[Vwdiesel] IT LIVES!!!!

[Bud]

Congrats!

Bud


On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:01 AM, <dieseltdi at verizon.net> wrote:

> Well as of this morning, the GTD Jetta project is legal on the roads of
> Texas!!!  I had it inspected and aligned and I currently have a temporary
> tag on the car.  BTW I did reinstall the Scirocco rear disc brakes
> (correctly this time).  This afternoon I hope to take it to the muffler
> shop and get the exhaust system realigned.  I installed it laying on my
> back so I have several rattles from the exhaust knocking on the bottom of
> the car.  I did take it for a test drive on the highway and got it up to
> 70mph.  It accelerates great and I never saw an exhaust temp over 600
> degrees F.  My oil temp stays just below 220 and the pressure is good at
> speed and at idle.  Now I just need to get the thing "lookable" it doesn't
> even look good at 30 feet right now.  Once I get the rest of the necessary
> roadable things done, I need to attack that AC again.  Somewhere there is a
> leak.  Hayden
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> “There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is
> no party of principle.”
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> “I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior
> men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not
> run."
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> “I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every
> new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every
> social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may
> absolutely refuse to move at all.”  Alexis de Tocqueville
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> Visit my website at:  http://mysite.verizon.net/resosxp8/mydieselpages/
> Proud owner of:
> 2004 Jetta GL PD TDI
> 1968 Beetle, my latest project, watch for details
> 1982 VW Jetta Coupe with GTD turbo diesel transplant (in progress)
> And many, many, many VWs; from a 1947 Beetle (13 Beetles total), to Vans
> (5 - 3 splitties, 2 bay window (both were campers), 1 Vanagon Westy,
> Rabbits (3), Karmen Ghia (1), Jettas (9), Passats (2), Dasher (1), New
> Beetle (1), Rabbit Convertible (1) and Rabbit Pickups (3) most now gone but
> not forgotten.
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