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Harmful to only drive 3 days a week? 900

posted by  walrus3 on  Fri Oct 22 06:12 CST 2004
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If you really want optimum engine life what you should do is drive the
car at constant speed on a highway 24/7 and refill on the roll - NO STOPS!!

I once bought a Buick 364 engine that had been run the equivalent of 350,000
miles with only a couple startups, and it had very little wear, certainly not
enough to do anything about it. On the other hand they had used the dynaflow
tranny to couple it to the dynamometer, in "drive", and I broke the shift
linkage trying to change gears. Had to clean the spool valve block with carb
cleanter. The biggest downside was that it had factory 14:1 pistons and
12 volts would NOT crank it at operating temperature. If the pistons were
cold it would start fairly easily. I had it mounted in a 1951 Cadillac
funeral coach which originally had a standard tranny so it peaked out at
about 85 mph but it got there pretty quick.






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