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Author Topic: Who wears the pants in your relationship with your VW? You or the car?  (Read 8130 times)
Jim Ratto
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« on: March 10, 2010, 21:19:08 pm »

Do you own the car or does it own you? Sometimes I wonder....  my car will try hard to wrestle away my position as "boss", but with lots of blood sweat and tears, I'm still in charge. Most of the time.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2010, 21:21:55 pm »

My 48IDAs cost me more in gas than she does!
But then... I know how to treat a lady!  Grin
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« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2010, 21:44:19 pm »

Neither, its my wife.  Embarrassed  Grin

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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2010, 01:18:26 am »

another great Jimīs long awaited topic :-)
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« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2010, 02:28:02 am »

Okay, I'll play along. I got a Buddy Hale paint job, my wife got a remodeled living and dining room...
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« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2010, 03:33:26 am »

Do you own the car or does it own you?

My they're not cars... they're Volkswagens.

Sorry, Jim... couldn't resist.
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2010, 04:11:26 am »

We swap a lot.  Variety is the spice of life.
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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2010, 05:09:18 am »

Jim, I didn't know you had pants. You've always just worn your underwear to the club meetings.
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2010, 06:19:40 am »

I'm in control or I'll black her other eye. Shocked
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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2010, 06:45:34 am »

You sound like OJ Simpson.
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2010, 09:13:18 am »

She is, and she swallows...









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« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2010, 18:16:34 pm »

Jim, I didn't know you had pants. You've always just worn your underwear to the club meetings.

Especially for you, John.  Kiss
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« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2010, 18:48:19 pm »

Jim, I didn't know you had pants. You've always just worn your underwear to the club meetings.

Especially for you, John.  Kiss


Was that the official DKP logo thong? You guys are awesome Grin

(um... Jim... did you know the skinny part was supposed to go in the back?)
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« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 19:19:34 pm »

At this stage, I'm firmly in control of my car... soon the 1776 will be sold and gone and it will be engineless, merely hapless to go anywhere without me to push it around...Grin 

Once I get the 2017 built and in place, however, I'm sure the car will own ME.... or is it "pwn" me? 
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« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2010, 01:41:21 am »

Seems to me, driving my car on a regular basis, "little jobs" always appear out of nowhere, some are expected, but some just sort of "strike" like a cottonmouth. Some of the tasks to keep the car healthy and happy are easy as pie, like light tune ups, oil/filter change, lubing hinges, brake adjust, etc, all are just part of owning and staying after any VW. But some of the crap (though admittedly, I invent the work on my own) that gets handed to me by the car...  Roll Eyes. Plug changes are not something I look forward to. Crawled around like a crab this past weekend getting front toe-in set dead on (after adjusting front beam up approx 3/4" and going back to factory Boge fr shocks w/ shortened buffers, obviously, the toe's off as the spindles get closer to steering box again), but in the end, showing the car who's boss is almost always rewarding once things are where I want them again (for the next 10 minutes).
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« Reply #15 on: March 12, 2010, 02:17:17 am »

I have to admit I'm a little concerned as to how I'm going to tune my dellortos once they're on the new engine and installed in the car... All I've had to date are Kadrons, and those are mighty easy to adjust with only one mixture screw per carb...
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« Reply #16 on: March 12, 2010, 04:44:31 am »


Bugnut, trust me-- you'll love the Dells!


Jim,

I think an enthusiast does create work for himself, but tinkering is half the fun right? Many of us know how cool it is to build an engine, then hear it run for the first time! The excitement and anticipation is hard to explain! But then sometimes things fail... something overlooked or a part failure, whatever the problem is, we get blindsided. For example... a "mystery noise" on a fresh engine... nothing clear cut or obvious, but one of those wtf noises... "project guys" like most of us here on the Lounge will not rest until we find the problem, no matter how much work... we may get PO'd, but we still find it and fix it... so who's wearing the pants? The car thinks it is-- but we know better Grin

 
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« Reply #17 on: March 12, 2010, 17:15:58 pm »

Okay, I'll play along. I got a Buddy Hale paint job, my wife got a remodeled living and dining room...


I'm right there with you buddy!
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« Reply #18 on: March 12, 2010, 18:00:30 pm »


Bugnut, trust me-- you'll love the Dells!


