4ktq first drive!!! Weeeeee!!!

[Nate Stuart]

Hurray!!!! Now you'll be including a trip to Maine for the break-in, right?
:0) You may want to wait until you get a couple of miles under it though.
The roads I take from your place to mine are simply the _best_ I have ever
driven on, twisty, hilly, lotsa shifting, just plain fun! I couldn't keep
the 5kt out of boost, and wish I could get the 4kq into boost (eventually it
will though ;). Oh yeah, careful though, the revenue boosters like to hid
'round some of those corners.... scared the bjiggers out of me on my last
trip back from your place, luckily he was off duty for some reason(no lights
on), or taking a nap.

I actually felt the pedal when I was there last time, seemed to be very
stiff when first depressing the pedal, then felt somewhat softer/smoother
through the rest of the travel. Of course that's about the exact opposite of
what you want!

Congrats!
-Nate

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc A Swanson" <mswanson at cisunix.unh.edu>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:49 AM
Subject: 4ktq first drive!!! Weeeeee!!!


> Since the engine in my car is brand new and I'm technically very much so
> in break in period I tried ever so hard to be nice and go slow.  It turns
> out that the way I have my throttle cable set up (using the stock 4kq
> cable with an assembly of cruise control linkages hooking up at the back
> of the IM) the throttle is WAY too stiff.  I practically LAUNCHED out of
> my garage.  It's almost impossible to give a light throttle pressure so I
> made my drive fairly short.  I didn't want to see more than 1 or 2 psi of
> boost but I ended up seeing about 8!!!  Weeeeeeee!!!!  I've never had this
> much fun in a 4kq in my life!  Hoolllly booooooooooost batman!
>
> Now I feel kind of guilty though since I could smell burnt oil when I
> pulled into the garage... but at least I got my temp gauge back (by
> ditching that stupid Multi Function sensor).  For those that have 4ktq's
> and just need the gauge output from the sensor, go to a plumbing house (I
> used Home Depot) and pick up a 1/4" male to 1/8" female pipe adapter.  the
> threads on the metric fittings are close enough to work ok.
>
> That and on the drive I think I blew a pinhole in the hose going to my
> manual boost gauge... drat.. now I've got to take the passenger side
> paneling down again... grrrr.
>
>
> Later!
>
>
> -Marc-
>
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