Weather Woes on my S6....

[Larry C Leung]

Aspros are also affected, though not as much as intercooled turbo cars,
which rely heavily on cooling the charge to get decent air density. Less
dense air, not as much fuel allowed, less power. 

LL - NY

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:54:00 -0400 "StaticNiche_Quattro"
<StaticNiche_Quattro at hotmail.com> writes:
>i dont know if the heat takes away performace, but our heat index here 
>was over 100 today and my stock 4kq seemed to be much less powerfull 
>than normal.  I wouldnt at all be surprised if it was all in my head 
>though, the air conditioner doesnt work and i was in a bad mood so i 
>may have just been feeling sorry for myself and wallowing in my 
>misery.
>
>-Dan R.
>'85 4kq 
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Levent Cur 
>  To: quattro at audifans.com ; 200q20v at audifans.com 
>  Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:11 PM
>  Subject: Weather Woes on my S6....
>
>
>  Hey all,
>
>   
>
>            I have my newly acquired 1995 S6 chipped with an MTM Stage 
>1 upgrade from Hoppen. But lately its been freakin hot as all hell out 
>here in Michigan, temps in the 90s with a heat index of over 100 a lot 
>lately.. Is this murder for performance on the particular setup, or 
>just plainly the car suffering from lots of heat and degraded power? 
>Obviously no error codes come up! And also, does lots of heat take 
>away lots of valuable HP? Anyone ever discussed this before? I want 
>all thoughts on how VERY HOT summer days can kill the performance of a 
>modded/stock S6!!!
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>   
>
>  Thanks,
>
>   
>
>  Levent
>