nastang87xx
Well-Known Member
Not trying to blame the customer here but wasn't that really an issue with guys not warming up the car though? Because the S65 basically IS a race engine. The tolerances are insanely tight. You can't just get in with 90 degree oil temps and go for it. Even low to mid 100's you'd have to baby it until the oil pressure came down.I was a former of a E92 M3 with its famous S65 V8 that revved to 8400 rpm. Not FPC but it had its unique ITBs. But anyways, as I m sure you may have heard (if not just google S65 rod bearing), that engine has had the rod bearing problem where between the years of 2012-2015, bimmerpost on average would have 1 thread per week average about engine failures (note: not all threads were new but mostly updates). The issue became so common that a new indy sector was born just to upgrade the rod bearings of these engines ($3000-5000 job depending on the location). With absolutely ZERO acknowledgement from BMW, people even started a class action lawsuit. Nothing happened as nothing will ever happen.
Well, point here, there's 6 E92 M3's at my local autocross chapter and they're all over 80,000 miles except for one. No bearing issues. Although I'm not trying to defend it either because to say it wasn't happening is absurd.