[uucdigest] Thursday, June 21 2001 Volume 03 : Number 3906 _________________________________________________________________ | | Search the ARCHIVES: | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] | | Visit Richard Nott's Ultimate BMW Database: | http://www.gis.nsw.gov.au/staff/rnott/bmw/bmw.html | | 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. | Technical Problems? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__________________________________________________________________ In this BMW UUC Digest: Re: [uuc] Need information for a wheel/tire rack for an open trailer ["Pa] [uuc] <E28> failed emissions [Jeff Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] BMW Films Driving Techniques ["James Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Speed . . . [Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Re: Inner workings of an S54.... Answers. ["Brett Anderson" <brett@] [uuc] S54 power (was Brett's answers) [Andy Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] speed.... ["Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] WTB: E23, E30 license bracket strips, refurbishing the black. [] RE: [uuc] <wob> Speed in Crappy Car ["Steven Reed" <bimmersteven@hotmail.] [uuc] <FS><E30/36 M3> Hawk Blues ["Money, Jack (J.J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: [uuc] Re: Inner workings of an S54.... Answers. ["Pat Donahue" <Pat@p] [uuc] Tire dressing [david kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] BMW Films Sub Stories ["Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] <E34> ball joint separator tool question [Andy Peavy <apeavy@yahoo.] [uuc] speed [TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:53:27 -0400 From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Need information for a wheel/tire rack for an open trailer There are a lot of considerations in this. I built one for my trailer and was concerned with making it fit under my garage door with tires and the car on the trailer. It also has to sit above the hood of the car since I bought a short trailer on purpose to fit the garage. The rack is basically three horizontal bars suspended above the hood. Tires sit on two of the bars and the third is high but still lower than the top of the tires to make sure they can't come forward if for some reason I forget to put the lock bar through the wheels. I also built bars across at the center line of the wheels so I could pass a bar through the centers and lock it down to hold the wheels in and prevent them from growing legs too. To get all these dimensions optimal you have to plan ahead for what size tires. I knew there was only one size for my race car and built it for that size. That means my spare trailer tire won't fit on the same rack as it's too large in diameter. In retrospect I could have pushed the top bar farther forward and it would have been able to stop the wheels coming forward and allowed the trailer tire to sit up there but the center of the trailer wheel would not have lined up for the lock bar and that would have been other problems. While I'm using 20/20 hindsight, next time I'll build a large box on the front of the trailer with the tire rack above that. Right now I can't open my hood with the car on the trailer and I don't have that nice enclosed space. If you follow the link below you can see some shots that include this tire rack. Geeeze '88 325is race car for sale http://patdonahue.com/forsale From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm having a local welder build a rack to hold the extra tires/wheels on my > open trailer. I realize I could design something myself, but it would be a > whole lot easier to provide a picture or specs. Does anyone have anything > like this? I would accept a picture of your car on the trailer that has > one. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:31:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E28> failed emissions Well, my 535i finally failed an emissions test. I know this question comes up fairly frequently, so is there some nice troublshooting info out there that someone can point me to? Yes, I had the car nice and hot, and it was the NO that was high(way out, not just a tiny bit over the line). Thanks. - --Jeff __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:36:18 -0400 From: "James Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] BMW Films Driving Techniques >From the BMW Films site: How did he do that? Watch high-performance driving maneuvers used in The Hire Film Series as they are described by Bill Auberlen, BMW Team PTG driver. This film includes the best driving highlights from the entire series. I'm downloading it now... Jim Moran '88 M6 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Speed . . . Gruppe: I've never been over 110 mph in any of my cars IIRC and that too probably once or twice, but I was once in our 1950s Fiat 1100D with my Dad doing and indicated 135 kmph (about 85 mph). The car had no more. Note that the car had no seat belts, bench front seat, nothing in the way of crumple zones, etc., and we were on Indian roads, where bumps are a way of life. It is about the only stupid, reckless thing I've ever seen my Dad do for no reason. With reason there have been several! Talking of speed, when I first came to the US and was being sped along at 70 mph on a freeway, I almost threw up from the sensation of high speed because I was so unused to it. I kept this a secret until another one of my Indian friends actually did throw up (in my brother's 944) and the phenomenon became widelly discussed in my friends circle. The funny thing is that most of us had flown in small propeller aircraft, etc., pretty close to ground and through a lot of choppy weather, but nothing prepares you, I guess! Neil Deshpande - laughing at myself! http://www.neilwerke.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:44:10 -0400 From: "Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Inner workings of an S54.... Answers. > From: Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So, are you impressed, or not? Enquiring minds want to know! Quite. > From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is that an O-ring pan seal? It's a metal pan gasket with a neoprene bead on it. Same as all later model BMW oil pan gaskets. > What's with the tubes? Multiple oil pickups? Essentially a dry sump system. Those two tubes to the rear are scavange tubes, not part of the pickup system. >And the woodruff key in the cam is > a mystery. Not a key, an oil channel. > From: "Ulf Bertilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looks very clean, is it new ? Yes. Aren't they all, right now? > From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So did somebody just decide to see what those looked like inside? Yes. > From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I want to see the intake ports. Straight shot, just like all other S engines. > Hey, where is the cat in the exhaust manifold? This is a Euro engine. ;-) > From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Is that a windage tray in the oilpan? Wannabe dry sump. The reservoir in the bottom of the pan is almost totally sealed off from the engine. > So, what happened to the motor? It