RE: Hello again all

[Night Shadow <soltwede@privateI.com>]

BILL!

Your back! :-)

Eric


On Wed, 9 May 2001, Neal Tovsen wrote:

> Hehehe...glad to see you still have the domain name, too! ;)
> 
> Neal
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Wm. Josiah Erikson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 11:55 PM
> To: Scirocco List
> Subject: Hello again all
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 	I've been off-list for quite awhile, and Jean-Claude recently sent
> me a message from Dred Scott asking where I was, and it got me to thinking
> that maybe I should drop in and say hello to you all. I don't have a
> Scirocco currently, but that never stopped me before : )
> 	I went to my dad's place this weekend (with the phat pit) and
> pulled the trans out of my GTi to discover that no, it had not machined
> itself - I was an idiot and hadn't tightened the pressure plate to
> crankshaft bolts tight enough and they had loosened up and one of them bad
> actually come all the way out and was rattling around in the clutch
> fingers, making a horrible racket and also preventing the clutch from
> disengaging. Humbling. But no serious harm done. In the process of putting
> the trans back in, I managed to give myself a minor concussion by holding
> the transmission up with my head, which I thought was odd : ) But in any
> case, I forgot how much I loved A1 VW's. I had been considering buying an
> '85 RX-7 GSL-SE, but all thoughts of such things left my head when I drove
> my Rabbit, clutchless even (broken clutch cable, now fixed) around the
> "block" (4 miles of lovely curvy dirt and paved roads). I had totally
> forgotten how light, tossable and fast that car is. 2nd gear, straight
> ahead on dirt, 3000rpm. Floor it and spin hard, spitting rocks up under
> the car, all the way to 7200rpm, where it still has useful power. Aw.
> Yeah. : )
> 	So I also have an '87 5KCSTQW now, which replaced my sadly
> destroyed '87 QSW. It's now modified to ~210bhp (0-60 in 6.8seconds by my
> crappy stopwatch)  and has Bilsteins in the rear, and front strut inserts
> (also Bilsteins) in the back of the car waiting to go in the front when I
> get a chance to put them in.
> 	I'm working as a Computer/Network Specialist and UNIX Systems
> Admin these days, so my projects are much better funded than of yore,
> when, as any of you who knew me will remember, cheap was my middle name.
> 	Good to be back! I'm kindof busy these days, so I don't know if
> I'll be able to keep up with the volume of email that this list tends to
> generate (I bet it's gotten even worse), but I'll do my best.
> 	-Josiah
> 
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> '87 5KCSTQW
> '84 GTi
> http://insanetechnology.com
> 
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Eric
Westminster, CO

76 Honda CB400F Super Sport
80 Scirocco (GF's Daily Driver)
81 Scirocco S (2.0 16v swap and complete restoration in progress)
84 Scirocco Automatic
88 Scirocco 16v (Parts car)
91 Cabriolet (2.0 8v swap and mechanical rebuild in progress)
00 Golf GL TDI (My Daily Driver)

"For Aquarians, the physics of loopholes is a perfectly valid science."
-Kelli Fox


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