Re: My crashed Scirocco story [long,sad] (Was: Re: how wiring)

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Is it possible that it has a turbocharger as well as the stock supercharger?
I've heard of this on MR2's (300bhp MkI MR2... scary!)
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI (autoxer and toy)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (buy me!)
    '87 QSW
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Lauri Pettai wrote:

> That's my very sad story...
>
> Yeah, I was involved in a crash on a saturday before last saturday, I hit
> hard one Jeep Wrangler when one idiot with his Citroen drove ahead of me
> from a parking lot. Jeep is ok, but my car needs bodywork worth of 2000$.
> ( The insurance will pay it (hopefully).
>
> I'm now, bit in trouble, don't know what to do futher. Should I go on
> investing to this car (altough it has now a very twisted frame (having
> trouble getting the bodykit back on, because it does not fit my car any more
> :( ) and all other sorts of problems (eg. nothing, exept speedometer,
> does'nt work on cauge), only engine is running great). The fan is out of
> order (This now is really big problem :) ), windshield is broken. But still,
> even tho' it has all these problems, it's a nicest car do ride with... :,(
>
> And there is one BUT, it's a fine pearl blue '91 Corrado G60 Turbo (How is
> this possible? Checked under the hood it had a lot more tubes there than
> stock G60 has, but I didn't saw what exactly was going on there, but it sure
> worked well) with no crashes, engine is in great shape (by the words of a
> seller it goes faster than stock VR6 Corrado), power everything, power
> Recaro seats, AC, some sort of lowering springs and sport suspension all
> around, fine 15"x7,5 alloy wheels. And they are asking 6700$ for it? It's in
> it's top shape (I was unable to find any mistakes altough I ispected it at
> least two hours).
>
> And for the Dirk. Yes it's really isn't a GTX time here because Arno (fellow
> listmember from Estonia) and Jaan, another Scirocco owner from Estonia, both
> totalled their Sciroccos. So I've got no friends who own Sciroccos left here
> in Estonia. Have tried to make contact with some others, but they have
> looked me with strange faces only.
>
> >>'84 Scirocco GTI Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736)
> >> (Currently crashed :( )
> >
> >Hey Lauri - good to see you back
> >your Rocco is crashed ?
> >
> >really not a GTX season at all
> >finally collected mine from bodyshop after one week
>
> Lauri!
> '84 Scirocco GTI Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736) Currently crashed
> http://www.ttu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
> I finally added nothing new to my site!
> But I'll add pic taken this summer and aftercrash pics also if you're
> intrested?
>
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