Okay guys, list everything wrong with this picture:

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Don't Bring A Trailer... I like!!!! is it even legal??

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Arno

"Sideways get you there Faster"

I didn't have a Miata to tow it home with so I borrowed a blue Subaru because blue Subarus are the best at everything (if you don't have a Miata)

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Even when being towed, Volkswagen drivers can't park for shit.

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Grant Hughes

so, what are you doing with a Rare-bit?

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

The safety chains aren't crossed.

The wire for the tail lights on the Volkswagen looks like it's stretched to the limit right now.

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

TANSTAAFL

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john vanlandingham
so, what are you doing with a Rare-bit?

No freakin' clue, but it's solid and rust free and all there and the price was right, and it was going to be scrapped if nobody bought it by today. And it has new Bilstein HDs. (On the front only. Rears are still safely in their parts boxes. Loading the thing with 240Z parts did not make handling any better)

I see it as saving a survivor, and a way to use up all of those VW engine parts I still have. The question is, rip snorting high compression big cam 8v engine, or excessive boost forged internals turbo engine, or fat torque curve supercharged engine? I have bits for all three combinations...

What I don't have is a diff for an 020, and that may be the deciding factor (clean it up and drive it and sell it later?)

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



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Clean it and sell to somebody jonsein for a Rarebit for a million dollars, since they're rare.
you know rear drive is the right way....

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

No bacon...

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john vanlandingham
Clean it and sell to somebody jonsein for a Rarebit for a million dollars, since they're rare.
you know rear drive is the right way....

But I already have a fairly badass RWD. Good gearing, tons of power, rear suspension that can put it down. It's waaaaaaaay too fun for me to want to move away from that. (WAAAY too fun)

I'm not discounting that option, mind you. But every time I'd see a video with Ragnotti dancing a Clio around, I'd start to miss my Golf, and now this falls into my lap, you know?

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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Pete

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john vanlandingham
Clean it and sell to somebody jonsein for a Rarebit for a million dollars, since they're rare.
you know rear drive is the right way....

But I already have a fairly badass RWD. Good gearing, tons of power, rear suspension that can put it down. It's waaaaaaaay too fun for me to want to move away from that. (WAAAY too fun)

I'm not discounting that option, mind you. But every time I'd see a video with Ragnotti dancing a Clio around, I'd start to miss my Golf, and now this falls into my lap, you know?

A Rare-bit gearbox ain't a works Sadev

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

That it definitely is not, and one of the things that keeps nagging at me. And at least around here they don't exist in junkyards anymore, so anything put in the car would have to be brick-shithouse tough so I don't have to eBay crap from halfway across the country.

Oh look, there's another thing wrong with the picture... there's nothing brick-shithouse tough on an A1 chassis VW.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.



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You know, I think we still have a couple Rabbit gearboxes in our barn from when my dad had the ill-advised idea to roadrace them. I know bugger-all about VW stuff but if someone gives me some idea on what to look for to confirm things, willing to bet they'd be let go for practically nothing.

What kinda road racing? It seems most people who road race these are Improved Touring, which means the gearboxes are stock with maybe a diff but lots just weld it and adjust their driving style.

Talking to a more knowledgeable friend of mine, he says that I have THE gearbox to have because it's an '83 and thus the one with the SUPER SHORT gear ratios (sarcasm mine) because 4th and 5th are maybe 5% less of an overdrive than on other transmissions. I've driven enough actual close ratio transmissions to not think anything VW ever made was close ratio.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

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your daughter
Daddy, its not a convertible! I only wanted a rabbit if it was a convertible. This is the worst super sweet 16 ever. Why didn't youjust buy an ugly neon if you wanted me to look like trailer park trash!

See, I'm not the only one who hates neons.

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Grant Hughes



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