MC engine swap minutia

[Marc Swanson]

>    Sure, a turboed stock Audi sedan has its cool limits, but what
> are outrageously cool are the Audi race cars of the 80's.  I draw
> much inspiration and cool factor from the history of these cars!
> Knowing that Audi built the IMSA GTO cars, fire breathing 20v
> monsters, originally off my type 89 quattro is really neat.  When
> I step on the gas and rev that 5 cyl. turbo up, its sounds and
> feels a lot like the race cars I see in those videos.
>    I believe history and technological advance are the two main
> factors that contribute to cool factor.  A supercharged cheby V8
> has no real history with me, the Audi cars do, and thus that is
> why the car is really only cool to other Audifans like me who
> know the history.  Of course, hitting your revlimiter somewhere
> above 135 mph is not bad either...and 4 wheel burnouts are pretty
> cool too  ;)

Good point.. I was taking "cool" as being a totally outrageous swap (like
the LT1Q) and matching HP and tourqe graphs reaching up to the 300-400 range
(something that big bore 8 cylinder engines will always be better at than
smaller displacemnt turbo engines...).

However, taking in the racing heritage and the "Audi" factor suddenly makes
that chebby V8 seem pretty ugly ;-)


Later


-Marc-


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