Nick325xiT said:
Actually, I want to pull the stop out maybe 1/4 to 1/2 an inch. That happens to be just the right spot for me.
There are days, though, when the clutch and throttle feel so awful that I almost want an automatic. This NEVER, EVER happened in my E36, and it never happens when I'm driving the WRX. I'm looking VERY forward to when I wear out the clutch... It'll finally give me the oportunity to put something I'll enjoy in.
I HOPE that my suspicions about the e-throttle are correct -- that it was put in to accommodate the new 318i, which, obviously would need an e-throttle. The introduction of valvetronic in the six cylinder engines should be interesting.
Nick, I hope you take this the right way, but you're sounding jsut like I did during the 14-15 months I had my E46. I tried to mod away all of my complaints, but it was still never right. I had the UUC stop w/ modded switch. I had the Rob Knob. I had the UUC sways. I had the M3 steering wheel. I ran all kinds of different combinations of tire pressure. Oh, and I got the steering retrofit. But things were still not as they should have been. So I dumped it for a nice used E36 M3 sedan.
Search the archives at Roadfly. Search on "TD" plus any one of the topics listed. Clutch, throttle, clutch stop, etc. Hell, the HACK and I even had an exchange with someone from Sachs NA about the clutch trying to figure out why it sucked so bad (this was while we still thought the culprit was a CDV).
I worked hard to try to make that car feel like a BMW. I finally gave up and bought a car that felt perfect without a single mod. Of course, I still feel like modding it to make it even "more perfect". But I have absolutely ZERO complaints with it. And the financial bath I took unloading the 330i is now, in my mind, money well spent.
From the tone and content of your posts, I see what I was feeling a year ago. I mean, almost exactly what I was feeling. And, back then, I was still confident that with one or two more well selected mods, all would be fine. It didn't happen, even after the mods.