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One day, if I decide to sell
Look at these:
How about those TZ 750s? Saw an auction for about $68K
Here's an RD700-two 350s together
John
Holy cow, I rabbit holed the TZ750 revving. Insane. I would love to have one to blast thru the canyon. I wouldn't care if it wasn't street legal. I've got a RZ350 with 5k original miles.
Last edited by RAudi Driver; 04-30-2021 at 11:51 PM.
Your RZ is worth probably around $17K? I saw a pristine one at auction for that much.
I rode a TZ 250 twin once, what a rocket! There's a guy here that has a TZ700(they later became 750s)and he also has a TZ500 inline, before they became twin crank square or V fours.
I don't know who made that RD700 out of two 350 engines, but this English guy Allen Millyard makes 4,5,6,V8 and V12 cylinder engines, 2 and 4 stroke, quite amazing:
1985 with an original 5k odo. First owner stored it in his living room for 25 years. Second owner got it and changed the tank color from the yellow and black KR colors to the Red, White & Blue. It just might be the only RWB bike on a black frame. Tires and rubber changed out ever other year and the bike remains in showroom condition.
Last edited by RAudi Driver; 05-01-2021 at 12:42 AM.
Since you have an Audi, here’s a trick to keep the power always on in the cigarette lighter socket like I did to my S3. On my GT3 I use the cigarette lighter connector to keep my Ctek 7002 maintaining the battery while the car is parked.
Most Audis shut the 12V sockets after the ignition is shut off, so you can’t use it for the maintainer.
By moving the 20A fuse, now the sockets are always powered like The GT3’s 👍
I also coded the oil temp to be displayed in the dashboard. The car stock comes with no oil temp gauge(maybe RS models do)
Took the car out today and found a message in the Oil section saying “engine not warmed up”. It may be my first time seeing this message. Is this normal? It probably goes away.
Took the car out today and found a message in the Oil section saying “engine not warmed up”. It may be my first time seeing this message. Is this normal? It probably goes away.
Yes, I’ve received it when checking the oil. It has never randomly come up when driving.
Took the car out today and found a message in the Oil section saying “engine not warmed up”. It may be my first time seeing this message. Is this normal? It probably goes away.
Picture of the message. Like I’ve said, I’ve received it. Normal.
I've never seen or checked to see that message (while warming up the car).
I've always just looked at my oil temp gauge when warming the car up.
Does this mean I can (should?) flip my message board to the oil section & wait till that message goes away (before hammering down)??
This may change my warm up behavior. Thanks for having this discussion!!!
I'm sure your'e not fogetting something everyday. Once in a while is ok. Don't make it a practice to warm the engine.
Starting your cold car and letting it idle is not a good thing for your engine. Letting your car warm up introduces extra fuel into your combustion chamber. Too much fuel can lead to cylinder washing and oil dilution thereby shortening the life of your engine. It's in your manual to not let your engine warm up. Start that car and drive it right away. 30 seconds and you should be in a gear and rolling down the street.
Good to see that someone uses science / logic and not just conventional wisdom to make decisions.
The computer screens in my E63 and 458 both show that the oil is sufficiently warmed up above 175F (80C). I've been using that number for the 997 as well before driving hard and hitting redline. But each car takes a different amount of time to get to that oil temp. Somehow the Ferrari hits it the fastest, but I'm not making any assumptions
04-29-2021, 07:18 PM
