[uucdigest] Thursday, July 3 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6540
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[uuc] re: Maybe a New //M3 & Thinking of buying an E36 328is RE: [uuc] Re: E55 v M5, M3 v S4, etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:20:09 -0400 From: "GA Carnut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Allstate and Driver Schools What does State Farm (I'm in Georgia if that matters) say about this? What are some track friendly companies? Thanks Chip Chip Mautz '88 BMW 528e '64 Austin Healey Sprite '02 Toyota 4Runner >From: "bs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [uuc] Re: Allstate and Driver Schools >Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 04:56:55 -0400 > >Allstate in South Carolina said "No!", although I waited until I had >already >decided to drop my coverage before asking. > > > > Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:50:57 -0500 > > From: "Thomas G. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [uuc] Allstate and Drivers Schools > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone checked with Allstate about coverage > > when involved in an on-track incident at a BMW CCA > > drivers school? Do I need to find a different carrier? > > > > Tom > > _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:20:38 -0500 From: "Malcolm Reitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] squeaky E36 clutch pedal If you haven't already replaced the pedal bushings, go ahead do so now. The bushings are actually where most E36 clutch squeaking occurs. I got the Delrin bushings from UUC. Malcolm '88 M5 '98 328i - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 11:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] squeaky E36 clutch pedal Folks, My E36M3 clutch pedal is squeaking every other time I depress it. After some digging, I think I had traced the source to the plastic piston inside the metal pedal return spring (right behind the pedal). Otherwise, the clutch works/engages great. Liberal application of lubes only quiets it down for a day or two at most. Than the squeaking returns. I'm about to order a replacement spring/piston assembly and start figuring out how to swap them out. Has anyone BTDT? Any other suggestions? TIA, alex f ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:21:27 -0400 From: "Gary Derian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: E55 v M5, M3 v S4, etc Its all relative of course. I'm thinking a car/engine combo that has about 10 lb per hp before the boost comes up, and roughly 2x power boost from the turbo (20 psi). Basically the 4 liter V-8 in an E30 combo. The engine should be good for 350 hp with the intake and exhaust cleaned up and 700+ with boost. Stock cams, stock rods, lowered compression. Gary Derian > > Turbos don't have the immediate response of an atmo engine. A small turbo > > engine doesn't work for me, but a large turbo engine with obscene power is > > worthwhile. Then you actually need the lag to prevent frying tires all > the > > time. > > > > Gary Derian > > > define *large engine* and *obsene power*. > > also, a turbo will have an instant response if sized properly and within the > proper RPM range. only "lag" would be off the line, and as you said, you > need that to keep from just spinning the tires. after you leave the line, as > long as you keep the RPM's above 2000 or so (again, depending on the size of > the turbo) you'd never experience any lag. this has been my experience with > a single properly sized turbo on an M20. > > I'm all for BMW making a turbo car. even if its a low displacement one. > sequential turbos on a 2L would be fine by me. 2.5L or above would probably > have enough torque that you wouldn't need but one big turbo. > > -Michael McCoy > > > > > > > I don't know why BMW won't consider forced induction. I think it's > great. > > > A turbo makes an engine more fuel-efficient, more powerful, more > flexible > > > and because you can use a smaller engine, it can be lighter. > > > > > > My 9-3 with the High Output Turbo makes as much torque & almost as much > > > power as a 330i--from a 2.0L 4!!! And it gets 30+ mpg. Drove all the > wat > > > from Atlanta to the north side of Cinncinnati without refueling at an > > > average speed of 86mph. That's great range for a 17 gal tank. > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:17:06 -0700 From: "J. Ochi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] squeaky E36 clutch pedal At 11:44 AM 7/3/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Folks, >My E36M3 clutch pedal is squeaking every other time I depress it. After >some digging, I think I had traced the source to the plastic piston inside >the metal pedal return spring (right behind the pedal). Most