Re: engine blow contest - was : Re: All this "done with VW's" crap

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

It's hard because whenever I get rid of something I get that "you'll
need this later feeling" but somethings have to leave. Valuable space in
my basement, or the little bit of space I have for my car stuff can't be
occupied by an old 1.6 motor or something when there is bigger, better,
and other more useful things that are trying to claim the space.
Sometimes you just have to, but if I had it my way I'd have a junkyard.


"Wm. Josiah Erikson" wrote:
> 
> Yah, I'm sorry - I did get that, but I guess that, being a VW mechanic and
> having about 8 million of these cars all the time (and having sent several
> running motors to the junkyard because they weren't worth anything) makes
> me jaded. Maybe I just have no respect : )
>         -Josiah
> 
> '87 GLi
> '84 GTi
> http://bork.hampshire.edu/josiah
> 
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Dirk Schneider wrote:
> 
> >
> > Josiah,
> > you didn't get the point of what I tried to say :
> >
> > a) destroying things in general will lead us nowhere.
> >
> > b)  intentionally destroying engines breaks my heart as an engineer for
> > combustion engines.
> >      it doesn't matter if an engine is "crappy" or not, my parents also have
> > POS VW engine
> >     in their VW Passat ( a 1.6l 100PS ), but I would never dare to toast it,
> > only  because
> >     it's worse than my DX-engine.
> 
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