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Good Night for working on Sciroccos



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(Thinks: "Who let him in here. Bloody Texans")
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(Un-wraps the thermal blanket and gets up to look out the window.)
<View>Snow banks, Ice on every thing</view>
(Thinks: "bloody Ground Hogs".)
<View>Looks at Temple Scirocco on bedroom wall.</view>
(Thinks: "Soon my precious, soon.....")


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Wagner [mailto:dagnamit@gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 12:00 PM
>To: 'Scirocco list'
>Subject: Re: Good Night for working on Sciroccos
>
>Thank you for understanding, not to rub it in but today's high is 80. Now I 
>need to order one brake cable the rear I have one that is binding to much 
>for my taste. And what ever other parts I can think of, for the front I may 
>just do stainless lines all around for giggles.
>
>Brian
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "C Boyko" <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: " Brian Wagner " <dagnamit@gmail.com>
>Cc: <pb3vr6@yahoo.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:15 AM
>Subject: Re: Good Night for working on Sciroccos
>
>> On 7:48 am 03/10/07 "Brian Wagner" <dagnamit@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1) I know
>>>
>>> 2) On a 2300lb car I am not convinced I need 11" front binders, I
>>> don't race it and I probably won't show it. That and the 10.1" just
>>> looks dainty behind the front wheel, also Mr. Bureau gave me rotors
>>> calipers and carriers to swapback.
>>>
>>> I just love stock on somethings.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>> So do I, but you still suck:) +3.5C here today, but it's that raw damp
>> weather that'll make being outside a true misery. 68F, yeah, that IS
>> perfect.
>> On the topic of Scirocco progress:
>> My 87 16V is home, and she IS really all that and a bag of chips :) She
>> behaved "very badly" on the way home, accelerating happily to "way too
>> fast", and she sounds wonderful with the new headers. She's such a fast,
>> agile solid ride for twenty. Very different feeling than my 79 for sure.
>> And for anyone who is curious, these were the Eurosport ones from Potter,
>> and they allow the sway bar to stay, but the cat has to go. Just as a 
>> point
>> of info. I farmed out the job, and the mechanic said good thing, no way
>> they'd get in there with the car on the ground. Charged me two hours, 
>> which
>> I figured was fair enough. And she still has unresolved starting issues.
>>
>> So now I can focus on the task at hand, the green guy. And washing the mud
>> off "her", the road went back to normal with the mild temps.
>>
>> Brian? You just do what you like to that car, don't listen to Tonee. You
>> looked a while for her, and I'll be eager to see her in June.
>> Cathy
>> 
>
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