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Implement Proper Engine Warm-up

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This is Why You ALWAYS Need to Let Your Turbo Car Warm Up! (Even If You're Not Driving it Anywhere)

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What happens here

To prevent corrosion, properly warm up your turbocharged engine. After starting, allow the engine to run until all visible moisture and steam have evaporated from the exhaust system. A good indicator is when a small amount of water (or spit, as suggested by the expert) sizzles and evaporates immediately upon contact with the exhaust header, indicating it's hot enough. The speaker demonstrates this by allowing his Cadillac Escalade to idle and occasionally revving it, showing that the previously wet downpipe area is now completely dry, confirming all moisture has been burned off. This ensures that corrosive elements do not sit stagnant within the turbo and exhaust components.

Goal: Achieve full warm-up of the turbocharged engine to eliminate corrosive moisture.

Tools and materials

  • Turbocharged Vehicle Cadillac Escalade — The vehicle to be warmed up

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yeah so hopefully that helps somebody the more i hear about this stuff the more stuff that i feel like i've been told and noticed and heard from everywhere that is just not how it actually is or should be it's pretty interesting so i just let it run for a couple minutes with you know just idling it up with my foot it should be hot enough to have all this stuff gone by now what do you look at that it's gone completely dry now we know that it's all good when i first fired this up you could see the water droplets running out of the pipe it's just not good i mean all of it and your exhaust inside your headers if you've got mild steel headers i mean i don't have mild steel but still like this you hate mouth pieces dude junior

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