[uucdigest] Thursday, June 21 2001 Volume 03 : Number 3908 _________________________________________________________________ | | 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: [uuc] High pitched squeal ["Gig'eM6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] fastest ever or stupid now that I think about it? ["Kelvin" <mpower] Re: [uuc] speed.... ["Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] RE: [uuc] Yesterday: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly (longish) ["Bill Bauman"] Re: [uuc] <E28> failed emissions ["Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] Tire dressing [Robert Chay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Tire dressing [Steve Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Re: speed, now spending time in the pokey [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] What alum is best for rotor hats? 7075-T6 ? [Matthew Shaw <shawm@ci] [uuc] Administrative Notice : Digest performance [UUC Admin <uucadmin@uuc] [uuc] Re: speed [John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] BMW Films Sub Stories (POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!) [Robert Chay <rcha] Re: [uuc] speed.... ["Michael Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] RE: [uuc] <wob> Speed in Crappy Car ["Evan Arnerich" <arnerichdsl@hotmail] [uuc] Brett and the S54 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:25:41 -0500 From: "Gig'eM6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] High pitched squeal Howdy, when I turn right my 92 525 touring squeals pretty loud. It won't do this if I turn at a corner at about 5-10 mph as if grandma were driving with nowhere to go, but I drive with a purpose I can even make it squeal on those types of corners. It's pretty easy to make it squeal in curves on roads or when taking an exit ramp off a freeway. The sound seems to be coming from the rear end. Any ideas? BTW, I just changed the brake pads in the rear, but I don't really see how this would be related. Antony Pohl ______ 88 ///M6 "Rebuilt" o/______\o 92 525iTA "Sharked" (Oo=00=oO) BMW CCA, Houston Chapter []=*****=[] FOR SALE> 95 Acura Integra GS-R 4-door ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:39:25 -0700 From: "Kelvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] fastest ever or stupid now that I think about it? I once drove from the campus of UC Santa Cruz to my girlfriend's dorm at Cal in 45mins! So basically, it was about about 62miles away. No biggie you may think, but about 30miles included Highway17! Where speedlimits are as low as 35mph! That drive normally is around 1hour and 30mins. Pretty stupid now that I think about it. Or this may have all been a dream. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:47:01 -0500 From: "Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] speed.... At 01:19 AM 6/20/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Rob started it, Who has gone the fastest here on wheels? > I have gone 128 or so. I know I am on the low end. I remember hearing about a group of guys in California that had a 200 MPH club. Seems there is a ranch road that was built by the state when a freeway cut off their access and since it's really a private 2-lane highway, this "club" would meet there on Sunday mornings and make a 200 MPH run before heading off to Denny's for a Grand Slam or something... One of the group built a "highly modified" Cadillac so he could make his run in style! Any one in the Golden State know if this is a true, or at least plausible, story? Tom ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:28:05 -0400 From: "Bill Bauman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Yesterday: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly (longish) > Anyway, thanks for reading this far. And in case you're > curious, I will > *still* continue to patronize and recommend this shop. > Sometimes "stuff" > happens, sometimes it's really bad, but it's being > corrected and that's > acceptable to me. Sorry to hear about the car. Glad you're OK. It takes a mature attitude to realize the "stuff" happens and to continue to patronize that shop. Sounds like they're gonna take good care of you too. Good service is hard to find.... Bill Bauman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:45:57 -0400 From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] <E28> failed emissions It would be good to see all the numbers. High NO means there is too much oxygen at the cat. This could be a lean fuel mixture or other things (bad cat, misfire, is there EGR on this engine?), depending on the numbers. What kind of test was this, steady state or the full IM 240? Do you have numbers from previous years? Recent work, US model or gray market? Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:42:41 -0700 From: Robert Chay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Tire dressing I don't scrub my tires but I use Meguire's Endurance and they last for about a month. They don't splatter black goo on the fenders like armorall (when the dealer cleaned my car) and last much longer too. - -Bobby - ----- Original Message ----- From: "david kroth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:15 AM 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] > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:08:50 -0700 From: Steve Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Tire dressing I forgot to mention an important step in dressing a tire :-). After the dressing sits on the tire for a while (overnight is good), I always wipe the tires off very diligently with a big handful of paper towels. You'll be amazed at the amount of black that comes off the tires. Removing the excess dressing minimizes the amount of dirt and brake dust pickup on the tires. As John Bolhuis mentioned, it may be necessary to clean the tires a couple of times if they are really dirty. I use a kitchen dish brush with the Dow cleaner also (not the one from the kitchen, my wife would croak me). She gets upset enough when she goes to use a can of Dow, and it's almost empty. Steve Albrecht ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:04:59 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: speed, now spending time in the pokey TR reminisces: >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 ...... I just spent a morning in court as a witness against a drunken idjit and while waiting for my case to be called I got to enjoy about a dozen