Can flooring a cold car engine cause cold seizure?

[The motor guy]

Remember the old carbureted outboards, that would scuff pistons if you went full throttle on a cold engine on a cold day? The piston would expand faster then the cylinder could expand and scuff the pistons. Is the same thing possible on a car engine?

 

[supton]

Don’t think so, otherwise someone would have done it already. Far more car engines than outboards.

More likely to just stall it in the carb days.

 

[JohnnyG]

Pistons still expand faster than the block. Thankfully, engineers that design engines figured that out and buid engines with clearances that take that into account.
On some piston designs, Teflon pads are embedded in the piston skirts for this reason.
The downside to this is if the skirts wear too much, you end up with piston slap until the engine is warm.

 

[atikovi]

More likely to throw a rod or spin a bearing. Why don't you give it a try and report back.

 

[The motor guy]

More likely to throw a rod or spin a bearing. Why don't you give it a try and report back.

Most of yall have way more money than i do, was hoping someone else would give it a go.

 

[Chris142]

I've never seen it happen. Police cars,ambulances etc get that kind of treatment and still last a long time.

 

[MSCH]

Can flooring a cold car engine cause cold seizure?​

maybe, if the planets are all in alignment.

 

[bullwinkle]

Super cold weather, too thick oil that doesn’t want to flow (possibly snapping an oil pump drive)-I could see it!

 

[atikovi]

Most of yall have way more money than i do, was hoping someone else would give it a go.

I'm sure a search on youtube will get you that.

 

[Kira]

Or....just drive sedately?

 

[joegreen]

Used to work in the rental industry. Every vehicle with a stone cold engine is floored. Never had any issues.

 

[dumkid]

People who live on the main road here start their car and are going 50+ less than a minute later. I don't think it will severely damage anything.

 

[Propflux01]

2 strokes and rotax engines Have.look up cold seizure. I see no reason auto engines would be any different.

 

[dumkid]

Maybe the lower power per liter of a car engine means it'll warm up slower even at WOT.

 

[Oillover]

Or....just drive sedately?

Who has time for that?!

 

[spasm3]

That's more of an air cooled cold weather issue, never heard of it in a water cooled engine.

 

[Exhaustgases]

I remember someone posting some place that is pretty much how GM was breaking in new engines at the factory.

 

[Chris142]

Super cold weather, too thick oil that doesn’t want to flow (possibly snapping an oil pump drive)-I could see it!

The older for v8's used a skinny shaft to drive the oil pump. I have seen many twisted into a candy cane.

 

[PontiacHO]

On traditional engines with an oil pump driven off the distributor the possibilities are, accelerated wear on timing chain/gears, distributor/cam gears, and twisted and/or broken oil pump shaft.

 

[oil pan 4]

I woke up on a freezing morning and had 4 minutes to get to work 7 miles away, so no. It was Sunday morning at 4:56am didn't see anyone else on the road.