Hey all, hope everyone had a fun Christmas.

I am getting ready to do some more routine work on my new OM606.910 (N/A W124 car) and I was just planning on running a stock temperature thermostat, but after some reading I found out that the turbo cars have a 5*c cooler t-stat than my N/A car. I am planning on taking the car down to the desert SW this spring and summer (hopefully permanently) and was wondering if any of you aluminum head vets thought there was any merritt to installing a cooler thermostat to help my motor run that much cooler, if it matters at all? It gets well north of 110 on the routine where my family resides down there, and there are plenty of hills to boot. I don't worry about such things in my 617, just MB gold flushed regularly and a new stock t-stat and away I go, but this 606 is a little new to me still.

I know it's very important to keep these aluminum cars from over heating, so any advantage I can get while running through extreme heat seems like a good plan, especially with a little older car that has some road warrior status . Thanks a ton.