[calling911]

Originally Posted by wwest

About 3 years ago I "gave" my '78 Targa to my nephew, retired naval F14 pilot, living in McCall Id. The CDI first began to act up on his drive returning home to Id.

We were able to limp him home via unplugging the VR until the battery became to low to operate the car, then plugging the VR back in, etc, etc. We inadvertently, wrongly, decided the problem had been a bad battery and then the car was subsequently not driven often enough, or long enough, for teh overcharging matter to raise its ugly head.

Until the spring thaw in McCall.

So here I was, vacation, in McCall Id, in need of a new alternator (integral VR) and an intermittent, heat sensitive, CDI. Plus a leak in the inner rim of the 3 piece BBS on my own Porsche...that one to the left.

Ordered the rim for BBS, the alternator from Pelican, sent the CDI off to Loren, none of my technical "resources", tools, available to me in Id.

Seems like a good explanation actually.. guys lets just knock this off.. enough has been said for the someone to make their own determination one way or another. Frankly every single poster here is more intelligence than the average human by far.. we all have our faults, it is what it is. I've learned a lot here even though the OP was a waste of time in my opinion, but that point was made and more or less proven long ago...