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#1. Re: [E36M3] Sway Bar Adjusting 101 - from Andrew E. Kalman
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:24:20 -0700 From: "Andrew E. Kalman" <aek@pumpkininc.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Sway Bar Adjusting 101 Re: >Shortening the lever arm will increase the torsional resistance to bending >the transverse part of the sway bar. >So, yep, it makes it stiffer. Yep. The way I think of this stuff is to take it to the extreme -- imagine if a sway bar had ends that were 100 feet long. It's easy to visualize that you could move one end and feel essentially no resistance -- the whole thing would be so damn floppy anyway. No resistance to movement = no effect on the suspension. So, short arm = stiff, long arm = not so stiff. Don't know why UUC would suggest otherwise. -- ______________________________________ Andrew E. Kalman, Ph.D. aek@pumpkininc.com
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#2. San Diego Events Reminder!!! - from Jim Powell
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:40:36 -0700 From: Jim Powell <jsp98m3@home.com> Subject: San Diego Events Reminder!!! Fellow Southern Californians: Lots of cool things coming up in the San Diego Chapter the rest of this year. Here's just a sample. For more info goto: http://www.sdbmwcca.com September 23-24: Driving School at Buttonwillow Oct 7th: Autocross on the BIG west lot of Qualcomm Stadium. Typical course layouts are 1.25 miles WooHoo! October 10th: Board Meeting October 21-22: Chrysler Jeep Classic Speed Festical, Vintage Car racing on the airfield, Naval Air Station, North Island, Coronado October 26th: Social Night at Speedworld, indoor go-kart racing madness November 1st: Who the heck are Will Turner and Jim Conforti? Well come and find out. Will is bringing his cars and drivers to San Diego BMW starting at 6:30 until ??? Jim Conforti will be there to discuss his chip and intake tuning also. Yeah, I thought that one would interest everyone :) November 4th: Ticket to Tecate, Steam Train ride into Mexico to tour wineries and shop. Nov 11th: Autocross again at Qualcomm. The big west lot AGAIN. November 17th: Social Night at the Civiv Center to watch STOMP. No, I'm not sure what that is but its not Riverdance apparently. December 2nd: Tech Session at the Wheel Store in Oceanside. Momo, Eibach and either Toyo or Yoko reps. Door prizes and food and all that stuff. Starts at 6:00 December 16th: Snow? What's that? Another Autocross at Qualcomm in the Southeast lot. This one will probably be about .75 miles. Whew! See you there! Please spread to other lists. Jim Powell Webmeister San Diego Chapter BMW CCA
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#3. Re: [E36M3] crash at lime rock video - from Daniel Smith
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:49:01 -0700 From: Daniel Smith <dls@daniel.org> Subject: Re: [E36M3] crash at lime rock video At 10:54 PM -0500 9/15/00, Adam Fila wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:43:30 -0400 > From: "Adam Fila" <ylf@mindless.com> > Subject: crash at lime rock video > > Friend of mine sent me this link... > > http://12.5.162.60/images/thecrash.mpeg Man, this one gets around!... it started on the Suburu list, I saw it on the Ferrari list, and posted it to the UUCGarage... now it's here. To shortcut some stuff, go here: <http://www.impreza-rs.com/NonCGI/Forum11/HTML/001121.html>http://www.impreza-rs.com/NonCGI/Forum11/HTML/001121.html its a '99 Legacy 2.5GT 5speed sedan M3 relevance: some stuff to learn here before hitting the track again. I'll let better drivers than me explain what to keep in mind. Daniel -- Daniel L. Smith - dls@daniel.org - Sonoma County, CA
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#4. ZMax Snake Oil or what? - from casanova@foreverfun.com
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:05:46 -0500 From: casanova@foreverfun.com Subject: ZMax Snake Oil or what? What's with this new ZMax I see on TV. Apperantly a product of theirs called AVBLEND hass FAA approval for airplanes. They say ZMAX is the same product for use in cars. HAs anyone tried either product. What do you all think. Bill P
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#5. Yellow M3 on Ebay - from Altezza280TT@cs.com
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:10:37 EDT From: Altezza280TT@cs.com Subject: Yellow M3 on Ebay Does the Canada M3 have the same motor as we do? Or do they have Euro!