was decided that we could do a better job than BMW in getting power out of it.... > From: "KKiely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a) Are those cam lobes treated with graphite? They seem to be a darker color > then normal. Don't know for sure, but it appears to be some sort of coating. > b) Why the strange re-entrant profile on those lobes? Gets the valves closing quicker, especially handy at high rpms. > Nice touches on the oil traps on the bumpstick. Are those two oil spray bars? ?Which bars? No oil spray bars, per se. The engine does have oil feed through the rocker shafts. - --------------------------- Now offering BMW special tool rental and pay per incident tech help. - --------------------------- Brett Anderson www.koalamotorsport.com Home of the E30 M3 CD-ROM repair manual ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 08:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Andy Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] S54 power (was Brett's answers) - --- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was decided that we could do a better job than BMW in getting > power out > of it.... Cool! I want one now. I've got a retro-active refund coming from the gummint...will that be enough to cover it? Andy Peavy 91 535i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:13:53 -0400 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] speed.... Maybe Brett can start telling us stories from his motorcycle days.... -----Original Message----- From: Gary Derian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [uuc] speed.... (Yawn). What's this crap about going fast on deserted roads or race tracks. How about the highest speed achieved in a school zone as school was letting out. Or burnouts in the police station parking lot. Or Dukes of Hazzard creek jumps. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:27:27 -0500 From: "Grant Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] WTB: E23, E30 license bracket strips, refurbishing the black. 1st (and others), I did the Kiwi-shoe-polish-with-integrated-sponge mod to my front bumper trim in March of 2000, and it's shown almost no wear since then, even after almost 20,000 miles and sitting outside all the time. I imagine it will last til next summer. It cost ~4 bucks for the polish IIRC, and it's really easy! I did 2 or 3 coats (can't remember). Here's a pic of the results, before I went back and got some excess off the chrome: http://gunter.gunter.com/personal/bumperblack.jpg Grant 87 325 - ----- Original Message ----- From: Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:59 AM Subject: [uuc] WTB: E23, E30 license bracket strips, refurbishing the black. > I am looking for blanks for my E23 and E30 if anyone > has them. > > Also, "bumper strip black" if anyone has leftovers. > Maybe shoe polish, black magic marker? > > Thanks, > 1st > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:36:48 -0400 From: "Steven Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <wob> Speed in Crappy Car >1987 E30 - 110 > >1st That's not a crappy car. Take my '86 BEATER with SUV damage to the rear end... at 110... and you really feel like you're moving. Steve _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:25:01 -0400 From: "Money, Jack (J.J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <FS><E30/36 M3> Hawk Blues I have 2 pairs each of front Hawk Blues for E30 M3 and E36 M3. Gotta get rid of them. Price is $130/pr for E30 and $115/pr for E36. Prices do not include shipping from the Detroit area. All pads are new in box, never installed/used/yadax3. Email with questions. Thanks. Jack Money ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:46:51 -0400 From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Inner workings of an S54.... Answers. So, Brett has his hands on this nice S54 motor; Kathy happens to have a race car into which this motor would fit; are those Camaros and Mustangs gonna be a little surprised this year??? :-) Geeeze '88 325is race car for sale http://patdonahue.com/forsale From: "Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So, are you impressed, or not? Enquiring minds want to know! > > Quite. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:15:36 -0700 (PDT) From: david kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Tire dressing I've got a set of Continental tires on my "other" car that have a nasty habbit of turning brown within a week of cleaning them. Can anyone recommend a quality tire dressing that will minimize this effect? Note that I'm not a big fan of glossy, wet-look tires. I like the look of clean, black tires. So if there's a product with minimal shine that would be even better. Thanks! ===== David Kroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:21:25 -0500 From: "Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] BMW Films Sub Stories Has anyone else tried following the clues from the "sub-stories"? If your not sure about them, there are phone numbers and URL's listed in each of the sub stories that are supposed to give you more info about the whole series of films and how their tied together... Tom '97 540 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:25:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Andy Peavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E34> ball joint separator tool question What have you used to separate the ball joints on the control arms, thrust arms, and tie rods? I prefer to buy a tool that won't damage the boots and would work on all three joints. JCWhitney has a tool, but I'm not sure if it will fit. part no. 81ZX2149N Andy Peavy 91 535i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:32:00 -0400 From: TR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] speed Speed in crappy cars, now yer talkin! 110mph in a 1965 chevy Nova II with the fabulous 230 0r was it 250 inline six cylinder on the NY state thruway in Syracuse, N.Y., with an arrest and thirty days in jail! Of which I did one day before the ole man sent up $100 bucks via Western Union. The quote was " alright you may approach the bench, you were doing a 100 mph,that will be $100- a dollar a mile or 30 days". To which I replied , well yer Honor I don't have a $100 and he says "Take Him Away!" and the gavel and my heart hit the floor. The year was 1968 , they did use the handcuffs and take my belt. Hell I wasn't gonna hang myself, I still had a lotta drivin to do. ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #3906 *************************** ________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Camptown Automotive - http://www.camptownauto.com | Circle Tire Co. (used & classic BMW parts) e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Detailwerks Chicago Inc. "Chicago's Premier Automotive Appearance | Center" . http://www.detailwerkschicago.com |==================================================== | Koala MotorSport . BMW technical information, special tool sales/rental | http://www.koalamotorsport.com |==================================================== | Taylor BMW - http://www.taylorbmw.com - Doc Bimmer! | UUC Motorwerks . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com |__________________________________________
