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#1. RE: [E36M3] Strut reinforcement plates & KMACs? - from Fadeev, Alex
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 12:21:03 -0400 From: "Fadeev, Alex" <alex.fadeev@verizon.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] Strut reinforcement plates & KMACs? Jeremy Lucas [mailto:jlucas@columbus.rr.com] wrote: > > Anyone have the 96 & on strut reinforcement plates on their > car at the same time as KMACs? When I had my struts off last, > on my 95, I placed the reinforcement plate on top of the KMAC > and it looked like it would restrict the adjustability of the > KMACs, so I didn't install the plates. Jeremy, The reinforcement plates are little more that pressure bearing sleeves for the strut towers. They bolt between the upper strut mount (camber plate) and the strut tower. They narrow the strut tower opening radius by 3-4mm, and that would be the extend of limiting potential camber plate movement. I have both the reinforcement plates and the KMACs on my '95 M3 and the left-to-right camber discrepancy with KMACs on my car is a far greater restriction that reinforcement plates. > The reinforcement plate have a down-turned outer edge and an > upturned inner edge, and the KMACs hit the down-turned outer > edge once you start to position them off center. Anyone with > a different experience? If you do have both installed, how > much camber are you running? I'm sure they could go on together > but I don't know how much it would limit camber adjustment. I see your point. In theory, the down turned lips at the base of the reinforcement plates could be a problem, though it did not look that way when we were bolting everything up (time to take a second look). FWIW, I can get -1.8 degrees of camber out of the right front wheel and at least -2.5 degrees from the left wheel. I had to leave both at -1.8 degrees of camber and around 5.6 degrees of caster (a little less that stock), which BTW resulted in perfectly even temperatures across the tire at the last autoX. No collision damage, but my stock right upper strut mount was a bit more rounded that the left one. I assumed the right wheel must have received big enough whacks from the pot holes to distort the upper strut mount and likely the strut tower itself. But you got me wondering and I will have to go back and make sure that the reinforcement plate is not a culprit as well. alex f
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#2. Re: Fix for Nick in Control Arm Boot? - from Neil Maller
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:28:53 -0500 From: Neil Maller <neil.maller@gte.net> Subject: Re: Fix for Nick in Control Arm Boot? on 5/7/01 11:12 AM, Geof McLaughlin <gfmiiilist@usa.net> wrote: > I just noticed that I have a small nick in one of the rubber boots of the > front control arm. If I push on it enough, it does leak grease. Is there > any way of repairing this nick to prevent further grease from escaping? BMP sells replacement boots. Neil 96 M3
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#3. What are they worth? - from Gardner, Russell - BALTO
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 12:32:51 -0400 From: "Gardner, Russell - BALTO" <russell.gardner@piperrudnick.com> Subject: What are they worth? I have the passenger and driver "Darth Vader" seats from my '95 M3, dove gray, in reasonable condition (approx. 75k, 150 lb. non-smoking driver, no tears, surface cracking on seat bolster, heated) available for purchase due to installation of Recaro SRDs. Any idea of the fair market value of these seats? Russ Gardner NCC ____________________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this communication may be confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message and any copy of it from your computer system. Thank you. For more information about Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, please visit us at http://www.piperrudnick.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________
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#4. Re: Air Orbital Polisher - from Steve Sharp
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 09:52:34 -0700 From: Steve Sharp <steve.sharp@xilinx.com> Subject: Re: Air Orbital Polisher > Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 18:18:29 -0500 > From: "Steve Hudson" <shudson@io.com> > Subject: Air Orbital Polisher > > Anyone ever used an air-driven orbital polisher? Where did you get it? I > saw one in the Groits catalog, but it seemed fairly expensive. > > Steve Hudson > '97 M3/4 Can't comment on the air-powered version, but I have the electric random orbital from Griot's and I love it. It gives great results and is slow enough that I don't have to worry about damaging the paint. It did a great job maintaining the non-metallic red on my former Miata (very tough color to maintain and have a smooth looking finish) and is great on clear-coated metallics like my M3. Steve '97 M3/w2 '01 330i sport/premium
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#5. Strut reinforcement plates & KMACs? - from Frank, Mike
