August 24, 2007
NOTICE:
CHARLES CORNELIUS, agent of the KAREN K. CORNELIUS TRUST of Riverside, IL (708) XXX-XXXX, (708) XXX-XXXX (fax), holds pending litigation for violation of SECTION 7, Chicago Apartment Lease, Mun. Code ch. 5-12-080 and ch. 5-12-081:
“A landlord must pay interest each year at a rate set by the City Comptroller for security deposits held more than six months.”
“A landlord must return all security deposit and interest minus unpaid rent? within 45 days from the date the tenant vacates the dwelling unit.”
ALL TENANTS leasing units from this agent/trust in the Skytech Lofts and Park 1500 Lofts developments are hereby urged to WITHHOLD their last month?s lease payment until provisions have been made to secure the return of respective security deposits.
So I’ve got the tinker bug. Now that I have a car I really care about, I find myself reading a lot of performance modification threads on the BMW forums I frequent. The aFe Stage 2 Cold Air Intake System seems to be about the only real modification I can do that actually does a little something AND won’t void my warranty. One of the things I like about BMW is how their cars com almost perfectly tuned from the factory. This is probably why you don’t seem too many of them “tricked out” rolling around out there. My boss, and avid car guy, and I were talking about this this afternoon, and I’m convinced now. The reasoning behind buying a $20,000 Japanese car and dumping another $20,000 worth of modifications for a 10% performance gain had always escaped me, but now I understand–it’s fun!
To keep engine noise at an “acceptable” level, BMW encases the stock air filter in a plastic housing — a housing which [slightly] restricts airflow into the engine. Installing a Power Flow kit eliminates that housing, allowing more air to enter the engine so it can breathe as deeply as it wants.
High end cars usually don’t benefit much if any from filter upgrades like lower end mass production makes and models. This might be why you never see real data for K&N filters, etc. except for the autos they actually improve. The intake kit above actually has data, and it’s third party.
(shamelessly linked from www.bimmerworld.com)
Ehh, the crappy images translate to 6.5 HP and 7 lbs/ft torque gain at 4900 RPM–actually measurable and maybe even detectable with the butt-in-seat dyno! Better than a sharp stick in the nether, anyway. The sound difference is suppose to be pretty cool, too.
This should keep me entertained until the next one–the new M3. There might be a troop carrier in there a little before hand, but you know how I am once I get my sights set on something.
