need advice, beginning work on '84

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

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Dan suggested some good things, which have been snipped...


Dan also says: After that you can upgrade your camshaft 


Hehehe, a cam swap :)  :)


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> Course if you want to and have the money you can go nuts. There is no
> limit to how much you can upgrade!!

No kidding! And it just never ends either, there's always something fun to
do to these cars!
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> From: "Kathryn Griffin" <griffink1@nku.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:20 AM
> Subject: RE: need advice, beginning work on '84
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> hi,
> my name is katy and Ive had my scirocco for about 2 years. For a
> while it was just a car that i took basic care of to get me from one
> place to another, but the longer i drive it the more i love it. I
> really want to start seriously fixing it up, and would like some
> suggestions about the first things to tackle. its an '84 inline 4 1.8
> wolfsburg edition. specifically, is there anything to work on to
> improve acceleration and general performance? its also getting some
> very minor surface rust spots- i plan to repaint soon, so is there
> anything i can do to stop the corrosion before i repaint? any advice
> for the beginning scirocco enthusiast would be much appreciated.
> thanks,                                                    katy
> (if i send this the wrong way or something somebody tell me please-
> im not very tech-sauve)
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Well, hello! I often serve as list greeter, and with a name like Katy you
must be cool! This list is an excellent place to learn about improving your
Scirocco, or just keeping it alive. Whatever your goal is, there's someone
here who can help. Folks on here are really nice. I bought my 16V 6 years
ago today I think (now I'll have to look that up..., and if so, happy
birthday to Blackie too!!). One bit of advice I'll pass on is that you
should try to do as much of your own work as you can, garages are getting
less and less able to deal with cars as old as ours, and if you do it
yourself, you'll know exactly what got done. When I got mine, I didn't even
know how to take the battery out of it, I've sure become more familiar with
it since then!

Anyway, beware, you have one now, the darn things will infest your property
before long! And DO come to the big get together in June in Wilmington!
Cathy
1987 Arctic Blue Metallic 16V 
1985 Tornado Red Wolfsburg still sitting
1980 parts MkI
1979 Kolobri green 8V
and some other scrap iron