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 11:55:36 -0500 From: "Frank, Mike" <mikefrank@lucent.com> Subject: Strut reinforcement plates & KMACs? Jeremy, I know exactly what your talking about. I installed the KMACS when they first came out and went through this same dilemma. I sent pictures to Will Turner and spoke to him on the phone about this. I guess you have 2 options, modify the plate or leave it out. I wasn't comfortable leaving it out, so I cut the lip (down-turned outer edge) off the reinforcement plate (air tool). Also, the extra thickness of the plate gives you just a little more adjustability. A third option would be to leave the plate in and have about .2 degrees of adjustability - not quite what I was shooting for. Or, if you loosen the strut tower nuts enough and unload the front suspension, you can get the bearing plate to clear the lower lip of the reinforcement plate, resulting in good adjustability. The only problem is that when you reload/retighten everything, you end up bending the softer bearing plate against the lip on the reinforcement plate and possibly the strut tower (note - the latter is possible regardless of the reinforcement plate). Ask me how I know :) In the end, I've got about 1.25 to 1.5 degrees of adjustability. This allows me to run roughly -1.5 degrees of camber for the street and roughly -3 degrees of camber for the track. This is with H&R Sports and one shim helping the camber cause. IMHO, additional negative camber in the front is the best way to overcome the inherent understeer while making the car faster at the same time (other than driving technique). Mike Frank 97 M3 > -------------------- 7 -------------------- > Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 06:45:59 -0400 > From: "Jeremy Lucas" <jlucas@columbus.rr.com> > Subject: Strut reinforcement plates & KMACs? > > Anyone have the 96 & on strut reinforcement plates on their > car at the same > time as KMACs? When I had my struts off last, on my 95, I placed the > reinforcement plate on top of the KMAC and it looked like it > would restrict > the adjustability of the KMACs, so I didn't install the plates. The > reinforcement plate have a down-turned outer edge and an > upturned inner > edge, and the KMACs hit the down-turned outer edge once you start to > position them off center. Anyone with a different > experience? If you do > have both installed, how much camber are you running? I'm > sure they could > go on together but I don't know how much it would limit > camber adjustment. > > Thanks, > Jeremy Lucas > Delaware, OH > 95 M3
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#6. Euro airbox is taken! - from Miki Haraguchi
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:10:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Miki Haraguchi <mharaguchi@yahoo.com> Subject: Euro airbox is taken! The free Euro airbox has been claimed. Thanks, everyone, for your interest. Miki 1997 328is LTW __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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#7. FS= 1 BRAND NEW AVS SPORT 245 40 zr 17" - from Altezza280TT@cs.com
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:57:44 EDT From: Altezza280TT@cs.com Subject: FS= 1 BRAND NEW AVS SPORT 245 40 zr 17" I got 1 brand new never mount AVS sport in an 245 40 17 for sale. Selling it because I brought a warranties from discount tire when I brought then and one of the rear had a blow out and they gave me a new one. My other AVS in the rear was 1/2 worn so I decided to get two new tire for the rear that match my front and sale the new AVS they gave me. Email me 4 PIC. I accept Paypal if you have account. Asking $160 ship
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#8. Re: [OT-not!] In-Car Video and Video-for-the-web production - from Neil Maller
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:35:22 -0500 From: Neil Maller <neil.maller@gte.net> Subject: Re: [OT-not!] In-Car Video and Video-for-the-web production on 5/7/01 11:12 AM, "Andrew E. Kalman" <aek@pumpkininc.com> wrote: > I've been playing around with my in-car video setup > > I'm interested in usability comments (i.e. does it play on your > system? Are the title sharp? How's the color? Zooms OK? Sound OK?), > what you like and don't like (it's no-frills right now), etc. Looks pretty good to me, much better than average as internet video goes. Yes, the files are large at 16-20MB, but that's reflected in the better quality. Took 20-25 minutes each even over my DSL. These played very nicely using QT5 on my Mac (older G3 266 Mhz). At first they were choppy, then I realized I had about 6 other apps running in the background. Once I quit out of those, the video played smoothly. Resolution is good enough to increase the player window size and still have decent quality. I can't tell whether the video glitch coming down through the corkscrew at Laguna Seca is a digitization problem, or perhaps the camcorder skipped as the M5 camera car landed? I'm only familiar with LS from watching Speedvision, but it sure looked as if you were doing a nice job, Andrew. The LTW seemed wonderfully well balanced on track out. I don't recall what your setup is, care to remind us? Neil 96 M3
