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Re: bmw != POS

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Subject: Re: bmw != POS
From: Jim Ochi <jim_ochi@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:46:33 -0700
At 02:16 PM 5/21/2002 -0700, james creasy wrote:
>no it was the stock sway bar (front).  i think he autocrossed it 3 or 4
>times on street tires.  not a big deal- 10 minute welding job to fix i
>imagine.  when i put sway bars on my car, i probably way over-engineered the
>mounts.

Hmmm...I've put a few autocrosses on my E36 M3, and never had a problem 
with the front sway bar mounts.  That's with an assortment of sway bars, too.

>ive heard that the parking brake can fail to work with high temp range
>pads... not enough cold temp friction!

Nope.  The parking brakes have dedicated shoes/drums - since they don't use 
the normal calipers/rotors, it doesn't matter what pads you put on the car.

Jim 

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