[urq] me like MC-2!

[Brandon Rogers]

Very cool - glad to her its coming along.

I'm looking forward to seeing (meeting in person) you - and your car! -
At UPG in 08.  We need get the conversation going again.

Brandon

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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:07 AM
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Subject: [urq] me like MC-2!


Finally felt comfortable enough with the way the car's running to brave
the traffic monster ... OK, I shifted my work hours a bit.  There's no
use to driving 4 wheels in rush hour traffic when it isn't raining ... 

If there's a downside it is that I miss the way the car used to slam you
in your seat when the boost hits at WOT ... the higher compression of
the MC-2 along with the quick spooling K-24 ... what a blast!  You can
feel power even before boost hits, and the car was accelerating so
quickly that I thought the clutch was slipping.  This is all with the
MAC-02 and WX CIS in place ...

On one of my first runs without "babying" the car I popped the hose off
the bottom of the aux air regulator under boost ... I don't know if
there was a hose clamp there ... it was gone when I looked anyway!
Tonight it got into a mode where it would lose power when manifold got
above atmospheric ... thought an injector popped out, but I found that
the plug over the air shrouding inlet (yes, I'm going to hook a hose to
it) had popped off.  Minor inconveniences overall.  

As far as I can tell the earlier non-start events were due to flooding
... normally the engine fires immediately, even in the "cold" California
night. I don't think I've ever seen an Audi turbo fire so quickly when
cold ...

Now it's time to start on all the other projects ... I'm close to having
the MC-2's CIS back on the car ... next I need to understand why the
suspension seems to be *so* stiff ... then I need to get the brake mods
done.  At least these are small enough projects that the car won't be
rendered inoperable for long periods again ... 

Steve B
San José, CA (USA)

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