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WAS: Rieger sold NOW: Announcing to the list
Ok, Hi, my name is Dave. (Hi, Dave) I have a problem. I have an addiction to
funny looking, quirky little German Cars known as Sciroccos...
I am forwarding to the list a message from George (Scourge) and my reply. I
was holding off announcing this to the list as I was hoping to get this car
back to its former glory before the upcoming Cincy (I can hardly wait.) Al
has been here since he moved to look the car over and take it for a run up
the street. We had some fun with the car that day and discovered that the
clutch needs to be replaced. I have also had an exhaust manifold gasket
problem that has gotten progressively worse to the point where it is loud as
can be under the hood and am getting no spool up of the turbo. Dan, Al,
Thanks for the replies. I am getting that gasket replaced before I start
playing with other things. As soon as it is finished I will ask if further
problems exist.
Anywho... Anyone that has any questions about the car or needs anything let
me know. Hit my website at car domain or the one linked below for more
pictures.
Thanks for the bandwidth,
Dave
David L. Winchell, II
DavidWinchell2@sprynet.com
87 16V Scirocco (Soon to be a Rieger Scirocco)
86 8V Scirocco (Soon to be a BBS Scirocco)
84 8V Scirocco BBS
86 8V Scirocco (Parts car)
01 V6 Galant
00 Silverado
www.cardomain.com/id/xavsbud
-----Original Message-----
From: Scourge [mailto:scourge@cogeco.ca]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 11:21 AM
To: David L. Winchell, II
Subject: Re: Rieger sold
It's you!!!!!!!
I've been looking for the 84 BBS roc for ever!!! That's my orgasm rocco,
lol, I LOVE that car.
Now I need you pester you about it :)
When did you get it? Got any other pics then those on your cardomain
account? What else is done to the motor besides the turbo? Ever had it
dynoed or to the track? What kind of seats are those? Think you wanna give
me the care now that you're building a reiger?(haha)
Thanx for any time you can take to respond.
-George
George,
YES!!!!! I bought that car from Evan Scott this past fall in September or
October. I saw it posted one morning on the vortex and sent him a deposit
with in minutes of getting ahold of him. He had owned it for about four
years. He had purchased it from Eric Lohman (???) (an ex lister)
I hadn't really announced to the list that I had bought as I was hoping to
get it right and show up with it at Cincy this year. I have found out a lot
about the car and its history. this is THE car that was featured in VW &
Porsche in 1985 that had been built by Neuspeed. At the time of that article
it was black. This same car was pictured in Greg Raven's book "VOLKSWAGEN
Water-Cooled, Front Drive PERFORMANCE HANDBOOK" on page 12. This car was
painted yellow before it was put in Neuspeed's catalog to show the BBS line
up that they offered. the MOST unique feature of the car is the seats.
These are Sheel Mann's. German imported seats that I believe were popular
seats with German tuners for BMW, such as AC Schnitzer. As far as I know
they are the only set like them in the US. It has a full array of custom
VDO gauges that are color matched to the car.
The motor was swapped when Eric bought the car and transported in from
California to the East Coast. It was a stock G60 that he worked to a feisty
little beast. The folder I got when I bought the car has some dyno sheets
from the time showing the G-lader motor pushing over 200hp and 215 ft/lbs of
torque. Part of that power was from head work and cam, the rest from pulley
changes and chip mod. When the G60 went bad, Evan (the guy I bought the car
from) decided to switch to a turbo instead of the G-lader. He had three
custom chips made for different kinds of driving and racing. I have all
three now. The car is running 12 lbs of boost currently, but there is
currently an exhaust leak at the head/manifold that is causing serious loss
of power. The thing is a torque monster when it is running right. As far as
I know Evan never had it dynoed. I was hoping to get all the issues fixed
quickly as the local dubbers are having a Dyno day next Monday. It would be
awesome to put it on and get the hard proof.
Right now the car needs some work as Evan was using this car as his daily
driver. There are some major electrical gremlins and restoration work that
is needed. When I got the car I could not drive it at night as ALL of the
adjusters were broken on the Euro lights. All of the dash lights were not
working and that also made night driving a little more difficult. The seats
are in good shape over all, but the leather is fading in areas. The MOMO
steering wheel is showing wear on the yellow colored areas and need to be
replaced or redyed. The passenger door was kicked by someone at Evans school
and has some wicked dents in it. Once all is taken car of on the exterior
of the car I would like to get the BBS body kit glassed on to make it look
factory original with no seams or joints. Then have the car resprayed
yellow. The rear wing is a Zender 3 piece. It was painted and being foam it
has not liked the paint that much. The paint is cracked everywhere. I have
to figure out how to strip the paint, but leave the surface of the wing
intact.
As far as additional pictures, I have a bunch. A few that Evan had sent me
and them a bunch I have taken. The ones on the cardomain site I shot the
day I brought the car home. I haven't done anything to the appearance of
the car since I bought it. I have been trying to get everything
mechanically right before I start with the looks of the car. I have a
personal website at http://home.sprynet.com/~xavsbud/ I will try to get
some more pictures up there when time allows.
I actually have two additional BBS kits that I had purchased for my other
two roccs. Now that I have the Rieger kit I will be selling one of the BBS
kits. Let mw know if you are interested.
I have to run for now. Let me know if there is anything else you would like
to know or see and I will try to get it for you.
Thanks,
Dave
David L. Winchell, II
DavidWinchell2@sprynet.com
87 16V Scirocco
86 8V Scirocco
84 8V Scirocco
01 V6 Galant
00 Silverado
www.cardomain.com/id/xavsbud
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