, when you needed a lot of gas for high-speed driving or hard acceleration, the other two barrels opened up.
TOM: And if you never stepped on the gas hard enough to open up the two high-speed barrels, they could get gummed up and eventually fail to work. So that was another reason to "blow out" certain high-performance carbureted cars back in the day.
RAY: But cars haven't had carburetors since the 1980s, David. They all have fuel injection now, which meters the gasoline so precisely that carbon buildup on the pistons almost never is a problem. So neither of those old justifications for stomping on the gas holds water today.
TOM: Your wife and mother are correct. A modern car can spend its entire life never exceeding 3,000 rpm, and be completely happy and fulfilled - mechanically, spiritually and emotionally.
RAY: In fact, stomping on the gas and making jackrabbit starts is terrible for the car. It shortens the car's life because of all the stress it puts on the drivetrain components.
TOM: So it's time to catch up with the times, David. You're in for a little humiliation when you have to apologize to the women in your life. But don't worry - you'll look good wearing those pants up around your chest while mumbling, "Yes, dear."
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