Woah, blast from the past.
I miss this list. Forums are awful. It's impossible to keep up with
them without making it a lifestyle. With lists, you read everything
that was going on and actually learned something.
My last 16v went away in 2004, last Mk2 in '06. I was planning on
another, but by the time I had room all the local 16v's were in sorry
shape or $6K. Now it's a Passat, an E34 535i and a Miata.
The Miata reminds me of what was so great about Mk2's. I was looking
for an E36 M3 or 951, but there was nothing quite right at the time.
While I was waiting, I found a cheap 1990 Miata with 53K miles on it
and figured it'd be fun until I found a clean BMW or Porsche. But
then I got used to driving it pretty much full-bore *all the time* and
fast cars started feeling slow. Even the Passat feels hemmed in by
speed limits and traffic...I find myself doing 25 mph over the limit
all the time just to get some sensation of speed. I'm love my 116 hp
hamster wheel of fury.
-Pat Austin
P.S. I stay subscribed to this list on the off case I get the chance
to tell someone to replace their injector O-rings.
On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Les Noriel wrote:
Chad's comments struck a chord with me because I'm in exactly the
same situation. Two projects- one a corrado, the other an A2 16V
that have been sitting in the garage for years.
It's been so long that I've forgotten where I had left off (Or where
my tools have gone). Recently I posted on the Corrado list how I've
begun cleaning the garage and in the process I've discovered several
boxes of new parts eagerly awaiting installation. By default, I've
made progress simply by installing the part instead of stowing them
neatly back onto a shelf. Sometimes, I have to examine closely
because I'd forgotten which parts belong to which car! Both cars
share many parts and I've upgraded much of the 16V with the Corrado
equivalents. Gas prices have increased my interest in driving the A2
again.
Matthew's assessment of the Vortex are entertaining and accurate. My
experiences there have been similar. I once naively jumped into a
misguided discussion of "LSD" thinking I could enlighten them on the
topic only to discover they were discussing the installation of
"Lamborghini Style Doors"
I was happily surprised to see the 16V list come back to life. I had
searched for it a few months back not knowing if I had simply lost
the URL when I rebuilt my computer, or if it had truly retired.
Although, not much traffic has been generated these past few years,
I'm still glad its here.
-Les
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Yip <[email protected]>
Sent: Jul 11, 2010 7:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [a2-16v-list] Fw: a2-16v list back online
Crap - I'm an idiot and can't seem to master email anymore...
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Matthew Yip <[email protected]>
To: Eric Hauptmann <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, July 11, 2010 10:35:17 PM
Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] a2-16v list back online
WOW - back from the dead!!!
It's great to hear from everyone and to know that all is going
well. Chad -
thanks for resurrecting the list!!! I've been on VWVortex for
quite a while
now
and find that it's frustrating to say the least. Too many
"internet
mechanics"
who know everything because they've owned an A2 for a few weeks
or people who
have no clue BUT have an ego that can't let them admit to being
wrong. These
private forums are GREAT - the knowledge base is great and the
level of dialog
is significantly above "Dude, you don't know anything - I've been
racing my
GTi
with stretched 16s for 2 months so I know everything". I'm on a
few Yahoo
groups and they're OK - the good news is that they can be
moderated to keep
the
subscribers the same - the only catch is that Yahoo sometimes
likes to screw
with the privacy and advertising settings.
I'm STILL driving A2s - still racing the General Li and now
driving an '89 16v
GTi for the past 3 years as my commuter car. I resisted the urge
to modify it
for 2 years b/c it arrived "block stock". Then the exhaust
failed and
everything went downhill from there - Borla muffler, Neuspeed
race springs,
Bilstein Sports, stress bars front and rear. I get the strangest
looks from
people who think that I should be some pimple-faced teenager
driving his
"racecar, yo".
Matthew
----- Original Message ----
From: Eric Hauptmann <[email protected]>
To: a2-16v <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, July 11, 2010 8:16:01 AM
Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] a2-16v list back online
Trying to post my pic again. I really will be sad if/when the
A2 leaves
the
family.
eric
----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Rebuck
To: Larry Velez
Cc: a2-16v
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] a2-16v list back online
Hey Larry, no problem. I think people have really moved away
from
mailing
lists like these and on to forums such as vwvortex. The
server is used
for
other purposes so it is no extra burden to me. The list
software running
on
the server is getting quite old and I haven't made any updates
in a long
time. However, I am not opposed to moving this list
elsewhere, but I
don't
think it will be of much value now with the traffic way down.
I could
help
out by providing the list of all member email addresses that
were
imported
long ago when I took this list over.
take care. Chad
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Larry Velez <[email protected]>
wrote:
Chad,
Thanks for keeping this list running for 15+ years. Let me
know if
you
want help with the list and ever want to consider moving it to a
service
like Google Groups or Yahoo! groups so that the burden of
managing and
hosting the site can be shared and moved onto these large
companies.
My 91 GTI 16V has also been sitting for some years at my
parent's
house.
They keep asking me why I still keep it around. I'm sure
like most on
this
list, they just don't understand the madness.
Larry
99.5 A4 1.8T
91 GTI 16V
| Larry Velez | www.sinu.com |
________________________________________
From: [email protected] [
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chad Rebuck
[[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 1:02 PM
To: a2-16v
Subject: [a2-16v-list] a2-16v list back online
I know there isn't much demand for this a2 16v list now, but
wanted to
let
you all know it is back online. It has been down since
September last
year
and was finally back on a few weeks ago. I moved to a
different house
a
couple years ago and power outages caused a bit of trouble. I
finally
got
a
ups so it didn't need constant attention.
I still have my 16v turbo but don't really drive it. Need to
rebuild
the
bottom end to stop a slight oil leak. For those interested
here is an
old
link from the megasquirt efi forum I came across a few days ago -
http://www.msruns.com/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=22406
I bought a brand new 2009 ford focus 5 spd for barely over $8k
(tax,
tag,
title, everything) last year during the cash for clunkers
deal :) I
got
the
maximum discount for some busted up old 1990 v6 volvo that I
couldn't
even
dump for $200. Now I need to find some motivation to work on
my vw
16v
before it sits for 10+ years as my corrado has.
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