[V8] C4?

[Roger M. Woodbury]

Well, ah, actually, ah..yeah.  

 

As much as I like your concept, and at the risk of demoralizing you or
dampening your, ah, adventurous spirit, I think that the C4 being discussed
here has a much lower expansion rate.

 

At least you got the "front end toward the enemy" part right.

 

Roger

 

-----Original Message-----
From: jellyroll4 at gmail.com [mailto:jellyroll4 at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bryan
Kamerer
Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2010 12:39 PM
To: Roger M. Woodbury
Cc: NIck Miller; V8 at audifans.com
Subject: C4?

 

WTF in your context is a C4?

I am confident it is something cool, but as far as I know C4 is a very
exciting nitrogenated compound with an inert long-chain stabilizing base.
AKA a "plastique" -  to sound cool by aping the French.  Which should be
done only in a limited way, of course.  Otherwise some dumb asses will start
a revolution and guillotine innocent people by the thousands for no good
reason, then an inter-continental war they will obviously loose.  That's
just the French way about things. Has been that way for hundreds of years.
Incredibly retarded.

But proper C4 has a gas expansion rate of around 26,000 feet per second.
Placed behind 00 buck shot, it is a recipe for serious fun.  Serious fun.
Comes labeled in a small plastic box that says "FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY."  Tons
of fun, let me tell you.

I am thinking you are talking about something else?

Bryan





On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Roger M. Woodbury
<rmwoodbury at roadrunner.com> wrote:

Without question, buy the C4.



I may have the oldest C4 on this list.  Or I may just be the oldest C4 owner
on this list.



Whatever the case, our C4 is a 1994 that now has passed 157,000 miles.  We
bought it in 2001 with 39,000 miles from the original selling dealer, and in
the past nine years have spent the money necessary to keep it in as near new
condition mechanically as possible.  What does this mean?  Well, including
tires, around $2000 per year in general maintenance, and the car is now
mechanically good to go for the next year or two with very little mechanical
items about which I am concerned.



The newer car with its more expensive and sophisticated 30 valve
engine/electronics/transmission will likely prove to be more expensive to
maintain.



I don't think there is much other difference in the two models.



In the end, if the maintenance records for the past nine years are complete
and show that the car has had the things that it needs and the newer car
does NOT, then there is no question.



To my experience, on these cars regular maintenance is everything,
especially in areas where there are harsh driving conditions to consider.



Our car gets new tires next week, and once they are on, I will write about
them.  You all will be amazed after I posed the question to the list a while
back.  Once our C4 is properly shod with decent tires, we'll be good to go,
and for another 30,000 miles most likely.



Roger



P.S.  I recommend the Depo e-code headlight replacement on this car, too.  I
changed the headlights in the C4 not long after we got the car, and the
Depo, sometimes maligned H4 headlamps have been a perfect upgrade for the
standard DOT headlamps on this car (which weren't all that terrible,
either).

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