Yeah we (M5'rs) call it the Beast :D My baby still hangs pretty well considering it was designed in 1997-8 and was built in 2002.... I like it a lot better than the E60 M5 and you can get very nice used E39 M5's in the 20K range now...
Thanks. I recommed a book called the "Hydrogen Economy". Every premise is wonderful but in the end the realization is that getting the hydrogen is the problem. It takes more fossil energy to get the hydrogen out of water (steam reclamation or electrolysis) then if you just burned the...
Oxygen is not a fuel, it is an oxidizer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidizer
The other thing you are not taking into account is the density of hydrogen. Since these "systems" being discussed in this thread are not compressing hydrogen at all there is only a minuscule/negligible amount of...
"leaning out" your engine is a good way to burn a piston.
Also the lean mixture can result in very high NOx emissions http://www.epa.gov/air/urbanair/nox/ that may need to be cleaned up with special catalysts.
I agree lean burn is the future but will be in cars that have been designed for...
Could easily be a vacuum leak. If it is downstream from the o2 sensor then unmetered air is getting into the system causing lean situation. Then the computer overreacts and adds gas causing rich. This can cause a rough/surging idle. I had this exact problem on my M5 (even my peak codes...
Acutually if you ask any Japanese what made their quality and manufacturing superior it was because of a single American Man: W. Edwards Deming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
The heating/cooling system in the LS seats is known as a Peltier device.
http://www.peltier-info.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
Here is a good meeting place. A car show!!!!
1st Saturday of every month and it is called “CAFFEINE & OCTANE”. The location is:
THE AVENUE EAST COBB Shopping Center
4475 ROSWELL ROAD (GA-120), EAST COBB
(JUST EAST OF JOHNSON FERRY ROAD)
SATURDAY,1st of the month
8:30 TO 11:00 AM
The...
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