[s-cars] WAS: Belly Pan blues NOW: New Denver auto shop

[ron kirkham]

Cool find in 5280MS!

No turns for me Tom.  8" in Eagle Vail yesterday and another 5"+ this
morning.  Flurrying now.  Hoping it keeps going until Saturday, my first
possible ski time this week.  VERY cold though,  -19 at the top of Vail Pass
at 7:00AM.  Bring your puffy coat!

Bob,  car lost a cylinder in late December, so I was able to use the spare
POS channel.  Worked for about 3wks.  Then lost the cylinder that I switched
to.  So I thougt the POS had finally crapped out.  Got a new one and guess
what, not the problem.  Just so happens that #4 cyl. is the only coil that
has not been replaced.  So I'm waiting for a new coil to arrive, supposedly
today.  Won't be able to install until the weekend, if then.  Now if that's
not the problem, I'll be polling the masses here for other ideas.

Ron
'93 S4 no go until the weekend
'97 A8 forced to be winter beotch.


On 1/31/07, DGraber460 at aol.com <DGraber460 at aol.com> wrote:
>
>   In a message dated 1/31/2007 5:13:49 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
> rkaudifool at gmail.com writes:
>
> Lets go back in the wayback machine for a few minutes.
>
> Back in '97 or '98, shortly after I bought my highly neglected '93 S4, I
> experienced an ECU meltdown.  Supposedly caused by a few failing coils and
> a
> POS etc.....  My local wrench (who I no longer use for this and various
> other reasons) could not diagnose the problem, so I was forced to trailor
> the car to Prestige.  After several days of them poking around, they gave
> me
> the news about the ECU having gone south.  Not wanting to pay the ~$1,200
> for a new ECU, I asked if they might know of an available used.  I was
> eventually connected with a "Karl" who himself used to be a wrench at
> Prestige and also had some connection with AOA and mentioned the Pikes
> Peak
> URcoupes of great fame.  Apparantly Karl had the ECU and various other
> "stuff" laying around his personal garage.  In fact, my now installed ECU
> has "Karl" written on the case.  Unfortunately, no fancy chip or anything
> cool.  We struck a deal and met up at Prestige to make the exchange of $$
> and ECU.  We chatted for a while, and I quickly realized that Karl knew
> his
> shite.  He told me he had retired from Prestige/AOA "a while back", and
> was
> still poking around there keeping an eye on his son.  Very nice guy.
>
> Flash forward to '07, I'm gonna bet that you have now stumbled onto the
> father/son team at their own shop.  If this is indeed the case, I would
> think they would be fine folks to work on your ride.  Seemed to me that
> Karl, if it's the same guy, knew an aweful lot about our fine motors and
> cars.
>
> So no definite experience with 5280 MS, but an interesting possible
> connection anywho?
>
> I'd do some more probing (verbal) and see if it's them.  If so, you may
> have
> found a goldmine of knowledge and skills.
>
> You are indeed dealing with an experienced individual that has no equal in
> Audidom. I have been to Carl's house and seen his pictures of the first URQ
> prototype to land in America for high altitude testing. Carl was
> somewhat involved with that project. I just purchased a very rare
> distributor from him a couple of weeks ago.
> I find him to be a good man to know even if you don't like Audi's. A very
> good man.
>
> Dennis
> Denver
>