500 miles in a quattro

[Pantelis Giamarellos]

Jim,
  Todd here, writing from Pantelis's House in Greece.  The bumper arrived in
good shape.  And the trip was uneventful.  We had a great time in London
with you and running around Oxford and Piccadilly Circle afterwards.
  Thank you SO much for meeting us, it was nice to be driven around in your
beautiful ur-q.  For those that dont know Jim recently finished restoring
his 88' MB ur-quattro. Very nice car indeed with gorgeous paint, and an
wonderful interior.  It was exceptionally quiet for an ur-q as well with
virtually no road noise which was a pleasant surprise.
  At any rate, I had a similar Oil Pressure problem in my 4ktq conversion
and found it to be an intermittent short.  However, I think hooking up an
oil pressure gauge temporarily would be helpful in determining that.  I have
a number of spares at home if you cant find one locally.  But mine would
jump from indicating 3-4 bar to under 1 bar and then back.  Way to fast to
be an pump related problem.  I re did the wiring and it went away so you may
look there first.  It is odd that it only happens at a certain speed though.
Mine acted up at anytime, intermittently, only whenit felt like it.
  As for the relay buzzing, I have heard this in many turbo Audi's.  Namely
my 4ktq, and my friends 5ktq.  I'm not sure what relays you have over there.
Is the wiring harness inverse of the US spec ur-q's.  IE>...where is the
computer?  Still on the Right (by your Leg as I gethered from you message)
what about the Idle Control Valve Relays?  These get noisy on some Turbo
cars.  Seems to be associated with fuel mixture being off on the two cars I
experienced this in.
  Other than that I'm not sure.  Good luck.
Oh, one last thing, Pantelis's  RS-2 is FAST.   Wow, makes the chipped S4's
and turbo 4ktq's I've driven seem positively slow.  I recon its even faster
than Neds BEAST.  By a little but its close.  Hmm, love seeing that speedo
fly past, well,lets just say speeds that a chopped 5ktq or v8 would struggle
at.
l8r
  Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Haseltine <Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <urq at audifans.com>; audifans <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: 500 miles in a quattro


> Fresh back from meeting Todd Phenneger and his friend Angela during their
> stop-over at Heathrow. I've put over 500 miles on the car today so I guess
> that the engine should be well and truly bedded in now.
> Noticed a couple of things though. A strange noise that appears to be
coming
> from somewhere close to the ecu (by my right knee) - it starts at almost
> exactly 100mph and sounds rather like a relay cycling really quickly, abit
> like electric contacts arcing.
> Second one is rather worrying, about an hour and a half into the journey
the
> oil light started playing up, not on constantly, just a number of brief
> flickers every so often. It was ok above 70mph but when I dropped to 60 it
> started again - at 30 it was ok. Once the car had stood for a while
> everything was ok again. Then on the trip back same thing happened -
similar
> distance into the journey and on comes the light. Same pattern as before
off
> at 70, flickering between 50-60 and off at 30.
> The oil pressure sender unit is new (less than 1500 miles) - I suspect
that
> I've got an intermittent short circuit somewhere.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Haseltine
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