[s-cars] Audiafternoon

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With one foot in a8 land now I was fortunate enough to have "mr A8" Paul
Waterloo and fellow A8 owner Floris xxx over yesterday for a mini
audifest/alloy mirror install/check engine forensics.
Great guys they are!  They had taken some digi pix and the event is recapped
over here on the other channel
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Paul had pretty much ordered me to buy the S8 mirrors off German ebay and 5
weeks later they finally arrived.  They are a work of art.
I had heard that theres race gas about 5 miles from my house and we verified
that on the ride over to Ace for some needed screws.   Got 20 bucks worth,
got the screws and let Paul drive home.  I think he liked it:)
So, now I'll be 12 steppin 110 octane @ $3.39 per.  Hell its only a buck and
a half more than 93.
While tracking down a disconnected air pump hose, we checked out the timing
belt and it seemed purdy darn loose by general consensus.
???  How much slack should there be in a timeing belt ?  I think it had at
least 2 fingers of deflection in the upper portion.
Also while idling, after pushing the accelerator, there seems to be an ever
so slight bit of a marble like rumbling as it returns to base idle, then goes
away.  As I believe the 4.2 v8 is an interference fit, I fear there could be
a real problem here as a little noise while engine changes speed could be
caused by not good things hitting each other due to a slacky timing belt?
Any ideas men?  I think the xxx wty kicks in in 30 days maybe.  oh nice!
Now it may take me more than $8 worht of luncheon meat to get Paul to do that
timing belt. Ha!
Anyway, it was a really great time and now I have half a tank of race gas:)
Bill m