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Particular driving styles. For example, if you have a boxer engine with a turbo and floor it for the duration of a long banked turn, centrifugal force can prevent the oil from circulating through the engine and it can get damaged.

There are gotcha's like this which complicate the equation.



Boxers have oil starvation problems.

I have had two friends kill BRZ engines on track simply by putting slicks on the car...




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