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Originally Posted by civdaddy
So tracking a stock twin, oil temps, oil pressure and coolant temps get above what you consider safe.
How many people have had motor catastrophes by tracking hard? I take what you say as solid info to go by. What kind of damage has happened? Does the car just pull timing and go in a limpish mode, or is that "luxury" not happening before it's too late?
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See the post above this about temps vs oil pressures.
Honestly if you track the car hard or have FI you need an oil temp and pressure gauge. We have not seen total failures yet but we dont have guys running motors with over 50k miles on track yet namely on 0w20.
Running in the 40psi oil pressure on the track at high RPM is a ticking time bomb. And hot oil running out of spec will get you that just have to watch it. Again I have done it several times on 0w20 at 265F with 40psi oil pressures at 7000RPM and had clean UOA. But the motor has less than 20k on it. Ask any subie shop they would not recommend it.