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[pats16v at columbus.rr.com (Erik)]

Cathy my dear, you have such luck with your VW's.  But I have to say there
is no arguement.  The 16V is much better..  :)
(Ducking)

Erik
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From: <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:23 AM


> So I came home today from the "extensive cam swap" weekend on Klaus, and
> Denny had taken the headache up to the dealer's for the tank recall. It
> was done, so we went up in the Cabby. The stock JH used to feel powerful
> compared to the 1.6, but Klaus makes the cabby feel like a slug now. That
> "new cam" (this is what I told the spouse about, it just came with some
> "wrapping")seems to have made a *bit* of a difference. More on that later,
> (and many thanks to "Mr Tech Procedure" MacPherson) but during the
> process, Klaus decided to cook the fuel line to the cold start injector
> and spew fuel onto the hot exhaust manifold. (the Fox intake puts the
> stock line in harm's way) It was a lot of fuel, and a  bit too exciting.
> Luckily I carry a fire extinguisher, and nobody was smoking....
> Anyway, I picked up the headache, and it was running on fumes since the
> dealer didn't put any fuel into it to speak of. I confidently approach the
> pump, fill it to the brim with some nice 93 octane and realize I can hear
> what sounds like water spilling. Yep, it was a nice gas waterfall. So I
> call the dealer and tell them to get over to the gas station because I was
> damned if I was going to lose $40 of high test all over the ground. The
> ring at the top had split, so the gushing slowed down, but was it ever
> pouring out.  Now have you noticed a theme here, like both of them spewing
> huge quantities of fuel in the same 24 hour period? They hadn't even seen
> each other, so they must be psychic.
> Anyway. I should have the Headache back tomorrow (and have you ever heard
> of such a long dragged out process to stop gas fumes?), and Klaus is home
> and very happy with all his new hardware. I'll post about that later, but
> suffice to say I may just argue both sides of that 8V/16V arguement now.
>
> Cathy
> 1987 2L 16V gas spewer "the silver headache"
> 1979 1.8L/4K much funner 8V  "Klaus"
>
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