The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 544 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Re: <E36> Sport suspension struts Re: The facts about the bubble car Re: The facts about the bubble car KYB Re: The facts about the bubble car <OT> Undeleting files Re: <OT> Undeleting files Re: <OT> Undeleting files Re: <OT> Undeleting files Re: S50 valve cover
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:41:42 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stan Jackson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos, >If you get a chance to inspect 'Eyeballs' mounted on a car, >you'll >see how they have repositioned the hole. There was a car on a lift >at a recent tech session that had a regular bushing on one side and >an Eyeball on the other, so I was able to compare side by side. I was going by what Jon has said about his eyeball c/a bushings, note that he doesn't say anything about repositioning anything. "A. SUSPENSION GEOMETRY: Yes, they are advertised as "offset". As-in M3 Offset. or Offset compared to stock. The exact geometry is identical to E30 M3 / E36 M3 offset bushings. They are built in such a way that the offset is not visible, but the location of the control arm is the same as a Stock M3. The stock bushing replacement does not offer a mechanism to determine geometry and could easily be far out of spec." Seems clear to me what his intention with the part was, stock geometry. Carlos. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:50:12 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barry, Are you referring to the recent Tech Session(weak at most) at Rennsport in Mt. View? The Eyeballs were on the real nice M Coupe? I hate to tell you this but the one on the damaged side of the car was bent. I got in touch with the owner of the Coupe and he told me that the passenger side was bent. -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:06:46 -0800 From: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin, Yep, that's where I saw it. Thx to both you and Carlos for clarifying. Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Barry, >Are you referring to the recent Tech Session(weak at most) at Rennsport in Mt. >View? The Eyeballs were on the real nice M Coupe? I hate to tell you this but >the one on the damaged side of the car was bent. I got in touch with the owner >of the Coupe and he told me that the passenger side was bent.-Kevin > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:42:24 -0600 From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd like to see this or talk with anyone that has. Thanks, Jon Siccardi - Daddy of the "Eyeball Arm" ______________________________________________ Jon Siccardi - DM #052 TreehouseRacing.com - Pressing the boundaries in the Club Race Spirit of winning M50conversion.com 615.333.9118 ______________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [UUC] <E30> Handling with offset control arm bushing > Barry, > > Are you referring to the recent Tech Session(weak at most) at Rennsport in > Mt. View? The Eyeballs were on the real nice M Coupe? I hate to tell you > this but the one on the damaged side of the car was bent. I got in touch > with the owner of the Coupe and he told me that the passenger side was > bent. > > -Kevin > > > 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, 16 Feb 2005 11:47:52 -0800 From: Tom Childers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> Sport suspension struts Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Bilstein HD and Sport shocks have the same compression and damping rates, but the sport shock has a shorter "throw". So you would use the sport shocks when a car has been lowered, or has progressive sport springs in it. The HD shocks are for the stock springs, or at least, for springs that give the stock ride height. If the sport suspension is lower than the standard suspension, then I would go with Sport. As far as the KYB battle goes, I have observed that KYB's are awful in some cars, and fine in others. For example, they worked great in a 1979 Toyota pickup truck, and lasted very well for over 100K miles. In my E28, they were WAY too stiff. OTOH, I've had Bilsteins in a number of cars, and never had any problem, or issue with wear. -tdc '88 M5 '98 M Roadster On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Malcolm wrote: > All this talk of KYB/Bilstein/Boge/etc. has me thinking about > refreshing > the suspension on my '98 328i (94k miles). My car has the factory sport > suspension and I'm a bit confused about what the replacement struts > should be. This is my daily driver over the not-so-great roads of > Houston (especially downtown) and I'm not looking to stiffen the > suspension up much. If Bilstein is the strut of choice, what of their > several models (Touring, HD, Sport) would be appropriate? I understand > HDs for factory springs, but does that include the shorter sport ones? > Or does BMW's sport suspension equate to Bilstein's sport struts? