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Finally running



dont forget it also mean twice the trouble and headches...


ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
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=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
=>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Euroroc II
=>Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:02 PM
=>To: Dan Bubb; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
=>Subject: Re: Finally running
=>
=>
=>Congrats and welcome to the club!!!
=>
=>Twice the number of valves equals twice the amount of fun!!!
=>
=>-Raffi
=>
=>Oh and twice as much money to fix, twice as many headaches, you get the
=>picture.
=>
=>At 12:48 PM 9/15/2003 -0400, Dan Bubb wrote:
=>>Today after 1 year, 1 month, and 12 days of effort and more money than I
=>>want to admit the POS 16V Scirocco I bought will finally be licensed and
=>>road worthy. It didn't seem so bad when I bought it, but I was
=>soon to learn.
=>>There was no repair done to this car that didn't take 3 times
=>the effort I
=>>would have spent on my 84.
=>>Out of the two engines I bought in the deal I just barely had
=>enough parts
=>>to make a running one.
=>>The tranny was grinding alittle going into 3rd and 4th. Simple
=>fix? Nope.
=>>The R & P had broken teeth.
=>>Brakes? Replaced everything but the front calipers.
=>>I could go on.
=>>Cathy calls her car the Headache, I call this car the Nightmare!
=>>It's still pathetic compared to my 84 but it's roadworthy and
=>I'm going to
=>>drive the wee out of it.
=>>The good news?
=>>I now have a 16V so my nose is almost as high in the air as Larry's!
=>>Dan
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