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Vic.With what Car did you replace your 540?

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ArdRi

In Reply to: RE: Watching Breaker Morant again... what a great film! posted by Victor Khomenko on December 08, 2010 at 14:41:14

I think mine finally threw the Crank Shaft up... hard Knock ,shaking. contemplating a replacemnt but hard to think of what can out-do it and still be a regular day-to-day work horse...

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Car And Driver had a box showing the perfromance figures . . . - mr grits 16:01:56 12/09/10 (5)
of a 1988 M5 vs. 2010 323 and guess what? The 323 just under cuts it in all parameters! They just keep getting better and better for less money.

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- Yeah... right... they finally found a substitute for cubic inches. :) - Victor Khomenko 16:07:33 12/09/10 (4)
  What's next? Length not important?
  - Well, 1988 vs. 2010 is a difference....... - mr grits 21:54:18 12/09/10 (3)
    More ponies come out of less cubes these days thanks to metallurgy, turbos, and insane compression ratios.
    
    Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
    - Horsepower spec is bullshit, only torque matters - Victor Khomenko 06:23:36 12/10/10 (2)
      Turbos are no substitute for cubic inches... nothing really is.
      - "When in doubt, bore it out." Words to live by. nt - tinear 21:45:05 12/10/10 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Horsepower spec is bullshit, only torque matters posted by Victor Khomenko on December 10, 2010 at 06:23:36
        
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        And if it won't go fast - chrome it! - Victor Khomenko 07:01:32 12/11/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: "When in doubt, bore it out." Words to live by. nt posted by tinear on December 10, 2010 at 21:45:05
        
        Chrome plating is big thing in race guns these days. I wonder why... :) But not polished.
My A-4 was rock steady. nt - tinear 07:42:29 12/09/10 (4)
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- Sounds like a fun car.. on the list. thanks* - ArdRi 14:53:14 12/09/10 (3)
  - Audi, BMW, and Mercedes are now consistently on the bottom of J D Powers surveys . . . - mr grits 18:07:57 12/10/10 (2)
    for reliability. Sad, but true.
    
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    - I am not looking at new or even recent models. - ArdRi 19:10:55 12/10/10 (1)
      the car I have was built on December 13,1994. I am nostalgic I guess but like the Torquie thrust of the M60B40 which was awarded Best Engine when it was introduced.
      I've actually been able to drive it and the metal rapping I heard at first hasn't been audible but it still shakes hard,the engine exhibits a pretty hard vibration.. Its been too cold to inspect the spark plugs and test Ignition Coil packs to see if maybe I have a misfiring cyl ,maybe a dead Fuel Injector combined with a failed engine mount resulting in extreme shaking.. maybe wishful thinking but It'll rev up to Red-line and sounds steady for the most part and I guess if there were major bearing failures as I first feared it would have 'exploded' when holding at 6,000 RPM.
      I wonder if shaking from a broken motor mount could cause jumping in the Timing Chains or other internals making it run rough at idle and lower rpms . I still wouldn't say it ran smooth at 6K but the fact it was able to make it there and hold for a few seconds has me slightly less pessimistic.
      that said I still have been looking for another 540 6 speed manual of the older series'
      I don't have any WAF to consider..
      A few Vids of the Engine Running (Open in New Window)
      Edits: 12/10/10 12/10/10 12/10/10
      - Get the latest model Audi A-4 3.0 you can before they started only making - tinear 21:46:43 12/10/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I am not looking at new or even recent models. posted by ArdRi on December 10, 2010 at 19:10:55
        
        the turbo available.
        The best interiors, by far. Best combination of handling and performance, too. And... if you live where snow and ice are a factor, the AWD is fantastic.
Still driving and loving my 2000 - Victor Khomenko 05:47:04 12/09/10 (7)
91000 miles, and outside of somewhat loose suspension and misbehaving power seat it is running wonderfully! You used to have a green one, right? This is newer?

Keep the Merkavas rolling! :)
- That is MERKAVA it is still Green maybe the Image - ArdRi 14:16:04 12/09/10 (6)
  processing I did makes it look Black..
  
  Well that's good to hear . there appear to be many more of them available than the '95 I have. It was getting pretty harsh driving actually with the sport suspension from Bilstein and 17 inch wheels the nasty New England roads are just brutal. Maybe time to get soemthing more comfortable.. thanks. btw it just rolled 380,000 miles this week. :(
  - Cool! Do you have people honk at you? - Victor Khomenko 16:09:14 12/09/10 (3)
    You can always soften the suspension, 17 inchers should not be all that harsh, really.
    - The Bilstein Sport shocks are pretty firm - ArdRi 18:54:39 12/09/10 (2)
      maybe the extra resistance over roads which are from the Stone Age can be Jarring.
      I have had a few people shout and give thumbs up and I met a man at a Starbucks who told me he noticed the plate and asked what it meant. When i said it was Hebrew for Chariot he said he works with a charity in Israel which takes Israeli children around to Army Installations on Field Trips to familiarize them with the idea of Army Life so when their compulsory service comes around they might be better ready to take it up and that he had been taken for a ride in a Merkava IV.
      
      Edits: 12/09/10 12/09/10
      - A "charity" that indoctrinates kids into the idea of killing. - tinear 11:46:25 12/10/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The Bilstein Sport shocks are pretty firm posted by ArdRi on December 09, 2010 at 18:54:39
        
        Wow.
      - I have always been using the Bilstein Sports... - Victor Khomenko 06:25:13 12/10/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The Bilstein Sport shocks are pretty firm posted by ArdRi on December 09, 2010 at 18:54:39
        
        ...with 18" wheels, you just need to get used to it. You can try somewhat softer tires, perhaps.
  - 380,000 mi, and not a diesel?!! Damn, that's a "runner" - very nice. ~t - mpathus 14:30:27 12/09/10 (1)
    .
    - It ended doing what it loved most - ArdRi 15:06:53 12/09/10 (0)
      roaring up a long, curving inclined highway at 90+ miles per hour.

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