Scirocco Bliss (long) (rieger sideways action)

[amalventano1@home.com (Allyn)]

Renewed rocco lovers/fellow listers,
    You know, I must share in all of your happiness. Last week i fixed the
stubborn starting with something as simple as a piece of wire. Just today on
the way home from work, i heel-toed my way into a 4-wheel drift (3 seconds
or so worth) on the way home from work. For those of you counting, this is
the first time i've got the rieger sideways on dry land (normally takes
fresh rain + parking lot + e-brake). Some poor guy coming the other way saw
a wall-o-green german-flavored wide-body coming for him... poor bastard,
muahahaha.
Oh well, enough babbling, back to calculating weight distro of a twin engine
roc :)
Al

Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6)
86 Kamei Twin 16V Turbo Scirocco GTX (shell donor ready to rock, still
planning)
87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch,
driveshafts, wheels :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Carter" <jerry.carter@shaw.ca>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; "Marc Peterson"
<mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: Scirocco Bliss (long)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Peterson" <mpeters6@rochester.rr.com>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:10 PM
> Subject: Scirocco Bliss (long)
>
>
> > I love this car...
>
> Good to hear!
> >
> -snip-
> >
> > I still can't believe that this car is 20 years old.  Sure, I've
replaced
> > much of its mechanical wear items, but the
> engine/trans/steering/suspension
> > is totally original.  I've just been replacing stuff that wore out and
> > nobody bothered to fix before me.  I mean, come on, how hard is it to
> > replace the radiator fan thermoswitch?!?!?!
>
> I'm looking at the same thing with my car. I finally got her purring today
> just like I knew she could. she's all tuned up and running as good as I
can
> make her run. As a bonus I now have car-like acceleration! but I took her
on
> a test drive ou tto my folks' place and back (10 miles of twisty/turney
> stuff punctuated by one mile long straight stretch) and I impressed myself
> with how fast I was going to give up on her (ok, it took almost 2 years,
but
> still). The sad thing though is that I had a Job interview to go to at
11am
> this morning, and I went out to go there in the wife's Nissan and it
> wouldn't fire. so I played with the 'roc for a bit and got happy with that
> before I dealt with the Nissan. it's odd though, it's like they are
> communicating with each other, and I guess my car won the argument last
> night as to who would be the one to go on the 2 hour commute today :)
> >
> > What a great little car!
> >
> > Marc
> > P.S.  I'll probably go out tonight and it'll have dumped all its fluids
on
> > the ground just to prove to me who's boss...:)
> >
> As I said up there, it seems that I only have one car that works at a
time,
> and it seems that the VW is the top dog 'round here!
>
> Jerry Carter
> '81 Mk1 Scirocco
>
>
>
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