This weekend I drove my 86 740T with 168K from Maryland to Kansas City and back. The weather was marvelous. The car performed pretty well. The gas mileage was a little less than I expected (mid-west gas costs just as much as east-coast gas does these days, which was a big surprise) and I calculated about 24mpg hwy, most of my driving being highway driving. Those big old trucks were no match for me, and whenever I needed to blow past them that it just what happened. (: However at one point when I was driving for about 11 hours straight on US 70 in Indiana I noticed a burning smell (aarg). Got out to check it out and there were some wires from a harness touching the turbo and the connecter they attached to started to melt. Just prior to that I noticed that when the car went into boost it seemed to hesitate just before hitting the "yellow" area of the turbo gauge. So I took some thin metal wire and tied the wires up around the AC/evaporator to move them away from the heat of the turbo and it drove just fine for the rest of the trip. Not sure what those wires are though. There are eight wire connections that plug into a hard squre (now partially melted) plastic socket, and the two on the end melted down but not away (meaning the wires are still inside of the connector). I'm sure I'm going to need to replace it, but I was curious if anyone knows what they control. Didn't have any other (noticeable) performance issues, other than I the trip took about two quarts of oil (is that normal?) and a half-quart transmission fluid (is that normal).

Other than that, I put 2912 miles on the car since Sunday noon