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      03-24-2019, 11:19 PM   #990
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Drives: 2011 E82 128i
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Originally Posted by sgreer78 View Post
I would just use my best judgement depending on weather. There's a lot of oil in there and it holds temp pretty well once warmed up. To me the bigger question was how to get it up to temp before running, especially at national events were you have to be in grid so long before you actually run. My car did not like to build temp just idling.
At Charlotte this weekend, i basically took the car for a drive off site 15-20 minutes before gridding to get it fully up to temperature. Then started it up in grid 20 minutes or so before running. It would basically be a quarter of the way up to temp before starting it in grid doing it this way. I use the electronic oil level to inform me when the oil is sufficiently up to temp. If its reading, it tends to be that the oil is well up to temp.
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