This thing on?

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

I have been quiet about posting out of clutch-shame.  Because I AM a
GLUTTON for punishment I am going to drive the car that Gordy and Sean
helped me put back together about 700 miles in the next two days.

Not that I don't have faith in them... I am packing tools and I signed
up for the 100 mile tow plan with AAA, it is a scirocco after all...
I don't think I will ever really be out of a 100 mile radius or so of
some kind of safe haven.  My luck is now that we have the clutch
shafts and all that squared away I am going to have to replace the
tranny or something like that.

My luck.





On 7/30/07, Dan Bubb <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, like I posted on Vortex (bad Dan!) I swapped in the high mileage Konis off of my 84 (the 84 getting H & R coiliovers) onto my POS 16V along with a slightly lengthened front upper spring cap. So, I finally got rid of that wham-bam ride harshness with the front end sitting on the bump stops.
>
> I'm on one of my 3 year missions to throw away everything that I thought I'd need but haven't used in three years. Thank my employers for the dumpster at work that has transfered probably the equivalent of one complete Scirocco over the years (and maybe a Jetta or two).
>
> Working on rebuilding a turbo for Brian McGarvey and the GRM boys. All the pieces are nicely cleaned up and bead blasted only to find out the turbine housing has had fairly massive welded repairs to it, the center section has a nice chunk busted out of the side of it, the compressor housing doesn't fit on its backing plate and I can't get the turbine side piston ring seal to go in the damn hole! But hey! This thing will probably have a running life of maybe 5 hours, so whatever.
>
> Next is to get the 16V AC working, get the heater to actually turn off and get the recirculation flap to close. For some reason I cannot get AC systems to work so thanks to Brian Wagner for all the tips and pointing me in the right direction.
>
> The 84 turbo is once again being neglected. I suspect it will never be roadworthy again.
> Dan
>
> From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 9:12 AM
> Subject: This thing on?
>
>
> > Like, holy heck!! What's with the low list traffic? What'ch'all up to these
> > days? Me? My Cabby moved out, my 8V's WB controler is out for repairs, and
> > my 16V's likely still slow, but (shudder) is currently my most reliable
> > ride (till I get my WB back from Avionics boy). I hate it when she gets me
> > in a position like that...So, what's up??? Like shows? Races? Breakdown
> > tales? Anything?
> >
> > Oh, and here's one more plug for Track Day North eh? :)
> > Cathy
> >
> >
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