It's official and it's no surprise that effective June 1, 2010, I'm no longer moderator at M3Post. After all, I basically announced that it was coming in the Who is PencilGeek article. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to moderate at M3Post and I enjoyed about half of it. I'm finally free to say what I really think about topics without being restrained as a moderator. Believe me, I'm relieved it's over -- it's very liberating to be finally be free. In the next day or two, I'll post a much more formal write-up here at this blog explaining it all -- because it seems that I misplaced the actual article I wrote two months ago explaining my decision. There's only one thing I'll miss: being able to look up all of the fake accounts and cross reference them to their real screen names. Other than that...I won't miss anything. Now that it's over -- I wish I could put a huge Las Vegas style wager. I wish I could bet that within the next few months the same people who wanted me kicked out as moderator -- are going to wish I were still there. I tried to warn those ghetto boys that they had better be careful what they wished for...and this is exactly what I was talking about when I said it. I think it's going to be hilarious to see their reaction when they realize how much worse their situation will now be without a moderator's muzzle on my keyboard.
May 2010 Archives
In late May, 2010, this thread began on M3Post first asking and then documenting which ECU tuning vendors had the ability to tune the newest locked ECU's. Only a few days before, a friend of mine at Bimmerfest approached Jeremy @ OE Tuning and asked if he had such capabilities. While I wasn't 100% sure -- I was pretty sure my friend told me that he was turned away. Therefore it got my attention when M3Post user 'bren335i' made a post claiming that OE Tuning did have such capabilities.
A few months ago, I was asked by M3Post user 'per' to rate the efficiency of the different supercharger kits on the market. My first attempt was to simply calculate the ratio of GAIN/PSI (the ratio of whp gain vs. PSI boost). 'Per' quickly pointed out that I couldn't rate efficiency in that manner because my own results were included, and mine were skewed by my displacement increase. So, I came up with the same idea -- version-2: Efc = Gain / Displacement / Boost. The idea is to measure efficiency as a function of Gain, Displacement, and Boost.
The ACT (Advanced Clutch Technology) company has designed a twin-mass carbon-carbon high performance clutch for the E9x BMW M3's (6MT only). ACT is well known for their high performance and racing clutch designs.
