[urq] Timin Belt change time

[Phil Payne]

> I should think that Audi's exchange policy for KW heads is like the one
for
> RR heads - non-existent. By adjusting the last price that I can find for
the
> KW head down by a similar proportion as the current price for a new RR
head
> is compared to the old price (if you get what I mean), I figure that a KW
> head is something like GBP12000 (~US$17000).
>
> To me, thats 12 thousand reasons to change the belt.....

The belt on David Sutton's KW (S1) failed as Michele was bringing the car
back to the paddock after a second practice run at Goodwood.  It was eleven
years and 900 miles old. Audi have a VERY limited stock of parts and getting
the bits necessary to rebuild the head was a matter of negotiation.  I
_think_ the engine has now been rebuilt - it's about four years since the
incident.

Sport engine components are fundamentally no longer available to the public.
The Swiss Club has developed some sort of adapter plate to fit another 20V
head on the KW's block.

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