Re: Sight Glass/Oil Level

[Bruno Valeri <bvaleri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> 9:  Interesting thing, BMW cars use a very expensive synthetic oil from
the
> start and have extremely long oil change intervals.  They do not use ANY
oil.
> Shape of things to come?

As long as the boxer is air/oil cooled, it will be built to bigger
tolerances than a liquid cooled motor.
Conducive, I'd expect, to some oil initial consumption.

But I'd ask Tom C for some real life data.

Bruno
Montreal, Canada
CBR 929
http://pages.videotron.com/mcrides

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