Hi guys, I got a question. I live in the second house down on a small country lane that lets out on a big 2-lane arterial, right in the neck of a blind corner. Almost every morning when I turn out onto the big highway, someone comes flying around that corner and is not pleased to see me grinding my way up past 20 mph. (It's not unsafe, but it is inconvenient for them.)

I'm tempted to start giving the 240 the full-throttle acceleration treatment just to cut down on the birds I'm getting flipped and unsafe passing behavior that usually ensues as they blast around me coming out of the corner (and maybe to blow a little black smoke back at some of the more obnoxious ones). Should I do that? Or would that shorten my engine life? Conventional Wisdom says "don't do it," but Conventional Wisdom drives a petrol-powered car and doesn't have this problem.

Thanks!

--Finn

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Finn John -- Albany, Ore.
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