Does Audi Recognize the 5000?

[Ti Kan]

Steve Sprague writes:
> Ti Kan wrote:
> > Audi did not ever sell a TDI engine based model in the US market.
> > It would be very difficult to source such an engine, and it won't be
> > legal since none of the Euro engines are certified for US emissions.
>
> 	I'm not totally up to date on the details, but if George was to tinker, is
> it possible to do a TDI conversion?  Say take a Passat TDI engine and graph
> it to a 5k or A4?  I would think almost all the parts would convert to the
> A4 most easily.  I don't know if the blocks would fit in a 5K but since the
> later model Passats are essentially A4's they a lot of the parts would cross
> over.  Of course George, you would need to have a very large budget for
> parts.  I would think the parts availablity would not be as great but are
> there.

The current (longitudinal engine) Passat was never offered with a TDI
engine in the US.  Even if it was, it would probably be transplantable
into an A4 or A6, but not a 5000.  At least not within reasonable budget.
The previous-gen Passat came with the 1.9 TDI 4-cylinder engine, but
that's a transverse application and not easily adaptible to an Audi
that had a longitudinal 5-cylinder engine.

-Ti
01 S4 2.7 biturbo quattro
84 5000S 2.1 turbo
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