cases relating to various traffic infractions. Most of the defendants were there for the usual speeding, no insurance, running a stop sign, etc, and they received some form of fine and/or traffic school. The ones that were there for DUI, on the other hand, were led away, not in cuffs, but in shackles. One idjit got what he deserved - it was his third DUI in 12 years, and the judge gave him 90 days in jail, a multi-thousand dollar fine, and revoked his license for 10 years. The look on his face was worth my sitting there for hours - I s'pose he thought he was going to get off scott free. Ken Kemper ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] What alum is best for rotor hats? 7075-T6 ? I'm having custom brake rotor hats machined for my race chined for my race car and need to know what material is best for this application? I've been told 7075-T6 is pretty hard stuff can anybody who has had this done or who knows a metal guy please ask him for me. Thanks! -Matt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:20:56 -0400 From: UUC Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Administrative Notice : Digest performance All, In an attempt to get a little more performance out of the mail server, I just sorted the user lists alphabetically by ISP. This will allow the system to send one big block of mail per ISP as opposed to having to make a connection to send mail to each member individually. This should increase the digest performance quite a bit. Unfortunately, sometimes when you mess with the Majordomo user lists, you get some odd results, like duplicate messages for some users, etc. Give the server a couple of hours to adapt before sending in any bug reports. There are some glitches expected but this should sort itself out by midnight tonight. If you have any problems after that, please drop me a line. Regards, Michael K Donohue System Administrator UUC Digest http://www.uucdigest.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:44:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: speed On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, TR wrote: > 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. As Arlo Guthrie would say, "Officer Obie, I understand why you're taking my wallet away so I don't have any money to spend while I'm locked up there in the cell, but why do you need my belt? He just looked at me and said, 'Kid, we don't want any hangin's.' I said Obie, did you think I was gonna hang myself for litterin'? He just said, 'Shut up, kid.'" ...I remember too much 60s stuff considering I only spent 2 years there. - -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:46:11 -0700 From: Robert Chay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] BMW Films Sub Stories (POSSIBLE SPOILERS!!!) I wrote them down but didn't do anything with them yet. Here are the clues from the first 4 short films: 1. 323.856.6322 2. www.cbmlt.com 3. 212.259.9458 4. 303.752.7077 I didn't get the 5th one (don't know if the 5th movie is out yet) - -Bobby - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:21 AM 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 19:40:53 -0400 From: "Michael Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] speed.... Dammit, I am jealous. Please tell me the story about the Sierra Cosworth. I have always wanted one and even though this is anti BMW, they kicked ass in the touring series. I got to ride in one here in the states a guy had brought over, think it was pushing around 300+hp. Man it was sweet, hearing that waste gate pop in between thrusts of speed. I had a few Xr4ti's that I bumped the boost on etc. fun cars except for the brakes and transmissions. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:32:16 -0000 From: "Evan Arnerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <wob> Speed in Crappy Car 1st wrote: >AMC Pacer X - about 100, 14" fronts, 15" rears >so it may have been lower. >1976 CJ7 - 85, 34" swampers, scary. >1987 E30 - 110 If you oversized the wheels/tires which drove the speedometer, the speedo would've read lower than it did with proper sizes fitted (bigger wheel turns slower than smaller wheel, causing speedo to read lower at the same actual speed). So, you may have actually been going more than 100. I found this out the hard way in Wyoming one year driving the boss's F250 with oversized truck tires. My stupidest high speed venture: at the age of 19, downhill on I-80 west of Donner summit in a '65 VW Beetle. The speedo said 90. I'm still shaking. Evan OBMWC: my OBC ('99 E46) indicates higher speed than the analog speedometer. Traveling at indicated 65, the OBC avg mph will read just over 66. I haven't tried calibrating to a known good measurement. How do other people's compare? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:41:39 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Brett and the S54 I pause momentarily after completing my bow in the general direction of Koala MotorSport. Several things come to mind. a) Who owns that piece of iron? b) How much did that piece of iron cost? c) If the answer to a) is Brett, another bow d) If the answer to a) is someone else, a bow to them e) This was, presumably a working engine, i.e. unblowed up f) Someone (I think Brett said "we") decided to take it apart, sort of just "for grins" g) Brett will presumably know how to put it back together h) Brett will presumably know how to put it back together i) Did I mention that Brett will presumably know how to put it back together j) Doncha need all kinds of "special factory tool #2847B" for that sort of work? k) I guess Koala has all kinds of "special factory tools" l) Brett works on differentials. m) OK that really wasn't about the S54, but it's damn impressive anyway n) Could Brett possibly dare to open up an automatic transmission? o) OK, that wasn't about the S54 either, but you know, Superman doesn't mess with kryptonite p) Brett will presumably know how to put the S54 back together q) How far is it to Ohio, anyway? r) Does this engine have anything to do with Levninson's evil schemes? Rgds, Chris Whitney Stream of consiousness done for today - --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Delmarva Online's Webmail. http://www.dmv.com/ ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #3908 *************************** ________________________________________ | 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 . 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