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      01-25-2016, 04:49 AM   #70
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Originally Posted by PhaseP View Post
I believe those three bolts, bolt on to the oil pan, not just get in the way. The oil pan being Aluminum not magnesium, steel bolt into is fine. The crank case and block is magnesium on N52's. The oil pan bolts go into the magnesium crank case, so they are aluminum and one time use.
On the manual transmission cars the oil pan is steel and the bolts do not thread in to the pan.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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