[urq] Timin Belt change time

[ccohen5]

I received many replies like this one from Phil.  And I thank you all.  I
could not find a single reason in my mind that would disagree with this
advice.  It is so logical.  Fortunately I have already obtained a
replacement belt, so now just have to hunt down some of the other bits.

A good winter project.

Thank you all for keeping me on the straight and narrow from which I would
not have deviated but needed the reassurance.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Payne" <quattro at isham-research.com>
To: "Jim Haseltine" <Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>; <urq at audifans.com>; "qlist"
<quattro at audifans.com>; "ccohen5" <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] Timin Belt change time


>
> > 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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>
>
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