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#1. Re: [E36M3] Oil filters do work! - from Chester Wong
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:16:00 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Oil filters do work! No, no...In my last post, I asked whether tiny stress cracks were normal on the inside of an oilpan. I have confirmation from one other list member that the inside of the oilpan does have cracks. When I saw little dust and dirt bits on the oil pan that was left overnight, I wiped it up. It felt rough and was snagging the paper towel. I removed the biggest chunks, but I guess some got away (or dropped into the oil sump. Upon reassembly and startup, these pieces were trapped in the oil filter. Chester --- Mdriver13@aol.com wrote: > Chester, > > Let me get this straight, you sucked in a paper towel into your engine?? Or, > > did the paper towel come from cleaning the oil filter housing and was > mistakenly left inside??? =====
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#2. Ron Stygar short shifter - from HYPERM3@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:23:33 EST From: HYPERM3@aol.com Subject: Ron Stygar short shifter Hey all, So I decided to try yet another shortshifter (3rd one now) and chose the Ron Stygar set up. All I can say is "WoW". There is such a difference that now I know why those who have this shortshifter before me have been so impressed. First off, Ron was super cool in terms of custom bending the lever in the way I wanted. Dealing with him was very easy. He's actually quite witty and funny in that sort of way. Also, he gave some great advice. Everything in the kit was topnotch and set up better than the other companies kits I had before. Install was a breeze although I did have to grind down some metal parts on my car, but that's another story. The movement on this is so much better than my previous Shortshifter that it felt like day and night. Its so precise and tight and I can actually "feel" which gear I'm going into. NO SLOP. The rebound to neutral is so strong that if you aren't prepared, it could knock your hand off the shiftknob. I almost think that "reducing the effort" from previous kits I had actually reduced the feel. Anyway, I just want to say if anyone had ever considered buying a new shiftkit, or one for the first time, hands down I say get the Ron Stygar. I have nothing personal going with Ron on this, I'm just that impressed. Also, I paid about $100 less than any other company out there. You compute all this in your head. The only thing I need to say is if you are using a shifter with some sort of "effort reducer" and go to this one, your knob will be lower. If you already have a lower knob, this gets really low. When I'm in second or fourth and my fingers are resting on the knob, my wrist is almost on the ashtray. But then again, I asked to have mine bent a bit backwards from stock. I can only recommend leaving yours at factory bends. Happily shifting at stop lights, Alex "HyperM3" Demsky
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#3. RE: ripping E36M3 floors (was: Please help me choose a daily driver) - from scott@gelatinous.com
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:27:12 -0800 From: scott@gelatinous.com Subject: RE: ripping E36M3 floors (was: Please help me choose a daily driver) > Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:28:42 -0500 > From: Ron Katona <rkatona@cox.net> > > Jon Phillips wrote: > [...] > > The upshot is that the E36 M3 sometimes suffers catastophic rear floor > > failures (a result of the extremely competent rear suspension putting undue > > stress on a system designed for less stress), and we have interior trim > > that's relatively shoddy (pillar trims, clutch pedal bushing, and so on). > > I think they mix their metaphors over at Euro Car. The standard E36 has > this problem, especially if the car is modded or driven hard (although > some claim normal use will do it as well... but I'd betcha $5 they had > symptoms of worn bushings and never got it checked out). The E36 M3 is > reinforced in the area of the rear floor/subframe interface. Anyone hear > of ripped out floors in E36 M3s? oooh I can answer that one! me me me me! sure, the E36M3 is reinforced there, but that just doesn't cut it in a race environment. I personally know of 4 cars (well 5, now including mine) that have the cage extended to the front subframe mounts, including a group N car from Germany and PD Cunninghams old E36. Now granted PD's may not have been an M3 tub... but I know the other cars started their lives as M3's. Also if all PD needed to do was reinforce the tub as oppposed to weld in long heavy bars, I think he would have just done that... Of the 4 bolts where the subframe mounts to the body, one of mine had completed ripped out, another (diagonally opposed) was severely cracked, and another was starting to crack. While the subframe was out I had them weld in bars to the front subframe mounts because that seems to be a common thing to do on E36's. Now granted my car has a Euro motor and runs on slicks, but PD's doesn't... > > Anyhow, that's my paraphrasing of the article. I think it also said the E46 > > put build quality back on track. > > Yes... about 300 pounds worth. ;-) haven't we been over this before? the E46 weight is measured differently than the E36. Scott
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#4. oil filters work - from russell
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 09:55:45 -0800 (PST) From: russell <driver8m3@yahoo.com> Subject: oil filters work but apparently air filters do not! > Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 17:58:11 -0800 (PST) > From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> > Subject: Oil filters do work! > > So I decided to change the oil filter element today. When I took out > the old > element, there were little paper towel bits stuck in the holes of the > filter ===== "the state is the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else" --frederic bastiat __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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#5. Re: [E36M3] Ron Stygar short shifter - from Sue Kraft
