How long to warm up an ETEC before take off?

[Matt 5.0]

Just picked up my new Stratos with a 115 ETEC. Also, how long would you figure on flushing when back at the house? Thanx all.

[Mark Weare]

I am curious to see what they say as I would like to know for sure as well.

I always warm mine up for 5 minutes and a little longer in cooler water periods as I wish to avoid cold-seizure.

[Matt 5.0]

My boat is an '08, no water pressure or temp gauges on the console. (yet)

[brainerdbass]

As long as you can, all kidding aside 5 minutes is good I would say.

[Matt 5.0]

I guess I need some gauges.

[n69211]

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What do you have for graphs on your boat?? The best thing that lowrance did was allow the engine parameters to tie into their units. I run it with my 225 HO and you can watch the water temp and tell exactly when the thermostat opens up. Thats usually when I let it get up on plane. I have recently switched to humminbird but I still kept my lowrance mounted in the dash for that purpose alone. The cord to do this is less than $100. Great investment!

[Matt 5.0]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by n69211 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">

What do you have for graphs on your boat?? The best thing that lowrance did was allow the engine parameters to tie into their units. I run it with my 225 HO and you can watch the water temp and tell exactly when the thermostat opens up. Thats usually when I let it get up on plane. I have recently switched to humminbird but I still kept my lowrance mounted in the dash for that purpose alone. The cord to do this is less than $100. Great investment!</td></tr></table>

I have two Lowrance X52's...