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#1. For Sale at ebay, 1997 M3 Factory Exhaust - from Cesar Omar
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:32:02 -0400 From: "Cesar Omar" <cesar@cfl.rr.com> Subject: For Sale at ebay, 1997 M3 Factory Exhaust This exhaust is perfect. I Install a SuperSprint exhaust, I do not need the factory exhaust. For question or pictures please e-mail me at cesar@cfl.rr.com. Thanks! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=362831038& r=0&t=0 Thanks! Cesar
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#2. [E36M3] more on batteries - from Mdriver13@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:26:45 EDT From: Mdriver13@aol.com Subject: [E36M3] more on batteries Hi all, On batteries...does anything happen to the electrical system of an M3 when you disconnect the battery? Saw an ad for this nifty device that plugs into the cig lighter hole attached to a 9-volt battery to keep electronics operating (so the ad said). Is this something good to have? Only ten bucks? Bob Gill 97 ///M3 coupe Philly Region SCCA 1st AS - '97 2nd AS - '98 & '99
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#3. Start your engine... - from david tow
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:02:44 PDT From: "david tow" <david_tow@hotmail.com> Subject: Start your engine... Dear all, This might be a "tiny issue", but I am still trying to make some sense out of it. I've always had a habit of depressing the clutch to the floor before starting the car. Why? I do this first of all to avoid smashing my gears if I forget to put the shifter in neutral. Secondly, I reduce the drag on the gearbox by depressing the clutch. However, I've recently learned that by doing it this way, I increase the accelerated wear on the clutch release bearing. Could someone clarify this for me? Thanks! David Tow ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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#4. Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... - from Andrej Dolenc
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:27:32 -0500 From: Andrej Dolenc <adolenc@erols.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... Err, not to burst your bubble or anything, but your car shouldn't start unless you depress the clutch pedal. Just tried it (by accident) on my '97 M3 this weekend. Wouldn't start, then I realized I didn't have the clutch in. Andrej '97 M3 > This might be a "tiny issue", but I am still trying to make some sense out > of it. I've always had a habit of depressing the clutch to the floor before > starting the car. Why? I do this first of all to avoid smashing my gears > if I forget to put the shifter in neutral. Secondly, I reduce the drag on > the gearbox by depressing the clutch. However, I've recently learned that > by doing it this way, I increase the accelerated wear on the clutch release > bearing. > Could someone clarify this for me?
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#5. Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... - from david tow
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:30:34 PDT From: "david tow" <david_tow@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... Oh, really, Andrej? I always do this regardless of which car I drive. But that still does not ease my worry though - would I hurt my clutch release bearing by doing it? David Tow >From: Andrej Dolenc <adolenc@erols.com> > >Err, not to burst your bubble or anything, but your car shouldn't start >unless >you depress the clutch pedal. Just tried it (by accident) on my '97 M3 >this >weekend. Wouldn't start, then I realized I didn't have the clutch in. > >Andrej >'97 M3 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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#6. Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... - from Suzy Kraft
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:57:38 -0500 From: Suzy Kraft <suekraft@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... You do need to depress the clutch on a 97 M3 in order for it to start. On my former 95 M3, this was not necessary, you could start the car without pushing in the clutch. Suzy david tow wrote: > > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:30:34 PDT > From: "david tow" <david_tow@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... > > Oh, really, Andrej? I always do this regardless of which car I drive. But > that still does not ease my worry though - would I hurt my clutch release > bearing by doing it? > > David Tow > > >From: Andrej Dolenc <adolenc@erols.com> > > > >Err, not to burst your bubble or anything, but your car shouldn't start > >unless > >you depress the clutch pedal. Just tried it (by accident) on my '97 M3 > >this > >weekend. Wouldn't start, then I realized I didn't have the clutch in. > > > >Andrej > >'97 M3 > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ************************************************************* > List Commands > UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. > *************************************************************
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#7. Re: [E36M3] it's been so long, i don't remember... - from LoweSeaton@aol.com
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Date: Tue Jun 27 20:10:23 2000 From: LoweSeaton@aol.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] it's been so long, i don't remember... Carlos writes: >About the capital letter this not that, capital this >not that... I'm pretty sure it goes to capital letters >each time there is a separate word (not that you can >tell from this): >Variable Nockenwellensteuerung, so that would make it >VaNoS. :-) >PS Sorry to hear about your car, same thing happened >to me (spun out in light slippery rain w/o hitting >anything though) and that was when I decided to start >attending driving schools. Not sure if I've learned >much about rain driving but it hasn't happened again >(knock on wood). :-) Sure has been fun trying. Carlos, Thanks. Yes I was trying to be exact. I knew there was more than one word in VaNoS. Thanks for the words of sympathy but I don't deserve them. I doubt if driving schools could help me unless they can cure my impatience and quick temper towards idiots on the roads. :) My accident occurred after I was stopped at a stoplight waiting to make a left turn. There was one idiot in front of me. After the light turned green, he just sat there, and sat there, and sat there!! My grandmother could have made it across the street with her walker. He had plenty of time, lots of opportunities to make a left turn. Finally he moves just as the light turns yellow. So what do I do? Sit patiently waiting through another change of lights? Heck NO!! I slam it in gear and stomp the gas pedal. I'll show this idiot how it is done :) I never got out of first gear. No more than 20 mph. The combination of damp oily asphalt and nearly bald MXX3 tires was worse than walking on marbles. I did a slow spin into the curb. I don't know if Danny Sullivan could have saved it. Nobody was hurt so I guess it could have been worse. :( Lowell Seaton '95 M3/2 Dallas, Texas
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#8. '01 BMW Calendars - from RonStygar@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:18:10 EDT From: RonStygar@aol.com Subject: '01 BMW Calendars Received info on the '01 BMW calendars today. Motorcycle: 80-63-9-417-288 $34.00 retail Corporate: 80-63-9-403-167 $21.50 " Classic: 80-63-9-417-839 $47.50 " Motorsport: 80-63-9-421-466 $43.00 " As the time goes by you can have them dry mounted to foam board. They make nice pictures for the garage. My local hobby store charges $10.00 to crop and mount.
