[s-cars] RE: stroker I5 details?

[Ian Duff]

Folklore has it that the I5 Eurovan engine crank fits Audi crank journals,
and offers a stroke increase. I corresponded at length with a number of
listers at about the time that "ec" article came out, and none of us could
verify the accuracy of the fable. The "ec" car had a welded crank, not my
idea of a long-term solution. There was a related thread that the Eurovan
deck height was different than the Audi block, hence (possibly) requiring
spiffy con rods. Notice I have referred to Audi blocks in general, not
specifying any particular motor, since the discussions never got that
detailed. I had the 7A in mind when I was busily typing away, some
correspondents had 3B or MC in mind. YMMV.
-Ian Duff.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pederson [mailto:mpederson at bigfoot.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 2:20 AM
To: Marc A Swanson; quattro at audifans.com; s-car-list at egroups.com
Subject: [s-cars] RE: stroker I5 details?


1st Can your mail server / connect speed handle a @ 2.5meg download?  I'll
email you the EC "Big Hearted Audi" article if you want.

2nd - do an archive search on "stroker" or "2.6 liter" etc.  You should find
a number of posts / discussions about the +/-'s & purported "recipes" for
the job.

3rd take a look at TSR Racing's (Tim Styles) web site.  He's in England &
has some 2.6 +/- 10valve swaps.  If I ever get around to it I have a very
"poor" quality fax copy of a small English "VW/something" magazine
publication write up on one of his jobs - that I'll try to scan & convert to
an e-mailable document.  It probably wouldn't survive another fax
transmission in legible form.  FWIW, a lot of the performance gains TSR
claims for their particular 2.6 liter version is / may be closely related to
a lot of head & cam work that's done on the stroked engines 10v head.
Something TSR sounds like, or at least claims they have a lot of experience
(Port & Polishing) in doing.

4th there is at least one lister, "Malcolm" (?? I think) in England who's
recently had one of TSR's engines done & did a lengthy road trip through
Germany with the rest of the English mob.  He sounded very pleased with /
about the change.

5th I think there is another here in the US, Scotty, who's done his own
version.  But I think he falls kind of in the same category (a professional
wrench) as TSR.

6th, at one time Oetinger offered a 2.6 liter swap or kit - I've never been
able to find much information other than an old e-mail posting (circa 1990
or so) that they had a kit to take a 2.2 or 2.3 liter up to 2.5+.  I've
never run across anyone who's seen or run one of Oettinger's setups.

7th I think I have offended the list gods, and may not be currently
subscribe to the Audifans list, so if you get this & it doesn't show up on
the main list, please feel free to post it up to the list - I'd like to
follow  any responses of further BTDT's with respect to actual knowledge, or
even just the rumors on experiences with running the 95.5mm stroked engines.

PS - still looking for a "Fact or Fiction" answer to the story that there is
also supposed to be a five (5) cylinder 92.8mm crankshaft out there?  I know
there is a 4 cylinder VW version of this crank, but as far as I've been able
to determine the existence of such in 5-cylinder form has been the figment
of someone's fertile (or perhaps its "febrile") imagination!

Mike P

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Marc A Swanson
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 5:49 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: stroker I5 details?


I heard a few people on this list (Javad?) discussing either parts from a
Eurovan or a whole Eurovan block swap for a jump up to a 2.6 (or
therabouts) liter engine.  My uncle is interested in doing this for a 4kq
he aquired mostly for track duties so anyone out there in q-land that is
either doing this or knows the details (parts/machine work required, etc),
please e-mail me.

Thanks!


-Marc-

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