The new addition is home!! (Grab some coffee, kinda long)

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

Congrats on the car!

As to the high-altitude issue, I have a cure.  This will work if this car
has the silver fuel distributor (CIS-E), and not if it has the black one
(CIS)...  Look for a plug with three blue wires(with different color traces)
that go to a blue connector (IIRC).  If you find that, you can add a
barometric sensor to it.  Trouble is, it only came on the Quantums, and I
think only the 5 cylinder versions had it1but I cannot remember for sure.
Apparently this adjusted the CPR signal so that it would act in optimum trim
for any altitude.  When I had CIS-E, I always wanted to get one as I thought
this would do away with the need to tune the car for summer/winter each
season change.  I never did, so I s'pose I will never know...  :)

HTH

David

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Nate Mellom
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:38 PM
To: Scirocco list; Syncro List
Subject: The new addition is home!! (Grab some coffee, kinda long)

Forgive me, I'm a natural-born storyteller.

Yup, I now have an '84 Audi 4000 added to the stable.  The story:

Parents bought it from the original owner last year to replace the Jeep
Grand Cherokee my mom wrecked.  They actually bought it on my
recommendation, as I said "Buy a VW or Audi and stop wasting your time
on Jeeps", or something to that effect.  She drove it for a while, and
realized she liked seeing things up high, so she bought another Jeep.
Ugh.  Ah well, I tried.  When they bought it, they asked if I'd like it
when they were done with it.  Um, okay.  "Come and get it" they said.
Only problem, it was in Colorado, I am in Wisconsin.  Turns out I had
some family business out west (Granny turned 80, had to party!), so my
best friend and I flew out to Colorado to drive it home.  I took 42lbs
of tools out to make the return trip more comforting (no problems at
all, Tonee! Thanks for the advise).  Got to see the car for real,
instead of just pictures.  The bidness:
'84 Audi 4000 non-quattro
1.8 4 cylinder, 198k
5 speed
Different brown color, not the usual champaign gold or silver
Awesome old-school Audi wheels
Faded cloth interior
Body is in very good shape for being 20 years old
NO RUST!!!! NONE!!  NADA!!! ZERO!!!  Colorado RULES!

Went to start it, after charging the battery, and the whole garage
smelled of gas.  Looked under the car, and a puddle under the fuel
pump.  (Instant dread-thought: Great, pump/accumulator/fuel lines are
toast, and no time/money to fix them, and the car is the only way
home!!) Did some investigation, turned out the brass washers on the
pressure side of the pump connection were leaking, replaced them,
insty-fix!! I was relieved, something somewhat-major could lead to less
seriousness in the middle of Nebraska at 3am.

Drove it around for the weekend, and headed home.  It had really low
power, and in the Rockies it was wheezing a lot, but it made it
through.  Stalled once, but I think it was because it wasn't used to the
low altitude, and the idle was low, but other than a bouncy rear shock
it performed very well.  Got it home, swapped in a new shock, raised the
idle a bit, and she's a charmer!!  Rides very nice, has decent power
now, but it's still in need of a good tune-up.  Odometer quit working
the day I showed up in Colorado.  Burns some oil, but I'm digging it.
I'll post some pics soon as I can.

Nate
'81 Roc (in storage)
'84 4K
'87 QSW




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