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#9. Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... - from ED YEE
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:10:16 -0400 From: "ED YEE" <EDYEE@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... My old 94 318i was the same way. You didn't have to depress the clutch but you had to be in neutral. This allowed you to install a remote starting device eventhough the transmission wasn't an automatic. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzy Kraft" <suekraft@mindspring.com> To: "E36M3" <e36m3@bmwmpower.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 18:57:38 -0500 > From: Suzy Kraft <suekraft@mindspring.com> > Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... > > You do need to depress the clutch on a 97 M3 in order for it to start. > On my former 95 M3, this was not necessary, you could start the car > without pushing in the clutch. > > Suzy > > david tow wrote: > > > > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:30:34 PDT > > From: "david tow" <david_tow@hotmail.com> > > Subject: Re: [E36M3] Start your engine... > > > > Oh, really, Andrej? I always do this regardless of which car I drive. But > > that still does not ease my worry though - would I hurt my clutch release > > bearing by doing it? > > > > David Tow > > > > >From: Andrej Dolenc <adolenc@erols.com> > > > > > >Err, not to burst your bubble or anything, but your car shouldn't start > > >unless > > >you depress the clutch pedal. Just tried it (by accident) on my '97 M3 > > >this > > >weekend. Wouldn't start, then I realized I didn't have the clutch in. > > > > > >Andrej > > >'97 M3 > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > ************************************************************* > > List Commands > > UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. > > ************************************************************* > > > ************************************************************* > List Commands > UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. > ************************************************************* > >
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#10. RE: Jackstand locations - from Chris Gant
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:34:37 -0500 From: "Chris Gant" <cgant@home.com> Subject: RE: Jackstand locations I work on my car (and most of my friends cars) almost every chance I get, so here are a couple of tricks I use for getting one safely in the air. If I need to get the front of the car off the ground I will jack up one side of the car behind a front wheel with my small Auto-x jack until the wheel just leaves the ground, then I can get the larger floor jack under the cross member in the middle of the car to get the entire front end up and put jack stands under the jack points. Just BE SURE to put the small jack BACK under one side of the car again BEFORE you lower the car back down. Or else your front spoiler will land on the jack. If I need to get under the entire car (say, for a UUC short shift install) I will use the method above except I will put Rhino Ramps under the front wheels, remove the jack, then jack up the rear at the cross member just in front of the diff until the car is level, then put jack stands under the rear jack points and another under the diff and/or rear cross member. This is much more comfortable (mentally and physically) to work under than only using a jack stand at each corner, which I personally would never do. FWIW... There was a guy in our car club a few years back who was killed when his car fell on him because it was not properly supported. I have also seen two other cars roll off the factory jack because the wheels were not chocked and the car was out of gear. One of those was my car, which landed on my arm! (I was changing a tire) I was alone but fortunately was able to jack the car back up with my free hand. No joke. That was a few years ago...I have a lot more respect for working under a car now. Chris 95 M3 > Subject: RE: [E36M3] Jackstand locations > > Andy, > > I use the rubber stopper jack points for my floor jack > and thus have difficulty kicking the floor jack out and > sliding the jack stand in before the car falls(just > kidding):-). > > Perhaps you could enlighten me as to your complete > procedure. What do you use for jack points that leave > the rubber stopper points accessible? In the front I > jack up by the rubber jack points and then use > the "frame rails" to support the jackstands. > > On previous cars, I used the front crossmember to lift > the entire front end. The M3s are so low I can't get my > jack in that far (without using ramps). On the rear, I > have used the differential to lift the rear end. The M3 > may also be too low for this but if not, I am skeptical > of lifting this car by the diff. Is that a safe thing on > the E36s?