Blacky's night at the track(1/4 mile).

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

I bought one of TT's new 16V down pipe and had to remanufacture the inside 
it was so bad. The connecting pipes were sticking almost half way through 
the diameter. What good is a larger freeflowing header if it has a 
retriction built in. I was not happy with the quality of it. It was not up 
to the same as their older design. I found out their are not yet 
manufacturing them themselves but expect to later this year. I hope they are 
better.

On 5/7/05, Scourge <scourge@cogeco.ca> wrote: 
> 
> Ok here's the rest of the story since I'm in a better mood now.
> The last run, staging, thinking go on third green. Ok 1 2 3, launch hard!!
> Hmm...that doesn't sound right. Then all of a sudden, WHHOOOMMMPP holy 
> shit
> my car is blowing up! Come of the gas to hear a clunk followed be the ever
> popular dragging of the exhaust lol. I was sure I had sheared the studs 
> off
> the dual outlet manifold and the downpipe was now dragging. Since this is 
> a
> QM track I could just stop and get out to check, so I had to drive(nice 
> and
> slow) all the way to the end(in 29 seconds!!).
> Got out and looked and thank god almighty, it was just the pipe that comes
> off the down pipe had popped out somehow. So after a half hour or so of
> poking it, a guy had some wire. Now I was thinking mechanics wire, but no,
> it was like lamp cord of something(wtf, who has that at the track!?!?). So
> the best I could do was loop it around the pipe and run it up around the
> side of the car and close it in the passenger door, lol. I have exhaust
> hangers between there and the axle.
> I managed to limp the car from the track to just outside Hamilton(just 
> short
> of an hour away) and only felt mildly like I'd been driving the durocco. I
> passed three cops on the way too(this was after 11pm, so sound restriction
> bylaws are in effect). I stopped at the drive in(where I work) and called
> good ol CAA(AAA equivalent). The tow truck driver was an ass because he
> didn't seem to think I needed a flatbed, so he didn't get a tip, lol.
> I went out and bought a compressor that was on sale today and was able to
> hook everything back up, hopefully for good this time.
> 
> Side note: This is after having a HUGE!! pita job of changing my over the
> axle pipe for a new one from TT(anybody ever have problems with TT mandrel
> bent stuff not being bent right??) and had to put a f*ing "turbo cherry
> bomb" muffler on it. It sounds like ass!!!!! I'm pissed off because I 
> can't
> use my old muffler, I love the sound of it.
> 
> -George
> Oh, and my TT down pipe is loose at the flange where it bolts to the
> manifold now, You can move the end of the DP about two inches side to side
> and the pipes just rotate in the "flange".
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Scourge" <scourge@cogeco.ca>; "Sciroccolist" <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Blacky's night at the track(1/4 mile).
> 
> > George, George, George, don't burn it!
> > What happened man??
> > Can we help?
> > This isn't going to keep you from making Cincy?
> > Dan
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scourge" <scourge@cogeco.ca>
> > To: "Sciroccolist" <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 1:08 AM
> > Subject: Blacky's night at the track(1/4 mile).
> >
> >
> > So, my car seems to have gotten slower, but I've gotten more consistent.
> She
> > ran 16.4 back to back to back to back, lol. The night was not all fun 
> and
> > games though.....I'm a little too pissed to go into detail, so I'll 
> leave
> > some tid-bits for your collective imaginations to run wild with.
> >
> > Blacky's last run...finished in 29.921 seconds...yeah, 29. She also came
> > home on a flatbed........ Yeah, I'm happy......
> >
> > -George -ready to burn a Rocco.
> >
> >
> >
> 
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-- 
Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at 
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (under repair)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)