The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 332 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks Re: Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Re: 318i '84 E30 Vibration on Acceleration Re: Crazy X5 action. Re: Crazy X5 action LINK REPOST Re: Crazy X5 action. E30 Questions Re: E30 Questions Porsche value prior to 1980 Re: <E36> Need HK midrange speaker Protecting Paint Protection Film Re: Questions about the E30
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:06:48 -0700 From: "Jason Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just got them for my e36 m3 from Turner Motorsports for $630. Shipped to me in CA it was about the same price as they are at shox.com. http://www.turnermotorsport.com/html/detail.asp?PRODUCT_ID=E36M3BILSTEIN Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Kelly Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:25 AM To: BMW BMW BMW BMW Subject: [UUC] Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks Does anyone know of a place that sells Bilstein shocks for less than Shox.com? www.shox.com Kevin Kelly BMW CCA 50039 Search the ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________________________________ In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the Ultimate Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:20:45 -0500 From: "Timothy J Toohey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Try http://www.eap4parts.com. I bought a set of Bilstein sports for my E30 from them. I don't remember what I paid, but it was cheaper than anywhere else I could find. I also just ordered new rotors from them and will continue to do business with them. Set of 4 sports (front/rear) is $372.69 ground shipped (about $13) to MN vs. $379 without shipping on shox.com. Good luck! Tim Toohey '89 325is Bilstein Sports w/E30 M3 springs...just right :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BMW BMW BMW BMW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:25 PM Subject: [UUC] Low Cost Bilsteinn Shocks > Does anyone know of a place that sells Bilstein shocks for less than > Shox.com? > > www.shox.com > > Kevin Kelly > BMW CCA 50039 > > Search the ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. > > UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the Ultimate > Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! > 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:27:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howdy, Ok, mini rant... Why in the heck is it that every damn car I align seems to have frozen or nearly frozen tie rods? Like "get the torch" frozen tie rods? Make, model, etc. doesn't seem to matter. We put a guy on the moon. For the love of god, can't we make a tie rod that doesn't freeze up after two months? Mark (and, for those of you that do this kinda work, if you have advice for preventing freezing in the future, that'd be great. Anti-seize doesn't seem to do anything...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:37:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anti-seize has worked for me. I use the silver nickel stuff. Gary Derian --- Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > Ok, mini rant... > > Why in the heck is it that every damn car I align > seems to have frozen or > nearly frozen tie rods? Like "get the torch" frozen > tie rods? > > Make, model, etc. doesn't seem to matter. > > We put a guy on the moon. For the love of god, > can't we make a tie rod > that doesn't freeze up after two months? > > Mark > > (and, for those of you that do this kinda work, if > you have advice for > preventing freezing in the future, that'd be great. > Anti-seize doesn't > seem to do anything...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:38:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Dorffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!!! tie rods Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I used anti-seize (lightly coating the entire threaded portion of the rod) on the two sets I installed and it worked great. The rest of the tie rods on the winter beater had a "nice" coat of rust (those after-market Meyle tie rods rust at the mere thought of going out for a drive) but I was easily able to adjust them a couple of weeks ago. Regards, Rich --- Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > Ok, mini rant... > > Why in the heck is it that every damn car I align seems to have frozen or > nearly frozen tie rods? Like "get the torch" frozen tie rods? > > Make, model, etc. doesn't seem to matter. > > We put a guy on the moon. For the love of god, can't we make a tie rod > that doesn't freeze up after two months? > > Mark > > (and, for those of you that do this kinda work, if you have advice for > preventing freezing in the future, that'd be great. Anti-seize doesn't > seem to do anything...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:39:23 -0400 From: "Art Ream" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 318i '84 E30 Vibration on Acceleration Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good Morning, The need has arisen to replace the Motor and Transmission mounts. I'm just looking for any suggestions prior to this change. The engine has decided to move off the mounts to the driver's side about 1 inch and sheered the transmission mounts with it? Thanks Art ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:37:56 -0700 From: "JS Nord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Crazy X5 action. