RE: bmw-digest V9 #638

["Wesleyan Hsu" <wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Randy,

I've been mostly a lurker on the list and I too am not into modifying my car
(save maybe a JC chip). But every once in a while I will post a non "how do
I mod this" question and it will get answered. Although most of the posts
seem to be leaning towards getting more power/torque/etc out of their BMWs,
I do think it's still a general discussion list. We've seen a few
non-performance threads go by, and that's only within the past 2 months I've
been on the list.

Maybe the people who want to contribute to the list want to talk about these
types of issues. Who knows, maybe there are 10 times more people who are
just like you and me and they just don't want to post any
questions/answers/concerns on more general topics. I'm sure all these
techies who provide such useful information wouldn't mind seeing other types
of questions being posted. They may not all be as enthusiastic about
answering our questions, but I'm sure a few of them will help us out.

Wesleyan Hsu
'95 325i
BMW CCA 162477 / NCC


> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 10:46:23 EST
> From: Cookies@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: Randy der anti-racer
>
> In a message dated 12/4/98 10:26:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-bmw-
> digest@domain.elided writes:
>
> << Subject: Randy der anti racer...
>
>  ERRR last time I checked most of us are here because we like to drive our
> cars
>  brisk...and safe....And tech is talked often.
>  Maybe you should go to a drivers school and find out what your
> car is like so
>  you don't slam into a guard rail. If you just want to polish the
> sucker I can
>  tell you from past experience a P car is a much better choice.
>
>  GGray
>  ( flame suit on )
>   >>
> Duh, I raced my 928S4 , gave that a try, was really fun, but
> finally became
> boring to me, so I moved on to other things. Been to racing
> school, done that,
> real fun, so hopefully I won't be slamming into any guardrails.
>
> I'm simply stating that all this list sems to be is "I MUST GET MORE
> PERFORMANCE OUT OF MY 3 SERIES!". Jeez, there were OTHER choices
> in cars if
> you wanted all-out performance, rather than "auto shopping" your
> present cars
> to death, and beating those same peformance SUBJECTS to death.
> Just go over
> the last 30 or 40 posts, all the same damn thing, over and over
> again. Reminds
> me of the kid who wants to put the BIG muffler on his little Acura so it
> sounds "racy".:-)
>
> Flame me, but shouldn't this digest be renamed "3 series racers
> digest" to be
> more accurate. It certainly is NOT, IMO, a general discussion
> group like other
> marquees of cars. It's very imbalanced to the "soup your car up" side.

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