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#6. Re: [E36M3] Yellow M3 on Ebay - from Captain Hags
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:30:58 EDT From: "Captain Hags" <captainhags@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Yellow M3 on Ebay At first they had the Euro motor, for about $50,000 base. They sold 45 of these and then switched to the US Spec motor. >From: Altezza280TT@cs.com >Reply-To: Altezza280TT@cs.com >To: E36M3 <e36m3@bmwmpower.com> >Subject: [E36M3] Yellow M3 on Ebay >Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:14:04 -0500 > >Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:10:37 EDT >From: Altezza280TT@cs.com >Subject: Yellow M3 on Ebay > > Does the Canada M3 have the same motor as we do? Or do they have Euro! > > >************************************************************* >List Commands >UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. >************************************************************* > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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#7. Re: M3 on ebay - from Paul England
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:16:42 -0400 From: "Paul England" <ettsn@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: M3 on ebay More likely, since it is a theft recovery, the company that refurbed the car might have ordered "E36 mirror kit" instead of the correct ones, if the mirrors were missing. They actually look like regular 323/328 mirrors from later E36 cars, but in DakarII. It even states that the cars they sell often need refurbishing, due to a recovery mishap or chop-shop activity. That's my guess. -Paul > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=439126364 > > > > Saw this on ebay. Sounds like it is very very suspicious. Anyone notice .... > Like someone else said, it is an awful lot of trouble to add all the M3 > peices this car does have to a regular E36 (and then not change the mirrors > too).
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#8. RE: [E36M3] Re: M3 on ebay - from MDadgar@handspring.com
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:29:16 -0700 From: MDadgar@handspring.com Subject: RE: [E36M3] Re: M3 on ebay That's an M3. Look at the needles on the instruments - red pointers. ///M cars only. It's also likely that some previous owner thought the tiny M3 mirrors sucked and replaced them with the normal E36 ones. - Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul England [mailto:ettsn@mindspring.com] > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 11:24 PM > To: E36M3 > Subject: [E36M3] Re: M3 on ebay > > > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:16:42 -0400 > From: "Paul England" <ettsn@mindspring.com> > Subject: Re: M3 on ebay > > More likely, since it is a theft recovery, the company that > refurbed the car > might have ordered "E36 mirror kit" instead of the correct > ones, if the > mirrors were missing. They actually look like regular 323/328 > mirrors from > later E36 cars, but in DakarII. It even states that the cars > they sell often > need refurbishing, due to a recovery mishap or chop-shop > activity. That's my > guess. > > -Paul > > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&i tem=439126364 > > > > Saw this on ebay. Sounds like it is very very suspicious. Anyone notice .... > Like someone else said, it is an awful lot of trouble to add all the M3 > peices this car does have to a regular E36 (and then not change the mirrors > too). ************************************************************* List Commands UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. *************************************************************
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#9.Ultimate garage jack plate - from Chester Wong
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:43:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: <FS> Ultimate garage jack plate Hi guys. I really don't find myself using the jackplate that I bought a while ago. If I'm changing wheels and the such, I usually opt to jack from the subframe to get two wheels in the air at a time (thanks, Rich for the great GP on the Lincoln jacks). So....the first $75 gets it. Have a good weekend, Chester ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
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#10. Re: [E36M3] Sway Bar Adjusting 101 - from Chester Wong
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:26:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Sway Bar Adjusting 101 > >Shortening the lever arm will increase the torsional resistance to bending > >the transverse part of the sway bar. > >So, yep, it makes it stiffer. > > Yep. The way I think of this stuff is to take it to the extreme -- > imagine if a sway bar had ends that were 100 feet long. It's easy to > visualize that you could move one end and feel essentially no > resistance -- the whole thing would be so damn floppy anyway. No > resistance to movement = no effect on the suspension. > > So, short arm = stiff, long arm = not so stiff. > > Don't know why UUC would suggest otherwise. No, no, no.... there's a little history to all of this. Currently, this is what's stated on UUC's website: "After the front and rear Sway Barbarians have been installed, it is recommended that the front be set to FULL STIFF (which is the holes furthest from the ends) and the rear to FULL SOFT (holes closest to the ends). This setup will give your car the most understeer with the Sway Barbarians. From there, you can tune the bars to your driving style. " This is CORRECT! It *USED* to be wrong. I noticed the wrong advice when installing my UUC sway bars and discussed this with Ben. He admitted that there was a mixup and prompty corrected the mistake, but UUC Motorwerks didn't make a public comment stating that their webpage was incorrect (unless they contacted each person who bought the bars with the old setup instructions). To me, that's a little scary. So instead of having the maximum conservative setting (full stiff front and full soft rear....i.e. most inclined to push or understeer), you have the exact opposite if you followed the old setup info (full soft in the front and full stiff in the rear...i.e. maximum neutral or most inclined to oversteer or be "loose"). Andrew's visualization is spot on: the longer the lever arm, the easier it is to twist the bar... i.e., soft Chester BTW, the UUC sways are coming off the car whenever the Eibachs come in. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/