Weekend Festivities

[michaelbuetiwon at gmail.com (Michael Bueti)]

pretty sweet iron you got there

On 9/3/06, Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>     The weekend isn't over yet but I figured I would fill in on this
> weekend's joy.
>
> After my SOS and alot of help from Julie and Dan Bubb (In the immortal words
> of the king..."Groan! I need more fiber!"  No I mean er... um... "thank you,
> thank you very much uh huh") I got the Callaway started.  I charged the
> battery and fired it up.  I taped off the infamous black with thin green
> stripe wire that goes to A8 and everything ran just fine.  Go figure that
> one.  Anyways I got the girls together for a family portrait to commorate
> that they ALL started today--a first! and that the 85 is going to a new
> home.  I am hammering out the final details on the deal, but she seems to
> like this guy... she flat out ran like ASS when this Honda driver wanted to
> hear her start, but she behaved for this buyer so I don't feel so bad.
> There's some crackhead (literally...) that tells me everyday the car is DOPE
> YO! and forgets that I told him the day before that I would
> NOT take $1500, $1600, sixteen fittie, seventeen, seventeen fittie or
> some "Rock" for the car.  For those of you that are offended that I would
> make fun of him in such a way let me say that he's white.  I am not like
> that anyway.
>
> The Callaway is acting weird... idling ok... not great until I push the
> clutch in and then it DIES.  I am thinking that something is misaligned to
> cause loading on the engine with the clutch in... (gear doesn't matter)
> Also I am smoking from what I think is the manifold area with the hood up,
> and I am getting something that looks like ashes coming out of the exhaust.
> I put my hand in front of it and it's minute specks of something metal.
> It's pretty shiny maybe chrome flaking off from somewhere... I have no idea
> but it doesn't bode well.
>
> I drove it a couple miles and seems decent on acceleration but isn't
> generating more than 1psi of boost when it used to be 6psi.  It isn't really
> driveable at this point. needs tags and that whole idle thing.
>
> I pulled my 160 speedo out of the 85 and I realized AFTER I got the steering
> wheel back on (and put the 120 back in) I realized that I didn't put the
> light bulbs back in.  F me running with a chainsaw.  I tried to keep busy so
> I don't think about my father in law, or the other two relatives that are
> gone now.  Since half of my tools came from him it's kind of hard not to.
>
> Well enjoy the "family photo's"... I think I am going to drive the Callaway
> to this old german dude I know so that he may lay hands upon it and it shall
> be healed.  The metal flakes bother me but then again it hasn't started
> since April... So who knows that's next week.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030169.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030160.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030189.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030190.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030191.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030192.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030194.jpg
> http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b321/scirocco16vr32/Family%20Pics/S5030193.jpg
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> 87 Scirocco 16v Tornado Red
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