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:52:26 -0600 From: Dennis Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The facts about the bubble car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T-shirt I saw one time at a Shelby American Car Club Auto-x event: "Drive it, otherwise it is just really expensive furniture" Dennis 01 M5 silver/black At 02:12 PM 02/16/2005 -0500, you wrote: >I do believe that is mostly true. I don't know what the sale price was >and it's not really my business. More power to him, at least he is using >the car for it's intended purpose. > >-Steve >1989 M3 > >Mark Gold wrote: > >>So what's the deal with Gary Bossert's �ber clean 'bubble car' M3? >>Rumor has it, it was sold for somewhere in the neighborhood of $45,000 >>and then prepped for racing, then the motor was supposedly trashed by the >>guy who bought it and replaced with a Turner stroker that also >>failed. Does anyone know the straight up facts on this car? >>Sincerely, >>Mark Gold >>Sacramento Chapter BMWCCA >>916-852-6533 (home) >>916-743-7153 (cell) >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >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, 16 Feb 2005 16:36:32 -0500 From: "Robinson, Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The facts about the bubble car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most of this crap stems from the fact that some folks apparently think this is the kind of car that will someday be really special, like, say a 300SL or something. Fact is there are too many of them around for them to be true exotics, so semi-exotic is the best (albeit realistic) one could hope for. Next, there are TONS & TONS of very nice examples of the car around, albeit not many with less than 10,000 miles. Yes, the car was completely disassembled by hand & every part cleaned & re-assembled. From my pappy who is into antique cars, the bubble car should actually be worth less because it's been tampered with instead of original. FWIW, the new owner seems to be a little, we'll say un-spendthrift. Why would anyone pay the rumored price for a track car when there are gobs of very nice examples available for 1/3 of the price? Furthermore, there are a lot of very nice examples that are already properly modified for track use for 1/3 the price. Heck, for less than half the price he could've gotten an already built & tested 2.5L! For what he's spent so far, a full Group A probably isn't out of his range or a newer car that's already fast. Heck, if what they say is true, he's paid for 2 Z06's or S54 Mcoupes!!!!!! Finally, that car has sat. Sat a lot. Basic common sense dictates that cars that are actually driven regularly are much more reliable than ones that have sat for the reported 6 years. I'd've preferred to buy a 70-100k example myself & there are PLENTY of nice ones. But hey, it's that dude's money....... What it comes down to is jealousy about means. I know Bossert has gobs of it, & I assume that the current owner has gobs too. Enough to not think twice about dropping 15 large on a motor in a car with a perfectly good one already. There are some folks who are just bothered by the fact that they could never do such a thing with any car because they don't have the means. Matter of fact some have only the means to barely string one of these along, & Gary has, like 5. There are lots of guys it seems who want these as show cars, & there is something to not using a really nice example as a track rat as every track rat is eventually doomed, but most people who can afford it seem to have one of each. In the end, it's just a car. It brought Gary happiness as an object of fussing over to make sure everything was just as it should be & keeping the miles down. Apparently, the new owner either gets pleasure from tracking it or really pissing off S14.net & M3SIG members....... Lee->could care less what anybody does with any of their cars, too busy worrying about mine 88 M3->one of the barely managed to string alongs......never ceases to produce smiles > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Nash > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 14:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UUC] The facts about the bubble car > > I like Ben's version better. :-) > > -Steve > 1989 M3 - If I ever sell it, they can do as they please... > > Ben Keyes wrote: > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:04:25 -0800 From: Tom Kosmalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: KYB Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FWIW, KYBs worked great for a long time in my 95 Saab 900 (yup, the one GM fiddled too much with). Good body control, not too stiff. Question: Does anyone make a good set of slightly stiffer than stock struts/shocks for the E46 Touring? The sedan seems to be a no-brainer (Bilsteins), but I'm not having much luck finding a Touring application. Tom K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:06:34 -0800 From: Mark Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: The facts about the bubble car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't realize it was such a hornet's nest of controversy. Personally, I would have left it unmolested given the amount of time and effort put into restoring it, but that's just my 2�. Hey, its his money. As for Gary, I don't think anyone should blame him. On Feb 16, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Steve Nash wrote: > I like Ben's version better. :-) > > -Steve > 1989 M3 - If I ever sell it, they can do as they please... > > Ben Keyes wrote: > >> you can go to the S14.net forums to read about it, not sure >> which specific thread, but it can't be hard to find. what I've >> gleaned from the E30 M3 SIG discussion (before the >> topic was correctly shut down by Fillipo) is : >> 1 - car was sold (price not disclosed) >> 2 - new owner took it to the track, then decided that >> "it needed more power" >> 3 - new owner bought the $15k 2.5l S14 that has been >> on Turner's web site for sale for a long time. >> 4 - new owner's shop can't (couldn't ?) get the motor to >> run (or even start ?) and spent time arguing with Turner's >> shop about it. resolutin unknown. >> 5 - all sorts of S14-nistas have their panties in a wad >> about how it's a horrible thing which is being done to >> a perfect car, it's awful to drive nice M3's on track, Gary >> should be shot for selling the thing in the first place, modifying >> such a perfect car is grounds for execution, blah, blah, blah with >> all sorts of useless bullsh!t