The BMW UUC Digest Volume 3 : Issue 199 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] Re: [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] OBDCOM: MAF sensor Chapter 3 Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Free rims for E30 Update: E36 suspension Koni settings Re: Update: E36 suspension Koni settings <E34> 540i 6sp Clutch R&R? High Temp Paint??? Re: issues tracking a 325xi?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:53:38 -0400 From: Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BMWUUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oops - sent that to the wrong uuc list thing. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: issues tracking a 325xi? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:52:33 -0400 From: Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was wondering how anxious you'd be to try three years of > 12-schools-per-year again in the same now-out-of-warranty, 19-year-old > 951. ;-) > > Chris Eck We spent yesterday at the CCA driving school/Club race at Nelson (everyone loved the track). I spent some time talking to an old friend who still has his same 944T from the days I instructed with him for CCA, PCA and TrackTime. Apparently still quite serviceable! But he is talking about getting an xi - his first BMW. ;-) Kathy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:40:51 -0400 From: "Chris Eck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was At Nelson most of the day today. Didn't see you there but saw your race car. The club racers I talked to all really enjoyed Nelson Ledges. I've always really liked driving that track, too. The facility is admittedly a dump, but the track is a blast. Chris Eck On 7/16/06, Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops - sent that to the wrong uuc list thing. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: issues tracking a 325xi? > Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:52:33 -0400 > From: Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I was wondering how anxious you'd be to try three years of > > 12-schools-per-year again in the same now-out-of-warranty, 19-year-old > > 951. ;-) > > > > Chris Eck > > We spent yesterday at the CCA driving school/Club race at Nelson > (everyone loved the track). I spent some time talking to an old friend > who still has his same 944T from the days I instructed with him for CCA, > PCA and TrackTime. Apparently still quite serviceable! But he is > talking about getting an xi - his first BMW. ;-) > > Kathy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:54:08 -0400 From: Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BMWUUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: [Fwd: Re: issues tracking a 325xi?] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This too! ;-) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: issues tracking a 325xi? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 10:48:31 -0400 From: Kathy Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: undisclosed-recipients:; > And I suppose you were too busy talking on said cell phone to notice > the temp gauge pegging? :-) > > -Phil Actually I was putting mascara on and looking in the mirror. Not. With the turbo, I'd chock the car and let it idle in neutral in the pit lane after coming off the track for 5+ minutes to keep the coolant circulating and the fan running. That was all it took for it to overheat and take out the head gasket. Kathy -- Kathryn M. Lyle, CPA, CVA Lyle & Associates CPA Creating Business Value www.lylecpa.com ***Required IRS Circular 230 Disclaimer** Any tax advice included in this written or electronic communication was not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be used by the taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding any penalties that may be imposed on the taxpayer by any governmental taxing authority or agency. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:21:59 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[uucdigest]" <[email protected]>, bmw digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OBDCOM: MAF sensor Chapter 3 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A new MAF sensor has 'Jack running happy again. Now back to the new homemade 3.5" MAF tube, same diameter as euro mafs, to replace the previous 3.25" tube, and reading the engine's OBDII outputs with OBDCOM. Are other OBDCOM users on the list? E36 //M3 owners who would like to log data from their engines? I would like to compiled data from both highway cruising and WOT measurements of //M3 with various performance mods. If you have ODBDOM, shall we exchange data? If you don't and live around the SF Bay area, please describe your engine mods and I would be glad to meet up and plug in the laptop to log your engine outputs. We could also log data at a dyno, to match up what the ECU is up to at different points in the power curve. Data I would like record are fuel correction, measured air flow, calculated load, spark advance, MAF flow, and intake air temperature values from Dinan vs. Conforti and other remaps, stock, euro MAF and 24# injector setups (and reducer tube to accordion intake boot vs Turbohose boots), and CAI vs factory airbox. Why