Rear anti-sway bar for 4000Q?

[Larry C Leung]

TO mount the front sway on the rear, just copy EXACTLY the fashion it is
mounted on the front. It's been awhile since I've been under a 4KQ, but I
believe that the front subframe is just mounted backwards in the rear of
the car. Once mounted, just be careful of trailing throttle oversteer
(oversteer on lift throttle). Go EASY on long curves on the street and
try a few autocrosses before you go crazy, the rear sway on the car may
make it more prone to spins or snap spins. (as will ANY car when the the
rear roll stiffness is increased more than the increase at the front....)

LL - NY

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:07:18 -0500 "Russ Maki" <rinard at execpc.com>
writes:
>I've talked about this with Larry Boyer (a well-known 4kq owner in 
>Quattro
>Club circles) as well as Larry's favorite mechanic, Todd Diaz of 
>Autobahn
>Service in Milwaukee. They say you can simply scavenge the front sway 
>bar
>from a 4k and use it in the back, as the rear suspension on a 4000 
>quattro
>is fundamentally a mirror image of the front setup. I know Larry has
>successfully tracked his 4k for some time with this rig in place. I'm 
>not
>entirely clear on how it's installed, but I've recently pulled the 
>front bar
>from a donor car and plan in the next month or two to have Todd drop 
>it in.
>Once he's done I'll report the fine points of the installation.
>
>I just track-tested my freshened engine this month, by the way, and 
>was
>*very* happy -- thanks again to Ken Keith for the used Schrick cam and 
>to
>Mik Tipton, wherever you are, for the ported NF cylinder head. 5000 
>RPM
>never felt so good!
>
>Russ Maki
>Ixonia, Wis.
>
>
>> From: VFChris at aol.com
>> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:19:49 EDT
>> Subject: Rear anti-sway bar for 4000Q?
>> To: quattro at audifans.com
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a cheap solution to add an anti-sway bar to the 
>rear
>of a
>> 4000Q?  Blaufergnugen (perhaps others) offers a new one for about 
>$290,
>but
>> I'd like not to pay so much.
>>
>> As a thought, does an anti-sway bar from some other car like a CQ 
>or
>90Q20V
>> fit on the 4000Q?  This could then be purchased used.  I assume one 
>from a
>> UrQ would fit, but there are certainly not many of them that have 
>been
>junked.
>>
>> Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Please send to me privately as 
>well as
>to
>> the list.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Chris  (VFChris at aol.com)
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