what effect does strut-tower brace have on '88 80 Quattro? (a nd other stuff)

[Kaklikian, Gary]

I've been using well-worn P7000's Summers with good success on the track.
Last time out, as far as I could tell, only two Audi's were turning faster
lap times, by about 2 seconds, and they were both on fat Hoosiers. The
P7000's have never chunked, but they are very soft - I get maybe 10k miles
out of them in combined street/track use.

I've done a lot to the car's suspension since I trashed the Kumho's,
including a big rear swaybar with reinforced subframe, etc. I'm going to try
to fit some 225/45-17 Kumho's and run them with -1.5 deg camber in the
front, as well as maybe a bit of toe-out.  If I can get 10 full track days
out of the Kumho's, I'll be very happy.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry C Leung [mailto:l.leung at juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 11:36 PM
To: Kaklikian, Gary
Cc: quattro at audifans.com; tessmc at drizzle.com
Subject: Re: what effect does strut-tower brace have on '88 80 Quattro?
(a nd other stuff)


Yup, over driving. In addition, as you were melting hte tires, you were
actually going slower, as all of the cars energy (okay, okay, my mom said
not to exaggerate, so, "a lot of") is going into melting the tires.
Proper camber and technique, lowering, stiffer springs and rear sway
should help this. I typically run at least 2 seasons on a Competition
tire, where as a street equivalent would have chunked to death.

LL - NY

On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 16:09:17 -0500 "Kaklikian, Gary"
<Gary.Kaklikian at compaq.com> writes:
>the rears.   In my one experience with track tires on this car - 
>Kumho
>V700's - I toasted both front tires in one day at the track.  The 
>outside
>shoulders got so hot the tread delaminated.  I attributed this to 
>both
>non-optimal alignment settings and failure to heat cycle the tires 
>properly
>(but I may have been overdriving the tires or they may simply have 
>been too
>narrow as well.)  So, I would think a competition tire would be more