[uucdigest] Tuesday, April 4 2000 Volume 03 : Number 566 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 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: [uuc] 530iT buying advice needed Re: [uuc] Removing Oil Filters [uuc] Re: M5 Tranny Noise [uuc] Do you keep your Roundels? Re: [uuc] Removing Oil Filters Re: [uuc] 530iT buying advice needed [uuc] WANTED - e36 (shell) for club racing Re: [uuc] Do you keep your Roundels? [uuc] Leathermaster website & stuff [uuc] Mobile-MP3 applications Re: [uuc] Bimmer Garage Floor Heat (radiant heat) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:29:37 EDT From: "J Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] 530iT buying advice needed I have an opportunity to buy a 94 530iT with 121k miles for $11000. The car is in excellent condition except the owner has not had the engine checked out for the sulfur corrosion problem. The car idles smoothly and seems to run well. Should I run away from the car? It is very clean otherwise. All service has been performed per service manual except for the tests for sulfur damage. Any advice would be appreciated. Justin ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 22:29:38 -0400 From: Ron Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Removing Oil Filters Duane Collie wrote: [Rob wrote] > > Barbarianism: > > stab and twist, cost: $3 for a screwdriver. > > You get dirty but are satsified in having vanquished the filter. Beer > > money left over. Primal urges satisfied without pouncing on wife's sister. > > YAH! Ya know I did that once on an old '63 Split Window Corvette I had. Wow, that's what I call UUC! How'd you keep the wife from finding out? - -- Ron Katona ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:33:10 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: M5 Tranny Noise In a message dated 4/3/00 7:39:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerry Chyo writes: << It's how they sound. Think M-22 Rock Crusher. I think the E30's of the same vintage had a similar problem. I know. "They all do it" sucks as an answer. :^) >> I beg to differ Jerry...my tranny makes no sound whatsoever (well, relatively speaking)...very smooth and quiet. I drove an E28 M5er a couple of years back (at a dealer) its tranny didn't sound right to me....it ended up with a guy who lives near me...that tranny sounded "whiney" and he ended up replacing it with a Metric Mechanic rebuild at $3900 plus labor!!! I guess "they all don't do that"<g>! Maybe it depends on the pitch of the sound....some low level sound may be fine....just not been my experience. Happy ///Motoring, John Weese BMW CCA #76646 '88 M5 (96k)...all I hear is that wonderful S38 engine sound! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:46:43 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Do you keep your Roundels? I'm looking for a specific ad from the end of 1999. If you keep your Roundels and don't mind taking a few minutes to find a specific classified ad for me, I would be very thankful. Please respond to me personally. Thanks, Carter Hunt 325E Weekend Street/Club racer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:33:54 -0400 From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Removing Oil Filters Wait a minute, Duane, a '63 Vette had a cartridge filter, like a newer BMW except that the oil drained up your arm, not back into the pan. No filter wrench required. Spin-on filters were standard beginning in 1968. Of course no split window Corvette owner would have an upgraded engine or oil system, it wouldn't be original. One you stab, you are committed to removing it. Once I stabbed a filter and proceeded to rip it to shreds. The only thing left was the plate still screwed to the engine. Hmm, now what? Next came the chisel and some careful tangential chiseling. Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > YAH! Ya know I did that once on an old '63 Split Window Corvette I had. > Stabbed that thing more times than Richard Speck would've done. It was > bloody....oil everywhere....TAKE THAT !!!! (stab-stab)......sucker came off > though after it was mostly shredded and I was VINDICATED !! Then I went to ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:10:39 -0400 From: Jacob Steijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] 530iT buying advice needed Why don't you have it checked? I can't coment on the price, but the car is sweet and could be a good deal, if the engine is ok and the rest of the mechanicals and bodywork are good. I helped my dad find one, same year & model, with 91K and with the short block replaced at 70K. Cost was $15,900 and we think it is a great car and a fair price. He is very pleased with it, now that he's had it for about a year. He did have to have some of the power steering hoses replaced, and a leak in the cooling system fixed, at a cost of about $1100(!??!!) -- watch for seeping ps hoses, even the low-pressure side can be expensive. At 10:29 PM 4/3/2000 , you wrote: >I have an opportunity to buy a 94 530iT with 121k miles for $11000. The car >is in excellent condition except the owner has not had the engine checked >out for the sulfur corrosion problem. The car idles smoothly and seems to >run well. Should I run away from the car? It is very clean otherwise. All >service has been performed per service manual except for the tests for >sulfur damage. Any advice would be appreciated. >Justin >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > It's a beautiful day, let's play two! -- Ernie Banks _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:54:42 -0400 From: Linda Rowlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] WANTED - e36 (shell) for club racing Good day, Thought I would put this up in the off chance that anyone on the digest has what I'm currently seeking. Located in Toronto, Canada, there is substantially less selection of cars here than in the U.S., of the nature I'm looking for because of shear population numbers I guess! I'm looking for an e36 ('93 - '97) 2 or 4 door with a blown motor, high,high miles or a theft recovery vehicle that been stripped, etc. that would make a good track car. I am already looking into insurance related clearing houses (ie. Autosource) Already have a sweet