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VaccaRabite
post Jul 1 2007, 12:41 AM
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So, today I needed to spend some quality time with my Suby. Its my DD, its been running on three cylinders for the past few weeks, a head lamp had burned out last week, and I have not had any time to play with it of late. All my time was going into my 914, and Midterms were last week.

So today, I put in new plugs and wires and changed out the head lamps on the Suby. New plugs and wires is not an insignificant task, as you have to remove _everything_ to either side of the engine before you can even get your hand to the plug wire boots. Plus, the plugs sit about three inches recessed into the heads.

anyway, new plugs and wires, new headlights, put it all back together and take it for a test drive. I wanted to get the car into the high RPM range, so I did a first gear pull up _UP_ Stine Hill. Engine crawls into the red, no misses, put it in second before I hit the fuel cut. You know, having all 4 cylinders running at once adds a lot more power to the car. My car felt like it was a different vehicle, I've just been too busy lately to give it the attention that it needed.

Any way, I am winding the engine up this hill thinking "I could just put one of these into my 914. I could just do it. Its an engine I know, its freak'n bullet proof and 165 HP on my 914 would fuck'n FLY."

But I have a lovely 125HP 2056 sitting in my garage that I JUST BOUGHT for my car. An engine that I am also excited about. And I have always said that I wanted to keep my car air cooled with a VW/Porsche plant at its heart. Ugh. I need to get this thing built. I need to get it on the road.

I always do this. As soon as I have one part, I start dreaming about another. I do it with vehicles too. After Hershey, I was thinking of pulling a fluffernutter and getting a westy bus (and would drop a suby into that). Two weekends ago, I found myself trespassing on to a farmer field to look at a bunch of M715s for sale. My 914 is still on the rotesserie and I am looking at 40 year old trucks.

Its a damn sickness.

Zach
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post Jul 1 2007, 01:27 AM
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Get the 2056 in the car. It'll take WAY less time to install and you will be excited about that power. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Jul 1 2007, 08:43 AM
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well, daydreaming is cheap.... if i recall, you have a 2 car workshop so maybe a 2nd 914 project is what you need.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) you'll have one perfect stock (well, not "stock" but "original") and one anything goes zoomer!
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post Jul 1 2007, 09:39 AM
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post Jul 1 2007, 10:00 AM
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Occam's Razor, "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one."

My $0.02, run the 2056 you are excited about. If/when it fails re-think the future then.

I tend to do the same thing. Example, I have 90% of the parts for a 2270 in boxes. However, I picked up a 2.4 6 longblock with a 7R case that I would love to build into an E-Spec 2.4 and put in my car. So do I build the 2270, or sell it off to finance the 6 motor? I should probably follow my own advice and build the 2270.

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post Jul 1 2007, 12:06 PM
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I don't know how much actual horsepower my 2056 has...

...but it's a lot of fun...

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post Jul 1 2007, 12:15 PM
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Get back to studying!

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post Jul 1 2007, 12:36 PM
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QUOTE(orthobiz @ Jul 1 2007, 02:15 PM) *

QUOTE(Dr Evil @ Jul 1 2007, 11:39 AM) *

Get back to work!


Get back to studying!

Paul


Not today! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 1 2007, 09:10 PM
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QUOTE(Dr Evil @ Jul 1 2007, 11:39 AM) *

Get back to work!


Send me a parts list!

And I did a ton of work today. Just, none of it was on the teener.
Except for selling my 2.0. It was great to meet Johnathon and Manny. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Aside form that, it was all work in the yard and the garden (and work on my farmer tan (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) )
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All the food above came out the the garden this weekend. Even the meat. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) Damn, it was tasty too.

This was the first weekend since early February that I have not been running around all over the eastern seaboard. It was REALLY nice to be able to sit back, work on stuff at home, and just sorta relax for a bit. I don't want it to end. I want to open another bottle of wine, watch another movie, and sleep in tomorrow all the way till 8 am.

Zach
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post Jul 1 2007, 09:12 PM
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hey zach...it was nice meeting you too...BTW, its jon and manny (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) --JON
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post Jul 1 2007, 09:31 PM
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and thanks for the extra seat BTW.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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post Jul 1 2007, 10:16 PM
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Dude, I am good, but I am not that good. Do you think that I realy remember what parts you need for your tranny? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Besides, when you get a donor from Chuck we can then see what you need. I will have to make 2 trips to fix your tranny - 1. get new one, rip appart and evaluate, 2. return with parts and un-fuch you rsoon to be rebuilt tranny (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 2 2007, 08:18 AM
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hey zach...it was nice meeting you too...BTW, its jon and manny (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) --JON


Crap. Sorry.
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