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#1. Re: speeding tickets - from Stan.Shaw@Excell.Net
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:43:27 -0500 From: <Stan.Shaw@Excell.Net> Subject: Re: speeding tickets > You will have have no problem with speed traps if you weren't speeding While this may be true, there are often times when I am on a crowded highway here in the Northeast that the slower cars are in deadly peril because the speed limit is not uniformly enforced. If it were, then we would all be driving slower. The randomness of the enforcement is what makes drivers think that it is ok to drive faster than the limit. The of course the fact that I have found I can drive a non descript car the same speed as a Porsche 928 or a BMW M3 without ever being stopped makes me even more cynical with regard to how random the stops are. Regards, Stan Shaw Excell.Net Phone: (413) 599-0399 Fax: (413) 599-0421 Stan.Shaw@Excell.Net http://www.excell.net/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
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#2. Re: Shop rates on cams - from Neil Maller
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:48:29 -0500 From: Neil Maller <neil.maller@gte.net> Subject: Re: Shop rates on cams on 12/20/01 3:18 PM, "The Abels" <aAbel@austin.rr.com> wrote: > 97 M3/4, in dire need of cams Yeah, our cars are just so damn slow <g> How is it we get those speeding tickets anyway? Neil 96 M3 - wouldn't mind the cam kit either...
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#3. Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets - from Peter Guagenti
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 12:50:18 -0800 From: Peter Guagenti <peter@guagenti.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets on 12/20/01 11:46 AM, Dorffer, Rich at RDORFFER@CleIndians.com wrote: > even saw a guy on a cruiser lay it down in the braking test. Taking the > motorcycle test on a sport bike is even more difficult (the course > benefits light, low geared quick steering bikes like my 74 Honda 350XL) > and I was lucky to pass when I took it on my GSXR 750. Hell, I had to > choose to completely throw away one turn in order to set myself up for > the slalom because it wasn't even possible to do the combination with my > sport bike. My father (now almost 63 years old) has been racing motorcycles since he was 16. He made it to pro-level but eventually gave it up to become a mechanic. He has never stopped riding. He moved out of New York recently to work for a restoration shop and had to re-take the motorcycle license exam. He said it was one of the hardest tests he ever took. This is coming from a guy who may as well have been born on bike. That sounds like an appropriate model for automobiles. Who cares if Grandma/Teenager/Moron can't pass it and has to have someone else take him/her grocery shopping/to the movies/to work? I lived my entire life in NYC without a driver's license or car and didn't miss it. An infrastructure develops around a lack of 4-wheeled convenience. Call me a snob, but I say let's clear the roads. -peterg
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#4. Re: 99 M-TREE speeding - from Ticalian57@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:41:06 EST From: Ticalian57@aol.com Subject: Re: 99 M-TREE speeding i for one fell the traffic laws are wrong and should be adjusted for todays drivers on some roads where i live (long island) there are 30 mph speed limits have any of you driven 30 mph in your M3 its just not right .. Yes you do have you drives that dont know what end is up they see someone brake in the lane next to them so the do so as well something needs to be done about this i had a 96 3.28i for my first car i got about 3 speeding tickets all from speed traps i just got a 99 cosmos M3 (thats my girl) i ve had it for about 3 mouths now and not gotten a speeding ticket yet (knock on wood people) i am anticipating a no front plate ticket cause the damn cops have nothing better to do in my small north shore of long island town ....................one more thing about the HID conversion can someone write back about where this kit wetzler found the conversion kit for 540 every where i look there 900 and up i really need those blue light for my M3 and does anyone no if i can get the fog lights changed to match seasons greetings from long island NY M-TREE 99 cosmos ///M3
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#5. RE: [E36M3] hid - from Zack Steinkamp
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:01:39 -0800 (PST) From: Zack Steinkamp <edsarkiss@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] hid i wonder if anyone has experimented with more green-hued lights ... as our eyes are more than 4x more sensitive to different greens than any other color. something to do with our origins as hunter-gatherers (and not so much to do with our heritage as greenback-worshiping consumers ;-). blue or purple lights seem like a bad idea, as someone else on the list has already pointed out that we are the *least* able to discern differences in blues. to this end, IMHO, blue lights should be illegal to use at night. zs - 98 M3/4 without trendy blue lights > > Then what are the advantages of the 6000K conversion kit? If there > is > less > > light on the road, is it a whiter light, vs more yellow with the > 4300K? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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#6. Re: [E36M3] Re: 99 M-TREE speeding - from Reid Conti
