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

[PeterBergin at aol.com]

I second the snake oil, 239k use it every oil change, in all cars and  
boats.
Pete
 
 
In a message dated 1/14/2011 1:11:07 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
b.benz at charter.net writes:

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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