Colorado general chat...

[Eric]

I plan on driving the M Coupe or M Roady out to Laguna Seca in August for Octoberfest. Is anyone else thinking about that?

I've been thinking about taking the M5 to Oktoberfest, not sure if it will be a possibility though.

[Bimmerman325i]

I might still be out here then haha.

[iamsam]

holy balls of fuck, traffic sucked sphincter today

[Bimmerman325i]

holy balls of fuck, traffic sucked sphincter today

Holy shit, it must have been horrible. I've never seen or heard you actually swear...

I also find it amusing you edited 'ass' but left 'fuck'

[iamsam]

I also find it amusing you edited 'ass' but left 'fuck'

I find it amusing that you actually know that. I edited it like 4 seconds after posting.

[Bimmerman325i]

I find it amusing that you actually know that. I edited it like 4 seconds after posting.

I am everywhere.

[iamsam]

ha ha

[clarkkey594]

David is the interwebz.

[blefevre]

On the plus side of snow....Having Haldex AWD transmit 100% of the torque to the front/rear based on it's own decision is pretty interesting. I can't say it's ideal for hooning because it's difficult to predict if the car is going to oversteer or understeer at that exact moment, but it does have an oversteer bias, which is good. The R would really benefit from different weather condition tuning such as 'snow mode'. It doesn't know it's on snow so it only runs one program. I can get a controller for it, but it's not that big of a deal. I always disliked other AWD systems where it has to wait for a certain amount of relative slip difference. On patchy snow/dry/ice it caused the car to "pull" itself along at random times. My Jeep was a good example of this. You could feel it slip, transmit power, catch, go, slip, etc. The Haldex does it so fast the car just goes, and goes fast. You can't even tell how fast it's working. Overall it's exactly what I was hoping for....amazing for a DD in all weather.

[Cloudbase]

Does anyone know what kind of ball joint this is? These control arms are supposedly off of a 95 M3, but the ball joints are different. The left side is def E36 M3, but this is different. There is a BMW logo stamped on the bottom of the piece below the ball joint.

[iamsam]

are you trying to replace the ball joint?

[Cloudbase]

I'm install these as replacements on the E36 M3, but I've never seen a ball joint like that.

[conway]

From memory the regular e36 ball joints and I think only the 95 m3's had that style bushing. Not 100% sure. I'm not in CO so I can't check my spare set of control arms.

[Cloudbase]

It is a regular E36 ball joint. It's got a regular E36 control arm bushing too. Stupid auto recyclers.

[fsmtnbiker]

Yeah, it's a regular E36 arm and joint. M3 does not have rubber isolated joints.