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Old 10-25-2013, 11:21 AM
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Put some ethanol free gas in it the past week and WHOA so much lower consumprion range and a bit of power And ordered some black chrome cluster rings

Yeah, ethanol sucks. I used to see an increase of over 5% in MPG when I could run eth and non-eth back to back. I run 10oz of Lucas upper cyl lube/eth conditioner with each eth fill up.
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Old 10-25-2013, 11:50 AM
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Steering wheel from Germany Installed:

Perfection, just the way I ordered it, easy swap which took me 20 mins (I disconnected fuse 44 for the airbag and left the battery hooked up), disregard the flash on my iPhone 5 as it was dark in my garage, and please forgive the dirty floor mats as my X is due for a cleaning this weekend!

Will upload these pics in the "steering wheel upgrades thread" as I detailed the seller from Ebay Germany as well as pricing, specs etc...

Btw, the flash makes the black leathers look different, the wheel is all the same color leather...
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Old 10-25-2013, 02:01 PM
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Looks like that wheel has some serious Girth! Huge improvement!
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Old 10-25-2013, 05:37 PM
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Was experiencing shuddering feeling at anything other than full throttle.

Was also using to much methanol. Found the fluid was flowing at a rate well in excess of the injection pulse settings.
Installed a check valve to correct the excess flow.

Nitrous has been firing at only 1/4 throttle. Reset the controller as it had somehow lost the settings.

Cleaned the MAF.

All is well.
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DREMEL MAGIC

I had to dremel the rust out of the light socket on the rear tail socket assembly, but it fixed the light even though the socket channel rusted through a small hole. NOW, I have to figure out why the Parking light "P" is always on when the car is off and in Park. What's up with that? And can I fix the driver side mirror switch, or does it get replaced?
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Old 10-25-2013, 06:40 PM
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Test drove an X6 and OH MY GOD.




I dont think im going down to a sedan, as much as i wanted an M5 a few years old. Im probably going to go to the X6
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Old 10-26-2013, 05:07 AM
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Nice cracker - save that one for later
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Old 10-26-2013, 11:51 AM
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Nice cracker - save that one for later

LOL its actually a leaf!
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Old 10-26-2013, 02:16 PM
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Sunroof gasket/weatherstrip thinger. Old one was looking pretty tired!
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Swapped out the transfer case actuator gear; parts shop are turning up metal ones - now my gear changes are smooooth again
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