Great read. Seems an oil pressure gauge is necessary to really know what is appropriate.
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Originally Posted by flinchy
the N54 runs hot though, so a thicker oil is the choice (like a 40 on the street) going by that article? which is what i was lead to believe otherwise anyway. then maybe a *W50 on the track
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That is not how I read what he was saying. See question #16: 16- If your engine is running too hot at higher RPM one thing you can try to bring the temperature down is to use a thinner oil.
To which the correct answer is "true." Maybe I'm confused?
Seems the entire point of the article is to state that the only thing thicker oils do is make start up wear worse, so stating that an engine runs hot and needs a thicker oil doesn't seem (to me) to jibe with what he has presented here. Again, I could be confused.