Saturday adventure and new signature

[doubt at inwave.com (Nate Mellom)]

Nice find!  I still like the Starsky and Hutch stripes on your white 
one.  The 13"/16" combo looks WAAAAAAAY redneck and wrong.  I love it!

What year is Sean's Rabbit?  Looks way early, is it a Swallowtail?

Nate
'81
'88

Gordy Stedman wrote:
> So I was up till 1:30am this morning working on my G60 wiring disaster with
> a friend of mine who is a Freightliner technitian and ended up going 2 
> steps
> backwards.  This is almost getting more frustrating than our previous 16V
> CIS-E conversion.
> 
> I have seen and posted before about an add for a 81 primered black
> scirocco for $250 off Craig's List, I think the post is still up:
> <http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/car/299733797.html>
> So Sean and I go to take a look since the add said "Requires attention from
> a DRIVER..or an ENTHUSIAST with mechanical skills" and that describes both
> of usto a tee.  So it is suppose to turn over but not get fuel but new pump
> was installed.  We gather up essential parts like tool box, electronic
> distributor with brain and wires, battery, charger, timing light, cap,
> wires, compression tester, fuel pump bridge and head off to the OC (Oregon
> City that is).  Get there and the car was originally Indiana Rot but PO
> badly applied coat of rattle can primer that looks like ass.  It previously
> had AC but was in the process of being deleted and they did not have any
> heater core in it.  Missing front carpet, seats are ok but faded and dirty,
> no rear tray (imagine that), cracked windshield and no front bumper.  Rust
> was found in usual places but not too extreme.  Body in rough condition 
> with
> slightly bowed out hood, dents in rear corners near tail lights and 
> improper
> jacking bulges in floor pans.  The good points were a set of 16" unknown
> rims with bald tires, spare grill in trunk and a clean title.  Sean and I
> talk about it and think we could get it running easily.  I tell the guy I
> might give him $200 for it but that I can't do it for the condition it is
> in.  He says will you give me $150 for it and I cave.  Bad thing is I did
> not check but assumed it had a 5 speed and the seller even said it did but
> it turned out to be a 4 speed with a EC engine.  Oh well.
> 
> So Sean and I ask if we can work on it to see if we could get it running 
> and
> he say OK.  Timing was off due to loose tensioner which we thought had a
> stripped nut since it would not tighten.  Fuel pump was not turning on 
> so we
> jumpered across it and it started humming.  Throw in the electronic
> distributor and realized we forgot to grab the coil for it, damn.  Vaccum
> line off of head was not plugged and the CSV plug was cut off and the wires
> were hanging already stripped.  Also was missing a hose clamp on the upper
> water hose line at the head side.  So it is back to my house to get more
> parts and my offspring.
> 
> The 3 of us return and it just starts pouring rain and thankfully we were
> able to push the beast under the car port.  So we replace the coil, 
> crimp on
> connectors since there were none for the coil wires, ran a new wire to the
> coil to delete the white and violet resistor wire, butt on a new plug for
> the cold start, installed hose clam and Sean replaced and reconnected some
> wires on the fuse block.  The belt tensoner stud was coming loose becuse 
> the
> threads were stripped out in the head, crap.  So I reversed the stud and 
> put
> the end with the most threads in hoping it would go in further to some
> remaining threads.  I was able to get it in further and it tightened up but
> this left the tensioner further out from the head and the belt was just at
> the edge of the pullies.  Turned it over and it fired up.  A little 
> twist of
> the distributor had it purring like a 26 year old kitten.  Not bad for 
> about
> 3 hours of work.  So Sean got the job of limping her home and I followed in
> my 79.  Was fun driving the 25 miles back with expired tags and out of 
> state
> plates with multiple cop cars passing and even a SWAT van that were off to
> some big emergency.  The 16x7 rims were on the rear only and they have
> 215-55-16 tires on them so they were rubbing badly on the rear springs.
> There were multiple times where I could smell the rubber burning of of them
> :)  But all light and signals worked and even both wipers started working.
> 
> So here is some photos of the new addition to the brood: <
> http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/81SciroccoBlack>
> Looks like it might already have a home with Sean's girlfriends daughter 
> who
> is looking for her first car.  This world needs more female scirocco 
> owners.
> 
> And here are some photos of all 5 and Sean's green rabbit hidden in the
> middle of them: *<*http://picasaweb.google.com/ydrogs/SciroccoFleet>
> Hard to see the red 80s behind the cherry picker which is the next rebuild
> after the silver G60.  Have a great rest of the weekend all.