do this? If we can read out what mappings the tuners sell for a given set of engine mods and compare them side by side, this helps know what the various engine softwares are really doing, and what values to target and and which remaps could work best with home brewed engine tuning. Barry ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:30:47 -0700 From: "Scott & Charlotte Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]>, "E30 Yahoo Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm glad we all had a good time discussing my Style 10 accessory wheels (and lack of knowledge thereof), our fleet of BMWs, my daughter, etc., which was all fun and good and everything. But I don't recall seeing any advice on the original problem. So I'm re-posting to see if anyone has any experience or advice. The slight miss continues to show up occasionally but always goes away shortly afterwards. It has happened when the engine is warm and also when it is luke-cold - sat outside in San Francisco for 5 hours last night, had the slight miss right after starting, but after a few stumbles it went away and the car ran fine. It almost feels like the car has a clogged fuel filter, excpet that there was no problem before the engine compartment was detailed and it has happened both under high and low loads. TIA, Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA <begin repost> Subject: <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well I had a friend's son detail the engine compartment of our '91 318is last weekend. Afterwards there was an intermittant miss. The coil unit and fuse box had been covered with plastic, but not the spark plug cover. I suspected water had gotten in there, and I was right - water in the #4 spark plug well. I dried it out best I could with available tools and supplies (no compressed air in my garage , I'm sorry to say) and then took it for a ride. It stumbled once under load going up a hill with the AC on, but then ran fine the rest of the drive. Could shorting due to the water have caused some damage that I should find and fix? I also found and re-seated a vacuum hose that was not quite fully seated on its fitting. Must have gotten moved during the cleaning. TIA, Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA Way more familiar with M20s than M42s <end repost> ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:40:04 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Cc: E30 Yahoo Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Only been under the hood of an M42 in a wrecking yard. Thinking to general BMW experience, I would look at something (like a sensor) that only gets looked at at startup in mild weather. I am thinking a temp sensor in the water path, or the evap canister vacuum hose. You speak of getting the engine warm, and "luke cold". I'd get the engine compartment hot and bake any residual moisture out of there. Ed Scott & Charlotte Miller wrote: > I'm glad we all had a good time discussing my Style 10 accessory > wheels (and lack of knowledge thereof), our fleet of BMWs, my > daughter, etc., which was all fun and good and everything. But I > don't recall seeing any advice on the original problem. So I'm > re-posting to see if anyone has any experience or advice. > > The slight miss continues to show up occasionally but always goes away > shortly afterwards. It has happened when the engine is warm and also > when it is luke-cold - sat outside in San Francisco for 5 hours last > night, had the slight miss right after starting, but after a few > stumbles it went away and the car ran fine. It almost feels like the > car has a clogged fuel filter, excpet that there was no problem before > the engine compartment was detailed and it has happened both under > high and low loads. > > TIA, > > Scott Miller > GGC BMW CCA > > <begin repost> > > Subject: <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well > > I had a friend's son detail the engine compartment of our '91 318is > last weekend. Afterwards there was an intermittant miss. The coil > unit and fuse box had been covered with plastic, but not the spark > plug cover. I suspected water had gotten in there, and I was right - > water in the #4 spark plug well. I dried it out best I could with > available tools and supplies (no compressed air in my garage , I'm > sorry to say) and then took it for a ride. It stumbled once under > load going up a hill with the AC on, but then ran fine the rest of the > drive. > > Could shorting due to the water have caused some damage that I should > find and fix? > > I also found and re-seated a vacuum hose that was not quite fully > seated on its fitting. Must have gotten moved during the cleaning. > > TIA, > > Scott Miller > GGC BMW CCA > Way more familiar with M20s than M42s > > <end repost> > > > > 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: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:48:02 -0700 From: Mark Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Scott & Charlotte Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott, I didn't realize the issue was still happening. I just thought it happened initially after the washing then went away. Have you checked to make sure the plugs are not fouled? Also, if