[uucdigest] Friday, April 4 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6284
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Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__________________________________________________________________ In this BMW UUC Digest: [uuc] 330i Performance Package [uuc] The great M20 oil extravaganza RE: [uuc] <E39> crank position sensor RE: [uuc] 530iT - '94 questions Re: [uuc] Re: Questions about adjustable shocks [uuc] Re:E12 Trivia [uuc] re: Koni shocks and bump stops RE: [uuc] 330i Performance Package [uuc] RE: E38 Cup Holders [uuc] re:cupholders RE: [uuc] Re: Questions about adjustable shocks [uuc] cupholders for e38 [uuc] Re: 530iT - '94 questions RE: [uuc] <OT> Brake fluid flushing, domestic auto mfrs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:31:35 -0800 (PST) From: david kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] 330i Performance Package The wheels on the 330iPP on the cover of the Roundel are completely different than the wheels on the press release photos of a few months ago. BMW has said these wheels are unique to the performance package. Anyone know which ones are slated for production? I much prefer the ones used on the cover of the Roundel. Anyone see a PP car yet? Drive one? ===== David Kroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:08:31 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] The great M20 oil extravaganza Tomorrow, I will be spending a little quality time under the ol E30. I am dropping the oil pan to check for sludge, slime, small children and whatever else has accumulated at the bottom of the pan after 16 years of service (and replace the oozy pan gasket). My hope is that I will find a clogged oil pump and that will explain my lack of oil to the top of the engine. Since I will have the pan off, what else should I check, clean, inspect, or tinker with? Is there any easy way to check the condition of the bearings while I am down there? - -- Joe, misses his car... 1 week is too long without a BMW. - -- Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack of All Trades, Master of None... Yet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:19:57 -0500 From: "KMS - Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <E39> crank position sensor Crank sensor is on the left side of the block, down by the oil pan at the rear. It reads a tone ring that is mounted behind the last rod journal. - ----------------------------------------------------- BMW Special Tool Rentals Pay per incident tech support - ----------------------------------------------------- Brett Anderson KMS (440) 338 1650 www.koalamotorsport.com OSS committee member > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Cagann > 2000 BMW 528i with a stick shift....where do I find the crank position > sensor? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:19:58 -0500 From: "KMS - Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] 530iT - '94 questions Hi Don, At $8K for a 50K Touring, who cares what can go wrong....... If your friend doesn't buy it, give me the sellers number, I'll take it in a heartbeat. Gotta put that 850CSi drivetrain in something.... Brett Anderson KMS > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Don Eilenberger > > Folks - may have a chance to pickup a '94 (may be titled '95 > although they didn't really make any '95's) E34 530 touring for > SWMBO from a friend. > Has gotten (within past 6 months) the new block.. low mileage > car - about 50k on car, 5k on the engine. > Besides the door-checks, and the dual sunroofs - is there > anything else I should be looking for? (I'm familiar with the > E34 in general from my '92 525i..) > I seem to remember hearing there was a transmission > controller box update to better match the shift points to > the somewhat limited power the small V8 made. I don't think > power itself will be a problem - she's happy with the 5 > cylinder Volvo.. but she's always wanted a touring.. > Price looks good - around $8k, and the car looks nice.. > hasn't been pranged, interior clean. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:35:50 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Questions about adjustable shocks Alex F. wrote: >I'm referring not to the degrees of side of the road adjustment >difficulty, but to its necessity in the first place. Huh? You're losing me here. How else can you select different spring rates for your car and or crank up negative camber on the front of the car? My Eibachs (stock sized springs) were rubbing the inside of the strut towers from the negative camber. I wanted more and the only way to accomplish this is to go to 2.5" springs up front with a coilover or coilover conversion. If you feel this is not a necessity (to a certain point I agree) you need to drive a car properly setup against one with "sport" springs. You can always punt and buy an E36 (ahem, cough)<g> but I'm an E30 fan and this is one way to make the car handle better/go faster w/o getting rid of it. >Let me guess - you adjust your S14 valves before each track event to >get the last HP out of that four banger. Then you adjust them back for >smooth idle on the street after the event. Right? Why not? Yes Alex I carry a box of shims and a bucket depressor so I can swap back and forth. >I'm in the "either too lazy, too bored or too stupid to re-adjust his >suspension every other weekend" camp. Do I get to pick? ;-) OK no more arguing from me, yeah adjustable suspensions suck, stock crap rules. Carlos 91 M3 <--I can never leave it alone 88 iS __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:42:56 +0000 From: "bob thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re:E12 Trivia I owned a '75 530i,VIN5000362, & as I recall it's hood was shaped like the one refered to. The 6 individual intake runners connected to the plenum (I guess that's what you call it) & the fuel system was sort of high. -Bob Thomas _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:44:52 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] re: Koni shocks and bump stops jkerouac wrote: >Best thing to do with the bump stop on a rear Koni going into a BMW is >to remove it. Treat it like packing material, because on a BMW the >suspension will bottom out way before the shock will. Those silly engineers adding bumpstops where they don't belong. :-) >Since Koni shocks use a low pressure design, no special bench >press skills are needed to compress them again the short distance Not to argue too much but Koni makes several types of dampers. Yes there are the low