[urq] Timin Belt change time

[Phil Payne]

> >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.
>
> I would really, really not want to be the guy who was responsible for
> the "do we change the t-belt" decision.  Can you say, "keel-hauled"?

David himself, really.  His mechanic had taken a job in South America or
somewhere like it a few years before - the car hadn't run for eight years or
so.  He's back now, though.

> >  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.
>
> You would think that it would be in everyone's best interests,
> preservation-wise, to get the original supplier of the head to
> re-tool and produce some more heads.  It's not like most Sport Q
> owners couldn't afford the price of such an endeavor, right?

As I've said elsewhere, the Swiss club seems to have developed an adapter
plate to use another head.

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