[s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"

[chris chambers]

Harold,

yes very lump, it's hard to start when cold out.
I've been planning on adding an extra cold start injector.

But oh how it revs!


--- Harold McComas <haroldmccomas at comcast.net> wrote:

> I must have been lucky. I had a 85 GTI bought in 87 with 45k miles
> and about 
> 240k miles ( in 2005) later no SMS (self machining symptom) tranny. I
> had 
> slowly modded it over the years but by the time I had it the way I
> wanted 
> mechanically, the body was shot. Plenty of road trips and autocrosses
> in 
> that car.
> 
> Chris, I thought my Schrick 272 cam had an evil  sound at idle. Your
> 276 
> must have lump, lump, lumpy.  ;-)
> 
> Harold M
> Manchester, NH
> 
> > From: "LL - NY" <larrycleung at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] NAC: He Said "Scirocco!"
> > To: "mtgadbois at aol.com" <mtgadbois at aol.com>
> > Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> > Message-ID:
> > <85e5c2670811290936i9196bbcgb06c72306cec462 at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > I too had an A2 GTi, which ate it's tranny. Turns out that was a
> design 
> > flaw
> > that VW sort of half covered (gave me $500 towards an $1100
> rebuild) at 
> > 50K
> > miles. Other than that, the car was (reasonably, yeah, there were
> broken
> > plastic bits) durable right up until a storm felled tree landed on
> it 14 
> > yrs
> > and 110K heavily autocrossed miles later. If Paulie does post
> contact 
> > info,
> > I'm actually half serious. $800 for that sort of raw fun (not too
> mention 
> > 87
> > octane mid-high 20 MPG flailing it as hard as you can) works for
> me.
> >
> > LL - NY
> >
> 
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