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Can someone report the link? Sounds like a good one... (that I missed!) Jeff 90 535i ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:04:40 -0500 From: "Karl Zemlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Crazy X5 action LINK REPOST Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fun.diadiktyo.net/stream29/video/bmwRally.wmv -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JS Nord Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UUC] Crazy X5 action. Can someone report the link? Sounds like a good one... (that I missed!) Jeff 90 535i Search the ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________________________________ In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the Ultimate Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:27 -0700 From: "JS Nord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Crazy X5 action. Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheesh. The guy nearly gets swallowed by the washout gully after the second recovery. Now that would have been some footage. Up on the left side...recover. Up on the right side ...and recover. But ooops...down into the washout and ... no recover! Also, did you see the flat pan on the bottom of the X5? Jeff _________________________________________________________________ Check out Election 2004 for up-to-date election news, plus voter tools and more! http://special.msn.com/msn/election2004.armx ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:41:06 -0700 From: "Michael Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: E30 Questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>But if this doesn't work can just the connector be sourced to patch into the harness? As a last resort, you can source individually the two halves of the connector as well as the individual M/F pins. But having done this let me advise that you only want to do it if absolutely necessary. The connector on my 8/87 iS fell apart in my hands one day and it was not "filled with some kind of insulator." Mike A ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:12:38 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Andre) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 Questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From Michael Andre > >>>But if this doesn't work can just the connector be sourced to patch >into the harness? > >As a last resort, you can source individually the two halves of the >connector as well as the individual M/F pins. But having done this let me >advise that you only want to do it if absolutely necessary. The connector on >my 8/87 iS fell apart in my hands one day and it was not "filled with some >kind of insulator." > >Mike A > My 1/87 325i doesn't have this connector at all (in addition to other odd wiring differences with other E30s). -- Joe -- Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack of All Trades, Master of None... Yet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:48:03 -0700 From: "Michael Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Porsche value prior to 1980 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In my P-car owning experience I would not bother with a '78 SC for $10K when there are plenty of *very* nice mid-80's Carreras around with 100K miles or less, complete records and 8+ body condition for under $14K. At least in my neighborhood of SoCal. The stock '85 Carrera won't win its class in our time trials but it is very reliable and easy to work on. The beat my E30 handily (BMW content), I am frequently tempted, but I always come to my senses. Mike A ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 12:35:34 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <E36> Need HK midrange speaker Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> They cannot be detached, every dealer has a supply of them for they fail with regularity. I bought some off eBay. Ed Malcolm Reitz wrote: >The drivers side midrange speaker on my 328i is making a horrible noise >instead of music. Anyone have one from the Harmon Kardon system for sale >or a suggestion of where to find one for a reasonable price? I assume >the speakers can be detached from their grills, but I have the tan >interior in case not. > >Thanks, > >Malcolm >'88 M5 - forget the radio, just roll down the windows >'98 328i - need something to listen to on the long Houston commutes > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:58:58 -0700 From: Tom Kosmalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Protecting Paint Protection Film Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opinions on how to best protect paint protection film (aka 3M Stoneguard, Clearmask, Invisibra, etc.)? Regular car wax, ArmorAll, 303? Thanks, Tom Kosmalski ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:32:32 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Questions about the E30 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According to Bill Arnold, who knows a lot more about such things than I, ANY 325i/is/ix/ic ECU (DME) can be used in any other variation of the 325i/is/ix/ic from any year, as long as the donor car had the same transmission type (manual or automatic). Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA 1990 325i >Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:18:49 -0400 >From: "Rich Dorffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Questions about the E30 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> >> 6. Are DME's of the same year but different models ("i" vs "is") >> swappable? >> (again possible cause of miss). I would guess yes. > >Yes, there is also some interchange between models of DME (like the 173 for >a 153 which was notorious for certain issues) from what I have heard but I >have not done it (and I would want someone else to confirm as I am going >from what I recall). I am sure there are people on this list that have so >they may speak about it. <snip> ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(15 messages) **********
