SD BMW Meet, Dinner & Drive 8/27/06

[Thayne]

Someone or someone's car?

I hope it was just someone's car, even though that would suck its better than someone dying.

[Gayle]

Someone or someone's car?

It was not a member of our group. This was at a state beach and someone drown during the meet. (Pancake--we need you out here.) We were so oblivious we didn't know til dinner. I never saw or heard the ems trucks.

[aston_jag_tech]

I heard a little bit about someone at the beach passed away. Thats all I heard, there was a ambulances and a fire truck if I remember. Thats pretty much it.

Yeah, most definetely I was reading that its better to do a swap if you have auto if you are increasing power and torque. I thought about it for 2 seconds and said, no. It woudl be trick to do to a car but, no thanks.

[Thayne]

It was not a member of our group. This was at a state beach and someone drown during the meet. (Pancake--we need you out here.) We were so oblivious we didn't know til dinner. I never saw or heard the ems trucks.

That totally sucks.

[Gayle]

Damn I wish I could have made it to that meet. Sounds like fun!

Are you plugged into the NorCal group? The bay area should be quite feasible for you from Sacramento. NoCal have meets and drives on a fairly regular basis. They had one last year in Livermore. They are way more active than us SoCal beach bums.

Private message Liquidtiger720 aka Josh. He can hook you up with info on what is going on up there.

[Thayne]

Are you plugged into the NorCal group? The bay area should be quite feasible for you from Sacramento. NoCal have meets and drives on a fairly regular basis. They had one last year in Livermore. They are way more active than us SoCal beach bums.

Private message Liquidtiger720 aka Josh. He can hook you up with info on what is going on up there.

I am not yet. I just joined today. I have been lurking here for the last week or two and finally joined today. I have had my 540i for less than a month, I previously owned two E30s and wanted to get to know some fellow E34 owners online. I will definitely will pm him to get the 411 on the NorCal events. I have to say that I am very impressed with this message board so far everyone has been very informative and I am having a blast learning new things about the E34.

[///Metal]

Scott

You should ask the question you asked at dinner about what kind of transmission that neither Wojtich nor I could answer. I want to collect more trivia that I don't understand.

You mean the one about whether the tranny in the 535im was a Getrag or not?

[Paul in NZ]

the tranny in every manual 535(if not every manual E34) is a Getrag isnt it?

[94is]

Thank you for coming out guys and Gayle! I'm glad that we had a decent e34 turnout. 5 is actually a very good number, since we rarely get 5-series', let alone e34's. I think the meet Tim was referring to will be in Oct/Nov sometime. When more information becomes available I will post it up. Thanks again.

[TC535i]

Yup, looking to be November at this point... we'll keep you kids updated when it's finalized.

Good to see all the E34's out there, and some guy wanted to Buy My Wheels (no "BMW" pun intended...), so it's a good thing I brought the E34 out instead of the other car which Gayle refuses to speak of... Awesome meeting some new faces too. Great to see a local E34 community building... again.