Rotary engine FTW
No problems starting, and ran as smooth as ever once warmed up
Every day I am so happy to own this car.

 

-4 degrees...

 

Mine will do -4, -14 not so much with the old battery. Started right up with a jump, however. Does yours do a weird rev thing when it's super-cold?

 

Yes this is normal.

 

That happened to me yesterday for the first time, -11°
was the first time I have started it in sub-zero temps.

 

Get it REALLY cold, and the accelerator pedal might not respond, and you have to thaw it out, then restart the car to get throttle control back

 

-40C wind chill here...she fired up fine

 

Yep, well below -30c a couple times this week. On startup it will rev to about 4k and drop down from there

 

Fwiw, wind chill has no effect on inanimate objects.
It's strictly the perceived reduction of the temperature on exposed skin.
It does not affect the operation of machinery or vehicles.

 

^^+1

My students have difficulty wrapping their heads around it as well because wind chill is always in the news. Of course, once they understand how sweaters work, it starts to make a little bit more sense to them. But yeah, with the news anchors always talking about wind chill, the science behind it often gets lost to the masses.

 

Wind Chill is mostly just sentimentalization of the news. I will have to dissagree to a degree (no pun intended) about it having no affect on vehicles. The wind will blow away a heat bubble from a vehicle and cause the engine bay and the interior of a car to loose it's heat faster.

 

I love how a post about how well someone's car started at -4 F gets turned into a conversation about wind chill, and its effects on man and machine.

The difference is wind chill can not bring an object's heat down below the actual temperature of the air.

So if you have an area that is -10 F when you first get up in the morning, with a -35 wind chill factor, your car sitting outside will only be -10 F. If your best friend shows up with his car to pick you up so that you can go get hot chocolate, his engine coolant may be up to 110 F, radiator coolant temp is at 90 F, and his engine bay around 75 F when he stops to pick you up, but the temperatures of both most likely will drop after you get in, and start heading up the highway.

No matter what, the wind chill will never bring the temperature of any part of the car below the -10 F mark that the outside air is at, no matter how fast you drive. Actually, the air around the hot parts of the car will actually heat up, until you drive past, and the heat dissipates.

Being a motorcyclist in the winter, it's always a good idea to stay behind a vehicle that is fairly large and inefficient, like large SUV's. The amount of heat they pour out actually will increase the stream of air you can ride through.

And yes, I do know this from first hand experience (*shivers*).

BC.

 

Which reminds me .... anyone that did the throttle body bypass might want to hook it back up in that weather .

 

Do your clutch pedals get really sluggish and sticky in very cold weather? I've heard it described as trying to slosh your foot around in a bucket of mud. Mine acted like this in our recent 0 degree F weather.

 

Yup ... normal until the tranny heats up