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#1. Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves - from Ben Liaw - UUC Motorwerks
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:58:57 -0500 From: "Ben Liaw - UUC Motorwerks" <ben@shortshifter.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves my favorite tire shop, precision tire & wheel, have been using TSW valve stems on the wheels i bring in exclusively. they're easy to install, clear ALL BMW rims (i've nearly had them all, ya know), and are pretty inexpensive. more importantly, they have a more substatial seal than most metal valves, which scott capistrano (owner at precision tire) feels is more important than fancy looks, names or high price tags. then again, i've always threatened him that i'd duplicate the TSW valve stems in titanium, so that they won't have to use as much wheel weights when they balance the tires. ben ------------------------------------------- ben liaw - ben@shortshifter.com http://www.uucmotorwerks.com
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#2. Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation - from Ben Liaw - UUC Motorwerks
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:55:47 -0500 From: "Ben Liaw - UUC Motorwerks" <ben@shortshifter.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation despite don's love for E30 M3s specifically, he knows more than the average tech about E36 vehicles as well. i know a few satisfied UUC customers that drive more than average distances, to have work done on their cars by don, personally. he saved me costly repairs a year ago when i had Bambislayer...what sounded like a vanos unit gone bad, or even worse, perhaps piston slap in cylinder # 1, turned out to be a careless water pump replacement by another independent, north jersey shop. don took a look, and after 5 minutes, discovered that the 4, 10mm bolts that secure the water pump were not tighten sufficently. don does more than great work. he knows exactly what is going on, at all times, even with crazy californian's calling him. :-) ben <-- only 20 minutes from don's shop ------------------------------------------- ben liaw - ben@shortshifter.com http://www.uucmotorwerks.com
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#3. Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves - from Chester Wong
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:29:03 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves --- Ben Liaw - UUC Motorwerks <ben@shortshifter.com> wrote: > then again, i've always threatened him that i'd duplicate the TSW valve > stems in titanium, so that they won't have to use as much wheel weights > when they balance the tires. Now there's a product! Cold rolled threads? 6/4 titanium? Woo hoo! Chester ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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#4. Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves - from Sean Hester
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:36:05 -0800 From: "Sean Hester" <seanh_race@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Crappy tire valves > > then again, i've always threatened him that i'd duplicate the TSW valve > > stems in titanium, so that they won't have to use as much wheel weights > > when they balance the tires. > >Now there's a product! Cold rolled threads? 6/4 titanium? Woo hoo! i always thought the "best" way to go were those flush mount female things i see on alot of race cars at SCCA races. there's no "stem" at all. just a recepticle, into which you plug your special air filler doo-dad attached to your portable air tank. for "emergencies" i think they have an adpter that can thumbscrew on to make a normal "valve" so you can get air at the gas station. can you make me some of those in titanium? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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#5. Unsubcribe Digest - from KKASPER4@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:40:23 EST From: KKASPER4@aol.com Subject: Unsubcribe Digest Unsubscribe Digest
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#6. RE: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation - from MDadgar@handspring.com
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:48:18 -0600 From: MDadgar@handspring.com Subject: RE: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation Jim wrote: > Another friend recommended that I speak to Don Field of Autosport > Performance in Englewood, NJ who has lots of ///M experience. [Lots of nice stuff about Don deleted] Don is very active on the E30 M3 list. He's a GREAT guy who's always happy to help another M owner, whether they're a potential customer or not. He's also a veritable fountain of knowledge. If he were local to me, he'd be working on my car. > - Mark > '95 M3 > '97 528i 5-spd > '88 M3, Hennarot > ---- > Mark Dadgar - Product Manager, Peripherals > (650) 230-5037 voice - (650) 230-2100 fax > mdadgar@handspring.com - Handspring, Inc > Check out Visor at www.handspring.com!
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#7. Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation - from Ron Buchalski
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:51:39 From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation Huh? No HFM? What was telling the DME about intake airflow? I don't see how it's possible for the DME to determine how much fuel to inject if it doesn't know about airflow into the engine, unless it can make an assumption based on RPM, O2 level, throttle position, etc. Please explain... -rb >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:37:49 -0800 (PST) >From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> >Subject: Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation > >I agree 100% with Jim. Don's shop is where Steve D hosted the dyno session >last Winter. The only quib I have with him is that he's an E30 kinda guy >=) >But he is an avid BMW enthusiast and knows his stuff. He had a hunch about >the whole HFM thing when dyno testing the cars and asked for my permission >to entirely disconnect the flexible tubing (from the throttle body) from >the HFM. I agreed. He did it and then we dynoed my car again. So with no >HFM, no airbox, no nothing (I know...double negative, but I'm from >Brooklyn, ya know?), my car pumped out more power (equivalent to the JimC >intake on Wayne Miller's car). He was truly pleased to see the results and >cheered. > >He'll get my business when my warranty expires. > >Chester _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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#8. Dinan labor units - from Jim Powell
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:55:44 -0800 From: Jim Powell <jsp98m3@apexcone.com> Subject: Dinan labor units What time period does Dinan use as a 'unit' on their labor quotes. Is it 6 mins, 10 mins, 3 weeks? Jim
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#9. Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation - from Chester Wong
