WE HAVE IGNITION...

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

Very sweet.  One more project soon to be back on the road.

Erik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Pieper" <rapieper@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>; "Al Malventano" <amalventano@sc.rr.com>;
"Brian McGarvey" <brianm@earendel.org>; "Ben Harder" <vwtype53@yahoo.com>;
"Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>; "Anson Clement" <ansonivan@hotmail.com>;
"Josh Conner" <joshuaa.conner@verizonwireless.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: WE HAVE IGNITION...


> IT RUNS.
>
> Well, it starts and idles anyway.  My now long-term project (MkI, 2.0L 16V
w/ Megasquirt) took a
> major step forward today - had the day off so I finally wired up a few
more sensors, drilled and
> tapped for a manifold vacuum tap, screwed some plugs in and fired her up.
Kicked over almost on
> the first crank, but huge vacuum leaks through unplugged ports prevented
that.  After remedying
> that with electrical tape, a quick twist of the dizz, a press of the
button, a puff of smoke and
> ...braa-aa-aa-aap... the normally sedate neigbhorhood is filled with the
happy sound of a long
> dormant 9A happily outgassing through open pipes.  Music, I tell ya,
schweeeeet music.
>
> But...no coolant, so off it goes, have to wire up coolant temp sender, rig
up a fast idle solenoid
> (I have a CIS thermostatically controlled one, but nowhere to mount it),
and an O2 sensor.
>
> Then the head comes off to find out why the oil leak.  And the wacky
compression test results.
> Shite.
>
> But, hey, as they say in Ireland, happy days!
>
> Whew.
>
> Ron
>
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