common clutch pedal squeak is the clutch pedal pivot bushing. UUC sells a replacement set of bushings for pretty cheap - check their website. I installed a set of the UUC bushings a few years ago, and haven't heard a squeak since... Jim Ochi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:32:34 -0700 (PDT) From: willie yeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Change of plans...Maybe a new M3... Early this year, I had the opportunity to see a 4.4 V8 stuffed into the e30 chassis. Unfortunately, I did not have a camera with me at that time. If I recall correctly, I don't seeing any room left under the hood. The project was still in progress with the wiring to be completed. If you happen to see a lowered e30 2 dr with big brakes up front and rear, be very afraid! Will - --- Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That was a different Gary, but OK. > > There is little to justify more than 8 cylinders in > a passenger car. Sure > 12 is nice and smooth, but it is also large and > heavy. For BMWs, the 12 > only has 2 valves per cyl, unless you have a 760iL, > McLaren F1 or one of > the LMR engines. 4 valves per cylinder in the V-8 > has much better > combustion characteristics. > > The downside to a BMW V-8 is the extra width. > > A twin turbo V-8 E30 is just about right. 800 hp > would be easy to make. > > Gary Derian > > > > > on 7/2/03 7:54 PM, "Gary Derian" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The best way to balance a V-6 is to add two > pistons. > > > > I beg to disagree: the best way is to add another > 6 pistons! > > > > Gary later adds: > > > Yeh. Well my preference would be to put them > all in a straight line. > > > > OK then, that's compatible. A straight 6 is the > next nicest thing to a > V12. > > > > Neil > > 96 M3 > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! 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Ben needs to finish his engine swap projects.... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:02:02 -0400 From: "M540" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] The Hire DVD Not bad, it's July 3rd and I just pulled my July Roundel out of the mailbox. Even better, the long-promised BMWFilms DVD was included inside! This DVD appears to contain the five films from the first DVD as well as the three new ones (Hostage, Ticker, Beat the Devil). Must .. keep .. working... Cannot .. watch .. DVD... Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:19:52 -0500 From: The Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re:BMW shops in Huntington Beach area? Hey Tom, I don't know if they are still in business, but there used to be a place called Uptown Auto on Slater right off of Beach Blvd. They always treated me right. I used to work for GTE. The yard I was based out of was across the street from them. I'd drop my car off there in the morning, and they would park it in the secure lot at GTE for me when they were finished. When I finished work I would just drop them a check through their mail slot on the way home. They did good work at a fair price. Jacob From: Tom Childers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] BMW shops in Huntington Beach area? A friend of mine is moving down to Huntington Beach, California with her '85 325es, and needs to find a good independent shop. Does anyone have any recommendations for shops in that area, that do good maintenance work for a fair price, without padding their bills or doing unnecessary work? Thanks in advance, - - -tdc Tom Childers ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:28:09 -0700 From: jkerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] re: Maybe a New //M3 & Thinking of buying an E36 328is re: Maybe a New //M3 & Thinking of buying an E36 328is: Yesterday on my way home I was driving down a main local road and a somewhat modified E36 328i turned on to the street next to me and accelerated by. I noticed the //M3 exhaust he had, and it sounded like a snout type of intake snarl as he accelerated. He had large wheels and the car was lowered. We had a brief traffic light run but even with starting easy off the line in first gear my E36 //M3 left him a couple of lengths behind. Once traffic opened up some more, it was obvious that this 328 wasn't even close to what my //M3 was capable of. Pulling out onto 101 South, early evening so there was room to run, I held back on the throttle to see what the 328 was pulling like as he wound out in second and third. To my //M3, it was 3/4 throttle at most to keep up. When I punched it all the way and wound to redline, passing him by and waving a hello, this guy was looking flustered. Time came to say goodbye altogether, so I wound it out in fourth, slowed back down to let him catch up up and show me if he had more than he had