[s-cars] So here's the story...

[elijahallen92 at aol.com]

 Doc,
 Jim Fisher is my uncle in law. That car was very well taken care of and was one of the main reason I bought these cars. Fix the car, it will be worth it, its hard to find these cars that were taken car of like that one was, he replaced the drivers seat leather twice for gods sake. The Fisher family live and breath audi's, if I could get all of them together for a picture it would be incredible, I can think of over 20 audi's just in the immediate family including our two. I really hope you find a solution, I just sold the last extra head that I had so I can't help but they are around and you should be able to pick one up for under $1K (I sold my last stock one for $800). Good luck,

Elijah
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: docwyte at comcast.net
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 7:31 PM
Subject: [s-cars] So here's the story...


I bought Jim Fischer's old car.  However, I didn't buy it from Jim, I bought it 
from the guy who bought it from Jim.  This guy lives out in Cali.  Apparently 
from what I've gathered, the car was using coolant before Jim sold it.  

Autosportwerks rebuilt the head on the car to solve this problem.  Then Jim sold 
the car.  Shortly after that it was losing coolant again.  2Bennett said it was 
the turbo and the turbo was replaced.  Supposedly that did solve the issue.  A 
month later, the t-belt snapped.  6 months later the head was off the car again 
for a reason that I can't ascertain.  

6 months later, I buy the car.  It uses 1.3 gallons of water on the drive back 
home, engine temps are fine.  Pressure test the coolant system and it loses 
coolant over a few hours.  Pull the plugs, plug 5 is wet.  Pull the valve cover 
and it's full of chocolate milk.  Drain the pan and coolant comes out.

The head is off the car now and I'll be sending it to a machine shop.  I expect 
to hear that it's warped or cracked or maybe both.

I'm not adverse to keeping the car, in fact, I'd prefer to, as I like it.  
However, I don't really want to put $1250 for a 034 head into the car.  If 
someone has another option for me to get a good (ie, not a used head that needs 
a rebuild) head on the car for a more reasonable price I'm all ears!!
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