turbo failure- non audi

[Larry C Leung]

Calvin, 

Lost original post, sorry. 

In addition, I have Autocrossed in these so called "gutless wonders" on
courses where 75 MPH is not only possible, but common and where you HAVE
to lift to stay on course. On such courses, the Mustang (both 5.0 and 4.6
SOHC) would blow away a stock or mildly boosted 200Q, without much
question, the newer ones even turn quite well too (though the brakes
STILL stink). And this is not even bringing up the IRS Cobras. Don't get
me wrong, it's kind of nice to bring up a 200 and a V8 Mustang in the
same breath, but don't confuse the point of both cars. And also keep in
mind, in today's dollars, the Mustang would be slightly more than 1/2 the
cost of our 200Q's. 

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:29:16 -0400 Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net> writes:
>
>
>> in other, Audi-related news, I suprised yet another Mustang
>> driver yesterday in my 200Q.  Those things may jump off the line
>> pretty well, but they're gutless wonders above 40 mph.  The old 200
>> stayed right along side, even though I hit the overboost cutout a
>> couple of times.  It won't do that anymore, I finally replaced the
>> collapsed hose on the wastegate today. it really must be depressing
>> to spend all that money on a new muscle car that can't even outrun 
>a
>> 12 year old sedan with half the cubic inches.
>
>Reading this after just spending some time at the riceboy page is
>almost... eerie...
>
>Ever stop to think that maybe he just took his foot off the gas?  And
>wasn't even racing to start with?  Oops...
>
>-- 
>Huw Powell
>
>http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/
>
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