Average warm up time Options

[valerit1]

What is your average warm up time - i.e. from starting up cold in the morning
to being fully warmed up (temp gauge at normal - almost 9 o'clock)?
Assume you do not warm up idling - just drive. Specifically for owners of unmodified 5sfe.
It is different for different outside temperature, of course.
Just trying to troubleshoot my thermostat issues.
Thanks!

[NuSpec02]

I live in GA, and we have all sorts of weather. Sometimes i have to park my car outside the garage so i literally get all temperatures at cold start. I have an automatic 98 and when i drive without the needle being in the middle (normal), it usually doesn't shift pass about 3000 rpm, and doesn't go into 4th gear until about 5-10 mins down the road. I know... its weird. i often wonder if this is suppose to happen. But yea, usually i crank the car, listen for the engine to "relax a little." I don't know how to put it in words, but i listen to the car and i let the cycles go through a few times. (this is about 10seconds) then i actually put it in gear. At this time the idle is about 1300-1500.

But thats only sometimes, Most of the time, i see the needle below Cold and i just wait for the needle to go a little above it and thats when i start driving. This is about 5-10 minutes and i have a normal idle.

This is a DD... and when i say daily driver, i mean daily driver.. I put 11,000 on the car in 6 months. ( july- 141XXX and december -151XXX and now its 153XXX. So it responds pretty well... I bought the car in july and haven't gotten a tune up and odds and ends.. but i do get oil changes.

[Bitter]

I live in GA, and we have all sorts of weather. Sometimes i have to park my car outside the garage so i literally get all temperatures at cold start. I have an automatic 98 and when i drive without the needle being in the middle (normal), it usually doesn't shift pass about 3000 rpm, and doesn't go into 4th gear until about 5-10 mins down the road.

thats normal, when the engine coolant is 'cold' the pcm doesnt allow OD and lowers the shift points. OD is off to warm the engine and cat faster, lower shift points are to reduce wear.