you have a way to check it, make sure the spark plug wires have the correct resistance. Other than that, I'm not sure. BTW, here are a couple of good sites on the M42 powered E30's. http://www.esatclear.ie/~bpurcell/index.html http://www.m42club.com/forums/index.php http://www.e30tuner.com/bmw/ Sincerely, Mark Gold Sacramento Valley Chapter BMWCCA [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 16, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Scott & Charlotte Miller wrote: > I'm glad we all had a good time discussing my Style 10 accessory > wheels (and lack of knowledge thereof), our fleet of BMWs, my > daughter, etc., which was all fun and good and everything. But I > don't recall seeing any advice on the original problem. So I'm > re-posting to see if anyone has any experience or advice. > > The slight miss continues to show up occasionally but always goes away > shortly afterwards. It has happened when the engine is warm and also > when it is luke-cold - sat outside in San Francisco for 5 hours last > night, had the slight miss right after starting, but after a few > stumbles it went away and the car ran fine. It almost feels like the > car has a clogged fuel filter, excpet that there was no problem before > the engine compartment was detailed and it has happened both under > high and low loads. > > TIA, > > Scott Miller > GGC BMW CCA > > <begin repost> > > Subject: <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well > > I had a friend's son detail the engine compartment of our '91 318is > last weekend. Afterwards there was an intermittant miss. The coil > unit and fuse box had been covered with plastic, but not the spark > plug cover. I suspected water had gotten in there, and I was right - > water in the #4 spark plug well. I dried it out best I could with > available tools and supplies (no compressed air in my garage , I'm > sorry to say) and then took it for a ride. It stumbled once under > load going up a hill with the AC on, but then ran fine the rest of the > drive. > > Could shorting due to the water have caused some damage that I should > find and fix? > > I also found and re-seated a vacuum hose that was not quite fully > seated on its fitting. Must have gotten moved during the cleaning. > > TIA, > > Scott Miller > GGC BMW CCA > Way more familiar with M20s than M42s > > <end repost> > > > > 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: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:56:09 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott & Charlotte Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Repost - <M42> Water in Spark Plug Well Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Scott, Your description sounds similar to an E30 problem I used to have. When the miss occurs, does the tach needle drop quickly to zero indicating a loss of spark, or stay about where it was indicating a loss of fuel supply? A slight miss with loss of spark could indicate the beginnings of wear on the carbon band on the AFM. That is a temperature sensitive event. The copper pointer arm does expand and contract, and a few thousandths clearance under contraction is enough for a worn pointer or carbon band to lose contact. Loss of contact is interpreted by the ECU as no air entering the engine, so it cuts spark in response. Sometimes there will be a buildup of carbon powder dust on the carbon band around the track that the pointer wears in it, indicating that the band has been wearing. A low spot of a few thousandths can occur where the band has worn the most, corresponding to where the pointer spends most of its time when the engine is running. The pointer arm can be bend and reshaped with gentle pressure from hook tipped needle nose pliers, to resposition the pointer downward and inward a bit restoring pressure on the band, and so the contact arc is now on unworn carbon a fraction of a mm inward from the original position. hth, Barry Scott & Charlotte Miller wrote: >I'm glad we all had a good time discussing my Style 10 accessory >wheels (and lack of knowledge thereof), our fleet of BMWs, my >daughter, etc., which was all fun and good and everything. But I >don't recall seeing any advice on the original problem. So I'm >re-posting to see if anyone has any experience or advice. > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:13:43 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] (bmw list) Subject: Free rims for E30 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have one set (4 of them) of the stock E30 "bottle cap" rims free to anyone who wants them... There is, of course, a catch. They are somewhat bent. This is the set that I had my snow tires on and they show it. They hold air and balance out, but they do have some flat spots thanks to the (lack of) efforts of the Department of Public Works here in lovely Worcester, MA. I traded to steel rims after aquiring a set of just about new summer tires from a friend who traded his Jetta in still wearing its snows. At any rate, they are (mostly) round, tires mount on them just fine, the beads didn't leak, and they are free to anyone who wants them. Use them for snows! Use them when you sell the car but don't want to sell your spiffy new rims with it! Use them to get