[uucdigest] Thursday, June 26 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6513
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[uuc] mini, names from the past etc Re: [uuc] Mini musing [uuc] I have driven the future ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:29:28 -0700 From: "KKiely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: plug wire prices Joe says: "I'm tellin' ya... hand twisted by little German gnomes." Joe, you mean the wires or the owners 'nads? (is that the correct use of apostrophe?). - -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:32:46 -0400 From: "Matt Malfa * UUC Motorwerks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Left foot braking http://gsperformance.com/products/p7/p7.htm - - -Matt - -----Original Message----- From: Bill Heumann Are there after market brake pedals available for the E46 that would extend a little further to the left? Bill Heumann E46 M3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 13:34:25 -0400 From: "Money, Jack (J.J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Left foot braking Bill, It may be too much but you could try getting a pedal set for an automatic transmissioned vehicle. Those kits typically come with a wider brake pedal. This may or may not meet your needs. And naturally, the list owner Rob of UUC Motorwerks has pedal kits which are very nice indeed! Jack Money '89 325iX ----> some cheesy RD pedal kit #86 JP M3 ----> UUC pedal kit Elephant Motorsports ----> UUC retailer ; ) - -----Original Message----- From: Bill Heumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Left foot braking I am driving with the SMG2. At a recent school my instructor suggested that I may want to work at left foot braking since the SMG makes this very simple. I drove carts as a kid so I think I could have fairly good co-ordination with it. I decided to start practicing on the road and find that the brake pedal position is very unnatural for me to work with my left foot. It feels like I am almost crossing my legs. Has anyone else tried left foot braking with the SMG? Are there after market brake pedals available for the E46 that would extend a little further to the left? Bill Heumann E46 M3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:01:43 -0700 From: Roger Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Mini Cooper S driving impressions Funny, I checked out all the cars you mention & didn't buy any of them, although a Cooper S was my top choice. It lost out only due to greedy dealers ruining by buying experience. The Scubie has a cheap as H**l interior and feels like the whole car will fall apart in about 3 years. It feels like they don't know what damping materials are and the car resonates when you close anything. Paint is so thin you better not wax it too much either, unless you only use a pure wax! The engine also feels like it's constantly missing until you've got some rev's on it, but the thing does drive nice & quick when you push it hard & the controls are in their proper place. Actually, in handling, the Cooper S probably can keep up with your S2000 on the track (if not beat it on a tight course). I instructed a guy in a S2000 at our last track event & the car is certainly very capable, but not as fast or good handling as my E36 M3 (admittedly with a couple of mods). Then I went out in a Cooper S with only a rear bar change & we had no trouble running over many other "faster" cars in the corners including S2000's (Thunderhill). Handling actually felt preferable to the S2000 at the limit. More predictable. - -- Roger Baker Dennis Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><snip> >For me, I think I would go down and drive a WRX sedan and wagon and see how >I liked it. Loaded with every option the out the door price is a lot less than a Mini >and you get gobs more power and well over 1 sec less 0-60, AWD makes for an >all-year daily driver too. Not NEARLY as pretty as the Mini, though - and no free >maintenance. > >It is funny, my friend (who has a Z8, Z4 3.0i, 540iA, etc) was just raving >about HIS Mini as well. He said "I bet this could keep up with or beat your S2000!". >Something about owning a Mini makes the owners feel like world beaters, I guess >:-) BTW, he was really raving about his new Z4 3.0/manual tranny. I didn't get a >chance to drive it, but he says he likes it a lot better than his M roadsters. > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:07:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Brad Couvillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: best list for E28s There are no good mailing lists for the e28. The only good board is mye28.com. If you have the patience to sift through all the sh*t and p*ssies on the board, you can try Roadfly, too. The archives are wonderful on Roadfly, though. Drew, if you had been one week early, I would've had my full 528e exhaust for you. I still have the downpipe/cat section and the exhaust manifolds if you want it. The 4 year old cat back system (no holes or rust) has been sold, though. Brad "Shifty" Couvillon '85 Euro 535i www.fatdaddybmw.com - --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't know about mailing lists, but > www.mye28.com/forum has a great message board. > > Speaking of E28s, does anyone have a cheap used > cat-back for a 528e? > > Drew Zacharda > '94 540iT/6 > '87 528eA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:15:05 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [uuc] Left foot braking Lucky for the SMG'ed folks among us but what do the rest do? Anyone here a LFB fiend that care to comment, give advice, tell stories, etc? I'm through with right foot braking (well not altogether) but next autox/track event/whatever I'm going to left foot brake no matter what. I did 3 laps at Putnam following my "A" group friends during the first 3 laps of my last session and they were following a train so they were quite slow (probably the Mini Cooper guy <g>). My car's clutch pedal sits higher than the brake pedal so it's awkward to step over this pedal as you reach for the middle one so I stopped resting my foot on the dead pedal (dead carpet pedal actually). Instead I hovered my foot over the brake pedal and stabbed at it as needed, this felt quite good but on the 4th lap my leg got tired of holding my foot up. Even after things got going at a decent speed the whole hovering thing was working except for the leg fatigue. I was a little concerned about getting confused whenever there was a downshift or upshift involved but as long as I kept my