allyn's twin

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

allyn, i'm sure you've been through this before, but what did you use for 
the turbo/electronics? and, something else that's surely been discussed, how 
hard would it be to use a turbo from another make, saab, volvo, audi, DSM, 
toyota, etc?
-m

>From: Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>

>Rieger:
>
>Congratulations - this auction successfully ended
>Item Title : Volkswagen : 16v Scirocco (Item# 580545590)
>Final Price : $4,851.00
>Auction Ended At : Apr-23-01 12:49:54 PDT
>Total number of bids : 33
>
>Almost everything else came from ready spares (sciroccos #4 and 5), Big 
>Macs old ride (rip), and a
>~$600 order from the potterpeople a while back. The only other things as of 
>late are the original
>17's for the rieger ($700) and the hella u.s. h3/h4 lights ($40).
>
>Twin:
>
>     I am keeping a good tally on the twin so far, unfortunately it will 
>take a year to complete.
>So far i've spent $1950 total (that includes parts to pick up at cincy and 
>tools bought so far),
>that got me the car, another donor, both engines, both turbos, and a 
>trailer to boot. I still have
>to get about half of the necessary tools (probably ~1k), and i will 
>probably expend another ~$1700
>in raw materials (including engine rebuild/frame rebuild pieces parts). The 
>only way i can pull off
>with the relative cheapness of the whole thing is that i'm buying many 
>tools that the average joe
>doesnt have (air compressor, many air tools, welder, pipe bender, press, 
>paint sprayer, etc), and i
>will be doing nearly 100% of all labor in-house.
>     As it stands right now im looking to be right at the $5k mark on 
>expendatures. If i decide to go
>with quaifes thats gonna take me over the $5k mark, but i hope to make alot 
>of that back on selling
>all the extra stuff off when both projects are complete.
>
>Side effects of the project:
>
>- rieger gets a 2.0 (it was in the $100 donor car for the twin)
>- much practice with physics models (calculating frame stress for twin)
>- i learn how to build said frame, weld, etc
>- i get mucho experience at port/polish/debur/other engine stuff
>- several tranny rebuilds (even more experience)
>- get to flex my electronic knowledge/muscle on a very big project, as the 
>twin will be almost
>completely fly by wire and have very little factory electronics left ("i 
>love it when a plan comes
>together").
>
>******brace yourself******
>
>- enough cumulative knowledge/experience such that when the twin is done, 
>dropping a mid mounted
>twin turbo w12 in the rieger will be a drop in the bucket.
>
>*brief pause for dust to settle*
>
>Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN (insane in the membrane)
>87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6)
>86 Kamei Twin 16V Turbo Scirocco GTX ('it has begun', rocco #7)
>87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original clutch, 
>driveshafts, wheels :)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Blain" <rept@qwest.net>
>To: <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:17 AM
>Subject: Financial tally on our cars!
>
>
> > I just did a solid tally on the expenditures of tuning my car in the
> > three years Ive had it.  It includes everything spent from initial
> > purchase excluding state lisencing fees and standard petroleum product
> > consumption.   Basically, I could have just gone out and bought a new
> > jetta with some extras on it- maybe even the wolfsburg if I haggled
> > right.  I expected to be in the teens but not the high teens.  This
> > brings me to wonder how many others are acutely aware of how deep they
> > are into their rocc projects (singular, per car tally)?
> >
> > At this point im asking myself what the hell im doing and why? I mean I
> > love cars- but im dumping money into a vehicle that can be had for the
> > cost of a nice vacuum cleaner. And, im thinking I should have maybe
> > jumped into a project that would actually pay for itself like a 70-71
> > cuda 340 or 440 sixpack.
> >
> > So the question stands: How much and why- to my fellow listers.
> >
> >
> >
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