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 12:39:31 -0600 From: Sue Kraft <suekraft@new.rr.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Ron Stygar short shifter Hmmmm......tell us more about the grinding down of metal parts. I've got the UUC short shifter in my M5, and I think it's pretty slick. Not sure if it has the effort reducing thing or not (it was already in the M5 when I bought it) but I'm not sure I'd like such a strong rebound. My only complaint about the UUC short shifter is the throw is a little too short for my tastes, but I think that's a personal preference thing. I might try a short shifter with a bit longer throw in the spring and hope I can find one as slick as the UUC version. Suzy HYPERM3@aol.com wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:23:33 EST > From: HYPERM3@aol.com > Subject: Ron Stygar short shifter > > Hey all, > So I decided to try yet another shortshifter (3rd one now) and chose > the Ron Stygar set up. All I can say is "WoW". There is such a difference > that now I know why those who have this shortshifter before me have been so > impressed. > First off, Ron was super cool in terms of custom bending the lever in > the way I wanted. Dealing with him was very easy. He's actually quite witty > and funny in that sort of way. Also, he gave some great advice. Everything in > the kit was topnotch and set up better than the other companies kits I had > before. Install was a breeze although I did have to grind down some metal > parts on my car, but that's another story. > The movement on this is so much better than my previous Shortshifter > that it felt like day and night. Its so precise and tight and I can actually > "feel" which gear I'm going into. NO SLOP. The rebound to neutral is so > strong that if you aren't prepared, it could knock your hand off the > shiftknob. I almost think that "reducing the effort" from previous kits I had > actually reduced the feel. Anyway, I just want to say if anyone had ever > considered buying a new shiftkit, or one for the first time, hands down I say > get the Ron Stygar. I have nothing personal going with Ron on this, I'm just > that impressed. Also, I paid about $100 less than any other company out > there. You compute all this in your head. > The only thing I need to say is if you are using a shifter with some > sort of "effort reducer" and go to this one, your knob will be lower. If you > already have a lower knob, this gets really low. When I'm in second or fourth > and my fingers are resting on the knob, my wrist is almost on the ashtray. > But then again, I asked to have mine bent a bit backwards from stock. I can > only recommend leaving yours at factory bends. > > Happily shifting at stop lights, > Alex "HyperM3" Demsky
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#6. Neil's new radiator - from Msebmwman@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:03:41 -0500 From: Msebmwman@aol.com Subject: Neil's new radiator Neil; Thanks for being the guinea pig for the new all aluminum (aluminium for those in the colonies :-)) radiator. Does the radiator include the tabs or slots on the bottom to hand the Euro oil cooler from? If not, what other provisions might there be? I would hope they created a radiator that is also useful in rest of world for those with Euro spec M3s with oil coolers. Regards, Marc 95M3CSL
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#7. E46 weight vs E36 weight???? - from Patrick Buthmann
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:19:22 -0500 From: "Patrick Buthmann" <patrick@teutonic.ca> Subject: E46 weight vs E36 weight???? > > Anyhow, that's my paraphrasing of the article. I think it also said > > the E46 > > put build quality back on track. > > Yes... about 300 pounds worth. ;-) haven't we been over this before? the E46 weight is measured differently than the E36. Scott Am I missing something, or have the laws of physics changed recently in regards to the determination of weight. Outside of measuring dry weight vs wet weight, driver vs no-driver etc, how can the weight be *measured* any differently? Pat
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#8. Re: [E36M3] Ron Stygar short shifter - from HYPERM3@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:51:47 EST From: HYPERM3@aol.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] Ron Stygar short shifter suekraft@new.rr.com writes: > Hmmmm......tell us more about the grinding down of metal parts. The new carrier arm had harder bushings compared to the really worn soft plastic bushings on my previous one (think worn rsm movement). The new one slid in but not all the way enabling the "bitch" clip to slide through. The U that the arm slides into had some metal flash from the factory casting inhibiting this movement. I, with the help of a technician, were able to get a dremel up in there and grind it down. Once that was removed the carrier went in just fine. > I'm not sure I'd like such a strong rebound I might have exaggerated when I stated how strong the rebound was. Im just saying its very precise and you can almost intuitively feel where the shifter is at all times. And that when shifting out of gear, the lever pulls itself to center strongly. > I might try a short shifter with a bit longer throw in the spring and hope I can find one as slick as the UUC version. The throw isn't really that short, its just right. When I was talking about being short I meant the actual height is lower. When coupled with a shorter knob, you get the point. Alex "HyperM3" Demsky 97 S/C M3 ~ finally hit 40k last night
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#9. RE: [E36M3] Brake bleed - from Jeremy Conners
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:08:58 -0500 From: Jeremy Conners <jeremy.conners@comcast.net> Subject: RE: [E36M3] Brake bleed Scott M wrote: > So why does the Bentley manual say that bleeding brakes on a > car equipped > with AST should only be done by the dealer? What is the > trick needed to > bleed the ABS/AST unit? Group, I still haven't found the proper fill and bleed procedure for the MkIV-G ABS/TCS units in the E36M3. The database migration has made locating this itme difficult, and the document is probably cataloged in German. However, I'm still looking for it. The reason the Bentley manual states this stems from the valving inside ABS & ABS/TCS units. For a proper bleed, these valves need to be cycled to allow the fluid trapped inside the hydraulic control unit to be flushed out. Jeremy Conners
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#10. FS: '95 M3 - from Tobin Finley
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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:47:12 -0500 From: Tobin Finley <tfinley@fdt.net> Subject: FS: '95 M3 Moving to France, so the pride and joy is on the auction block. 1995 M3, Avus Blau, 95,300 miles, new Bilstein shocks/H&R springs, AC Schnitzer short shift, Conforti software/HFM upgrade, MB Quart speakers, great condition, always garaged, never seen snow. $17,000. Gainesville, FL