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Need4Spd · 13th October 2008, 04:08

I don't know how running at relatively low RPM could be bad for the gearbox. I can see it being bad for the engine IF at that RPM it was lugging, but the M5 engine is relatively tractable and can usually pull without protest from around 2000 RPM. So long as the engine isn't lugging or knocking at the RPM you are running it at, it shouldn't hurt anything.

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Need4Spd M5 Expert (>4000) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 4,895 Thanks: 90 Thanked 104 Times in 69 Posts	I don't know how running at relatively low RPM could be bad for the gearbox. I can see it being bad for the engine IF at that RPM it was lugging, but the M5 engine is relatively tractable and can usually pull without protest from around 2000 RPM. So long as the engine isn't lugging or knocking at the RPM you are running it at, it shouldn't hurt anything. __________________ Need4Spd '01 M5/UUC SSK + Rogue WSR/RE Tranny Mounts+Royal Purple Synchromax/Centric Posi-Quiet Pads/StopTech SS Lines/TC Design from BeastPower Anti-roll Bar Brackets/Dinan LtWtFlywheel and Stage 3 suspension/Goodyear F1 GSD3s/Vines thrust arms/IATS relocation/10w-60 oil/hardwired Escort 9500i/Euro Armrest/TEC Cupholder/IceLink/PowerChip 91 Gold/TUBIs!/Strong Strut/BSW Stage 1/BT/Angel iBrights 3.0 '05 M3 Imola Cabrio 6MT, Nav, HK "Is it the sounds that make a BMW a BMW? A BMW is designed to be heard, felt, experienced. So our engines sing. Our steering talks back. And we insist on offering manual transmissions in nearly all our models for drivers who crave them. The result is an almost telepathic oneness with the car. Just as surely as you can hear a BMW, a BMW hears you."