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Re: WOOHOO! 6-speed at last!



Haha yes! that is true scirocco love, a 6 speed in a mk2 8v :)

Joe

>I FINALLY drove my Scirocco home tonight!
>
>Four and a half months and more money than most people would consider
>spending on a 'roc later, she finally has her 4K with .71 sixth gear and
>Quaife installed.  <drool>  I'm grinning like a deranged Cheshire cat.
>
>Everything appears to be working just fine so far (all 20 miles of it), and
>I even used the 6th gear on the way home.  The mech who did the install 
>left
>a matching pair of small patches in his garage to demonstrate the Quaife. 
>:)
>After a brief test drive, we put her back on the lift to check things out.
>There's a brass plug of some kind on the end cone, and it's leaking just a
>little bit of tranny fluid.  I'm going to try and call Vince tomorrow to 
>ask
>about that.  It's pretty minor so far, so I'm going to leave it until the
>500 mile tranny fluid flush.  (All Redline, of course.)
>
>Pics can be found at 
><http://members.home.net/mikes.vws/Sonja/Pictures.htm>,
>and I plan to take some more pictures with her new 15" SSR Competitions in
>the next couple of days.
>
>I just hope the weather stays decent long enough for me to get some good
>miles on her before it's time to tuck her back into storage for the winter.
>So much for the 'summer project car' concept...
>
>Just had to share...
>Mike Carlson
>'84 Scirocco Wolfsburg Edition
>'95 GTI VR6
>http://members.home.net/mikes.vws
>
>
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