[uucdigest] Friday, October 17 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6822
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[uuc] Cupped tires RE: [uuc] Paranoia rages (found something in garage) Re: [uuc] Cupped tires [uuc] Steptronic or not for 5-series year 2000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:38:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] <E30> lumpy, yet steady idle Intake leak? Lots of little gaskets to crap out. Jason - --- scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I am seeing a strange problem with my 1990 325is. My > idle is lumpy, but the RPMs remain steady. > I've done some head work, but I dont think its > enough to make the engine toss about like that. > Reminds me of a rumbly american V8. Any thoughts? > > - Scott ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:58:37 -0400 From: ben keyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] <E30> lumpy, yet steady idle someone snuck into the garage at night & installed cams in the engine ? or a small-block V8 ? Ben trying to make the comment before Gary D does :-P Scott wrote: > I am seeing a strange problem with my 1990 325is. My > idle is lumpy, but the RPMs remain steady. > I've done some head work, but I dont think its > enough to make the engine toss about like that. > Reminds me of a rumbly american V8. Any thoughts? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:27:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E30> lumpy, yet steady idle Scott: It could be many things, but my idle was helped greatly by cleaning the circular connector (20-pin?) that is under the intake plenum. The injector harnesses, coolant sensor, etc., are attached to the ECU via that connector. Brett Anderson and Gary Derian made me aware of this issue. Neil Deshpande *** "scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am seeing a strange problem with my 1990 325is. My idle is lumpy, but the RPMs remain steady. I've done some head work, but I dont think its enough to make the engine toss about like that. Reminds me of a rumbly american V8. Any thoughts? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 13:40:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: <E30> lumpy, yet steady idle On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, scott wrote: > I am seeing a strange problem with my 1990 325is. My idle is > lumpy, but the RPMs remain steady. I've done some head work, but > I dont think its enough to make the engine toss about like that. > Reminds me of a rumbly american V8. Any thoughts? All m20 engines seem to rumble a little bit at idle. When I readjusted the valves to the tight side of normal, the rumbling increased. - -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:49:13 -0400 From: "Gaudio, Stefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Speed Touring Car Championship update Unfortunately, the guy I loved watching won't be there: Paul Mumford http://nsxfiles.com/stories.htm Stefano In response to: >>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:34:13 -0400 >>From: "Rob Levinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [uuc] Speed Touring Car Championship update >>Speed Touring Car Championship update >>Attention Turns To Turner After Auberlen Clinches Championship _________________________________________________________________ This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. 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Will Turner retains third place in the Driver's Championship. Bill Auberlen had already clinched the Driver's Championship last month at Laguna Seca. He started this race from the fourth position on the starting grid. However, lapped traffic prevented a podium finish when Auberlen was running in third place. Peter Cunningham was able to get by in the closing stages due to the lapped car's position in front of Auberlen. He finished the race fourth out of thirty-eight entries. Will Turner started from eleventh but had moved up to ninth with the goal of advancing further. A shunt after being nudged from the rear put Will Turner into the wall on lap nine. He fell back in the pack to 30th but recovered and settled in 21st. The five points he gained will keep him in third place heading into next weekend's race in Puerto Rico. "My race was going well for the first half. Then someone had contact with the rear of my car, which spun me around, and I hit the wall at Turn 11. From then on I just drove as hard as I could to get back as many positions and points as I could," says Turner. "Turner Motorsport won the Championship for BMW this year and I'm not counting myself out of second place in the Driver's title. We'll be in Puerto Rico next weekend and I plan on being back on the front of the grid." This round of the Speed Touring Car Championship will be broadcast on The Speed Channel starting November 8 at 5pm. The series will closeout the 2003 season next weekend in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Touring Car series has never raced in Puerto Rico and will be an exciting event for Turner Motorsport customers and racing fans alike. Click on http://www.world-challenge.com/2003/events/rat2/results.html to see this session's results. See http://www.tmsracing.com for more Turner Motorsport Racing Action! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:58:46 -0500 From: "Ken & Marje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] I won! I wanted the digest to be one of the first to know that a very nice man at the BMWCCA told me today that I'm one of the raffle winners. It was very exciting yesterday to come home to a phone message that said I should call the national office today because of "a matter I need to discuss with you." I didn't sleep well last night. As you may know there are no actual cars that change hands, but a very nice check will be heading my way. As always the tax men sure take a lot of the fun out of the situation. I'm sure to be a celebrity at the saturday BMW chapter meeting. Buying my BMW and the joining club are truely one of the best things that I've ever done (and that was before today!). Ken Koch 95 318i with all the suspension mods and lots of track time ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:23:15 -0300 From: "rblangille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Cupped tires My Dunlop Sport A2's, with less than 15000 miles on them, have become terribly cupped, most notably along the inside edge. I spoke with a Dunlop rep who is very familiar with the problem, but says there must be something wrong with the car mechanically. Uhuh. Odd that such an apparently common problem occurring with this tire is the fault of the car. Anyone familiar with this phenomenon? (of cupped tires, not b.s. customer service rep's) Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably quiet H-rated street tire that will last more than a summer and a half? I'm driving a '97 328ic, with 225/50/16's. TIA Roger ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:43:09 -0400 From: "Dennis Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Paranoia rages (found something in garage) Thanks to all who responded! Jason Knight for his contest suggestion; Robert Ellsworth for his helpful dissertation; Dana Earl for his alacrity; Dave Nichols for his reassurance; Kevin Kiely for his brevity; and David Chen for his clever subject header (sexual torture device?). And Brett of course, as usual. My logic is, I'm pretty much a mechanical chowderhead. But while I may be insane and incompetant, I'm not stupid (really!). My fingers are crossed; I *may* have installed the new filter in the 740 WITHOUT the central pipe thingie, but I really WOULD NOT put the "sexual torture device" back onto the shelf in my garage without, at the very least, thinking to myself, "self, doesn't this piece belong somewhere?" So... here's the follow-up question. Is it possible that the OEM filter that I purchased from a BMW dealer an older filter that didn't need what Brett cheerfully called the "condom" (what's with all the sex talk)? If so, it would be logical that I would have saved the "condom" from the used filter (I think). Sigh. Bottom line, I guess I need to check the filter, huh? Any magic to it? Should I warm up the car before doing it? If so, I need to let oil drain from the filter, yes? Will it spill out? Thanks in advance (as usual).... vty, - --Dennis - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of KMS - Brett Anderson Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [uuc] Paranoia rages (found something in garage) It's the "environmentally friendly filter" conversion piece for early V8s. The original V8 oil filter was a metal capped unit that slid over a narrow aluminum post in the housing. The later version, from some time around 1995, is the plastic capped filter with a much larger hole in the centre. In order to use the later filter in the early housing, one had to add this "condom" to the aluminum tube in the centre of the housing. If the car already has one, you don't need to replace it. It's a one time install. Brett Anderson KMS > -----Original Message----- > On Behalf Of Dennis Liu > Ok, so just flushed my brake fluid in the p-car for this weekend's fun at > NHIS with the BMW CCA (Boston and White Mountain chapters). While putting > stuff away, found something interesting on the shelf. Wrapped in > a slightly > oil soaked white rag, is a black plastic cylinder. It really resembles an > XL (11/10th scale) motorcycle handlebar grip, with a spiral ridge running > along the length of the cylinder. > Scratching my head, why the heck did I put this on the shelf, wrapped in a > rag?!? From where does it come from? I'm pretty sure it's not from the > f-car, nor the p-car. Some vague recollection that it's from > when I did oil > changes (on the same afternoon) on the E38 740iL or E39 528iT (first and > only time I've personally done so on each). > Is it the tube from the middle of an oil filter?!? If so, does a new one > come with each filter?!? I'm a chowderhead, but there isn't a way I could > have installed a new filter without it, right?!? > So... can anyone fill this moron in? Any ideas from where this > part comes? > And WHY THE HECK would I SAVE THE DAMN THING?!? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:57:23 -0700 From: "JS Nord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Cupped tires what suspension modifications have you made? fronts or rears only or all tires? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "rblangille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: [uuc] Cupped tires > My Dunlop Sport A2's, with less than 15000 miles on them, have become > terribly cupped, most notably along the inside edge. > > I spoke with a Dunlop rep who is very familiar with the problem, but says > there must be something wrong with the car mechanically. Uhuh. Odd that such > an apparently common problem occurring with this tire is the fault of the > car. > > Anyone familiar with this phenomenon? (of cupped tires, not b.s. customer > service rep's) > > Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably quiet H-rated street tire that will > last more than a summer and a half? I'm driving a '97 328ic, with > 225/50/16's. > > TIA > > Roger > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:00:46 -0400 From: Jerry Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Steptronic or not for 5-series year 2000 Apologies to the group for repeating this question. I searched the archives but could not find the thread about why or why not to choose the Steptronic transmission. In the thread, Brett had made a real nice summary comment. Is there any reason to avoid the non-Steptronic transmission in a 2000 5-series? Or conversly, why it would be better to have the Steptronic? Thanks. Jerry almost 3-less with a 5 ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6822 *************************** | | 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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