034 turbo back on 200q20v? (firtment, instead of an S4/6)

[Bernie Benz]

Ken,
Give those leaking rotary shaft seals the Snake Oil treatment. Mine  
are original at 230K and still running dry. Clutch also.

Bernie

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On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:52 AM, <auditude at cox.net> wrote:

> Yeah, my 200q20v has a leak apparently coming from the rear main  
> seal.  Even worse is that the clutch seems pretty good, it engaged  
> low near the floor and isn't hard to depress, which to mean means  
> it's still pretty meaty and may have been changed.  So either their  
> didn't change the rear main seal or when they did they screwed it  
> up.  Putz!  lol  I was considering just replacing just the seal to  
> save the clutch money for other stuff, which is potentially putzy  
> move, but it would come out of my own hobby labor rather than a  
> maintenance budget.
>
> So was the 034 200q20v a "one-off" build or is it something they  
> are offering?  I could not find it on the website.  You had it  
> installed for fitment testing and then gave it back to them?   So  
> they might have a prototype bouncing around?
>
> Did it drone?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kenneth
>
> ---- robert weinberg <centaurus3200 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> the 034 200q20v turboback is proprietary to the 200q20v. i know  
>> this because
>> they used my car to design the exhaust ;-)
>>
>> i didn't buy it to keep it on the car because i was already angry  
>> at the car for
>> pissing oil all over my garage and having to replace the cam and  
>> crank seals.
>> not really the car's fault because the previous owner replaced the  
>> timing belt
>> 10k miles ago BUT did not replace the seals nor the waterpump and  
>> roller. putz!
>>
>> but the notion of blowing another grand on top of the repair bill was
>> prohibitive at the time. i do wish i kept the exhaust in  
>> retrospect though. not
>> sure how much they want for the turboback now - this was in 2008.
>>
>> see ya,
>> Robby
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "auditude at cox.net" <auditude at cox.net>
>> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
>> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 9:36:54 AM
>> Subject: 034 turbo back on 200q20v? (firtment, instead of an S4/6)
>>
>> Referencing this thread from last month, has anyone installed an  
>> 034 turbo back
>> exhaust on a 200q20v?  It's designed for a  C4 S4/S6, which from  
>> the Stromung
>> discussions has a different tailpipe location from the 200q20v but  
>> is otherwise
>> close enough.
>>
>>
>> Is the tailpipe location issue the same as with the Stromung, or  
>> does 034 have
>> some sort of a 200q20v-specific exhaust that I can't find on their  
>> website?
>> Robby's post sounds as if there might be a variation specifically  
>> for the
>> 200q20v.
>>
>> The 034 tailpipes look like they are slipped over the dual outlets  
>> of the
>> Magnaflow muffler and welded directly to the back plate of the  
>> muffler body.  If
>> there isn't already an accomodation for the 200q20v then it would  
>> be cool to be
>> able to get the exhaust without the tips welded on (I'd still like  
>> to have the
>> tips).  I noticed in the pics that the welds for the tips don't  
>> appear to be
>> quite as awesome-looking (or at least not like the tiny perfect  
>> bicycle frame
>> style welds) at the closeup pics of the downpipe welds at the WG  
>> merge joint,
>> for example, so maybe they are put on at the end (of the process  
>> that is, ha ha)
>> or manually or something.
>>
>> One more question, which maybe I'll find a answer better on  
>> Motorgeek, but with
>> all the revisions to the Stromung system to elminate drone, how  
>> does the 034
>> system fare for exhaust drone?  It just has just the one muffler  
>> at the end.
>> The 034 system seems less expensive than the Stromung prices I'd  
>> heard from
>> earlier group buys.
>>
>> I'm curious at the moment because there's another round of  
>> Stromung group buy
>> going around and I'm asking myself the question about whether I  
>> want one for a
>> 200q20v.  In upgrading a 200q20v, I prefer the mods to be  
>> transferrable to an
>> urS-car in case I get one someday (and if I do that I'll want the  
>> tips to look
>> as clean/original/unmodified as I can get them, but I'm thinking I  
>> can't have it
>> both ways).
>>
>>
>> Speaking of that, does anyone have any pics of an unmodified  
>> Stromung on a
>> 200q20v?  I know Taka had one on his car but he had extended the  
>> tips, and I
>> don't recall seeing how that looked.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kenneth
>>
>> robert weinberg centaurus3200 at yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>> "the 034 turbo back for the 200q20v is about $1k plus  
>> installation, i believe.
>> it
>>
>> is California legal. my guess is that they can use any cat with  
>> their exhaust -
>> not just ones that will fit audi exhausts. hence the cats are  
>> cheaper."
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