like that. >> a lot of this is apparently very nasty off-list harrasment of >> Gary and at least one other owner of a low mileage car >> which is being modified for auto-x use and really makes >> one why the f*ck some people think that they have the right >> to berate others for how they choose to spend their money >> and time, but that's what happens when you give people >> a computer & impunity from personal contact or thought. >> let's try to keep that sort of crap off the list here, go watch >> the children fling their feces at each other on the forums >> if you want that sort of thing. >> Ben >> owns no M3's, doesn't care what other people do with >> their cars & their money... > 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 > > Sincerely, Mark Gold Sacramento Chapter BMWCCA 916-852-6533 (home) 916-743-7153 (cell) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:56:01 -0500 From: "KMS- Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: <OT> Undeleting files Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey all. In a yet to be fully understood scenario, I've managed to delete almost all of my image files from my main computer AND the backup machine.... These files are mostly customer cars and standard family/ofest/fun pictures. No, they're not in the "recycle bin". One machine is running XP Pro, the other XP Home. The XP Home machine is rarely used so the "bits" are still there, I just need to tell windows to give them back to me. I found restoration.exe, which is a nice little program that has identified most, of not all, of the files I'd like to recover. It has one limitation though, you have to do one file at a time. Not a real problem, except at this time, I believe I'm looking at 212,000 files..... That's 12.5 days at 5 seconds each, non stop..... Anyone got other ideas? Thanks Brett Anderson KMS ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:31:04 GMT From: "Marc Plante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <OT> Undeleting files Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do not use your computer. Buy norton utilities and use the un erase function. -----Original Message----- From: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:56:01 -0500 To: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Hey all. In a yet to be fully understood scenario, I've managed to delete almost all of my image files from my main computer AND the backup machine.... These files are mostly customer cars and standard family/ofest/fun pictures. No, they're not in the "recycle bin". One machine is running XP Pro, the other XP Home. The XP Home machine is rarely used so the "bits" are still there, I just need to tell windows to give them back to me. I found restoration.exe, which is a nice little program that has identified most, of not all, of the files I'd like to recover. It has one limitation though, you have to do one file at a time. Not a real problem, except at this time, I believe I'm looking at 212,000 files..... That's 12.5 days at 5 seconds each, non stop..... Anyone got other ideas? Thanks Brett Anderson KMS 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, 16 Feb 2005 16:50:10 -0800 From: "Ziv Gillat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <OT> Undeleting files Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry, forgot to mention -- RecoverMyFiles is for the PC, not the Mac... -----Original Message----- From: Ziv Gillat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:48 PM To: '[email protected]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Hei, So here's the deal. The last advise you got was good, and true, but I'll elaborate and will give you exact advise on what to do and use. When you erase a file, or even format a drive, the file is still there. The filesystem changes the first character of the filename, and tags it in the master block allocation as a file that can be over-written, IF the OS and the filesystem need to reclaim that space. So if you JUST erased a file, and haven't installed too many programs or haven't defragmented your drive, most or all of your files should still be there. Depending on the program, you can either restore them with their original filename, or just as a new filename (like Restored_1 ... Restored_n). When you write new files, the filesystem first tries to write over empty sectors on the drive, and if it can't, it only then tries to write over files that have been previously deleted. All this stuff happens "behind the scene", and the user is never aware of what's going on at the drive/FS level. So, that is the reason that Marc, below, told you not to use your PC. In terms of which programs to use -- I've used Norton on the Mac, and had luck with it, years ago. I haven't used it in many years. I DID use, 2 days ago, a program that I bought online, which is called RecoverMyFiles. I had my laptop's drive go bad on me, and my daily backup didn't include a photo shoot I had just made a few hours earlier. SO, since the compact flash cards are formatted using FAT32 FS, they're being seen as drives by Windows. This program recovered my entire shoot, and even files I still had hanging around on the flash, from previous shoots :-) If it can't recover the file, because it's been partially written over, it won't recover it. It will only recover JPG's that are not corrupted. They give you a 30 days money back guarantee, so if the app doesn't help you, you'll get the $67 back. I think it's worth every cent. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ Good luck --- Ziv. