The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 712 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: UUC M5 clutch & flywheel Re: Need a SRS sensor mat connector <E36> microfilter replacement <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Bad Chip? Re: Bad Chip? Re: Bad Chip?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 09:17:52 -0500 From: "Craig Robson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BMW UUC digest" <[email protected]> Subject: UUC M5 clutch & flywheel Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is the change out really as involved as the Bentley says it is on the E46 M3? Remove the intake? Also, anyone have the torque specs on the flywheel bolts, the Bentley says nothing? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:45:08 -0400 From: "KMS- Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Need a SRS sensor mat connector Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The plastic connector and pin contacts are available from your friendly dealer. If you have ETK, diagram 61_1691 Pin Contacts ELO and diagram 61_1280 Plug Terminal ELO Not Waterproof. About $5 for everything you need. Brett Anderson KMS > -----Original Message----- > Will shortly be installing racing shells/harnesses/rollcage in my > M Coupe. Planning to build a circut to trick the SRS system to > believe that the sensor mat is still installed and need a spare > connector. If NE1 has one, please let me know. TIA. > > Neil Simon > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:36:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trying to get the microfilter out of my '96 E36 coupe, using instructions on Ron Stygar's site. The car in Ron's instructions doesn't have a knee board running along the bottom of the glovebox... and because of the knee board, I'm having an awful time removing the passenger floor air duct. Any tips on how to get the SOB out would really be appreciated. - Kevin Jay '96 328is, red/tan, 95K, factory microfilter (eeeeeuuwwww) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:56:28 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OK, so I got the duct out. No clue as to how I'll ever get it back in... but for the moment, the latest issue is now how to get the filter out. I can get a finger on the tab, and I can get an inspection mirror in there to see what I'm dealing with... and I for the life of me see no way to get the the mother out. Any tips would really be great (agh, Fritz again). - k ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement Trying to get the microfilter out of my '96 E36 coupe, using instructions on Ron Stygar's site. The car in Ron's instructions doesn't have a knee board running along the bottom of the glovebox... and because of the knee board, I'm having an awful time removing the passenger floor air duct. Any tips on how to get the SOB out would really be appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:09:12 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From the factory, the filter is rigid. To remove it, you need to curve it towards the passenger's seat. It will break in two scored locations and will withdraw. It was installed before the box was placed into the car. You need to crack the replacement in those same two locations to install it. Ed Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: >OK, so I got the duct out. No clue as to how I'll ever get it back in... but >for the moment, the latest issue is now how to get the filter out. I can get >a finger on the tab, and I can get an inspection mirror in there to see what >I'm dealing with... and I for the life of me see no way to get the the mother >out. Any tips would really be great (agh, Fritz again). > >- k > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement > >Trying to get the microfilter out of my '96 E36 coupe, using instructions on >Ron Stygar's site. The car in Ron's instructions doesn't have a knee board >running along the bottom of the glovebox... and because of the knee board, I'm >having an awful time removing the passenger floor air duct. Any tips on how >to get the SOB out would really be appreciated. > > >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: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:40:46 -0700 From: "Reed Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You could be like me and just say to hell with it. I destroyed my old one getting it out, then destroyed my new one trying to get it in. I finally thought, "why bother, I don't breathe filtered air anywhere else, why do I have to have it in my car?". But that's just me... Reed/Seattle > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin > Jay (Mr.Fabulous) > Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [UUC] <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) > > > OK, so I got the duct out. No clue as to how I'll ever get > it back in... but for the moment, the latest issue is now how > to get the filter out. I can get a finger on the tab, and I > can get an inspection mirror in there to see what I'm dealing > with... and I for the life of me see no way to get the the > mother out. Any tips would really be great (agh, Fritz again). > > - k ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:26:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tammer Farid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Having that filter is one thing I miss in my "downgrade" from E36 to E28 ... and there aren't many things I miss. When I pass by the refineries in DE/PA/NJ, I realize how well those filters work! First replacement took me over 2.5 hours; the second took 45 minutes. Haven't done one since (sold the car), but I don't think I could do it much faster than that. -tammer <--slow wrench --- Reed Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could be like me and just say to hell with it. I > destroyed my old one > getting it out, then destroyed my new one trying to get > it in. I finally > thought, "why bother, I don't breathe filtered air > anywhere else, why do I > have to have it in my car?". But that's just me... > > Reed/Seattle __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 17:06:51 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> THAT SHOULDN'T BE SO DAMN DIFFICULT, WTF I got it, all is well (needed a pliers to get the filter out, not easy even with a mirror). But, SHEEESH, Fritz, what's up with this? Replace every 10,000 miles, the box says. Yeah, right, like I'm going through *that* again, agh. Freakin' knee board really makes ths job difficult, man oh man oh man am I frustrated. And you can imagine what a nine year-old cabin filter looks like, eeeew... but I can guarantee it was doing an awesome job of cleaning the air (what could pass through it). Anybody know what ever happened to Ron Stygar? Dude's site is still an incredible resource. - k ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) OK, so I got the duct out. No clue as to how I'll ever get it back in... but for the moment, the latest issue is now how to get the filter out. I can get a finger on the tab, and I can get an inspection mirror in there to see what I'm dealing with... and I for the life of me see no way to get the the mother out. Any tips would really be great (agh, Fritz again). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <E36> microfilter replacement Trying to get the microfilter out of my '96 E36 coupe, using instructions on Ron Stygar's site. The car in Ron's instructions doesn't have a knee board running along the bottom of the glovebox... and because of the knee board, I'm having an awful time removing the passenger floor air duct. Any tips on how to get the SOB out would really be appreciated. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:43:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kazuto Okayasu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > THAT SHOULDN'T BE SO DAMN DIFFICULT, WTF Heh. Well, even BMW learns its lessons on occasion. The E46's microfilter is ridicuously easy to replace. No tools, 30 seconds; half of which is spent opening the hood. <snip> > > Anybody know what ever happened to Ron Stygar? Dude's site is still an > incredible resource. He's been a regular on the Z forum at bimmerfest.com, though with some of the political shenanigans going on over there as of late, I don't know for how much longer. -- Kazuto Okayasu Administrative Computing Services University of California, Irvine ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 18:12:40 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 04:43:10PM -0700, Kazuto Okayasu wrote: > Heh. Well, even BMW learns its lessons on occasion. The E46's > microfilter is ridicuously easy to replace. No tools, 30 seconds; half of > which is spent opening the hood. ditto for the e39. speaking of which, I've been shopping for replacement filters for my e39... cheapest I've seen is $23.43 at autohausaz.com $40 at thepartsbin.com, autopartswarehouse.com, germanparts.com and somewhere selling Purolator filters wanted something like $120 a pop. Criminy. I didn't save the link to that one. -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:11:23 -0700 From: Kazuto Okayasu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 06:12 PM 6/25/2005, John Bolhuis wrote: Not sure about E39, but E46 microfilters come two ways; with and without activated charcoal. Without is <$20. With is about twice that. >speaking of which, I've been shopping for replacement filters for my >e39... > >cheapest I've seen is $23.43 at autohausaz.com >$40 at thepartsbin.com, autopartswarehouse.com, germanparts.com >and somewhere selling Purolator filters wanted something like $120 a >pop. Criminy. I didn't save the link to that one. Kazuto Okayasu Manager, Desktop Support Services (Interim) Administrative Computing Services, University of California, Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:17:13 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> microfilter replacement (fwd) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 07:11:23PM -0700, Kazuto Okayasu wrote: > At 06:12 PM 6/25/2005, John Bolhuis wrote: > > Not sure about E39, but E46 microfilters come two ways; with and > without activated charcoal. Without is <$20. With is about twice that. yep. I was shopping for the charcoal ones. I would not be surprised if the $23 one was mislabeled. -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:55:47 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Bad Chip? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I recently acquired a "used" Dinan chip for my 87 B27 (eta). With the chip installed, the motor just cranks...it doesn't even sound like it is going to start. When I put my old chip back in, everything is fine. Do these things go bad? All the prongs on it are strong (structurally the chip is sound) and it goes in just the same as my old chip. Am I missing something during installation that is causing it not to work? If it is bad then I will just buy a new one from Dinan with a warranty, but I am worried that I will have the same problem and in buying a new one, I could potentially just waste money(although it would have a warranty). Thanks, Ryan- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:09:04 -0700 From: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bad Chip? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can also keep the stock chip, rotate the blue knob on the circuit board inside the ECU one or two click positions to the right, keeping whichever one runs best, and install the larger throttle body as used on the 88 Super ETA and 325i. Not intending to restart that old argument thread about the merits of flipping the ECU switch, its a take what you like and leave the rest mod. For me and the eta cars I did the switch position mod to, they all were happy customers. The switch and throttle, when the AFM gear is then calibrated to the new setup, will increase zero to sixties by at least one second. Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I recently acquired a "used" Dinan chip for my 87 B27 (eta). With the >chip installed, the motor just cranks...it doesn't even sound like it is >going to start. When I put my old chip back in, everything is fine. Do >these things go bad? All the prongs on it are strong (structurally the >chip is sound) and it goes in just the same as my old chip. Am I missing >something during installation that is causing it not to work? If it is >bad then I will just buy a new one from Dinan with a warranty, but I am >worried that I will have the same problem and in buying a new one, I could >potentially just waste money(although it would have a warranty). >Thanks, >Ryan- > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:07:20 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "JKerouac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] Subject: Re: Bad Chip? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So rotating the knob does what exactly? And does it have to be rotated for the Dinan chip to work properly? thanks, Ryan- you can also keep the stock chip, rotate the blue knob on the > circuit board inside the ECU one or two click positions to the right, > keeping whichever one runs best, and install the larger throttle body as > used on the 88 Super ETA and 325i. > Not intending to restart that old argument thread about the merits of > flipping the ECU switch, its a take what you like and leave the rest > mod. For me and the eta cars I did the switch position mod to, they all > were happy customers. The switch and throttle, when the AFM gear is > then calibrated to the new setup, will increase zero to sixties by at > least one second. > Barry > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I recently acquired a "used" Dinan chip for my 87 B27 (eta). With the >>chip installed, the motor just cranks...it doesn't even sound like it is >>going to start. When I put my old chip back in, everything is fine. Do >>these things go bad? All the prongs on it are strong (structurally the >>chip is sound) and it goes in just the same as my old chip. Am I missing >>something during installation that is causing it not to work? If it is >>bad then I will just buy a new one from Dinan with a warranty, but I am >>worried that I will have the same problem and in buying a new one, I >> could >>potentially just waste money(although it would have a warranty). >>Thanks, >>Ryan- >> > ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(15 messages) **********
