Originally posted by Terry Haines:
On the oil cooler issue,if you must use an air to oil unit in place of the stoc part you need an oil stat.Cold oil will kill your motor faster than overheated oil.The stoc cooler is also a heater as the coolant flows through the heater matrix it flows through the cooler,helps warm up.No self respecting racer runs hard until the engine oil is at least 130 deg,hence heaters in dry sump tanks, catch the drift here....
The M5 has a moving redline on the tach. As the engine warms up, it gets higher. Pretty cool.