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:57:35 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Shop Recommendation I dunno. I dunno how it all works. All I know is that I was staring at the big rubber hose while the engine pumped out 227-ish to the wheels. Luckily there where no flying birds around ;) Don't believe me, ask Steve D, Wayne Miller or the other people who saw the first clean burning car on the dyno for a while (all them dirty E30s spewing their suffocating black soot...bleh!). Just kidding! Chester --- Ron Buchalski <rbuchals@hotmail.com> wrote: > Huh? No HFM? What was telling the DME about intake airflow? > > I don't see how it's possible for the DME to determine how much fuel to > inject if it doesn't know about airflow into the engine, unless it can make > an assumption based on RPM, O2 level, throttle position, etc. > > Please explain... ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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#10. Re: [E36M3] Wheels & Tahrs, Tyres, Tires [long] - from Rob Levinson
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:06:54 -0500 From: Rob Levinson <rob@shortshifter.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Wheels & Tahrs, Tyres, Tires [long] > From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [E36M3] Wheels & Tahrs, Tyres, Tires [long] Wow, somebody has a lot of free time! > Oh really, you don't get special treatment? Does not Jake personally take the > time out to dismount your wheels, dismount the tires and remount new ones? Mine and anybody else's when the manpower is required. >... then > you can rest assured that your wheel weights will not have a screwdriver > applied to them to remove them. You got one new tech who bungled a job. I sympathize with your consternation, but let's face it - shit happens. What I take issue with is you lambasting an entire shop based on the actions of one new tech who is no longer there. > About the finish, you're entirely missing the point and trying to mask the > real > problem here. No, I'm not. Your portrayal is just short of saying that the weights were shot off with a .357 Magnum. I saw your wheels after they were refinished (because _I_ wanted to make sure they were okay so _you_ would be happy - a good shop does not need even anecdotal bad press) and the last vestige of any mark was the tiniest of marks that required a real good squint to see. > To me, repeated use of such a screwdriver to remove a weight > does not qualify as a mistake. No, but it also doesn't mean that a shop that usually has excellent techs and does excellent work needs one person destroying their reputation over a tiny mark. In fact, a car of mine got broken into in their lot a few years ago in the middle of the night. It's not a bad area, cars get broken into anywhere. Did I run around saying "I can't believe they let that happen! How irresponsible!" Once again, shit does occasionally happen. Guess who paid for the new window? _I_ did because it was nobody's fault other than the vandal. > Hey, did you ever find out who used his or her > finger to scribble a message on your hood after all the water spots dried from > that recent rain shower? Nope, just someone fluent in Spanish, probably a dumbass kid. Why, do you suggest I blame all of Freedman Tire for that also? > I agree 100% with you that Jake is a good guy as well as a good business man. > He did try to repair the wheels by sending it to his guy who would use a... <snip> So in one breath you're saying Jake is a good guy and takes care of his customers, yet in the next you're saying you have "reservations". Good consistency there. > when I got my wheels back, I would argue that the imperfections actually > looked > worse. I would argue they looked like brand new wheels. > So > someone had the brilliant idea to use a wax pencil to mark where each tire > goes > on with respect to the tire valve. <snip> Somehow I doubt you have in-depth knowledge about how tire mounting and balancing works. Tires and wheels always have a heavier side (that's why they need balancing). BMW wheels and many tires actually come with a mark (the green or red dot) showing the points where the wheel and tire are optimally matched so as to use a minimum amount of balancing weights. When it comes to dismounting and remounting a tire that has been balanced on a machine that shows the ideal orientation (such as Freedman uses), it is easier to just mark where the generally right position is. Now this part I am certain of: you had a misunderstanding... of course they would re-balance them as it would be impossible to perfectly match up the marked wheel and tire. But with a customer hovering right over a tech's shoulder, the customer's suggestion about what to do next is often exactly what the tech was going to do without the customer's intrusion. >....the 1.25oz weight was removed from the wheel, the > wheel was mounted back onto their latest and greatest Hunter wheel balancer, > and guess what...the Hunter machine indicated that a weight of 1.5oz needed to > be placed on the exact opposite side of the wheel. Do you think this made me > happy? Jake tried to explain it as even the best balancing machine out there > does not get an accurate indication point repeatedly. And he was 100% right. I have seen two sets of wheels that almost refused to be balanced... put it on the Hunter, apply weights where it says to. Spin it up again to check and it says the exact opposite. You scratch your head and say "what the hell?". Try it ten more times and the same contradictory results pop up. Swap the tire onto another wheel and the problem disappears. Some specific tires and specific wheels just are not happy with each other. It's a fact of life and the last thing you should do is blame an individual. > You seem to question why I was *chronically* dissatisfied. Lessee....I took a > day off the reward myself for all the hard work I was doing at the time. I > decided to drive almost 40 miles each way ($11 worth in tolls) to a place > where > (IMO, at the time) a well respected list member specifically recommended to > change my tires. Is that the sound of a violin playing? > 320 miles, $44 worth in tolls, $65 for the initial service, 16 gallons of gas, > early time off work twice...all to change a set of tires? You know what I would suggest? Figure out things for yourself and do not ask anyone for advice. The other 99.9999% of his customers are tickled pink. > I consider this thread closed and I would be happy to take it offline, but > last > time I checked, Rob has an auto-bounce set whenever I send him an e-mail after > I sold my UUC shifter. .... Consider whatever you want. No, Chester, I blocked incoming messages from you when you incorrectly accused me on the E36M3 list of throwing you off the UUC Digest, despite me posting to this very list and bimmer.org that the UUC Digest server was flipping out and dropping people randomly. THAT is why you became "persona non grata", no other reason whatsoever. > maybe Rob could learn a little from Jake when it > comes to dealing with customers.... I'm not dealing with you as a customer. I'm dealing with you personally. There's a lot of freedom in that. - Rob