Had a great time at SNS 12, I only stayed Friday night and part of Saturday because I had to get home to do marriage stuff. It was thrilling.
Car got stuck in traffic twice for ~20 minutes of stop and go stuff....did REALLY well, temp was less than 180 the entire time.
On Wednesday, I was pulling out the HIDs to put in the stock sealed beams in, but we ended up not getting any power to the bulbs. After checking basic stuff, I called Blake who said I could drive it down Friday and he would fix them. Left around 2:00 and rolled about 80mph the entire way, except when I got stuck on Rockville Dr when I covered about 9 miles in 25ish minutes. When I got there it was right about time to eat, so we ate the amazing BBQ that was prepared by Brad (ShakenBake). Then Blake went out to figure out my headlights, after some serious testing, we figured out that it was a bad headlight switch and possibly bad relay. In order for me to drive at night Josh (Sabre) modified the headlight relay so that it would be stuck closed. So as soon as you put in the relay, the headlights would stay on...and that was my headlight switch for the night. But I didn't have any gauges at all, so that was interesting.
Saturday we headed off to cars and coffee, where Curt (Theantirotor) brought a new headlight switch and relay which Blake promptly installed and I had working headlights again...well, the ability to turn them on inside my car. I left and headed back home around 11.30 or so...promptly got stuck in traffic for 20minutes but made up time by doing 80mph on the way home again.
A few things I did notice....1) My passenger sidemarker wasn't working. I knew I had left some 194s over at my parents house from when I moved. I swung by there after Tiff and I ran some errands and replaced the bulb. But the light still didn't work...because it was unplugged from the harness...I found where it should be plugged in...but it wouldn't reach. After some gangster wire extensions all my lights work as they should. Except my brake lights which are apparently the exact opposite of brightass VW brake lights.
2) The other thing was that my car at highway or higher speeds vibrated and shook pretty good. I attributed most of it to my wheels needing balancing...I had planned to get them balanced and get the car re-aligned before I left but without headlights I wouldn't have been able to get it done. Got them balanced and re-aligned, the steering wheel shake isn't there...but the car still vibrates and stuff above 80mph. Not sure what to check next...could it be NVH from the new diff mounts?
A few new pics...
New sticker!! (Finally got around to installing)
Last minute headlight action...
I lost my fuse box cover in the wiring shenanigans at SNS12, I had gone into the house to look for 194s I came out and my Dad had duct taped my fuse box to "waterproof" it....
Cars n Coffee
And On Sunday I went too early to balance my tires so I was killing time....
