[A4] Engine swap to a V8 (was: Re: and speaking of chips/ECUs)

[Arthur Marks]

I think the joke was that he "swapped" the engines by simply swapping cars as you suggested.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rocky Mullin 
  To: sdewitt at stx.rr.com 
  Cc: a4 at audifans.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:08 PM
  Subject: Re: [A4] Engine swap to a V8 (was: Re: and speaking of chips/ECUs)



  wow!  i'm not sure i understand why someone would upgrade an A4
  to an S4 V8... just get an S4, right?  but hey.

  one of the old quattro guys put a vette V8 into a 5000 quattro.
  i did a basic engine swap of a later model 10v turbo 5 into my
  ur-quattro.

  >> Hey, I just did that... Spent about that upgrading the '97 A4
  >> 2.8q to a
  >> 40v 4.6 V8. The swap was real easy, I just searched around and
  >> found a
  >> 2005 S4. :-)