"Better" is somewhat subjective
Todd Phenneger
tquattroguy at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 6 01:02:46 EDT 2000
Now now you two,
I havent seen "yer Kindly ol' Unka Bart" since the first QC Pikes Peak event and I've never met you Theron. YOu seem new to the list but I could be mistaken. I come and go as does Unka Bart. But cant we all just be friends. I dont know HOW this all got started and frankly I dont care. So maybe Theron is a bit opinionated, I can name a few other listers on my fingers (and toes) that share that quality. (or vice depending on who you speak to).
We're all free to share our opinions. I'm sure Theron thouth his comments were relevent. Maybe on some degree they were. (I dont know) but Unka Bart does have a point. Not all of us are after all out performance and there is more than one way to skin a squealing cat. Lets let both groups live in peace.
As for the 4-cyl phenomenon he speaks of. Its a fact of life for all 4-cyl engine. You may not feel it but its there. Take it away and youd notice it. Its just not often noticed as all 4-cyld have it. Sure, you can have 250,000 miles on a 4-cyl. I dont think Unka Bart implied differently. He obviously just doesnt like the vibration harmonics of the 4-cyl engine. I hear he's partial to Boxer's anyhow. :-)
But I must say, All those V8's youv'e owned (and that Vette from WAY back when) have the same harmonics. Its still basically 2-4cyl powerplants just with the harmonics fighting each other. Why we cant all just move to I-5's and V-10's I dont know. Or Boxer 6-s and 12's. :-)
l8r
Todd (smiling at the energy on this list right now, smells like a locker room)
"Theron J. Bliss" <tbliss at mestek.com> wrote:
Just to stoop to your level of being an absolute ass.....
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> But, just perhaps, as improbable as this sounds, the guy who paid the
> freight is one of those not too rare individuals, who actually anticipate
> deriving enjoyment from driving his car, even after it has accumulated over
> 60K miles. Something that many of us find difficult when the instrument
> glass starts to buzz constanty, as is so common in so many inline
> 4-cylinder powered VWs, after about 60K miles. That pesky ol' problem of
> the impossibility of achieving balance in both primary and secondary
> phases, with an inline-4.
I've owned about 5 inline 4's, and never experienced whatever the hell you're
referring to here. And 3 with over 230,000 miles on the clock.
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> Given all the time you must spend reading magazines so that you will be
> prepared to offer unsolicited advice about what the "better" choice might
> be for anyone else, one suspects that you are probably unaware of the
> recent advances in the treatment of ADD; but if, in the unlikely event that
> you should find yourself with some time on your hands (in between providing
> unsolicited advice to people about whom you know exactly squat, concerning
> which automobile they - or their friends, as in the case in point -
> *should* have purchased), you might profit from doing a web search on that
> subject.
This isn't magazine knowledge. You name it, I've owned it, or driven it and
counted it out. Sounds like you are the one lacking real knowledge here old
man.
Todd Phenneger
83' ur-q (awaiting a 20vt)
84' 4ktq fun but I'm sick of CIS.
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