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:09:50 -0800 (PST) From: Reid Conti <reid@conti.net> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Re: 99 M-TREE speeding I know I said I wouldn't post any more on this thread.. but.. what? - reid > i for one fell the traffic laws are wrong and should be adjusted for > todays drivers on some roads where i live (long island) there are 30 mph > speed limits have any of you driven 30 mph in your M3 its just not right > . Yes you do have you drives that dont know what end is up they see > someone brake in the lane next to them so the do so as well something > needs to be done about this i had a 96 3.28i for my first car i got > about 3 speeding tickets all from speed traps i just got a 99 cosmos M3 > (thats my girl) i ve had it for about 3 mouths now and not gotten a > speeding ticket yet (knock on wood people) i am anticipating a no front > plate ticket cause the damn cops have nothing better to do in my small > north shore of long island town ....................one more thing about > the HID conversion can someone write back about where this kit wetzler > found the conversion kit for 540 every where i look there 900 and up i > really need those blue light for my M3 and does anyone no if i can get > the fog lights changed to match seasons greetings from long island NY > M-TREE 99 cosmos ///M3
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#7. Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets - from alex.fadeev@verizon.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:07:19 -0600 From: alex.fadeev@verizon.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets Peter Guagenti <peter@guagenti.com> wrote: > > That sounds like an appropriate model for automobiles. Who cares if > Grandma/Teenager/Moron can't pass it and has to have someone else take > him/her grocery shopping/to the movies/to work? I lived my entire life > in NYC without a driver's license or car and didn't miss it. An > infrastructure develops around a lack of 4-wheeled convenience. > > Call me a snob, but I say let's clear the roads. Peter, You are a snob! Actually, the lack of infrastructure (i.e.: public transportation) has everything to do with the lunatics on the road. If you don't know how to drive, don't care to learn and don't even have the minimal hand-eye coordination required even if you want to learn to dive ... *drum roll*... over the 99% of US territory you have no choice but to get in the car and take your chances. State agencies issuing driver's licences know this all too well and don't expect the applicants to do much more than drive a slush box to the mall. If they ever thought of raising the bar they would have to take 3/4 of the current drivers off the road. Imagine the unemployment (how else are people going to get to their work place), mass starvation (how else are they going to get food) and the economic collapse that would follow. In Europe or Japan all these nut cases behind the wheel have an options to hop on a bus/trolley/metro/train. Not in the US. There are very few US metro areas with high enough population density to support decent public transportation. Thus every time a blind madman needs to go out and buy some food or go to work he climbs in his junker car (he know he will crash it anyway) and puts himself and everyone around him at risk. Not because he is an irresponsible idiot that he may well be, but primarily because he has not choice. And no, just like the military or the public highways, such public mass transit infrastructure will never be self sufficient or private sector driven. Hence the name: public, not private. Good luck explaining that to the elected politicians. alex f
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#8. Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets - from Ron Buchalski
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:08:24 From: "Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets This is one of the issues discussed extensively in the book "American Autobahn". It's not simply a matter of raising speed limits and that being the end of the issue. In conjunction with higher speed limits, we need drivers who are trained to drive at higher speeds, cars that are made to be controlled at higher speeds (accelerate, stop, and turn) and are designed to withstand impacts at higher speeds, and roads designed to be safe for cars travelling at higher speeds. Someone mentioned feeling unsafe driving a Mercury Marquis at highway speeds. Compare the average Mercury Marquis to the Ford Crown Vic "Police Interceptor". It's the same basic car. Clearly, American cars can be built to safely handle higher speeds. In American Autobahn, the author compares these factors in Germany and the US, and shows where he feels the US is currently deficient. Unfortunately, the author's recommendations to get us to an "American Autobahn" are never going to happen in our society. It's too un-American to give up a small bit of freedom to do whatever you want to do, in exchange for a system that will provide