Pushing the limits of an I5...

[WAUFX at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/8/01 12:13:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mrbeau0 at yahoo.com writes:

> Everyone always seems to indicate that Audi I5 engines are essentially
>  bulletproof.  What I'm wondering is how bulletproof are they really (the MC
>  in particular if it matters)?  Who out there has pushed the limits and 
found
>  weak spots?


kinda late on this thread but.....

huw and mark s. blew up mark's old 4kq engine about a month ago while i 
looked on in despair and captured the event on digital film, trying to 
convince them of the evils of bad "car-ma". ha! first the oil was drained and 
the engine started. after about 5 minutes it was decided that 2k rpms just 
wanst enough and the engine was revved up even more, however i cant remember 
how high, maybe 5k? then the fun started! smoke and steam started pouring 
out, with all of us scrambling frantically to move our -functional- cars in 
case the engine decided to spit out some shrapnel, i think huw and mark were 
actually hoping for this. :^) after much ado, about 15 minutes of running 
-without- oil, the beast  slowly slipped into the otherworld with a tired, 
steady whine and a decline in rpms until it just died. sort of anticlimactic, 
no flying pistons or the likes. : )

pictures! are at:

<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/waufx/oilpan.jpg">
http://members.aol.com/waufx/oilpan.jpg</A> 

and 

<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/waufx/oops.jpg">
http://members.aol.com/waufx/oops.jpg</A> <--my littel 4kq bette is hiding in 
the 

background in this pic!

Megan