What's Cathy been up to? (long)

[gtigirlie at hotmail.com (Sara Arms)]

<<THANK GOD FOR “THE GIRLS”: Well, they may be sagging, but they still work
as well as when I had the red Firebird in high school.>>

Hey now, Cathy, sagging or no sagging... you still have something he doesn't 
and enjoys staring at.  Point made... well done!  Congrats on a clean 
get-a-way!


Sara
Burlington, VT
'84 Rabbit GTI
'91 All-Trac Wagon "The ice trial champion"
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>From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: What's Cathy been up to? (long)
>Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 23:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
>
>See, now you can just delete based on the dull topic eh?
>For the non-deleters, here goes:
>
>Well, you may think that I’ve been uncharacteristically quiet of late, and
>you’d be right. I secretly have installed a 1.8T in both of my
>Roccos...no, sorry, that was Kirsten, my bad. Though both of mine have had
>a 1.8L bolted into them at some point, does that count? (And one still
>does)
>
>But I HAVE been doing some Sciroccoish things, so I thought I’d share.
>
>“FALL CINCY”: Well, the usual small gathering of friends at Daun’s was
>scheduled for last weekend, and I’d planned to head down with my partner
>in crime, Mr. Tech Procedure, which meant I had to find a seat for him to
>sit in. Klaus had been stripped out for steam cleaning, and I was planning
>to buy an “S” interior down there. So I bolted the headache’s seat in, no
>problems. Drew shows up and declares he is “not doing any tech procedures
>all weekend”. Fine.  I laugh, knowing that is just not possible, and he
>sits down to discover the seat belt won’t buckle. Tech procedure 1 before
>we got out of the driveway. About four more minor ones on the way down
>too, but who’s counting. Klaus had decided to act like a Scirocco, and
>this required an “emergency  ignition swap” at Daun’s. The points are now
>retired.. But it was NOT a tech procedure.
>The weekend progressed to more Scirocco goodness, as I tried a test fit in
>the twin and was told I HAD to take it for a drive. It took some
>convincing, but with Anson riding shotgun, I managed not to break it
>before the true masters of the drift took over. Anson, Cammisa  and the
>Mad Bastard, what a combo. The location of Daun’s dad was closely
>monitored as grass blade after grass blade got shredded beyond recognition
>in the sideways silliness.  I’ll tell you, there is nothing on this earth
>that can compare to the scream of a 16V under the hood, unless, of course,
>  it is one under the hood, and one more warming your buns from behind.
>What a crazy ride, and thanks Anson for being so generous with letting
>everyone beat the poor thing. Of course there is lots of video, so look
>for it. There was lots of horse trading too, two interiors made it
>northward, with the nicer of the two going into George’s stealthy black
>ride, mmmm, black leather. He’s cooking up something else with that
>beastie too. And engines shuffling from car to car, we’ll see how all
>those work out, but power upgrades are always a good thing. Not everyone
>can have a nice “cam” like mine, after all.
>I managed some air time, always a good thing, and Sunday was the ride home
>for me, and more flying for those who stayed.. It’s the best gang, and
>always a pleasure to stay at my Ohio home away from home. Both myself and
>Klaus felt pukey on the way home, I guess it was just too much fun in
>Ohio.
>
>MK I INTERIOR NOTES: Just so you know, not all MkI rear benches are the
>same, I discovered I couldn’t bolt up my new S benches since the late cars
>have seats which are a full inch narrower at the brackets which attach the
>seat back. So I could do some creative metalwork, but since I lack the
>skills, and am recovering the seats at some point anyways, I’ll use the
>stock rears and the S fronts.
>
>FUEL INJECTION AND HAIRBALLS: So Klaus decided on the way home from Cincy
>that he only needed to accelerate for the first mm or so of pedal travel.
>Not a good thing. Eventually, we both thought we were gonna be walking,
>but he passed whatever hairball that was gumming up things into an
>injector, or so the theory goes, and he would accelerate a bit, but run on
>3.5 +/- 0.5 cylinders. He got us home, and my connections in the fine
>German scrapmetal business cooked me up a new Frankendistributor. The old
>distributor had been making odd ticking noises after shutdown for some
>time, and the airflow plate had gotten quite stiff to lift. So last night
>I installed that and new injectors, and there were, well, say, over half
>of the unions leaking. So let’s say around seven leaks. Another attack at
>it this morning got the worst of it sealed up, but there is still some
>seepage. He’s running smoother, but still doggy, which I’m assuming is a
>function of the mixture being off. Time will tell. But in true Scirocco
>form, he had a dead battery, and managed to spray me with gas square in
>the face. Nice to smell good for the big fat Ukranian party this evening.
>
>THANK GOD FOR “THE GIRLS”: Well, they may be sagging, but they still work
>as well as when I had the red Firebird in high school. So I finally get
>the time to get under the headache and find first and second gear. The
>Bentley method for linkage adjustment just plain rocks BTW, one try with
>the trusty dollar store calipers, and it’s shifting beautifully. So here’s
>how the year has been for this car: two months of gas fumes, one month of
>dead clutch and squished air boot, two weeks of not having time to adjust
>the shift linkage. Somehow I still managed to put 16 000 kms on it since
>last July, but I digress. So finally I have this beautiful combination,
>new plugs/cap/rotor/coil/Bully Level II clutch all broken in, the sun
>shining, the mixture newly tweaked...and I had just washed the bug, and
>didn’t want to get it dirty...so I needed a car to drive to the party, and
>we’re late...can you just see where this is headed? Let’s just say the
>headache is back in prime form.
>Pull up to the main crossroads and this grey sedan is just blasting down
>the road, so I decide to let it go first. Of course I’m on its ass in
>short order, but no need to pass, it’s doing a good speed, and then pulls
>off the road to let me by. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLUE. On down the road,
>I’m hitting my favorite S bend at somewhere in excess of 100 kph, and then
>accelerate nicely out of the last turn, enjoying the LSD, noticing that Mr
>Grey Sedan is right on my tail. I’m starting to get suspicious and ask
>Denny what he can tell me about the grey car. In true Denny form, he says,
>“It’s a grey car”. By this time the grey car also has a nice flashing red
>light, and I know I’m cooked, since I’d been up to 140 or so at several
>points. I’m thinking excuses like “I haven’t had a chance to properly beat
>this car in months” and “ I just nicely broke in my clutch and had to try
>it out” wouldn’t wash, So I go the meek and mild fumbling for my paperwork
>route, and resist the urge to say “Umm, 65?” when he asks the inevitable
>“Do you know how fast you were going? “ (Super Troopers fans will get that
>one). I’m seeing my life pass before my eyes by this point, a few more
>incriminating things are clearly visible: lots of track related sticker
>tuning, some shoe polish still clinging to the rear glass, and the glamour
>plate which reads “ROCCIT”. He hands me back my paperwork after telling me
>he’d clocked me at 140 (60kph over) , tells me to slow down, and walks
>away!!!!!! You go girls!!! Julie!!! I didn’t even have to resort to
>spandex and lace!
>And let me tell you, doing the speed limit in that car just plain bites.
>But that ticket would have been NASTY. Sometimes the planets line up right
>and I catch a break, today was that day.
>
>That’s it from here, hope you either stayed awake or hit delete in time.
>
>
>
>Cathy
>1987 2L 16V Scirocco - the Silver Headache
>1979 1.8L 10:1 8V - Klaus- sounds like 0.33 of a Chevelle
>"The light at the end of the tunnel is probably an oncoming train"
>
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