Chrysler 300M

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  • 300michael300michael Member Posts: 1,815
    It seem I can't get on here until after 9 (local time) or before 6.
  • ottowrkrottowrkr Member Posts: 778
    sdmike2- not a chance we are going to send you this nice weather we are having!!. You guys have it all the time , now its our turn to feel the warmth.

    We started building Pro-Am's today. I really like the graphite paint . The dash gets a silver piece were the wood goes . The first one I saw come down the line , I really did not like it. Then after seeing one with all the interior done it started to grow on me. We are building this package on the Concorde also .One thing the Concorde gets that the M does not is a new center console shifter cover. The Concorde shifter cover gets silver trim around the leather boot just like what is used on the dash . The M uses the same cover all M's get.Also there are No changes in the drivetrain, of either car.
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    It seems like in the early evening (PST) the board takes forever to respond...if it responds at all. Maybe it's just getting more and more popular and gets bombarded when people get home from work.
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    When do you guys put the golf clubs in the trunk? ;)
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    Might be nice to put a little color under the hood too. Anyone know how caliper paint will hold up if I painted the "V6 24 Valve" lettering on the valve cover with it? I think that would look cool in the same red I'm using for the calipers. Here's where I'm talking about. http://www.ritchiefamily.com/car/intake/intake_top.jpg
  • easyrider300measyrider300m Member Posts: 1,116
    you have a lot of patience if youre going to stand there and paint each letter on both valve covers---methinks you have too much time on your hands---it would look nice if you have a very steady hand--

    yes, I too have noticed that Edmunds sometimes wont load at all---and I have high speed cable internet---I thought it was my computer till I tried the club site to make sure all was ok with modem--

    It was nice to hear from Phases---I wouldnt want to be in his shoes right now----some of the long timers here should send a brief hello to show him we appreciate all he is doing in his fight for our country--

    Easyrider
  • ottowrkrottowrkr Member Posts: 778
    we do not put the golf clubs in the car at the plant.They dont trust us. I guess the dealer gives them out.
  • fuzzywuzzyfuzzywuzzy Member Posts: 958
    In a year I never had any problems with the KVR Rotors I had on the 300M. I think I was the first test mule too. Put them on October of 2000, sold the 300M with them on it in October of 2001. I did switch the pads to less noisy ones, but that was it. Maybe there quailty, or building has suffered since then.
  • peters300mpeters300m Member Posts: 11
    Just the other day I noticed that my drivers side headlamp has condensation in it. How can I fix it? Or do I need to replace my headlamp?
  • muskateer3muskateer3 Member Posts: 103
    scotian- Just got the front rotors. Hadn't had time to look for backing plates. This would just leave the ducting option for cooling to try.

    fuzzywuzzy - I called KVR and gave them the opprtunity to make it right. They didn't. What can I say?
  • videoman1videoman1 Member Posts: 201
    http://www.martin-productions.com/300M/speedo.jpg


    Guess what car this is.

  • grunschevgrunschev Member Posts: 106
    At least it wasn't the driver taking the picture! Looks like a Corvette logo on the speedo.

    Igor
  • ruskiruski Member Posts: 1,566
    judging by the white knuckles, that dude was $#!^^ing a brick!
  • andy300mandy300m Member Posts: 95
    I think its a pontiac on the picture you posted. Not sure about the specific model. The dash design looks pontiac style, but I could be wrong
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    nice vette. Z06? I think that's the only one that will do over 170 stock! Hey, my knuckles would look like that too if I was doing almost 180!!!
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    ok...who do I need to send my $10 to so I can get that winning $300 million lottery ticket!?!?
  • ruskiruski Member Posts: 1,566
    the logo with two little flags is Corvette
  • andy300mandy300m Member Posts: 95
    Good eyes! :-)
  • wire2wire2 Member Posts: 188
    I'd suggest remove the lamp(s) and let it sit with the front facing the sun for a couple of hours.
    BTW, it's 88º and sunny in Brampton today, I dug my shorts out.
  • videoman1videoman1 Member Posts: 201
    Well....yes. The answer is a 2002 Corvette LS6 which is one step down from the Z06. The owner is a friend of mine in Georgia.

