jayed53

In my honest opinion, these cars were meant to be driven hard. They bench test these engines for thousands of hours at 6k rpm, among other things. I wouldn't worry about it. If anything it MIGHT cause engine failure at 200k instead of 300k. Its not worth the years of driving it like a minivan IMO.

mikemc04gt

My definition of hard driving would include clutch dumps,driving close to redline,and revving or hard acceleration soon after cold starts, before the engine reaches operating temp. But that's just my opinion, I'm not a mechanic.

JAJ

There are two types of "hard driving" that are actually real:

- doing any of the things you're describing when the engine is cold. It's really hard on the engine to stress it before it warms up.

- the hardest type of "hard driving" is to start it up from stone cold, drive six blocks to the store, park for 20 minutes, then drive home and leave it parked for six hours before you take the dog 8 blocks to the park for a half-hour run.

The things I'm reading in this thread are all easy on the engine - in some cases beneficial because it needs a little work or it gets "stiff", just like you do if you don't exercise enough.

808muscle

I bought mine to race it..............hence drive it hard. Having it warmed up first, that just makes sense. But there is a difference between driving hard and abusing it.

pascal

Hard driving is wearing out your front tires as fast as the rear ones, you Namby-pambies!!

157dB

Yea, before the 6K mile rotation time.

pascal

Some of us run staggered tires you bone head.

5spdftw

Well thanks for all of the help guys. If you think of anything else that I might find interesting please feel free to post it or pm me.

pascal

Jokes asides, there isn't a real answer to your question.
One driver's "hard" driving could be a boring normal affair to another driver.
Also, depending on the car built, all bets are off.
It's all so subjective.

The best scenario is to have more car than your skills can handle...

JIM5.0

This is probably the best answer because it what is defined is hard driving was never formally defined and assigned any sort of quantitative value.

If the industry were to define hard driving as mean RPM per Odo mile, some way or another, that could be used to help determine if you put undue wear and tear on the car. But even this could be fallacious. More variables are out here to consider.