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Subject:Buy it from me or else? (and) The free Westy lives!
From:Radish150
Date:Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:39:49 -0800

Um, excuse me... I'd like to ask a question. Mr *hesitantly* Lilley (gee
what do I owe you for that?), are you telling me that if I modify my stupid
vanagon engine in anyway that you have modified yours, that I owe you money?
I think you should supply us a list of things we are now not allowed to do
due to this strange breed of copyright infringment, becuase I'm having
second thoughts about putting that bottle of STP in my engine now, gotta be
carefull these days.

Well, for those of you who may remember, I was recently graced with a FREE
85 weekender wolfsburg, that the PO thought was dead for good. Poor fellow,
I did not have the heart to tell him that all it needed was a 75$ computer.
The nice fellows up at Bug Aid here in Seattle were good enuf to point that
out to me, and we plugged it in and away I went. Yesterday I bought an
exhaust pipe for 40, and fixed the roaring exhaust.

Now after driving it a few days, I've decided I like it quite a bit. There
is just a "feel" that these things have that is quite charming. They have a
very solid way of going, very smooth, quiet, they almost feel like they are
turbine powered or something (ok, very small turbine). I'm looking forward
now to installing a full kitchen kit (Pensioner, where did you go?), so if
anyone has a westy kit they are willing to part with please let me know.
Also will be doing exhaust upgrade, anyone use a hypo style type 4 bus one
piece? Also upgrading the ignition to MSD, any thoughts on MSD vs Jacobs
engineering? Then, there is the air filter issue, KN or MSDS???? Are KYB"S a
good choice for shocks???

Thanks people!
Mark Sheldon

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