Timm - its an open-ended question i hope you won't mind my asking. I have just read back the whole post and it sounds like an interview. This was not my intention, pardon me.
I know you've got plenty of experience with various BMWs but I was curious how your specific E31 experience has been gathered. Do you often drive other people's 8s for example? thereby learning things you wouldn't by just driving your own. Or do you simply just assimilate it all from the few 8s you yourself have owned? Do you tinker with your cars to find stuff out, or do you only learn things when you are forced to perform a repair? Do you hang out with other enthusiasts and mutually enhance your knowledge base or is it mostly self taught? Is there any single reason or event that inspired the creation of you how-to site(s)?
Do you go out of your way to learn about technical things that are still outside your direct experience? Or does it just gradually happen..Also, do you feel you learn much yourself by interacting with people on the 'net? Is it something you would be doing anyway even if the internet didn't exist for you to communicate?
Lastly, are you just a keen motorist (pardon the simplistic term) that has ventured further than most with that interest, or did you have some relevant background in engineering or a career in something related?
i sense you are quite modest so hope u don't mind me asking, not intending to pry.
thanks :O)