that parts car carcass into the lake! -- Joe, not exactly holding my breath on this one... -- Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations and Security [EMAIL PROTECTED] Worcester Polytechnic Institute ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:13:08 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Update: E36 suspension Koni settings Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Got the front struts installed, immediately solved my dragging the driveway problem. Ride height is up 11 mm on the right, 10 mm on the left after a 5 km drive (to my office to pick up recycling and back to the house). Stock shocks were so shot that my puny arms could compress them without any resistance at arm's length. New Koni's took about 30-40 lbs to compress, so that's 60-80 lbs of lift on the front, now. What should I use for rear shock mounts? E46? What can I use to cover the protruding front adjusters on the front shocks? I have the rubber and metal front strut bearing like an E30 has. TIA, Ed ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:40:29 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[uucdigest]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Update: E36 suspension Koni settings Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use the //M3 style strut mount caps that attached over the tops of the upper strut mount studs, pn# 31 31 2 227 387. Did you also install the //M3 front sprint strut tower reinforcement 31 31 2 498 795 between the upper strut mount and the underside of the stut tower? Barry Ed MacVaugh wrote: > Got the front struts installed, immediately solved my dragging the > driveway problem. Ride height is up 11 mm on the right, 10 mm on the > left after a 5 km drive (to my office to pick up recycling and back to > the house). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:10:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Deshpande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E34> 540i 6sp Clutch R&R? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gruppe: I'm about to replace the clutch on my girlfriend's E34 540i 6sp. Any tips from those who have been there before? Difficult to access fasteners, etc., are what I'm most concerned about. Parts to replace while in there is another. I'll jack it up in the garage and take care of it over the next week or so. Please response to my e-mail address as I don't often get to read the list. Thanks! Neil Deshpande 92 M5 99 328i ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:01:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: Maverick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 318ti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, UUC <[email protected]> Subject: High Temp Paint??? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am thinking about painting certain parts of my brakes as I get ready to replace them. I have gotten some feedback on this subject, but Thought I would ask for every ones thoughts. I have written to the people at VHT and asked this question and so far no response. Are all/or specific ones of what are considered High-Temp paints either insulative (hold heat in and keep it out) or emisive (allow absorbed heat to be released faster than absorbed, but don't neccessarly shield from heat) ??? Example, if I paint my rotor hats, will they hold on more heat? or will it stop rust from forming and allow more heat to escape? Example, if I paint my calipers, will the paint keep heat from being absorbed, or allow it to be held in and actually raise the heat? Thanks, David Ellsworth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:00:36 -0400 From: "Jason Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: issues tracking a 325xi? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from 2001-2003 I averaged 7-10 track days (DE)... selling a home, buying a home, and remodeling a home have since put a slight damper on the fun though... and the only time my HG went poof (at Watkins Glen, due to a WOT-lean condition), my water temp gage was normal but there was this odd stumbling at 3-4K under WOT... I did manage to get it in the pits before it hydro-locked. If I had the time and $$, I'd be happy to do 12 DEs in a year... The Turbo is relatively bullit-proof as long as you do the maintence! (kinda like the BMW :) the only thing is that there is slightly more maintence in an older car ;) -Jason '86 951 "Sparky" '70 240Z "Dusty" '97 Contour "Bambi" '03 325xi "Daisy" > I was wondering how anxious you'd be to try three years of > 12-schools-per-year again in the same now-out-of-warranty, 19-year-old > 951. ;-) > > Chris Eck > > > On 7/15/06, Phil Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Kathy Lyle wrote: > > > > > >I actually spent 3 years (1987-1990) running an '87 944 Turbo at drivers > > >schools, an average of ~12 schools per year. The only problem I ever > > >had was a blown head gasket due to the fact that I had a car phone > > >installed and they somehow tapped into the fuse for the cooling fan. > > > > And I suppose you were too busy talking on said cell phone to notice > > the temp gauge pegging? :-) > > > > -Phil ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(14 messages) **********
