[s-cars] Dodging the bullet; a short story

[Djdawson2 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/4/2006 1:33:01 PM Mountain Standard Time,  
irautenberg at comcast.net writes:

Any update, Dave?  Did you switch  injectors?  Still intrigued.
 
Ingo



Ingo (or, Out-Come),
 
Update...
Well, I left LA yesterday at noon mountain time.  Unfortunately,  I had to 
return to Boise.  The trip was fun, being predominantly back roads  in CA and 
NV... very empty... a "little" over the posted limit.
 
I was driving up route 95 after a 50 miles stint on I-80.  No sooner  did I 
cross the OR state line, the WORST snow storm I have ever driven in  began.  
Thank goodness for my Audi.  This road is remote enough that  plow equipment was 
not seen anywhere that night... except as I neared  I-84.  Started as a heavy 
wet snow, and eventually turned into near white  out conditions, with very 
high winds.  As such, the tracks from previous  vehicles began to disappear, and 
soon, I was driving through nearly 1 foot of  snow, hoping I was going the 
right direction.  Sometimes it was deep enough  that the snow "plowed" by the 
front of my car started blowing up over the hood,  rather than passing 
underneath.
 
Now to your question... during this storm, the intermittent miss started  
again.  I pressed on, knowing I shouldn't, but had no desire to get out of  the 
car and change a plug in that storm.  After about an hour, the miss  "went 
away."  I arrived in Boise at 3:30am, 15.5 hours after my  departure... probably a 
new record worst for me.
 
Now that I'm here, I will be pulling the #4 plug to see if the post is  
beginning to drop out.  If it is, I am going to change the plug, and swap  the #4 
injector into a different cylinder.  I will be driving 830 miles  back to 
Denver on Monday... so I'll be able to see if the problem moves with the  injector.
 
It would be nice if it did, as I'd like to narrow this down.  As a  side 
note, I'm going to be getting a couple of different flavors of NGK plugs to  try 
in this engine as well.
 
Take care,
Dave