    If I tried that kind of speed here in Pennsylvania, I'd be typing this message from a jail cell.
  • no1trustno1trust Member Posts: 151
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    or a pine box
  • blondablonda Member Posts: 542
    My husband's boss just bought a Z06 last month ---he's still nervous every time he gets in the thing (his boss, not my husband).
  • wire2wire2 Member Posts: 188
    >Isn't that kind of hot for Brampton this time of year?

    It certainly is! We usually see those temps in June, July and August, off and on, given our latitude.
  • 300michael300michael Member Posts: 1,815
    I will gladly send you some heat, if you send us some cold.
  • 300michael300michael Member Posts: 1,815
    HID conversion. I have ground down the posts and now have to make a 2 piece plate to hold the bulb in place. It is a very tight fit. I also need to retap the holes, being careful not to go through the chromed reflector part. If the power plug is not larger then the stock plug is will be doable. I wish I had the kit so I could really test fit it. Does anyone know of the PT Cruser uses 9006 bulbs for the low beam?
  • scotianscotian Member Posts: 1,064
    Uses the same headlight bulbs as we do, I believe.
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    You're right Scott. According to oem-car-parts the PT and the M use the same bulbs.
  • rogor2krogor2k Member Posts: 385
    Hold the grinders! I just discovered that MidnightMoose.com will have legit 9006XS HID conversion kits available next month.


    I'm trying to negotiate a group purchase. They did a group purchase for PT Cruiser club for $335 for the complete kit (9006 bulb). Hopefully we can get the same deal. Check out http://www.midnightmoose.com, Lighting, and then HID Conversion Kits. This is not a xenon bulb, but a conversion kit complete with harnesses and ballasts.
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    I don't understand all this headlight stuff, so I'm going to ask a couple of dumb questions. My knowledge about lights goes about as far as knowing there is a halogen bulb that plugs into a socket, which is in the center of a reflector/lens assembly. Right? So, for a while people were talking about replacing the stock halogen bulbs with Xenon or some other aftermarket lights. I'm assuming that 9006 is the type/size of bulb??? So now we're saying that a kit will be avaliable where we can use the existing headlight assembly but replace the plug and lamp with a true HID system that includes the ballasts, right? Now here's my question. Why couldn't we do that by just adding a HID bulb and ballast off of some other system? Is it a size/fit issue? A lens aiming issue? I want to understand what you've been talking about here.
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    I wonder what the conversion kit will look like. Here is a close-up of the special's headlights. I'm assuming the transplant won't be as sexy. http://ritchiefamily.com/car/carlsbad/DSCF3015.JPG
  • achanceachance Member Posts: 106
  • achanceachance Member Posts: 106
    I have an honest-to-God GPS speed of 178 recorded! I even have a picture of it.

    Of course, my GPS is a relatively stupid machine and it doesn't realise that I turned it off last fall after I pulled out my crab pots out in the bay. I took it with me a week or so ago, turned it on the the car and, not knowing that it had been dead, it did the d/t equation from where it last was to where it was now. 178! I felt like that guy in the NASCAR commercial trying to bribethe cop into giving him a ticket for 185
  • no1trustno1trust Member Posts: 151
    Um, you're not talking about your M somewhere on a highway, are you?
  • ruskiruski Member Posts: 1,566
    I think in Georgia they have some of the most vicious cops.
  • lonestarsledlonestarsled Member Posts: 226
    Mike, let me see if I can shed some light on the subject. Appears that you are in the dark regarding the bulbs used in the 300M.


