Amphibian VWs

[curtv@eudoramail.com (Curt Voss)]

Well, the short story is: sure, if y'all wanna take up a collection of 
about $5 grand or so and send it to me, I'd love to fix the driveway... 
:D  The long story involves lots of fun things like lying sellers, 
fraudulent real estate agents, lawsuits and resulting bankruptcies, and 
semi-retarded neighbors who have no understanding of even the most basic 
concepts of hydrology. Suffice it to say, it appears that we're going to 
have to adapt to the driveway and not the other way around.

Thanks everyone for the heads-up about the air intake - I never even 
thought about how low it is - looking back on it I think I did hydro-lock 
the motor once, at the time I thought it wouldn't start because the exhaust 
was plugged with water but now I'm not so sure. Guess I'd better look into 
rerouting the intake before I try this too often.


At 09:05 AM 1/3/02 -0500, Brad Sayer wrote:
>How about fixing the driveway?
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>>From: Curt Voss <curtv@eudoramail.com>
>>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org,vwpickups@neubayern.net
>>Subject: Amphibian VWs
>>Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 17:34:00 -0800
>>
>>Okay, don't tell me I shouldn't be abusing my car this bad 'cuz I already
>>know that... :) My driveway is approaching its annual flood stage and I'm
>>concerned about driving my Scirocco and Rabbit pickup through it. Once I
>>stalled the Scirocco in the middle of it when the exhaust pipe submerged,
>>so now I stick a flexible pipe into the exhaust pipe and angle it up as a
>>sort of reverse snorkel, which gets me through okay. But, I wonder what
>>kind of damage I might be doing? The water isn't deep enough to run in
>>around the bottom of the door, but I'm sure the bottom of the crankshaft
>>pulley is dipping in for about a Scirocco length or so. Anyone have any
>>insights, can I get away with this maybe half a dozen times a year?
>>
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