Re: Query of electrical or mechanical faults...

[skerocdriver@juno.com (SHAWN C MEZE)]

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:16:41 -0400 brett@kodak.com (Brett VanSprewenburg)
writes:

>Well, many years ago I had a 1979 Scirocco with a crack at the 4-into-2
>junction of the exhaust.  Occasionally, I would get the exact symptoms
>out of the car that you described, like the car was running on 3
cylinders.
>I would suggest fixing that first and re-evaluating.  

That's in progress. Also some updated info, I took off the downpipe
(Broke 3 studs on the manifold and had to pull it out too.) and took a
good close look. Its cracked all the way around the one downpipe. 
For giggles, I weighed the manifold and downpipe. The manifold weighs 11
lbs, downpipe weighs 6 lbs.  
Anybody know how much a regular gas dual downpipe weighs? I also found
where I can open up the manifold since it is really small compared to the
size of the downpipe so im gonna take up an offer the guy who Dyno'd my
car and give him an intake and also my exhaust manifold for Extrude
Honing. He wants to do a before and after Dyno test for a magazine. (At
least, That's what he told me.Who knows for sure.) 
Meanwhile im really wanting to get ahold of whoever had that header for
sale. Anybody know?? Lemme know if you do! I don't want to have my car up
on jackstands for a month! And i sure as hell don't want to reinstall
that c-clamp manifold and downpipe either! That would suck!


>As far as the electrical
>requirements to drive your fuel up to the proper pressure, if your
alternator
>is in good condition, as well as the accompanying wiring, then it should
have
>put out enough voltage when the car was running to run the pump up to
correct
>operating pressure.  (how's that for a sentence?)  HTH! :-)
>
>==Brett


That was my gut feeling also. The reason I asked that was because of the
major difference between before and after with the battery charger
attached. My ALT is in great shape, BTW.
Thanks for the reply!


              Shawn Meze
86' Jetta GLi           82' Scirocco GTi
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