Average warm up time Options

[valerit1]

What is your average warm up time - i.e. from starting up cold in the morning
to being fully warmed up (temp gauge at normal - almost 9 o'clock)?
Assume you do not warm up idling - just drive. Specifically for owners of unmodified 5sfe.
It is different for different outside temperature, of course.
Just trying to troubleshoot my thermostat issues.
Thanks!

[NuSpec02]

I live in GA, and we have all sorts of weather. Sometimes i have to park my car outside the garage so i literally get all temperatures at cold start. I have an automatic 98 and when i drive without the needle being in the middle (normal), it usually doesn't shift pass about 3000 rpm, and doesn't go into 4th gear until about 5-10 mins down the road. I know... its weird. i often wonder if this is suppose to happen. But yea, usually i crank the car, listen for the engine to "relax a little." I don't know how to put it in words, but i listen to the car and i let the cycles go through a few times. (this is about 10seconds) then i actually put it in gear. At this time the idle is about 1300-1500.

But thats only sometimes, Most of the time, i see the needle below Cold and i just wait for the needle to go a little above it and thats when i start driving. This is about 5-10 minutes and i have a normal idle.

This is a DD... and when i say daily driver, i mean daily driver.. I put 11,000 on the car in 6 months. ( july- 141XXX and december -151XXX and now its 153XXX. So it responds pretty well... I bought the car in july and haven't gotten a tune up and odds and ends.. but i do get oil changes.