Budget quattro

[Martin Pajak]

FYI

I guess we are all in the dark.

Cheers
Martin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Goggin [mailto:audidudi at mindspring.com]
> Sent: November 28, 2001 11:45 PM
> To: martin at quattro.ca
> Subject: 2.3L 4kq?
>
>
> Although I sourced the letter from AOA, I have my doubts about whether any
> 2.3L 4kqs were ever made at the factory.  In retrospect, I wonder if the
> letter wasn't written this way as a favor to me since I was
> hoping it would
> say what it did because I wanted to build a 2.3L 4000 5+5 autocross car
> using the SCCA's update/backdate rules for Solo II competition.  I figured
> the extra power would come in handy and using a FWD car instead of a
> quattro would keep the weight down (that I'm also convinced the FWD 4000s
> handle better than the quattro version was yet another point in my plan's
> favor.)
>
> With the letter from the factory in hand, anybody who would have protested
> me would have to provide other documentation from the factory that proved
> this engine/chassis combination never existed and given what I went
> through, I figured the odds of such a letter ever turning up were fairly
> small at best.
>
> It's been a few years but bottom-line, I wonder if my powers of persuasion
> weren't a little too strong that day and the letter I received from AOA
> wasn't simply a reflection of my wishful thinking more than
> anything.  I've
> never seen a 4kq with a 2.3L engine installed from the factory nor have I
> ever heard of one being installed for any other market ... the odds that
> Audi produced just a few of them for the US, of all places, do seem quite
> remote.  Of course, they did create the 87.5 Coupe GT and there weren't
> very many of them built so I suppose anything's possible (especially when
> engineers and their pet-projects are involved ... ask me about my
> experience racing a GM-built car some time.)
>
> Anyway, I'm sending this to you since somebody forwarded your post to the
> Q-list to me.  I'm no longer subscribed to it so feel free to forward this
> response if you see fit...
>
>
> Jeff Goggin
> Scottsdale, AZ
>
>