concentration on the whole LFB thing it wasn't a problem. Going back to right foot braking though was a nice mental break. What's the next step? Cutting and welding the pedal box so the clutch pedal sits lower? Picking up a nice Formula Mazda? or a GTP car to practice on? Our M-O classroom instructor Mr. Unkefer suggested trying new things and this is my new thing otherwise you hit a plateau and all you're doing is lapping at these schools, I tend to agree. I try it on the street as much as I can but there's too much shifting involved on the street with such a torqueless wonder. Carlos 91 M3 needin' a Hewland tranny to practice on. :-) 88 iS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jonathan Brush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Silicon(e) on bushings, death wish > Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 23:02:48 -0700 > From: jkerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [uuc] re: Turpentine or Silicon > > re: Turpentine or Silicon: > > Yo Brett, > You been breathin' in too much of that turpentine? Okaaay, here we go.... Jon<----been here before (since the Welty days), taking bets on how long before he's done for. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:49:32 -0400 From: "Chris Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] E36 AC service Recirculate mode doesn't seem to help. I thought it might have even made things a bit worse, but that's probably my imagination. The turning off part does seem to help. I think I probably need a new expansion valve and a recharge which, of course, is redundant. Thanks again. Chris B. - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Derian Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [uuc] E36 AC service Run in recirculate mode. That loads less moisture in the evaporator. Turn the system off when the air flow dimishes to let the ice melt out. Gary Derian > Yes, the air flow does diminish over time, as the temperature of the air > flow rises. Sounds like a winner. I'll check to see how easily > accessible the expansion valve is. Hopefully better than what I saw for > the evaporator. > > Thanks, > Chris B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:16:51 +0100 From: "Andrew Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Contact patches Rob and Eric chimed in: "Either it was an automatic, or you drove it standing up." "Or like all of us really fast guys, he never bothered using the brakes..." :) Well. Contact patch no. 4 was of course the seat - it wasn't a convertible, and I had no sunroof - and contact patch no. 5 was the horn button. Or "Egyptian brake pedal", as P J O'Rourke called it. Andy T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:18:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Steve.Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E36> When did they change the non-M3 oil filter? Early E36s had an all-metal filter housing and took a filter with metal ends like the filter for the M42 (only a bit longer). Late E36s (mine is a '99 323is) used a housing with a plastic top that requires a 36mm socket to remove, and the filter itself is all paper. Does anyone know what model year they switched over? Just curious, I had the oil out last night before I realized the dealer had sold me the wrong filter! Steve '99 323is <- now with spiffy clean oil '91 318is <- track car, also good for going to fetch oil filters! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:31:13 -0400 (EST) From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] mini, names from the past etc re: new mini I just test drove one the other day to see if it would fit the bill as a possible New Business Venture Company Car :) and the CooperS just might.. Great handling, begs to be cornered hard, very firm suspension, and nice brakes. The front seats are very spacious, and the car feels very solid (German). Some cheapo bits, but also some really nice stuff like Xenon headlights.. and the car looks good too! The Cooper is kind of gutless.. pleasant but not very exciting.. the CooperS is peppy and willing and could be silly-fun with some mods. I've been away from the UUC digest for a while, but it's nice to come back and see a lot of the same old names from way back :) heck, it's even nice to see Barry stirring things up (albeit under a pseudonymn).. Chris Pawlowicz '89 325i '74 2002 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:31:16 +0100 From: "Andrew Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Mini musing For those of you with new or newish Minis who are underwhelmed by the performance, particularly under 2,500 rpm, I have noticed, on a few occasions, that a few thousand miles under the belt really does make a remarkable difference. Three people I know - two with Coopers, one with a Cooper S - have noticed big improvements in the car's grunt, and - less obviously - handling and grip, usually as the car passed 5-6,000 miles. One of them I drove recently, and it felt like a completely different car, compared to the reluctance and unwillingness to "play" observed when the car was new. More like a Mini, in fact. Also, perhaps the economy in general is doing better than I thought. I spotted two E46 M3s lined up today, one black, one blue, ripping off the lights near Tower Bridge in London. Inasmuch as you can rip to 35 mph. Perhaps the M3's exhaust sounds a bit raw for some, but when two of them are at it, the sound is fabulous. Rather like a coke-snorting Lambo V12 being fed a little too much nitrous. Andy T ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:44:22 -0400 From: Norman Lieberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] I have driven the future Throw away your shift levers,SMG is where it's at. Drove a 3.0 Z4 w/SMG today at the local BMW/ Susan Komen event. What a concept. All ye naysayers have to take one out. You will believe. What a sweeeeeeet package. It's not for me (size wise). SWMBO will love it. No more whining for an auto trans. Put this baby in manual- sport and it will run until you shift or redline. In drive-sport it will run to redline,if you back off it early it stays in gear until you get back on the pedal then it runs to redline and shifts. Do I sound exited YOU BET!!!!!! Sorry for the cross post. Norman Lieberman '97 528/5 ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6513 *************************** | | 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! | |==================================================== | Turner Motorsport Inc . 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