You've put your finger on the soft part of my plan, Dan. The FI is a
question mark, and I'll give your suggestions lots of consideration.
AC is an up-in-the-air question. Otherwise, my wife doesn't seem overly
committed to all of the "modern" features of her Jetta. Miata seats
might be nice, I suppose, as would a hardwired iPod connection to
stereo.
On Nov 19, 2005, at 7:44 AM, Dan DiBiase wrote:
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> Interesting idea - but she'd have to realize that there would be a BIT
> of a price to pay for driving a 25+ year-old car.... Like no A/C,
> unless that's in your plans. Perhaps put a later (75+) engine in it
> with the Moss fuel injection? Or retrofit your engine with a combo
> intake/exhaust manifold with FI..... You'd give up some power but
> eliminate some complexity - and the manual choke. And you wouldn't be
> jury-rigging something. I've heard it's supposed to be available next
> year. I'd not worry about the shocks but do the fan conversion.
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