Pics of the scirocco and a question about a hose

[gr8hunter1 at comcast.net (Jacob Hawes)]

Snips from Gordy, Gordon and Julie:

> I like your car, it looks very similar to one of mine:)  I like the 
> stock rabbit wheels with the covers.  Your dash looks like it has no 
> cracks from that angle and the rest of the interior looks to be in 
> good shape also.  Gotta love the brown interior and the golf ball 
> shift knob.  Those upper chrome strips look like the same ones that 
> were on the 80 silver scirocco I just got.  Anyone know if that was a 
> stock trim option or just something people did back then like pin 
> stripes (shuddering of the thought).

I think you may have missed the radio, the boot around the shifter (can 
bee seen on floor behind the center console) which I think may have 
mold, either that or a lot of black stains on the inside, and what you 
can't see in this pic is the damaged and molded driver seat belt, molded 
pass seat belt, the stock speaker and cover for the driver side door is 
in a box, and I don't know what is going on with the back end. Oh ya, 
the dash is cracked, under the windshield. Big wide cracks. No amount of 
plastic conditioner can save it. It needs plastic fill, or rope bridges.

I like the golf ball shift knob too, and the brown interior seems 
natural for the car, I honestly can't picture it any other way. I got 
lucky with the head liner. There is maybe one tear. Now that I have said 
that I will go outside and find five.

I was told that the wheels are stock rabbit wheels with the covers by 
the PO and that he was using them because he had some problem with the 
other wheels which I think are stock scirocco wheels. I can't get a 
picture of them because they are being stored at my grandparents. The 
rusty ones look like spare tire wheels (I think) with... rust.

>The "cylinder sticking off of the engine" is a vacuum delay switch
>with both nipples broken off.  It opens when the coolant temp reaches
>a certain point and allows vacuum to pass through it.  Unless someone
>has simply bypassed it and connected the source of the vacuum signal
>to the destination (distributor advance?), you may have a vacuum leak.
>
>On my car, that switch is used to prevent the distributor from using
>the vacuum advance until the engine is warm.  Mine is mounted in the
>line between the water pipe and the reservoir and there is a second
>one nest to it, now unused, that was in the emissions plumbing.
>
...

> I bet I have one of those vacuum delay switches.  I will look tomorrow.

I checked the bently and had problems finding this bit. Is it part of 
the egr system? I really have very little idea of what I am looking at. 
I know the basics, starter, block, valves, distributer, that sort of 
thing, but when you get into parts of the fuel system or exhaust system 
I am still a neophyte. I could try and trace hoses and stuff, but I 
wouldn't know what something is actually going to. What exactly would a 
vacuum leak do?

>  
> I have a set of brand new ones still in the original package.  A local 
> auto repair store was clearing shelves a couple of months ago and sold 
> me 5 of them for $5 each.  I could easily spare a set.  Could get it 
> all in the mail on Monday.

I'm thinking I should just wait a few days until my parts list grows and 
I should just drive up there to get a bunch of stuff. Do you have 
seatbelts (all 4), spare radio, cv boots (my inner boots are torn, not 
sure about outer), gear shift boot, and a decent front license plate 
holder (I have clothes hanger)? I'm sure that come morning when I go 
back out and do a "walk through" I can find a few more parts that I need.

> BTB. I like the metal work! 

The sword has come some way since then but still isn't finished. I can't 
find the time or inclination to do the slow and tedious sanding process. 
I really want to get it done so that I can kill milk jugs and have 
something to bring to sword gatherings (perhaps even cincy if I can make 
it, assuming there is lodging available when I finally decide that I can 
make it).

The guy in the blue sweatshirt is kinda... nuts isn't the right word, he 
is definitely sane. He falls under the 
barnyard-bladesmith-with-a-bit-of-mad-scientist-thrown-in, category. 
Since this is completely off topic I will leave you wondering. If you're 
curious e-mail me off list.
 
BTW, can anyone get a picture of the back end of a mk1 scirocco taken 
from the front seat with the back seat taken out or folded down and with 
the hatch closed. I would like to see if mine is actually complete or if 
there is anything missing. Someone has got to have this picture on their 
computer already.

-- 
	--Jacob Hawes
Cars:
	'80 Scirocco mk1 searching for a name
Sharp pointy things:
	18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
	17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
	~48" Custom XVII longsword. unnamed