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Plante Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Do not use your computer. Buy norton utilities and use the un erase function. -----Original Message----- From: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:56:01 -0500 To: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Hey all. In a yet to be fully understood scenario, I've managed to delete almost all of my image files from my main computer AND the backup machine.... These files are mostly customer cars and standard family/ofest/fun pictures. No, they're not in the "recycle bin". One machine is running XP Pro, the other XP Home. The XP Home machine is rarely used so the "bits" are still there, I just need to tell windows to give them back to me. I found restoration.exe, which is a nice little program that has identified most, of not all, of the files I'd like to recover. It has one limitation though, you have to do one file at a time. Not a real problem, except at this time, I believe I'm looking at 212,000 files..... That's 12.5 days at 5 seconds each, non stop..... Anyone got other ideas? Thanks Brett Anderson KMS 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 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, 16 Feb 2005 16:48:15 -0800 From: "Ziv Gillat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: <OT> Undeleting files Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hei, So here's the deal. The last advise you got was good, and true, but I'll elaborate and will give you exact advise on what to do and use. When you erase a file, or even format a drive, the file is still there. The filesystem changes the first character of the filename, and tags it in the master block allocation as a file that can be over-written, IF the OS and the filesystem need to reclaim that space. So if you JUST erased a file, and haven't installed too many programs or haven't defragmented your drive, most or all of your files should still be there. Depending on the program, you can either restore them with their original filename, or just as a new filename (like Restored_1 ... Restored_n). When you write new files, the filesystem first tries to write over empty sectors on the drive, and if it can't, it only then tries to write over files that have been previously deleted. All this stuff happens "behind the scene", and the user is never aware of what's going on at the drive/FS level. So, that is the reason that Marc, below, told you not to use your PC. In terms of which programs to use -- I've used Norton on the Mac, and had luck with it, years ago. I haven't used it in many years. I DID use, 2 days ago, a program that I bought online, which is called RecoverMyFiles. I had my laptop's drive go bad on me, and my daily backup didn't include a photo shoot I had just made a few hours earlier. SO, since the compact flash cards are formatted using FAT32 FS, they're being seen as drives by Windows. This program recovered my entire shoot, and even files I still had hanging around on the flash, from previous shoots :-) If it can't recover the file, because it's been partially written over, it won't recover it. It will only recover JPG's that are not corrupted. They give you a 30 days money back guarantee, so if the app doesn't help you, you'll get the $67 back. I think it's worth every cent. http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ Good luck --- Ziv. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Plante Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Do not use your computer. Buy norton utilities and use the un erase function. -----Original Message----- From: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:56:01 -0500 To: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: [UUC] <OT> Undeleting files Hey all. In a yet to be fully understood scenario, I've managed to delete almost all of my image files from my main computer AND the backup machine.... These files are mostly customer cars and standard family/ofest/fun pictures. No, they're not in the "recycle bin". One machine is running XP Pro, the other XP Home. The XP Home machine is rarely used so the "bits" are still there, I just need to tell windows to give them back to me. I found restoration.exe, which is a nice little program that has identified most, of not all, of the files I'd like to recover. It has one limitation though, you have to do one file at a time. Not a real problem, except at this time, I believe I'm looking at 212,000 files..... That's 12.5 days at 5 seconds each, non stop..... Anyone got other ideas? Thanks Brett Anderson KMS 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 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, 16 Feb 2005 16:36:57 -0800 From: "Marco Romani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: S50 valve cover Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I should have been clearer. I meant the S50 as in the 3.0L which does not have a plastic valve cover. My engine builder wants to put a heat dispersant coating on the cover and while stripping the stock coating off of it he said it sure didn't seem like Al. Marco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Levinson * UUC Motorwerks Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UUC] S50 valve cover BASF was responsible for the material of the intake manifold, and I think the cover as well. Whereas the manifold is a composite with a suspension of some harder particulate (combining heat control, sound control, and ease of manufacturing properties far superior to the older aluminum castings), I think the cover is just an injection-molded plastic. What properties are you looking for? - Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Romani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [UUC] S50 valve cover > > anyone know what it is made of? > > Marco 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 ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(14 messages) **********
