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Odd cooling problem



A blue radiator cap will match my blue plug wires and my blue (correct 
color) lettering on the 16V intake manifold. Woo Hoo!

-Raffi


At 05:18 PM 9/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Oh God...this happened to me on a local VW tuner's dyno session.  The first
>run blowing 18psi, the rad cap puked all over his super clean shop.  The 
>owner
>walked over and looked at the cap and said "Steve, I can't believe you 
>haven't
>replaced that old cap."  He claims the new blue caps are an upgrade and can
>hold more pressure.  My guess is that this can be only proven by pressure
>testing a brand new nos black cap with the new blue one...but why would 
>any one
>wanna do this.  It's just a rad cap.  Sure as shit that was the only 
>problem.
>But, new caps are blue and look stupid in the engine bay.  Yeah, I'm anal.
>
>Steve Szuba
>Callaway Turbo Scirocco #10
>Uncle Rocco
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