burnt Mk1 was : Re: hello?

[killmurder_@hotmail.com (Jerry Carter)]

it looks like the Damage has been confined to the right side of the engine
bay (driver's side). the parts I'd need are a battery, wiring harness, brake
fluid resevior, airbox, fuel dist., injector lines, fuel lines, Vaccum
lines, airbox side intake boot, and that nifty chunk of pipe that goes from
the airbox to the TB. Other than that, there's the painting of the hood, and
the wiring. I haven't checked yet but I might need a new speedo cable,
throttle cable and I don't know about the shift mech.

I'm trying to be as happy as possible, all things considered, but I don't
know if I should keep this car. i've replaced almost everything that I now
have to replace again, and I've even gone through and fixed every other
little problem with it in the last 6 months, so now that it has no faults
(except a dramatic LACK of horsepower) it decides that it would be a good
time to blow up, almost as if to say "You haven't put any money into me
except for Gas in the last month, I want you to spend on me!"

By the way, Great site! I like the fact that it's got a link to the
Scirocco.org forums at http://www.techography.com/scirocco
. Your site is the place I go when I want to show people those forums, and
usually I show them around your site as well! Keep up the good work!

Jerry C.
'81 Scirocco gold and scorched (yes, there are better colors, but this is
what I got!
----- Original Message -----
From: "R Block" <thesirocco@yahoo.com>
To: "Jerry Carter" <killmurder_@hotmail.com>; <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: hello?


> Jerry,
> Sorry to hear about the fire, happened to me with a Rabbit about 10 yrs
> ago...what a mess.
> I did get it all sorted out eventually and the car ran like a top for
years.
> Are there any wrecking yards (pick your own part type) that you could
> salvage some of this stuff from?
> You could basically scavange from any A1 VW and shouldn't cost much over
> $200 (based on my local prices).
> You can sometimes even get a decent battery from them.
> It will not be an easy task, but not impossible.
> If you can't find this stuff locally and need it to get rolling again I
can
> probably go through the CA yards and find everything for you if you give
me
> a list or some good pics of the engine bay. Shipping should be reasonable
> since most of this stuff is fairly light.
>
> LMK
>
> Randy
> www.myscirocco.org
>
>
> At 10:06 PM 02/09/2002 +0000, Jerry Carter wrote:
> >speaking of dead.... Yesterday I went over to a friend's place to change
> >my airbox and TB. after we got that done, my car decided that it needed
an
> >external combustion engine, and it blew up. The original fireball went up
> >about 15 feet and the ensuing fire reached an average of 8 feet. it only
> >burnt for about 5 min. but in that time it basicly melted everything on
> >the driver's side of the engine bay, Including the Battery which blew up
> >rather spectacularily. Problem is, I'm away from home, and I have no
money
> >or parts to get my car going again, and without the car I'm basicly dead
> >in the water for the getting money thing. Anyway, thanks for listening,
> >I'm at the point of deciding wether it's worth it or not putting the car
> >back together, or just parting the thing out. it's got a great body, and
a
> >good engine (without the airbox and wiring harnesses)
> >
> >Jerry Carter
> >'81 Mk1 Melted Glob
> >
> >
> >>From: "Dave Ewing" <rabbit16v@prodigy.net>
> >>To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >>Subject: Re: hello?
> >>Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 10:32:31 -0800
> >>
> >>It is, only the dead are posting!
> >>
> >> > heh.. nevermind.. i thought the list was dead....
> >> >
> >> > Wing
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "T Berk" <tberk@mindspring.com>
> >> > To: "Wing Gee" <winggee@hotmail.com>
> >> > Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:33 AM
> >> > Subject: Re: hello?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > Wing Gee wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Wing Gee
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Hi!
> >> > >
> >> > > Nice Scirocco. Wanna sell it?
> >> > >
> >> > > TBerk
> >> > >
> >> >
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