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-M
First, my 5* says he has very little information about the Special other than what he's heard. I shared some of what we know, and he said we know more than him by far. No spec sheet, no nothing yet. He says that Chrylser likes them to keep a "Sell What You See" approach to sales...sell what's on the lots not what's coming down the street. He says they're notorious for keeping dealers in the dark until the last minute. To their credit, they have more than a dozen '01 Ms on the lot plus a few 99 and 00 used models. Their strategy is to have a stockpile of Ms for when the other dealers have run out of them, as they're getting more and more scarce. He says there's a couple of months now when supplies are low and the 02s aren't on the lots yet that he can make good money on the car. Not a bad approach.
Finally, I went to the parts department and asked about the 2.7 litre Intrepid gears vs. those on the 300M. The parts counter "kid" first told me that the transmissions are the same, and he seemed surprised when I corrected him.
Are you suggesting we could do for $100 what Prowler Pro is selling for $1400? Do you have the ratio details and such?
its really not that bad, when i'm done, i'm gonna do the gas door conversion (swinging tailights and gas entrance behind it), and graft in new tailights, i like the Lexus RX300 tailights, but not sure yet, and of course, suicide doors on the back.....
Mike
I also recall reading that the So-Cal 300M had the Concorde (same as Intrepid?) gear set installed.
I also read that the so-cal M used the concorde gears. Both the concorde and the intrepid with the 2.7 litre engine uses the bigger gear, so that's probably what they had in the car.
I had some information on gear ratios around here somewhere, I'll see if I can find it again.
1st 2.84
2nd 1.57
3rd 1.00
4th 0.69
Final Drive 3.66
Overall Top Gear 2.52
Intrepid/Concord 2.7 Litre
1st 2.84
2nd 1.57
3rd 1.00
4th 0.69
Final Drive 3.89
Overall Top Gear 2.68
about a 6.3% difference. An M running at 80mph in 4th at 2400RPM would be at 2,550 RPM with the new gears. Not much of a difference, is it?
The gearing should cut a .5 second off your times, and cut your gas mileage by 1.7 mpg. Where as the prowler pro will cut off about 2 seconds, cut your mpg by 7.
clpurnell: others here have had a similar problem within a year of purchase--try changing the batteries and see if it helps--it worked for others here--I dont notice any problem with my year old M
...like I need to shave another 2mpg off my already abysmal mileage. lol
-M
BTW, neat looking mufflers back there. What kind and $$$$$??????
If replacing the batteries doesn't improve the key FOB, there is a TSB on the lack of range. Your award winning "5-STAR" Chrysler dealer can easily find it on their computer. If they can't or won't or tell you that they all do that, let me know. Somewhere in my Christine folder, I have the TSB. You don't have to live with this. After the fix, I could open Christine from "across" town!
fastdriver
http://frealfso.frostburg.edu/cs1101f00/janjuao/300/ohno/
it IS bad, but its not. remember its me, AVA baby! with the money i am geting from insurance--$4500, u gotta remember more than 2 grand of that is just labor, and i work at the shop, i'll literally be paying myself for labor. lol. so the lights are gonna be grafted it, the gas door conversion will be done, and maybe suicide doors if i still have the mucho huves for it...
is the rear wheel bent a little or is that an optical illusion---how bad is the exhaust--is it damaged just at the end or farther up as well
you'll have to paint the entire car again---whats that--4 layers now--or are you gonna strip all the paint----phases damage was a piece of cake compared to your car--
remember i need some big ones, lol. easy i looked at the maxima today, no go, just dont look good on the m, i literally yanked mine out since it was already broken, colored some paper, and put the tailight in, shoot i should've took pics. any good ones u guys can think of? remember my color too, no ricey look wanted
and the exhaust, well its not that bad at all, its still functional, but i will be getting a new DTM predator muffler, exact same, and redoing the pipes just because the insurance adjuster thought it was a good idea (hey can't argue with that). and as you can see, the guy hit me pretty hard, i was basically stationary, <5mph. the pipes are gonna be stainless now too, but thats not under insurance, i'll just take money they gave me for exhaust, add some of my own, and buy pipes....but i can do all the work in the shop...here's the exhaust up close, only tip got bent, and the the muffler got loose welded from the holder...
Glad you're ok. The car will be like new when you get finished.
fastdriver
you should take pics as you do all the mods and make a nice portfolio of the work in process to put on the table in the waiting room--seeing that your car is on the premises for viewing, it would be a good sales tool---
you must be making more than just the labor charge on the car---dont parts have a big markup---
you should show the car to the insurance co when its done cause otherwise the depreciate the value of the car and if you get hit in the same area of the car, they wont pay unless you had it properly repaired---at least thats how it works in MA
-MMCCCM
http://frealfso.frostburg.edu/cs1101f00/janjuao/300/
Wheee! Fun times.
Catalog: 01LH Group: 42LE Title: Shaft, Transfer, Automatic Transaxel (DGX). The gear is part number 42 in the diagram and the chain is #45.
He puts the numbers in the computer and it tells him what the options for that part are. The gear (42) had two options. The chain had one. The gear on the other side showed one also, which indicated that it's the same on the cars.
-M
Viva Las Vegas!
-m
to AV: YIKES!..but it must be nice to have access to the stuff you have to fix your baby.
Doc
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