an overall improvement to everyone. The mindset of moving over to let someone pass is not ingrained in American driving styles. For most drivers in the US, if they DO think about moving over to let you pass, the decision is driven a "driver courtesy" that they have the choice to grant to you. It's not a thought process driven by the desire to not impede traffic flow, which would require the driver to be aware of their surrounding circumstances on the road. In fact, most Americans aren't aware of the circumstances around their vehicle until it's time to take some sort of action. When you're travelling at 100 feet/sec (68mph), it's a dangerous (and potentially deadly) prospect. As any list member who has driven in Germany has experienced, there's a big difference between here and there, and something that can't be addressed by just posting higher speeds. Unfortunately for us (the small minority of the US population who own cars capable of handling higher speeds, and who have likely attended advanced driver training classes), the vast majority of the US population is ill-equipped (both skills-wise and equipment-wise) to cope, AND (important AND) unwilling to do anything about it. Sad, but true.... -rb >Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:35:56 -0800 >From: Peter Guagenti <peter@guagenti.com> >Subject: Re: [E36M3] speeding tickets <snip> >So what do we do? We slow everyone down. Why? Because people are afraid >to turn around and _expect more_ from drivers on the the road. Driving is >treated as a right in this country, despite what everyone says. > >Implement mandatory car control clinics as part of _all_ driver training. >Make new licensees test for real car control and accident avoidance, not >just if they can parallel park. Retest everyone every 3 years and, if you >can not drive anymore, take their license away. Jail people who drive >without a license/insurance/etc. > >I hate our tendency as American's to dumb everything down for obstinate >people. Raise the bar. Make people learn to be better drivers. Make >people work harder for the privilege of driving an >automobile/motorcycle/4-ton behemoth SUV. > >Safer roads come from better drivers, not slower speeds. People get hurt >and killed at "safe" speeds everyday. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
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#9. RE: [E36M3] hid - from Reid Conti
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:32:32 -0800 (PST) From: Reid Conti <reid@conti.net> Subject: RE: [E36M3] hid > i wonder if anyone has experimented with more green-hued lights ... as > our eyes are more than 4x more sensitive to different greens than any > other color. something to do with our origins as hunter-gatherers (and > not so much to do with our heritage as greenback-worshiping consumers > ;-). > > blue or purple lights seem like a bad idea, as someone else on the list > has already pointed out that we are the *least* able to discern > differences in blues. to this end, IMHO, blue lights should be illegal > to use at night. > > zs > - 98 M3/4 without trendy blue lights Yes and no. the thing is, HID lights are more full-spectrum than halogen headlamps, and basically provide far superior illumination. The blue that you see from an oncoming car with HIDs is the blue COMPONENT of the white light refracting in such a manner that you see more blue than any other color. If you look right into an HID beam (not recommended) or look at the light they produce on the road, it's clearly less blue than they look when looking towards an HID-equipped car. So, in other words, HID provides far superior light to halogens, but the blue component of the light helps make it more blinding to anyone who looks right into one. Blue tinted bulbs provide the same ill effects to oncoming drivers, but none of the benefits. Blue lights should be illegal. HIDs should not, because they're not blue. Hondas (S2000)/Audis/BMWs with very bluish purple looking lights all use ellipsoid lenses, which refract the light so that it looks more blue/purple when viewed from the side. Even when they're coming straight at you, you're rarely actually "in the beam" so they still look bluer than the light they output. - reid
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#10. Suspension, suspension... =) - from Chester Wong
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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:28:27 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Suspension, suspension... =) Well, I've decided that the NYC streets probably beat the hell out of my front struts. When we worked on Dave Ngo's car a few weeks/months ago and drilled out the strut to prepare it to cut and insert the Koni insert, no oil sprayed out. His strut was shot. Well, his car has 54k miles or something like that. My car has 34k miles, but I also drive harder....lol! Anyway, I've ordered a set of Koni SAs from Ground Control. I plan to use them (adjusted for the stock springs) with the stock springs and PowerFlex bushings. I'll drive around for a while and then swap on some H&R sport springs and see how I like it. If I feel that it is too harsh, I might just go with the H&R OE Sport springs. Stay tuned.... Chester ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com