It's been a full two weeks now since I've actually taken my car out of the garage. Last time that I drove it was right after I changed the oil and put in a bottle of Techron. Well, this morning I had an early appointment(7:30) near the airport so I decided to move my wifes 530 and pull my car out of the garage for the drive. What a blast! For some reason when I merged onto 400s the car felt like a total animal! (By the way my only mods are ECIS intake and AA exhaust.) I can only imagine what a supercharged or turbocharged car would feel like in this weather.. This all may be somewhat trivial to you guys, but I just moved here from LI, NY and my car is usually down and out for the winter right now... I only wish that I didn't have to sell it/trade it in..:( Thanks for reading my rambling..

Chisau

right now my car has to sit outside until I move into my new house (next weekend) and it HATES the cold mornings upon start up until it warms up (about 15 min) the damn thing sounds worse than a diesel.... it HATES cold weather

if your car really takes 15 min to warm up, it's time for a thermostat. If you're just exagerating, and it's really just 2 or 3 very cold minutes that feel like 15, then ok. :stickoutt

yeah...this weather definately has a noticeable difference i think...I can tell that above 6000k where my car usually feels like it's power is lost, it pulls all the way to redline...I love it!:) I want to drive when it's like 20 degrees in late dec and early jan...that'd be even better i think.

Kyle

Unless you've got a stuck-open thermostat -- then it sucks.

:mad111:

Originally posted by Ron17
Unless you've got a stuck-open thermostat -- then it sucks.


I hear ya there. Once it dropped below 50 the temp would never rise above the blue. I had a 45min commute with no heat in January.

the temp needle usually takes about 10 min @ idle to reach its happy spot... with some light driving ~ 5 min

My exhaust sounded better this a.m. when it was cold...hmm...

yeah mine sounds really healthy lately... (except or the weird noise between 1k and 1.5k rpms) and its been pulling like crazy too for the last couple of days the tires break loose @ about 5.5k on a hard run through 1st god bless the free boost in the air :)

Free h.p.! :clap:

But at what cost, dear Geordie... at what cost?

the cost is rubber..... my car really wants to light em up :)

Originally posted by Ron17
But at what cost, dear Geordie... at what cost?

At the cost of freezing every morning! Which really isn't a bad thing...better than sweating to me!

You can fix being cold, its harder to fix being friggin hot and humid.

On other note, you can even tell a deeper note comin from my car :)