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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: audioscience10 Date: December 24, 2014, 8:50 pm
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Edited: How is your toe set? Toe out will cause twitchiness. A
bit of toe in may help or it least zero toe.
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: Cavi Mike Date: December 24, 2014, 8:57 pm
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I always run toe out, like 2deg total, front and back. Makes for
some really sketchy highway driving in the rain... I usually
dial it out for road trips.
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: audioscience10 Date: December 25, 2014, 5:55 am
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I realized that I lied. I had to edit my other post. Toe out
causes twitchyness. Toe in causes something negative that I
can't remember right now. I've read that zero is preferred by
most up front.
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: Cavi Mike Date: December 28, 2014, 6:05 am
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Took a few more test laps - yeah, the extra angle these things
gave me is pretty fckin ridiculous but the steering lost that
linear feel it had before. When I'm getting close to lock, you
can really feel how your input gets exponential. The rack&pinion
in these cars are already variable rate - I'd love to make a new
rack that sped up the output near center, then slowed it near
lock. That would be fckin awesome.
Sent a couple of you guys a quick "angle" vid. I think I touched
lock once but for the most part I had room still.
#Post#: 1554--------------------------------------------------
Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: audioscience10 Date: December 28, 2014, 8:43 am
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Badass man! With some more practice I'm sure you will get used
to it. To me I would think having it touchy toward lock wouldn't
be a bad thing, its less adjustment you have to make while
sideways. But I know everyone has their own preferences...
Ps: can't wait to try them out myself
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: derrty 30 Date: December 29, 2014, 6:13 am
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looked pretty good man!
#Post#: 1565--------------------------------------------------
Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: Cavi Mike Date: January 8, 2015, 7:47 pm
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Prolly my favorite mod yet - manual heater controls. No more
stupid buttons you gotta hit a million times just to turn the
heat or fan up and down - and that can't be adjusted with the
car off. Fcking left-over bullsht from the button-obsessed 90's.
Finally, no more getting blasted by ice-cold air in the morning
because I forgot to turn the fan down the night before.
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: derrty 30 Date: January 8, 2015, 10:50 pm
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How much work was involved in doing this? Pretty cool. Also what
did the controls come out of? Another e46?
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: Cavi Mike Date: January 9, 2015, 12:07 am
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No work at all, not even tools - except for a flat-head to pop
the old control panel out. All plug-n-play. Yeah, it's from
another E46 - but from the UK. Apparently we didn't get the
manual panel option over here.
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Re: I can taste the tears of a thousand BMW owners...
By: Cavi Mike Date: January 9, 2015, 12:54 am
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I love it already. I ran to the store to grab some food but when
I came back, I forgot to shut the fan off before I shut off the
car. Before, my only options were to let myself get blasted with
cold air in the morning, or put the key back in and press the
button 7 times to shut it off. But even if you shut the old one
off completely - it always turns back on when you turn the car
on again - just on the lowest fan speed.
Another thing that made no sense with the old one, you can't
have the rear defroster on unless the blower motor is running.
The whole unit powered off when you turn the fan all the way
off. Not the manual one though. Works just fine with the fan
off. This has got to be the best $43 I've spent.
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