motor lined up and ready to go as soon as I locate a donor shell. Interior will be coming out, suspension done, cage installed, etc., so it doesn't have to be pretty - just straight (ie. no unibody bending accidents). Any ideas, or better still, anyone with such a beast or possibly knowing where there is one, would be most appreciated. Mid-North-east,(N.Y. state, Michigan, Ohio) would be ideal! - I don't really wish to go too far afield. TIA Dave Rowlison, TORONTO, Canada '97 M3 '9?? e36 Track (club race) car (in process) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:45:42 -0400 From: Jacob Steijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Do you keep your Roundels? I've got all of last year's lieing around here someplace. What are you looking for? Jake At 10:46 PM 4/3/2000 , you wrote: >I'm looking for a specific ad from the end of 1999. If you keep your >Roundels and don't mind taking a few minutes to find a specific classified ad >for me, I would be very thankful. > >Please respond to me personally. > >Thanks, > >Carter Hunt >325E Weekend Street/Club racer > It's a beautiful day, let's play two! -- Ernie Banks _____________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: 03 Apr 2000 21:39:51 -0700 From: Gleb Arshinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Leathermaster website & stuff So it looks like Leathermaster has web presence now: http://www.leathercaremaster.com/ And you can even order the stuff online: http://www.stainsafe.com/ (Based on my experience, I would *NOT* use RDS shipping, if you actually want to get your order) I got my kit some time ago after recommendation by Duane and other listers. Yesterday, I finally gotten to apply the stuff to my M3 leather (almost 1 year old now) for the first time. Observations: both cleaner and cream have a faint pleasant smell, kind of like almonds. Using the product is easy and actually fun. Excellent car-bonding experience. I ended up using Lexol pad to apply the cream. I think the pad absorbed 1/2 of the cream I used, but it was easier to do it this way, rather than by hand. The seats now feel more like skin, less like paper, which is good. There is more friction between hands and the steering wheel -- it *almost* feels a bit sticky now, which is not good. Should I expect this to go away, or did I apply to much of the cream? Also, the wrinkles on the driver seat cushion bolsters did not go away. I am not sure if wrinkles is the technical term, but they look exactly like wrinkles on people's faces. Should try applying protection cream again in this area, or should I try something like LEATHER VITAL by Leathermaster? Gleb PS OB Tasty Animals -- protection cream's ingredient list contains "natural oils", nice way to say cow juice I suspect :-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 02:37:24 EDT From: "Steven Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Mobile-MP3 applications Being a diehard audiophile (perhaps the only 16 year old one) I am rather experienced with home and car audio systems. I'll be the first to take a 12" vinyl record over a 4 3/4" compact disc, don't get me wrong. However, in this computer-controlled day we live in I am proud to say that I've left my "shell" and explored the world of MP3 music files. So much so, in fact, that I have a collection numbering in the hundreds. Naturally, it's only logical to combine my computer knowledge with my BMW enthusiasm and try to come up with some sort of MP3 system that I could tie in to my '87 325iS. Sure it's kinda over the top and wasteful but it would be fun to possibly write a specific OS just to serve my purpose for playing music files in my car. And without further adeau (sp) my question... Does anyone have, or know about, any BMW MP3 installations? I came across MP3Car.com tonight and, while it's interesting, I have no desire to pay thousands of dollars for a real MP3 setup. Darn...half the novelty was thinking Grant (my buddy) and I came up with the idea on our own. :| Steve Smokey Mountain Chapter '87 325iS undergoing conversion (getting a custom engine) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 23:53:26 -0700 From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Bimmer Garage Floor Heat (radiant heat) There are houses built here in Bay Area, CA (Eichler) which were built with radiant heat. I lived in one. Just the house part and not the bimmer garage was radiant heat. As Jeff says, the floor is nice and warm, the air doesn't get all dry. There are special hydraulic/steam/radiant heating guys which can find a system leak w/o tearing up the whole house floor. Once in awhile something fails, but many of these houses are ok after 40 years. The controls in these were pretty rudimentary to control the heat, just a bunch of shutoff values to control flow. -dave Jeff Berg wrote: > > The only disadvantage to using it in a garage is that if a piece of > the tubing fails, you have to destroy the floor and start from > scratch. (Or install a gas heater and not use the expensive > in-the-floor system.) I know they sell the system intending it be > installed in concrete floors and in seven or eight years of use > attached the basement ceiling we haven't had any problems. I don't > know what the track record or service life of the system is when it's > in a poured floor. I just remember someone mentioning that if there > was a problem, there was no good way to affect repairs in such a > situation. > > But I'd do it--it's that good. > > jeff ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #566 ************************** _________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Bonneville Motorwerks . http://www.bonnevillemotorwerks.com | Circle Tire Co. (used & classic BMW parts) e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Curry's Auto Service . http://www.currysauto.com | Eurosport . http://www.eurosport-hp.com | Koala MotorSport . http://www.koalamotorsport.com | Taylor BMW - http://www.taylorbmw.com - Doc Bimmer! | The Ultimate Garage . http://www.ultimategarage.com | UUC Motorwerks . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com | Zionsville Autosport . http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com ����������������������������������������
