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Is it good to floor your car once in awhile.
Is it good to floor your car every once in a while.
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Any more or less modern vehicle will cut engine off to more or less reasonable rpms anyway.
The italian tune up works to restore power in many cars.
You can do short bursts only.
Your truck was made to work.
Is it bad for me to floor it a lot and will that hurt the engine.
You can not floor car all the time due to traffic roads turns etc.
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Then as soon as i get to 65 mph i quickly let off the pedal and cruise at the speed limit.
Or is it fine.
This is one of the worst things you can do to your.
Otherwise you are not helping anything.
The only reason you would want to put a thicker oil in is if it was burning excessive amounts of oil.
The increased engine rpm won t really open up the valves any more than usual but it will help open up the airflow through the inta.
You will however decrease your mileage and increase cold startup wear.
I would hate to mess up the new car my parents just got me.
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Some folks like to blow them out or do an italian tune up every once in awhile.
I m sure most will say it does no harm but i really don t like to floor mine.