    The 300M uses a 9006XS (a.k.a HB4A - straight base) bulb not a 9006 (a.k.a HB4 - 90 degree base bulb). Chrysler seems to be the only auto manufacturer that was suckered - I mean negotiated w/Sylvania to use the 9006XS ba$tard bulb. Check these links out to see the difference;


    9006:

     http://www.sylvania.com/auto/pdfs/9006gs.pdf


    9006XS:

    http://www.sylvania.com/auto/pdfs/9xs.pdf


    Hope this clears up some of the cornfusion. OUT!

  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    That helped a bit. That leads to another question though. Will the 9006 midnight moose kit work with the XS? If the difference is the plug, I would imagine that it would be a moot point because the HID system would have to replace the plug assembly. Not gonna do it, but like to learn.

    By the way, I think one of the few good things I can say about my wife's Grand Caravan is that DC did it right with their taillight assembly. I can replace a bulb in under 30 seconds.
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Art did you do the 178 in Juneau? Let me know where I will try my special when it gets in end of month. Believe I met you before, I work for DOT as a Procurement Specialist. Have seen some of your post.
    Will let you know when special gets in.
    Bob Carrier
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    I think you guys either missed the joke here or have a very dry sense of humor. :) It was an erroneous calculation by a GPS that had been turned off for quite some time. Let's see...off for three months...which is about 2200 hours, times 178 is ......ok Art, how did you end up 384,000 miles away from where you turned the GPS off?!? lol!
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    I did a bunch of work for the DOT as a consultant with Price Waterhouse about 10 years ago. I was the guy that developed the department's first indirect cost allocation plan approved by the FHWA. Small world having multiple guys on here from Juneau. Kind of like having three posters here from our small community north of San Diego...four if you count Blonda who works nearby.
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Got the "joke" still want to know where I can do 178 and currently I am limited to Juneau. Lookout Phoenix here I come in a few months.
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Small world, so would you not want to do 178 in Juneau or at least want to know where you could? LOL
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    My guess is your best bet is on the runway at the airport. :) Other than that I don't think there's anything long enough or paved enough.
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Afraid the runway is too short for Special
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    any flat spots on the glacier? lol Actually, Art tells me that they paved a bunch of the road that runs north along the passage...north of the ferry terminal. It was a long dirt road when I worked up there.
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Will fly up and check it out doubt it though, guess will just have to settle for flying
  • bobspcbobspc Member Posts: 20
    Yes they did pave quite a bit past the terminal. Still cannot get anywhere though
  • sdmike2sdmike2 Member Posts: 2,909
    nope..still boat or plane to get out of there. Hey, maybe you can tear around douglas island starting at the bridge and heading north. If you're not careful you'll end up in the channel though. :) I really loved juneau when I was there. Beautiful scenery. However, I remember the wind and snow blowing so hard that the windows in the DOT building pulsed in and out.

    People don't realize that Juneau is the largest city in the US at over 3000 square miles. A whole bunch of it is water and ice though. :)
  • videoman1videoman1 Member Posts: 201
    OK, everyone talks about adding turbos and superchargers to the M as a mod. But if you look under the hood, you'll quickly discover that there's barely enough room for anything. So I had an idea (that I'm sure will never happen) about creating some sort of electronic tubrocharger. What's that you ask?

    Well, instead of using the engine's exhaust and all it's piping to spin the turbine, you'd use an electric motor. This could somehow be hooked up to the throttle or computer to increase and decrease it's speed depending on the RPM of the engine. I'm sure some company could make a small enough electric motor package that would fit inside our M's engine. What do you think? Is this crazy or what? Would an electric motor spin fast enough?

    Now, if anyone does actually go out there and create this thing and makes a fortune, please remember me and send me some royalties.
  • kosh_2258kosh_2258 Member Posts: 338
    Well, it wouldn't be a turbocharger it would be a supercharger if externally driven. Same effect but different motivation.

    I don't think it would be cost effective because of the beefed up electrical system and computer controls you'd need to make it work. And there would probably be a weight penalty for the high torque motor and larger alternator you'd need to power it.
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