dusted off the turbo car

[rocco_crossing at hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

The digi could be left on my doorstep!!


Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, tune up, install harness, and finally I may get 
to makeing it look better!!)





>From: "Joe Doty" <Joe.Doty@lcnetwork.com>
>To: "Jeff Toomasson" <jtoomasson@yahoo.com>,"Brian McGarvey" 
><brianm@earendel.org>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: dusted off the turbo car
>Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:47:34 -0700
>
>Haha, calm down kids...I'll be using most of this stuff on the rabbit van 
>(my brother's 77 with no rear quarter windows, "executive") except maybe 
>the digifant which I may decide to abandon on someone's doorstep.
>
>Actually it started with a small T3 and worked its way up to a t3/t04 that 
>I got from a buddy.
>
>Joe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Toomasson [mailto:jtoomasson@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:02 PM
>To: Brian McGarvey; Joe Doty
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: dusted off the turbo car
>
>Not so fast!  I live within driving distance!   :p
> 
>JT 
>
>Brian McGarvey <brianm@earendel.org> wrote:
>well tell us what kind of turbo? and how much $$ would make you part w/
>it... :-) Shipping and Handling?
>brian
>
>
>On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Joe Doty wrote:
>
> > I wish I could fix the turbo setup but I don't want to. I decided I
> > wanted to do something with it after it had been sitting in my parents'
> > backyard for about three months because of blown motor #2 (probably a
> > cracked piston). Oddly enough it fired right up, nevermind the cloud of
> > blue smoke that puffed out of it. I couldn't resist the temptation to
> > pass the garage and head towards the street, despite my brother giving
> > me the "what the hell are you doing" look. I ran it around the block
> > for one last tire cleaning before I put her to rest.
> >
> > The turbo junk, 1.8, and digifant are getting ripped out to go back to
> > the 2.0 16v. It's going to be great, the car will run and drive well
> > all the time, and I won't have to think about it.
> >
> > This car has had the most screwed up history ever.
> >
> > This is the car that I got for $50 from the local high school auto
> > class. It needed a transmission. I got it running and drove it for a
> > while, then dropped a 2.0 and a 4K into it. A year or so-ish later I
> > put a lower compression 1.8 16v and digifant on it. Then I put all the
> > turbo stuff on it. It was a few months later that it blew up. I
> > rebuilt it, then it blew up again. Now I'm going back to the 2.0.
> >
> > So, in summary:
> > 1.8 16v (stock)
> > 2.0 16v
> > low compression 1.8 16v n/a digifant
> > turbo 1.8 16v digifant (blew up twice)
> > 2.0 16v
> >
> > Joe
> >
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