Callaway on the Operating table.

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

No he wasn't the mechanic thank God.




On 5/5/07, Peter <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That's the mechanic working on your car... ;)
>
> Peter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Bennett [mailto:scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 1:50 AM
> To: Scirocco List
> Subject: Callaway on the Operating table.
>
> I wish that I had a camera with me today.
>
> The whole lower end is more or less disassembled.  The crank looks like it
> is repairable which is a good thing.  The head and turbo have been
> removed.
> I saw the bottom of the head and the mechanic tells me that there is
> extensive head work done to this.  I really can't speak intelligently
> about
> it so I won't try to go into details.  He said it had larger valves than
> he
> expected and something about the head and the way it was dished in the
> valve
> area.  I heard "blah blah blah... expensive".  One of the valves on each
> cylinder was considerably larger than the other.  I don't know if that's
> normal or not...  Oh yea and it has some sort of upgraded cam in it.  The
> turbo is so foooked it isn't funny.  He had to fiddle with it to even get
> it
> to spin and there is alot of play on the shaft.  I wiggled the hell out of
> it.
>
> I told him on Comrade Bubb's advice not to go with the superwhammiedyne
> oil
> pump.  He said 26mil was stock for a 1.6, but maybe I would benefit from a
> 30mil?  I told him I would consult the Jedi Council and get back with him.
> He looked at me like I lit up a crack pipe.
>
> It was pretty funny though when I first pulled up there was this sloppy
> looking dude that came right over to my car and was like OH WOW it's an
> R24!!!  Then he goes Oh my bad it's a Golf.  I told him he was sort of
> right
> on both counts, but thanks for noticing.  I was kind of in a hurry to pay
> for some of the labor and get to see Spiderman.  He goes over and slaps
> the
> hood of this poor car that looked like it had rally'ed in Bagdad.  And
> dude's still talking.  I am walking away at this point and dudes talking
> to
> my back.  "In case you are wondering..." I am trying to be polite but I am
> in an awful hurry "this is a Quantum Wagon Synchro... It's the predecessor
> to the 4-motion Passat.  There aren't that many in the States."  I go over
> and take look again to be polite and there's shit growing ON the car.  The
> back of the wagon had shit all over.  I have seen cars in the junkyard
> that
> looked less jacked up.  He needed Mtv to pimp that ride or something.
>
> So I am like um...  Nice car.  (Ok I was polite, gotta go I am
> thinking)  I
> tell him it was nice talking to him good luck with the
> exorcism/restoration... and I turn around again.  I get in the door and
> look
> back and dudes STILL talking.  I am INSIDE.  He's looking at me there's
> eye
> contact through the glass and he's still talking.  WTF?  So I pay the
> mechanic go back and look at my poor car in pieces and come out like 10
> minutes later and he's still in the parking lot.  Dude was straight up
> slingblade.  I really had to go but he wanted to know if I knew that
> Synchro
> meant four wheel drive...  It was painful.
>
>
>
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80 Scirocco Callaway Indiana Red
87 Scirocco 16v Tornado Red
04 R32 Reflex Silver