Jim,

I think an enthusiast does create work for himself, but tinkering is half the fun right? Many of us know how cool it is to build an engine, then hear it run for the first time! The excitement and anticipation is hard to explain! But then sometimes things fail... something overlooked or a part failure, whatever the problem is, we get blindsided. For example... a "mystery noise" on a fresh engine... nothing clear cut or obvious, but one of those wtf noises... "project guys" like most of us here on the Lounge will not rest until we find the problem, no matter how much work... we may get PO'd, but we still find it and fix it... so who's wearing the pants? The car thinks it is-- but we know better Grin

 

I should clarify, it's not hte process that I'm concerned about, but access to the mixture screws... are holes or "windows" in the sides of the engine bay a necessity?  I've never run two-barrel dual carbs before, just trying to start planning any necessary mods.
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« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2010, 21:27:54 pm »


Bugnut, trust me-- you'll love the Dells!


Jim,

I think an enthusiast does create work for himself, but tinkering is half the fun right? Many of us know how cool it is to build an engine, then hear it run for the first time! The excitement and anticipation is hard to explain! But then sometimes things fail... something overlooked or a part failure, whatever the problem is, we get blindsided. For example... a "mystery noise" on a fresh engine... nothing clear cut or obvious, but one of those wtf noises... "project guys" like most of us here on the Lounge will not rest until we find the problem, no matter how much work... we may get PO'd, but we still find it and fix it... so who's wearing the pants? The car thinks it is-- but we know better Grin

 

I should clarify, it's not hte process that I'm concerned about, but access to the mixture screws... are holes or "windows" in the sides of the engine bay a necessity?  I've never run two-barrel dual carbs before, just trying to start planning any necessary mods.


Well, windows or holes sure help...
Nice how the idle jets drop in from the top on the Dells though.
 
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« Reply #20 on: March 12, 2010, 21:29:09 pm »

My wife.
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« Reply #21 on: March 12, 2010, 21:43:53 pm »

My wife.

Must be a Fillipino thing.  Cheesy

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« Reply #22 on: March 12, 2010, 22:17:09 pm »

I would have to say the car at this point  Tongue all i want to do is hang out in the garage and tinker with it. I have had my fair share of battles with the car as we all do but I always look forward to wrenching on it. My girlfriend isn't very happy that I'm bringing the car to our new place. She says the car is more important than she is because all I do is work on it. I tell her that working on the car is therapeutic lol. In the end, it all works out.
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« Reply #23 on: March 12, 2010, 22:19:08 pm »

you have money for pants and a hot VW!!! Grin
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« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2010, 01:36:48 am »


Bugnut, trust me-- you'll love the Dells!


Jim,

I think an enthusiast does create work for himself, but tinkering is half the fun right? Many of us know how cool it is to build an engine, then hear it run for the first time! The excitement and anticipation is hard to explain! But then sometimes things fail... something overlooked or a part failure, whatever the problem is, we get blindsided. For example... a "mystery noise" on a fresh engine... nothing clear cut or obvious, but one of those wtf noises... "project guys" like most of us here on the Lounge will not rest until we find the problem, no matter how much work... we may get PO'd, but we still find it and fix it... so who's wearing the pants? The car thinks it is-- but we know better Grin

 

I should clarify, it's not hte process that I'm concerned about, but access to the mixture screws... are holes or "windows" in the sides of the engine bay a necessity?  I've never run two-barrel dual carbs before, just trying to start planning any necessary mods.


Well, windows or holes sure help...
Nice how the idle jets drop in from the top on the Dells though.
 

I like that too!  Sucked having to take the tops of the Kadrons off to access the mains, and the idles are a little precarious on the sides of the carbs.  I'm looking forward to hearing these things bark.
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« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2010, 16:54:29 pm »

In Winter, when I don't drive it much, I'm in control!! and sometimes have thoughts of selling it. Shocked

Spring, summer,and fall when I'm driving it every weekend the bitch gets what it needs, and I get what I want. so.....

She needs an Oil change and I want a new A-1 exhaust.  Grin
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« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2010, 17:33:23 pm »

Since my car is a GTV, I feel I have to do it justice with original EMPI parts  and nothing else will ever do. In that respect, it surely tells me what to do rather than the other way round, but I enjoy it all the same Smiley
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