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Originally Posted by Soorena

It's amazing how overhyped this bearing issue has become. Some act like their cars are ticking bombs and the funny thing is they are trying hard to make sense out of the whole situation like it was proven that we have bearing issue.
At first by some SC makers that blew a handful of engines it was claimed that our lubrication system is weak and our oil pump causes oil starvation. Then after hearing blown S85's which have a very different dry sump lubrication system, the oil pump theory went out of the window and bearing clearance replaced that. Who are we fooling? Ourselves? Most of the blown S65's we know are supercharged. I'm not gonna get into the cons of going FI on this engines but you can't expect raising BMEP by ~%40 won't do any harm to engine.
As for the blown NA engines do we know their background history? How they were maintained etc... All we know is they failed. For every 1 blown NA engine, there are hundreds of cars doing good. BMW produced like what 65000 S65's? How many of them has failed? How many of them are running strong?

Enjoy your cars gentlemen while you can. That's what i do. Drive this marvelous piece of engineering as hard as you can with no fear of what's gonna happen because nobody knows what's gonna happen. Even if your throw a rod in future which hopefully will never happen, you will at least have good moments with your car.