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Old 06-10-2005, 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by regg151
wow you guys are pretty conservative my MT12 runs in the 260-280 range with the body on after 5 minutes of hard running. I may be crazy but the engine runs fine and seems to run better hot cause if I get the temps down near 230 it just runs sluggish witch is fine for practice but for the race I lean it out a bit and get the temps up.
thats pretty toasty

I've noticed if mine gets up around 270 I can hear a difference in the idle and any hotter than that and it starts losing power..

im sure running it at 250-260 is fine, its just makes me a bit nervous..
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