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Old 10-30-2014, 02:45 PM   #15 (permalink)
Ecky
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I imagine reduction in wear and emissions are due to vastly improved warmup times, and not the increase in oil temperature itself. Heck, fuel economy would improve, on average, just from faster warmups too. No need to run the oil hotter.
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