Strange test drive

[Larry C Leung]

Well Noelle (ooooh that rhymes.....Sorry =-),

This'll sound like the ubiquitous answer, but check out Scott Mockry's
excellent web page, www.sjmautotechnik.com (I think, other wise do a
search on "Mockry", it'll be the first thing to pop-up) and go right to
the section, "The ABC's of Boost". From what I know, this car seems to
have been badly tampered with. The chip seems like it's preventing the
car from getting full boost, or there could be another problem. It could
be either relatively simple or tough, but Scott's site could help you
figure things out and determine whether or not you really want to get
involved with the car. My gut says, stay away, but if you are adventurous
and feel kinda confident with a wrench and a multimeter, you may be able
to determine whether or not that 20VT is a dog or a diamond. In some
respects, it'll be a shame to let it go to waste, 20VT's are rare enough,
but in wagon form, now THAT's rare. Personally, I want one!

HTH,

LL - NY

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:06:31 -0400 Noelle Beaudin <nobeau at tcnow.com>
writes:
>Hi,
>
>I don't know how best to explain this but here goes....
>
>I currently have a 5000cstq which I love.  By accident I found a
>'91 20020v avant for sale, so I figured, what the heck, I'll
>have a look.
>
>Now the guy selling it tells me that he has the Stage II chip
>in it, but the boost gauge (standard Audi boost gauge) only
>goes up to 1.7 and you need to do special wiring for it to register
>beyond that.  I don't know any better until I do more research,
>so I say "Ok" and take this thing for a spin.
>
>Slugish.  That is all I can say.  So, I think something is very
>very wrong here.  From everything that I have read the 200 20v
>should be much much faster than my unmodified 5000cstq, but
>it wasn't!  And the boost gauge never read past 1.5.
>
>So my question is: If this does really have the Stage II chip
>in it, is that correct what was stated about the boost gauge?
>And even then, why the hell did it feel like I was driving an
>old Nissan 4 cyl. truck instead of a wonderful Audi?
>
>-- 
>nkb
>'86 5000cstq
>'02 WRX
>