[uucdigest] Tuesday, February 1 2000 Volume 03 : Number 163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | For all available Digest commands including unsubscribe/subscribe, | visit the BMW UUC Digest page: http://www.uucdigest.com | Send SUBMISSIONS to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Complaints? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you must. | Visit http://www.bubbaclub.com | www.bimmers.com - "serving enthusiasts on the 'net" | Visit http://www.bimmer.org - ultimate BMW bulletin boards! | Subscribe to the Zionsville Autosport Parts Digest: | http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com/majordomo.htm ����������������������������������������� In this BMW UUC Digest: Re: [uuc] That Ferrari replica [uuc] Bimwads, Air Tanks, and Medical personnel [uuc] WTB: E30 in DC area Re: [uuc] cleaning underneath car [uuc] <E30> Help Needed after fender-bender Re: [uuc] <E36, E30 M3> Shifter boot [uuc] Gary and the CCA [uuc] replacing rubber seals (E28) [uuc] RE: E34 oxygen sensor- again. Re: [uuc] bought the F650 [uuc] More on ideas CA Lane Splitting (Was Re: [uuc] bought the F650) [uuc] Bye bye M3 - what next? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 08:56:22 -0600 (CST) From: Jefrem Iwaniw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] That Ferrari replica There's a great article in this week's autoweek that basically describes a company that does just that, and more. Extremely cool.... - -------------------------------- - -Jefrem Iwaniw, [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Rob Levinson - UUC Motorwerks wrote: > Oh, man - imagine the cost of a full-size completely hand-carved > billet aluminum engine. > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:58:53 -0500 From: "Dean Boucouras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Bimwads, Air Tanks, and Medical personnel Duane, Jim's compressor story was hilarious. I find the vision of 5 or 6 Bimwads walking around with paper bags ready to terrorize someone with an air tank even funnier. Just make sure that Keith Battan (or hopefully a gorgeous female doctor/nurse) to revive the person that will pass out from fright, laughing, and/or running away. In fact, if you could arrange for Heidi Klum or a Hooters girl to revive me after y'all scare me half to death, it might be worth it. My mind is drifting, I need some more caffeine. Happily married but not dead yet, Dean ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:57:18 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] WTB: E30 in DC area In the next few weeks I will be looking for a '87 - '90 E30 325...prefer 2 door, stick, red or black. Around 100K -120K on the clock with no track time. Must be in VA/DC/MD area. Thanks for the bandwidth. Dave http://drive.to/BMW2002 '74 3.0s getting towed to the yard tomorrow :( PS Rob, I'm drafting a reply to your email, let me know if you still want to argue about it, because it will take a long time to finish ;) ______________________________________ This message, together with any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is legally privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message,or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the original sender (or the WSPR Help Desk) immediately by telephone (212-858-1000) or by return E-mail and delete the message, along with any attachments, from your computer. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:04:09 -0500 From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] cleaning underneath car I use a gentle sprinkler head for my routine winter underbody rinses. I also do the engine compartment. I then follow with a leaf blower to dry. I limit the power washer to once in the spring with the car on stands and the wheels removed. Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The only potential drawback to using a power washer under the car is > that it may drive corrisive liquids into nooks and cranies where > water may not enter under "normal" conditions. If you can find a > garden hose that isn't frozen, use it instead, otherwise the power > washer is probably your best alternative. As for the concern of > getting something wet that shouldn't get wet, it's a non-issue. > Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to drive the car on a wet day (or > you'd be driving a British car). > > --- "Binder, Larry - Paoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the best way to clean the salt and dirt from underneath > > your car. > > Many car washes will do this but I really don't want to take my car > > through > > one of them. I've considered going to one of those self washing > > stations > > and just sticking the power washer underneath it but I'm afraid of > > getting > > something wet that I shouldn't. Is there any way to get it clean > > without > > getting any of the electronics wet? > > > ===== > Matthew Yip > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ > > '87 GTi 16v - x2 > '88 M5 > '99 F350 > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:06:34 -0800 (PST) From: Alexander MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E30> Help Needed after fender-bender Hi All, On the way to the Ultimate Drive at Giants stadium, I was the victim of the dreaded woman-on-the-cell-phone-in-the-SUV, who piled into me, and crushed the driver's front quarter panel in my beloved '87 325. It seems as though the damage is confined to the fender, and I should just need a new one. I would like to get one that is the same color (burgundrot-metallic II), although I think that this is a fairly uncommon color for E30s. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Alex MacLeod NY Chapter CCA '87 325-slightly bent at the moment :( __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:09:04 -0500 From: "Rob Levinson - UUC Motorwerks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] <E36, E30 M3> Shifter boot The E36 leather boot, besides being slightly larger at the base (not the main problem) is glued to the frame. The frames are certainly not interchangeable. There's no way to make it stay attached to your E30 frame without spending lots of time with some leather glue. I'd recommend an aftermarket leather boot with elastic at the base. There are a number of sources for this kind of thing including WheelSkins and AGLA. Of course, there's even a place to get a black suede boot, just like the M3 Lightweight -> UUC Motorwerks! Regards, - - Rob Levinson UUC Motorwerks * www.uucmotorwerks.com * 732-398-0001 - ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E36, E30 M3> Shifter boot > Will the E36 M3 shift boot fit in the E30s? > My E30 one is a gonner and I'd like to get a new one with the nicer > looking leather. Anyone tried this yet? > Carlos > 91 M3 E36 M3 knob on the way, Momo knob and boot for now ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:19:25 -0500 From: "Duane Collie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Gary and the CCA >Duane if I remember right, weren't you one of the folks crying to keep CCA >Politics off of the digest and that's one of the reasons you gave for >starting up your own list? What (or who) has changed your mind? Ooopss Gary, you must have got a bit of a misread on that. I started [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a more flexible forum for bimwads to play without having to worry about getting a monitor "strike" for saying, "I like the styling of the Audi TT", as I did. Also, there is no personal attacks/flames on that list - its not allowed. The UUC Digest has lightened up considerably since then to a large part based on many e-mails back and forth between Rob and myself. I asked the members at 'THE GARAGE' if they wanted to fold that list and return to using only the UUC Digest....and guess what.....they voted to keep it. We have fun on that list and the mood is very light. Discussing CCA ideas and dreams seems viable to me, but the personal vendettas/attacks don't. That's all.....and there is a huge difference between the two. Public feedback on the CCA policies is a good idea for these Digests, but not personal bashing of the people in the offices of the Club (even though yes, I did some of that bashing in years past myself on these Digests, which I now regret as you know....you get older, you get wiser). >I think the folks on this list can certainly contact the candidates and ask >any question they want to and I encourage them to do so. Isn't that a bit Stalinesque? No public forum for the exchange of ideas? >As for your agenda, I can think of couple good reasons why I wouldn't want >national to implement either program. One involves control and one >involves money. It's not my "Agenda", Gary, by any means....I have no agenda. Merely ideas I thought worth pursuing as as an example for others to ask viable questions. If they're no good, tell me why you think they aren't and I'll listen and learn.....I'm certainly not headstrong on them, or campaigning for them by any means. You are far more experienced than I on the "ins and outs" of why these may or may not be workable. I'd like to hear your thoughts on them. That or we can merely continue with 'Why I Hate Cops" for another week..... - - Duane Collie The Seven Sled ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:20:10 -0800 From: Chris Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] replacing rubber seals (E28) Mornin' all, Just thinking about what DIY project to do on my "new" car. How hard is it to replace the rubber seals on the trunk and doors? Has anybody actually, successfully, done this at home? I haven't taken too close a look, but the seals are permanently glued to the bodywork right? Is it possible to strip them off and get fresh(er) seals from the junker or BMW. What would I use to glue them on with? Today I'm getting installed, 4 new 16" aftermarket alloys with Continental 205/55R16's. No rice-boy image here though, just gettin' rid of those TRX-ers. Tomorrow, my mechanic has it for the whole day to replace bushings and gaskets here and there... Impressions of driving an E28 from an E21? Much quieter and softer. Although I feel as if my old 320is had more zing going through the corners (most definitely). This 528e is a family car alright. My 320is will track a hell of a lot better! I miss her terribly, and I wonder how she's doing in the hands of that youngster I sold her to... Just my wondering thoughts. Chris '83 528e '81 320is (the real 2.0L) - missing her Barvarian Auto Club of Vancouver Island member #2137 http://members.home.net/iphoto/home.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:25:41 -0500 From: "Phemister, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: E34 oxygen sensor- again. > After tracking down the infamous Mustang three wire sensor (Bosch13942), I > discovered to my horror that my 535 has a FOUR wire sensor - and what a > great location! > > So, any ideas on universal four wire units, or am I stuck with -GULP- the * proper one??? George ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:31:10 -0500 From: Phil Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] bought the F650 Jim Powell wrote, >> > Besides, I will reiterate, I wanted a narrow, nimble >> > bike to weave through traffic on. Riding between lanes of traffic >> is legal in California. >Some people certainly ride full dresser's, along with boxer's in this >situation. But mostly its crotch rockets, singles and v twins out >there. Much more manueverable, at least psychologically to me. Jim, Rather than the antagonist, consider me the purveyor of factual information, or if you will in the case of misconceptions regarding the merits of BMW Boxer design, the flashlight in the darkness of US motorcyle knowledge. >From BMW's own data: -1-cyl- ----------2-cyl. boxer motors----------------- Overall F650 R100R/R100GS '81 R100CS R1100S (boxer twin) Width: 34.7" 39.3 29.3 22.8" Remember, the widest part of most motorcycles is in the mirror span just as it is on cars&trucks. For the R1100S (current boxer design) it's the foot pegs. Enjoy your lane-splitting, don't even attempt to put bags on the F, and watch out for those turnsignal/mirror combos on the Ford Expeditions. By the way, tell the rest please, which "motors" (police speak for motorcycle) the CHP now buys for their use compared to the former American V-twins and Japanese 4-cylinders? (Hint: I think the R1100RTP is 35.4" wide) - -Phil R100CS ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:30:57 -0500 From: "Duane Collie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] More on ideas >I like the autocross idea. But I think you really want all the chapters >to have autocrosses so that you can go and kick butt in that new seven >sled of yours. <grin> I'm afraid I might get beat by a new X-5 if I auto-x the Seven ! >As for the national instructor database, I also like this idea and I >know that this has been discussed for a while on the national board. I >also know that the Driving Events Committee asked to be involved in >making this decision. Makes sense - they oversee all the chapter >driving schools, keep the official Driving School Standards up to date, >etc. Well, at the national board meeting in November '99, the official >Driving Events Committee report was that they were not going to push for >the national database, and actually recommended against it. I believe >the reasons why included manageability, subjectivity, etc. Interesting. I know I get several e-mails from out-of-area CCA Instructors who ask about instructing for NCC. As I'm not in the loop on the Driver's Schools I can only forward them to our Chapter Driving School Chief Instructor. In many cases, as I understand it, if the home Chapter does not know the out-of-area Instructor, they will not use them for the schools. Not that that's wrong (>>>>and I'm not saying it is<<<<<), it would only seem to make sense to have a national licensing program intact so that when an Instructor passes the National Qualifications, he/she could participate at any of the Chapter's Schools subject to Chief Instructor approval. I'd be interested to hear the opposing viewpoints as well.....maybe someone in the DEC will respond... Thanks Tammi! Duane Collie The Seven Sled ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 07:50:35 -0800 From: "Chao, Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CA Lane Splitting (Was Re: [uuc] bought the F650) Yes, I believe lane splitting is legal here, but sometimes with unexpected and lethal consequences. There was an accident on Interstate 280 here in Northern CA some 25 years ago. Unlike most, this freeway is ( or was at the time) a beautiful road. Fairly new, so in good condition, wide, smooth, and other than dead flat level and straight. Through the "foothills" of the Santa Cruze mountains. Seems a tractor trailer rig went off the road and down the right shoulder embankment. So, the CA Highway Patrol had stopped all lanes of northbound traffic while a wrecker has a steel cable attached to the big rig and is pulling it back onto the road. This results in the cable being stretched perpendicular to the road, about 4-5 feet off the surface of the road. Memory dims, but it may have been at night to boot. Guy on a motorcycle comes up to all this backed up traffic, and decides he can lane split his way through the back up. He gets close enough to the accident scene to see that he can see the end of the back up and drops it a gear or two, twists the throttle wide open and utilizes that glorious acceleration and goes screaming up between two lanes of parked cars - ready to burst into the open road and go roaring away to clear pavement, no traffic, and glorious velocities. He hit the cable with fatal results and as I recall his girlfriend passenger was severely injured. Harvey - I live with fear, death, and evil...but I used to be able to turn it off and use a Mac. " Author Unknown - Dragged over to the "Dark Side" under duress This day, Thursday, 9/16/99 - - A dark day indeed! - Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld ------------------------------ Date: 1 Feb 00 07:29:43 PST From: Tom Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Bye bye M3 - what next? Hi Folks: April 20 will be a sad day. I "have to" give my M3 back. After 3 years and 42,000+ fun filled miles, the lease is up and I'm without a clear plan. Since I'm getting married in May, and have a sh*t load of other "priorities" coming up (you guys know the deal), the new M3 supercar aint in the cards -- this year anyway. Right now I'm torn between getting another E36 M3 -- preferably someone else's off-lease M3 4 door with lower mileage (and less wear!), or a new Y2K Non-M 3 series (either the 323i or 323ic). The 328 is out because I can't stand buying a new 3 only to have it replaced by a better model (330i) six months later for the same money...besides, its way over 40 g's with the options I'd want. While I'm certainly addicted to the power band and crisp handling of the E36 M3, I hear the new 3 with the sport package and some optional 17" wheels has a nice firm ride, revs nice, has lower insurance rates, is very UUC'able and is of course, a new car. Besides, I'm thinking I don't have enough time or mechanical skills to deal with an off-warranty car. An off-lease low mileage '98 4 door M3 stick can probably be had for $33,000 give or take a few, and a loaded 2000 323 also prices out at about that amount (sticker's at $36k)...what should i do! ...any suggestions? If i make the leap of faith to the E46 (I've owned 3 E36's) and decide on the 323...I'm having an equally difficult problem with 2 door vs 4 door. The E46 Coupe certainly looks nicer (as opposed to the E36, who's 4 door - despite the fact I've never owned one - in my opinion is more attractive)but it (the E46 coupe) is in its first production year and may be slightly buggy. Another plan might be to get the 4 door 323i, in bright Red (yikes), which is the only color car my fiancee' will ever own -- she currently has an aging 1989 325i 4 door -- I could drive the 323, let her 325i "die" or fade away in a year or so, give her the 323, then bang! pounce on a 330i coupe or an M3! Yeah, that could be the plan. Thanks for letting me work through this! Tom Newton http://members.xoom.com/thnewton/m3/ PS. Looking forward to seeing Jim C and others at the NY Chapter beach party this Saturday! ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #163 ************************** _________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Bonneville Motorwerks . http://www.bonnevillemotorwerks.com | Circle Tire Co. 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