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Old 12-25-2010, 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by texmln View Post
When manufacturers put engines on a test stand they may run them for hundreds or even thousands of hours nonstop to test durability, sometimes at high rpm. Your engine is designed to idle for much more than 1.5 hours.
I have personal experience with this. I worked for a high proformance manufacture that made motor parts for sport bikes, dirt bike and four wheelers.

One of the first tests that we did to proto-type parts was to run it on the dyno for 5 hours strait, before we would do anything else. Granted I'm talking motorcycles and you have a dope X5...... But I'm sure your motor could idle for days before any problems developed. So rest assure your whip is fine.
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