[urq] me like MC-2!

[urq]

Finally felt comfortable enough with the way the car's running to brave the
traffic monster ... OK, I shifted my work hours a bit.  There's no use to
driving 4 wheels in rush hour traffic when it isn't raining ... 

If there's a downside it is that I miss the way the car used to slam you in
your seat when the boost hits at WOT ... the higher compression of the MC-2
along with the quick spooling K-24 ... what a blast!  You can feel power
even before boost hits, and the car was accelerating so quickly that I
thought the clutch was slipping.  This is all with the MAC-02 and WX CIS in
place ...

On one of my first runs without "babying" the car I popped the hose off the
bottom of the aux air regulator under boost ... I don't know if there was a
hose clamp there ... it was gone when I looked anyway!  Tonight it got into
a mode where it would lose power when manifold got above atmospheric ...
thought an injector popped out, but I found that the plug over the air
shrouding inlet (yes, I'm going to hook a hose to it) had popped off.  Minor
inconveniences overall.  

As far as I can tell the earlier non-start events were due to flooding ...
normally the engine fires immediately, even in the "cold" California night.
I don't think I've ever seen an Audi turbo fire so quickly when cold ...

Now it's time to start on all the other projects ... I'm close to having the
MC-2's CIS back on the car ... next I need to understand why the suspension
seems to be *so* stiff ... then I need to get the brake mods done.  At least
these are small enough projects that the car won't be rendered inoperable
for long periods again ... 

Steve B
San José, CA (USA)