[s-cars] Was: OE wheels, 993 calipers,... Now: Bob's Big Adventure [long]

Tue Dec 3 12:04:25 EST 2002

While you were wasting time in your warm garage I was out in cold rollling around in the gravel/dirt under my wagon (supported by AC Hydraulic jack stands, BTW) finishing up replacing all the front suspension bushings, tranny mounts, and new exhaust hangers.

I just wanted to say that the new tranny mounts a la S6+ are the shiznit.  Soooo much better than the stock (totally collapsed) ones.  All that slop I was used to was gone.

I wanted to ask if anyone had tried a set of V8 motor mounts?  And if they were worth the extra money?  FYI, the 90-93 V8 and S6+ share the same motor mounts.

Not much weekend drama here......for a change

Tom
>
> From: Robert Pastore <rpastore at animalfeeds.com>
> Date: 2002/12/03 Tue AM 11:29:14 CST
> To: 'Paul Krasusky' <KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com>,
> 	'Charlie Smith' <charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org>
> CC: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: [s-cars] Was: OE wheels, 993 calipers,... Now: Bob's Big Adventure [long]
>
> Bob's Big Adventure:
> A few weeks back I installed the snow tires. I got a great deal on Ebay on
> almost new Blizzaks mounted on dirty but straight 16 x7.5 ET42 BBS rx's.
> My kids took to cleaning them up, and they look great on the car. Now that
> the 95.5 sedan pretty much complete and having no real Audi projects going
> on now, I decide to put my spare set of Big Reds back onto the car.
>
> Those at the PAulifest saw my very badly scratched Big Reds on the Avant a
> few months ago (from doing donuts in the snow in a gravel parking lot last
> year - DUH!). I swapped on my other set and had these refinished by Tom at
> ECS-- now they look good as new! The first challenge was to find a set if
> 12mm x 1.5 x 72-75mm socket screws to mount the calipers to the brackets.
>
> I'm off from work on Fat Friday, so I set out to get them.  Home depot,
> Sears Hardware, Lowes..NOPE.   OK, There is a specialty bolt business about
> an hour from home...fighting the damn holiday shopping rush it turned into 2
> hours....
>
> "What?  You advertise the largest metric bolt inventory in the country and
> you don't have it?" "Nope, not in socket head!"
> He can get them for Tuesday, but at almost $10 each!  No thanks.
>
> Finally, it dawns on me that a Porsche dealer should have them.   40 minutes
> in the other direction from my house, and YES!, finally all 4 bolts for $11.
> As a bonus, the Porsche dealer is near a "Tool CLUB" I belong to, and I pick
> up a beautiful 35W dual flourescent drop light with auto retracting
> reel....It is sooooo sweet, (
> http://www.voltec-industries.com/pdf_files/Retractable%20Reels.pdf  product
> # 07-00175).  I can't wait to install and use it.  With my new 115btu
> kerosene Redi-heater, I'll have a warm garage and now good light too. I'm
> thinking it'll be a great winter of projects in the garage.
>
> So Friday was mostly wasted, but it was fun.
>
> I start the install Saturday afternoon. Everything is going OK for a while,
> then the banjo/stainless brake lines I had made at Earl's Indy won't go on
> right. I sent them the same drawing and spec's on my prior orders, but this
> time they put the wrong side of the inverted flare inside the 10mm female
> end!  Time to go digging into the "track box" and luckily I find my last set
> of lines from the old batch.  Great, back it business, and I complete the
> install on one side.
>
> Then I try to refit the RX's - NO GO!
>
> Ok, time to install the H&R studs and dig out the 13mm H&R spacers I have
> lying around...still, NO GO!
> Ok, I've got 7mm spacers too....
> The caliper barely fits inside the wheel with 20mm of spacer, and now the
> studs arent'long enough.....this is getting stupid.
> I give up, it's time to unistall,& save the Big Reds for the spring and the
> 17" BBS RC's---I'm pissed that I already wasted almost 3 hours today trying.
> The wife is still pissed I was gone all day yesterday.
>
> Then I hear a "BOOM", and suddenly I'm in the garage in total darkness and I
> smell smoke!!!  Holy Shit!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I fumble through the mess on the other side of the garage,find the breaker
> box, and reset the circuit breaker. When the lights go on I almost wish they
> hadn't.  I find I had draped the cord of my super-sweet new drop light
> across the front of my "redi-heater", and all 115,000 of those tiny British
> Thermal Units went to work to set the cord ablaze!  I feel a strange
> combination of angry and dumb.   Better stop now before I hurt myself.
>
> In conclusion, it was a really shitty Friday/Saturday:
>
> -Wasted all day Friday; wife wasn't pleased.
> -$300 in brake lines for the upcoming track season are worthless
> -Big Red's didn't fit, put a few new scratches on the new paint trying
> -Ruined my new $75 droplight on its first day
> -Got assorted nicks, scrapes, and mandatory dirt under the fingernails
> -Almost set the house ablaze
> -Wasted over 4 hours Saturday, and accomplished absolutley nothing!
> -Seriously bruised ego re: "mechanical skill"
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Krasusky [mailto:KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:16 AM
> To: 'Charlie Smith'
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] OE wheels, 993 calipers, and road sand
>
>
>
> Hmmm...  similar but different, someone else (Pizzo?) suggested possibly
> adhering some of that fancy headlight / hood edge clear protectant to the
> cals.  Thoughts?
>
> It was 20F all the way from OH to FL?  Yes, that counts!
>
> Paul "I fart in your gen-er-al di-rect-ion" K.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Smith [mailto:charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:03 AM
> To: KrasuskyP at FirstInterBank.com
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] OE wheels, 993 calipers, and road sand
>
>
> Earlier, Paul Krasusky wrote:
> >
> > Morning-
> >
> > While it's snowed 3x here in sunny CT thus far, I've yet to install and
> > enjoy my Pizzotron Industries 16" Snowsports.  News flash:  255/40/YR17s
> are
> > a tad greasy in the white stuff.  Duh.
>
>   [   ...   ]
>
> > SOOOoooo...  any more BTDT's from you all???  Will fitting the 16x8s be
> the
> > demise of my caliper paint here in sunny CT (where they seemingly sift our
> > road sand with chainlink fence rather than a fine screen!)???
> >
> > Any thoughts appreciated.  Or indecent personal attacks, sans vulgarities
> of
> > course...
>
> Lessee.  How about if you cover your shiny calipers with a thin coat of
> tar or some such (just for the winter)?  That could protect the paint
> if done right.  Or maybe that rubber coating they sell for plier handles?
>
> Then you could use your Pizzotron Industries 16" Snowsports to great effect!
>
> If you won't step up to that, we'll tell you your sister has ugly elbows
> while we pass (toluene fortified) gas in your general direction.
>
>     - Charlie
>
>
> > '95 //S6 slipslidin to work but with purty cals
> > '58 TR3A with Bill's 911 and da bears, finally (ever drive with no top nor
> > windows nor heat on a <20 degree night?)
>
> Does riding a motorcycle From Ohio to Florida in 20 degree F weather count?
>
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