pressure like yours but if you asked me what the rears are in my car were I'd tell you they're hydraulic just like the fronts. BTW these are also a pain because they need to be compressed to engage the adjustment but since all you're pusing is oil then you don't need to have herculian strength. >Shock tuning is only the fine edge after >you have both the basic suspension and your driving skills sorted out. Yes but if you read the list you'll notice *lots* of folks on this list have a lot of experience on the track. That's why these subjects pop up quite often. I'm probably one of the newbies as this will only be my seventh year of autoxing and taking a BMW on the track. After a while even the sport packages from H&R, Eibach, etc become boring. >'jk Carlos 91 M3 88 iS __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:52:33 -0500 From: Bill Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] 330i Performance Package David inquires: > The wheels on the 330iPP on the cover of the > Roundel are completely different than the wheels > on the press release photos of a few months ago. > BMW has said these wheels are unique to the > performance package. Anyone know which ones > are slated for production? I much prefer the > ones used on the cover of the Roundel. I believe Satch says in the article that he had 17" winter Conti Contacts put on the PeePee because he was doing the test drive in December. He also said that he promised BMW to have the stock 18"ers put back on for the cover shoot. I think he lied to BMW about the cover shoot part. Bill Matthews 00 M Geeze ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:20:14 -0700 From: "KKiely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: E38 Cup Holders Scott, Our local Fluestrende Bom*e (gotta watch what you print now a'days) has an add for a metal looking cupholder. - -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:26:15 -0700 From: "Tim Pfister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] re:cupholders www.circlebmw.com/parts/access/acc-cat.htm works ok in an E30 w/ some thick weatherstripping to snug it up on the rear of the console. Tim- getting ready to swap lights ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 22:27:09 -0500 From: "KMS - Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Re: Questions about adjustable shocks Why don't you guys just buy the externally adjustable Koni's and be done with it? I change Kathy's shock settings for every track, in about 8 minutes total, for all four shocks, rebound and compression. - ----------------------------------------------------- BMW Special Tool Rentals Pay per incident tech support - ----------------------------------------------------- Brett Anderson KMS (440) 338 1650 www.koalamotorsport.com OSS committee member > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marco Romani > You guys can actually feel the adjuster go into the detent this > way? Holey > cow. I guess the story of the princess and the pea wasn't a > fairy tale ;-) > > I guess I took the warnings in the Koni manual about not being a > gorilla on > the adjuster way too seriously. > > I'll give it a try. If I break it it'll just give me a good excuse to buy > those GC DA's I want ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 19:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] cupholders for e38 - --0-1759910101-1049515193=:26837 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The design for both the front and back cupholders on this car is abyssmal! Both of ours are broken and not only are they expensive to repair, the new ones aren't any better. Have your friend go to ultimatecupholders.com and check out the stainless steel model. We put one in our 740il and my wife loves it. - --0-1759910101-1049515193=:26837 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii The design for both the front and back cupholders on this car is abyssmal! Both of ours are broken and not only are they expensive to repair, the new ones aren't any better. Have your friend go to ultimatecupholders.com and check out the stainless steel model. We put one in our 740il and my wife loves it. - --0-1759910101-1049515193=:26837-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:03:45 -0800 (PST) From: david kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: 530iT - '94 questions Don, > Besides the door-checks, and the dual sunroofs - is > there > anything else I should be looking for? Yes. The phone number for Koala Motorsports. Call Brett and make an appointment to have a 5-speed (6-speed ?!?!) manual transmission installed very soon after purchase. Probably wouldn't hurt to ask if he still has that V-12 6-speed from the telephone-pole-850CSI. Man, that would be a rocketship. ===== David Kroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 23:07:39 -0500 From: "Marshall Lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <OT> Brake fluid flushing, domestic auto mfrs. i just bought a 99 suburban for towing. it only had 39k miles on it. brakes felt horrible. foot almost to the floor before anything happened. i suspected i knew what the problem was, but it was under warranty, so it took it in immediately to a gm dealer. the "very experienced service manager" test drove it and said that was normal suburban braking. i took it back home and popped the brake fluid reservoir cap. the fluid was black with little things floating in it. and i mean black, deep, dark black. being the "flush brake system and check brake parts before every race" guy that i am, i dug right into the project. two quarts of brake fluid, some caliper grease, and some rear shoe adjusting later....brakes worked fine! well, fine for a last gen 'burban...;-) gm designs crappy brake systems and that senior tech is an idiot for not even being able to diagnose basic brake system problems. but i guess if gm specs brake fluid is a "lifetime fluid", the tech would have no experience with the symptoms of dirty, moisture and air laden brake fluid. "they all do that, it's normal". i knew there was a reason i do all my own brake work.... marshall 88 325is ITS race car 99 K2500 'burban tow vehicle w/454 both get the same mpg...9, but one stops a whole lot better!. ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6284 *************************** | | In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. |________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | | Autoscope-Motorsports - http://www.autoscope-motorsports.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 |__________________________________________
