Date:         Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:40:35 -0400
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From:         george jannini <georgejoann@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trip Report (quick & dirty)
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Don Hanson wrote:

>> Heck, my motor only cost $300 and it's run now just great for a hundred
thousand miles since I got it, used.  If it ever blows up, I'll get another
and swap that right in.. <<

    Damn- I got screwed again!  Mine cost me $400, but beggars can't be
choosers because I was in Canada when the POS I'd paid good bucks for blew
up for the second time.

>>  I suppose I could put Amsoil in there at about $10 a quart like I used
in my race car....and that one held 14 quarts....But an ABA VW inline motor
of 93 vintage is not a race car.  The motor only cost what I would spend on
30 quarts of the Synthetic oil... <<

   owBeing a pensioner, it kind of kills me to pay upwards of 9 bucks a
quart for oil, but I'm going for the longer change interval.  As I
mentioned before, I like to road trip for as long as possible and change
oil in my own yard.   Three are lots of cat haters in them Wal*Mart waiting
rooms. :-)

  >> Ahh, the dreaded "Oil Thread" soon to be followed by "which tires
should I get?"  <<

   Not only are you frugal, you're psychic as well.  Can you suggest a
lottery number for me to play?

Geo/ATL
Stuck at home during a nearby FMBC event.




  Don Hanson