[V8] Picking up my new to me 92 V8 this weekend UPDATE

Sat May 3 15:19:59 PDT 2008

She does like the car...but I'm not willing to go to
the extent I would need to go to replace the tank. The
whole rear would need to be dropped as you know.

 The wife will just have to suffer through the V8
she's got.
 The only reason she likes the one I just got is cause
the one she drives is Titan Grey...which reminds her
of my old 5kq..which was the same color.
 She wants another Avant anyway. She'll be getting a
95.5 Urs6A soon enough. After my 5sp is all set I will
be able to concentrait on finding the perfect Urs6A
for my 2.6l stroker motor...that will be her car to
drive....& my car to piss off the local ricer's &
wanna be HP freaks.

 Ron

--- Kneale Brownson <knealeski at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I thought your wife wanted that car, Ron.  It's no
> real biggie to replace the fuel tank.  If a dullard
> like me can do it (200q20v several years ago), you
> should be able to do it easily.
> 
> Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com> wrote:  So the
> car is in my driveway. What a wacky trip I had!
> 
> Ok so a little update on what I'll be doing to the
> car.
> While I was going through the car a bit I found
> somethings I wanted to tighty up a bit. There was a
> small coolant leak comming from the rad to rez hose.
> So while messing with it the top nipple on the rad
> fell off 8-0! So I had to pull the rad out cause I
> couldn't get the plastic threads from the nipple out
> through that little hole,
> so I pulled the rad to get a better look. I was able
> to get the piece out & replace the nipple with one
> of
> the spairs I had. Bolted everything back up, filled
> with coolant & all was fine.
> So next was to check why there was a puddle under
> were the mid muffler was (mid muffler delete). I
> crawled under there & peeled back the heatshield to
> find my hand soaked...in what I found to be GAS. So
> I
> looked up there & found the gas tank was rusted @
> the
> seam & had sprung a leak :-( So,
> any plans to keep this car have been forgotten.
> Which
> is fine with me cause I really would rather the
> motor
> for my 5sp instead of keeping it...or selling it.
> 
> So,
> I'll be going through the car with a fine tooth comb
> to make sure everything is working as it
> should....then I'll be parting it out. I'm
> obviousley
> keeping the motor. 
> The car runs a 3.6 ECU & wireing harness, along with
> a 3.6 TCU & trans wireing harness. Those things were
> swapped in order to run the ABT chip that Scott P
> sells. So the wireing harness's will be sold.
> There are a lot of new parts on this car that I
> don't
> need. All so something of note.....the driveshaft is
> brand new. That will be sold as well cause the Auto
> VS
> 5sp DS's are different. & I'll prolly be running a
> Single Piece drive shaft in any event.
> But more to come on whats good on the car...& whats
> not good.
> 
> Thanx
> Ron
> 
> --- Ron Wainwright wrote:
> 
> > Actually it is....LOL. I'm bout ready to leave
> Mass
> > to
> > get to DC. Then from DC to Atlanta will have me
> > arrive
> > @ 8:15AM...so yup I'm on the Midnight train to
> > Georgia
> > ;-)
> > 
> > & LOL kick my ass.......she would!
> > 
> > & funny thing about Bruce is after I plunked down
> > the
> > $2,000 for the car Bruce got in touch with me a
> week
> > after & told me he had a 4.2 available. But when I
> > plunked down the $$$ he didn't have any.
> > But I'll have 1,000 miles of driveing to descide
> > whats going to happen with the 92. It would be a
> > shame
> > to part the car just for the motor. But I need my
> > 5sp
> > running again. I only got to drive the car for a
> few
> > thousand miles before the smoke started to appear
> > again out the rear pipes. It's just not rite for
> me
> > to
> > have dropped over $4,000 on rehabbing my 5sp for
> it
> > to
> > be on four jackstands in my driveway :-(
> > 
> > Ron
> > 
> > --- diemarthadie at aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > > So is it a midnight train to Georgia?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I gotta say, based on the photo's and nothing
> > else,
> > > if I was your wife (which, granted, would be a
> > > little disturbing...) I'd kick your ass if you
> > > parted that car out :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Find a wreck in a yard and do the enginectomy to
> > it
> > > instead.? Bruce probably has a 4.2 you can do :)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > John
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 
> > > From: Ron Wainwright <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
> > > 
> > > To: v8 at audifans.com
> > > 
> > > Sent: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 6:21 pm
> > > 
> > > Subject: [V8] Picking up my new to me 92 V8 this
> > > weekend
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Takeing the train down to Georgia. I'm
> > stopping
> > > by Willoubey's place & have to head out to see
> > > Bruce @ GAC. Dave C you comming down? This
> > car
> > > is slatted to be parted so I can use the motor
> in
> > > my 5sp. But the wife seen pics of it the other
> > day
> > > & wants it for her DD....woooooops. So I'm not
> > sure
> > > whats up now. But I never do anyway :-) So if
> > > the wife is going to want this car I'll need to 
> > > comeup with another option for a motor for my
> 5sp.
> > I
> > > have another line on a ABH motor....but maybe I
> > > should just do an ABZ mit VEMS. But we'll
> > > see.......... Well here are some pics 
> > > http://forums.audiworld.com/v8/msgs/132422.phtml
> 
> > 
> > > Ron 
> > >
> >
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