shown so far. He punched it and gained a couple of lengths on me as I held steady ~90 in fourth, but Jack flashed his ellipsoids from behind and wound it up to the top of fourth, good bye one last time before turning off the highway, thanking his driver for the exercise, and parking in his garage to cool down and see what the next day might bring to his tachometer. If you don't buy an //M3, whatever other non //M car you do buy, you will always wish you would have bought the //M instead. For me, after years of modifying other models, life settled down and the career grew to where I realized that I could buy a new //M3. So I did. Compared to the best of the winningest Street Prepared mutant autocrossers I ever built, an E36 //M3 accelerates faster, corners better, is way less conspicuous on the street, is more comfortable and durable in all number of ways, than anything you could do to any other 3 series variant. With 30+mpg on steady 79 to 84 mph highway drives and 23+ around town. If you buy the //M3, you will never regret it. _Imho if you get a lesser model, or another brand of car, then in the back of your mind anytime you want to lay it out hard in a corner, air it out on a back country road, enjoy the peaceful easy feeling of sporty cruising with good fuel economy, or offer your favorite passenger seat occupant to switch seats and let them drive, you'll keep reminding yourself "I should have bought an //M3". 'jk ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:29:59 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [uuc] Re: E55 v M5, M3 v S4, etc "Robinson, Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I doubt BMW will be able to extract the 500+ ft-lbs of > > torque that the E55 has currently from a NA V-10, no > > matter how many revs it spins. I do bet it will be a better > > overall drive tho, as the current M5 is bested by the E55 > > by virtue of the Merc's overwhelming pace & vastly > > improved manners over the prior generation. > > MB's gotten serious about the HP wars haven't they. All the AMG > products are seriously juiced up with ground-pounding supercharged > monsters. Even at the bottom end there's the C230Kompressor for > under $30k (including the sport package & 17" wheels). BMW had > better think of something. Lee, The C230K is pretty sluggish. I drove it at a recent MB-drive event and was thoroughly underwhelmed. The numbers alone make it sound better than it is (or has it just been too long since I drove a 325?). The C320 Coupe, on the other hand, is a kick ass car. MB is really pushing it out the door at $28K and it is a great value. Both the C-Coupe and Sedans are IMHO more elegant looking than the E46. Remarkably, E46 outsells C-class by something like 2:1 ratio. Go figure. C320 3.2 liter-6, [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 3415 #/auto, 0-60 in 6.9 secs, $28+K (coupe) C230K 2.3 liter-4, [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 3307 #/auto, 0-60 in 7.8 secs, $28+K. 325 2.5 liter-6, [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 3307 #/auto, 0-60 in 8.1 secs, $28+K. > I don't know who would buy a 325 when you can blow the doors off > it for less with a 190hp 6-speed, better looking Benz. 0.3 second 0-60 difference hardly qualifies as 'blow the doors off'. The compressor on that small 2.3 liter 4 does take a while to spool and the car is pretty gutless below 3K RPM. > I have to agree with Neil about the new Benz's designs. They've gone > from good looking, but conservative to absolutely striking. The C > class is the best looking car in the entry lux segment. And the new > SL......droooool. Agree about the C class and the SL. Don't care much for the E class and the CL. The entirely SL/CL/SLK/CLK designations are a nightmare to decipher. > Saw an SL55 yesterday, man is that a great looking > car--even as agressive as it is, it still looks great. Yep. The C32 AMG is another attractive beast. > > it already made sense for the E46 from a weight (V8 is lighter) > > balance (V8 is more compact, can be mounted farther back > > in the chassis) and driveability (more torque, less need to rev > > the balls off of it) but they decided that the heritage of the > > ///M brand needed the 6. forgetting of course that the original > > M3 was a 4 :-) > > Heritage smeritage. I think they used what they had available. Agreed. People get all wrapped up in 4-cylinder S14 emotions. If BMW had thrown in the M88 into the E30 it would have been even better ;-) Give me a powerful high revving and reliable engine in a light strong chassis. Everything else is negotiable. alex f ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6540 *************************** | | 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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