4kq turbo project- clutch questions

[Aleksander Mierzwa]

At 16:00 00-11-04 -0500, Ameer Antar wrote:

>That manual KH engine must have been a conversion.  I found 4 links of 
>people just in CT who did this very thing. If you look in the Bentley, or 
>do any part look ups, there are no manual tranny's available for the turbo. 
>Audi felt w/o quattro the turbo engine made too much torque and would 
>suffer from traction issues, so they only used an A/T and specific final 
>drive ratio so that the car didn't loose traction while accelerating too 
>much. 

KH is seriously detuned version of European KG engine, which produces 182hp
and _was_ offered in FWD/manual configuration.
I believe the real reason was that Audi believed there's no market in the
USA for the high end luxury car with manual trans.

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT