Just curious to know how many people pre-heat their engines prior to starting.

It's seldomly needed when cold. Another simple trick is to leave the glow ignitor on the glowplug for a few seconds and then start the car up. I have a starterbox with optional powerpanel and glow ignitor attachment. Since I walk down like 5-6blocks to the park the heat quickly dissapates once the car is out of the bag. No worries though. Leave the ignitor on and clean starts. I started my Sport NT the same way and she ran for tanks.

Pre-heat the engine before Starting as often as you can. Especially during Break-In- after that it isn't as imperative but can only be good.

ya sky is right on! these motors are made to run their best around 200 plus deg. and the way that they are made the motor goes through a LOT of stress whaen you start it up cold. espacially the conrod. i heat mine up all the time and my motors all last. its a lot of stress on the conrod when its cold. heck you ever try to turn a motor over w/ your finger when its cold vs when its warm??? there is your answer[X(]

Well i don't really pre heat me motors. Unless it's brand new.

Most of the time i fire em up at home b4 i leave for 1min or so b4 taking em to the track.

I do bring along the Mrs hair dryer to the track but it's mostly used heating the suspensions to get the shocks abit warm

For those of you that always preheat or preheat whenever possible; what do you use when no AC power is available? I'd like to find an alternative to an expensive power inverter, i.e. possibly a small flame-less butane heater. If your currently using or have successfully used a flame-less butane heater in the past I'd appreciate a link to where I could purchase one. I really don't want to experiment with finding an appropriate flame-less heat gun, so only pass along what you know works well. Thanks.

Where are you running where there is no AC power. I hope your not Bashing your 777 in the woods somewhere!! Most if not ALL tracks have AC and so does your house I presume.

i never preheat an engine , i do however let it warm up to at least 80 deg c before revving it past 1/4 throttle or putting it on the track.. Im on my 12th litre on my P5 and i still cant turn it over by hand..

We only one small track at present which is on public property, i.e. located in a portion of a city park. Access to the track is free but AC power is not part of the package, when there is an organized event the local club makes arrangements for power otherwise your on your own. If I travel south to Oklahoma to run on a fee based track AC power is not a problem.