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#9. Alignment Issues - from Steve D'Gerolamo
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 15:26:06 -0400 From: "Steve D'Gerolamo" <steved3@idt.net> Subject: Alignment Issues Find a shop with a Beissbarth ML4000...if they've got the BMW specific wheel clamps (an extra $5k per set of 4), they can set the car up perfectly. SD ================================== Steve D'Gerolamo - The Ultimate Garage - Tel 201-262-0412
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#10. Fwd: [evolution-announce] Intro-Evolution/Kumho Team Challenge Event - from peter@guagenti.com
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 12:24:05 US/Pacific From: peter@guagenti.com Subject: Fwd: [evolution-announce] Intro-Evolution/Kumho Team Challenge Event Fellow listers -- Check this out. Seems like a great competition for a group like this. If this comes to the west coast, I'd love to do it. I qualify as a rookie and I've got a SP car, so any champs out there looking for a 4th? ;-) -p > ----- > This is going out to introduce the first of what we hope to become part of > some series across the country. The Evolution Performance Driving > School/Kumho Tire Team Challenge Event. This is an event that is happening > alone or inside another event. The first one scheduled will be the Perry > Georgia southeast divisional being held at the End of August. This is an > event that will have a big money payout for the top 10 teams. > > Evolution and Kumho will be combining together to present a type of > competition that will hopefully encourage new friendships, more women to get > involved, and a new type of event to maybe will back some decent money. It > will also get entrants some much wanted seat time by many people to play for > a day before the big event. > Here's how it is going to work- > > For an additional team entry fee of $150.00 a team of 3 or 4 people will > enter the event already scheduled for Saturday and Sunday. (we have yet to > determine if we will do 3 or 4 people on a team) This team will take their > times from the event and take the best time for each day and get a total time > for each individual on the team, then get their indexed time. combine each > person's total time for the event as figured on index to add together for a > total team time. The top 10 teams will be get a money payback. Here are a > few of the rules- > 1. Each team will have a rookie with 2 years experience or less. > 2. Each team will have a female on the team. > 3. Each team will include a car other than a stock car for indexing. > 4. A person can be entered on 2 teams but their time for the event counts > the same for both teams. > > Here's what the $150 will get you besides the chance to win back some GOOD > money-those entering the Team Challenge will have a practice session on > Friday to run unlimited on a course from like 9-3. In addition, Evolution > Performance Driving School is planning to possibly hold a school on Friday > for those who might be looking to improve. > > PRIZE MONEY PAYOUT- > Evolution and Kumho will be putting in the pot to start $1,500. All entry > money will go forth into this pot to make one big pool to payout from. All > payouts will be decided by the amount of entries. For example-if say 10 > teams enter, payout will look like something like this > > 1st-$600 > 2nd-$500 > 3rd-$400 > 4th $350 > 5th-$300 > 6th-$250 > 7th-$200 > 8th-$175 > 9th-$150 > 10th-!00 > > So, at 9th place, that team could still get their entry back for the > challenge plus get all day Friday to play and practice. We also might add to > the payout that any ALL Kumho tire placing team in the Challenge will get an > additional $100.00. > > We hope this will encourage some new participation, some new females to get > involved, some new friendships to take place by picking some novices to get > involved and take them under the wing of sorts. It also adds some new > excitement and a different type of twist to competition. > > We have yet to determine how many on a team, but that will be coming soon. I > wanted to get this out there to you all so you can have the chance to hook up > with some people, spread the word. We'd like for this to develop into a > series for regions all over of maybe 3 events for the year and then have a > "National event" sometime at the end of the year, with an even bigger turn > out. Maybe if it becomes a series of it's own, we might add some classes to > make it more alluring to the import crowd to take part. I am hoping we will > see many co-drivers working together and splitting expenses for this as you > can actually have 3 people on the team in the same car with 2 males and a > female. > > Please spread this to any list you can think of and tell them to check the > website for additional news and info as it becomes a reality. I've had this > idea and wanted to do it, and now with the help of the Southeast Divisional > series, plus Kumho this will really happen. > > More to come! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using HiSpeed Technologies Webmail. http://www.hispeed.com