Chicago Treffen

Representing the Detroit Corrado Club (DCC) I made it out to Chicago's CVO Treffen car show this weekend. I don't regret going by any means, but I have to say over all the show sucked. It's not easy for me to say that because thinking back I cant help but think about all the good times I had over the weekend and everything that went well, and yet as I sit here and recollect about the show I'm not sure I'd return next year.

Like I say, there were a lot of good times and rather than document the sour points I'm going to try to point out my favorite parts.

Saturday We met up with some other Corrado friends and spent the night in down town Chicago. We took the train in, and then walked amongst the skyscrapers - I love the energy you get from walking between the buildings. We had some great Chicago style pizza and a couple local beers and then hopped over to Millennium Park to check out the Bean. I especial enjoyed getting to hang out with Stevo, Micah, Ben and Janee it was great catch up with them and it made me realize how much they have become such very good friends over a relatively short period of time.

The day of the show I found my self admiring only a select couple of cars, two of which being Stevo and Ben's, also among my list of jaw droppers was a beautiful orange mk1 Rabbit, the sherry red wide body Corrado, and a mk2 GLI painted NB coal red. Other than that nothing really stood out as a finished car and I found myself searching engine bays for fresh ideas. One stands out particularly - a 24v mk4 Jetta
with logo etched polished aluminum grafted into an otherwise standard beauty cover.

I got a chance to chat up some other Corrado owners. I met a guy by the name of Igor with 10k miles on essentially the same turbo set up as I have on my car - the only other difference being a methanol injection set up... as if I wasn't already convinced of its ability to smooth out the boost this guy confirmed it. This will definitely be my next mod. I finally got to meet Nick (ntonar), the guy that referred me to MIVE, so that was cool.

On the drive home we had a nice Corrado caravan going, followed by the "DCC Support Team" (Matt and Kelsie in my Rabbit, loaded with tools and supplies). True to DCC form we terrorized the toll booths with raging blow off valves and breakneck acceleration back up to speed. I have to say, if you're going to be a sandwich a black Corrado sandwich is the only way to go.

Working out the bugs

Today was pretty exciting. Matt came over to hang out for a bit and to take his Scirocco home.



Unrelated, there are a couple of things I'd been meaning to fix since I've been driving the car again.

1. Wire the leveler switch, and fix the high beams. The head lights only work on low right now. Also, only one of the fog lights is turning on, I probably just forgot to plug it in.



2. Re-wire the radar detector, I'll keep the current location for the switch/mute button but change the location of the detector so it's not blocking the passenger sun visor anymore.



3. The speakers only work on the driver's side all of a sudden... I suspect its just a janky wire. All the same, wtf!



Then it started raining, and we thought... this would be a great day to get rid of the wasp hive! This thing grew from the size of a hacky sack to the size of a rugby ball in about a week and since it was raining out all the wasps were lazy and just hanging out inside the hive.

This prompted the need for some liquid encouragement, it had to kick in fast and beer wasnt going to cut it.



Here's hive:



The weapon(s) of choice:



All it really did was keep the little dudes inside the hive but the ones that made it out didnt like it/us very much at all.







Rather than just letting the foaming poison do its work we decided that due to the size of this thing we had to take it down and burn it or else we'd just have a bunch of half poisoned beasties flying around the yard.

Matt readied the poison and Ryan got ready to take it down with a hoe.



then we ran....



They managed to get it into a cardboard box! and once everything calmed down again we lit it on fire.








Dont try this at home kids, burning larva smells nasty!





Some how I was the only one that got stung, that asshole crawled into my pullover and got me good right on the elbow. After I freaked out and ripped my shirt off he was flying around the living room looking for his next victim... he was swatted, captured, crushed a little so he'd stay still for a picture, and then drowned in cheap tequila.



EDIT: Lisa with the hose: