Weird stuff at the junkyard (type 44)!!!

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Thu Nov 29 15:39:07 EST 2001


At 9:45 AM -0700 11/29/01, Ken Keith wrote:

>Is that a blow off valve that someone put in?  Or did the auto
>  > trans cars have another sort of connection to the intercooler?

The Auto tranny wouldn't need the TBV; you never have to let up on
the throttle.  It's one of the reasons the auto was a few tenths of a
second faster at 0-60 than the 5-speed manual(both FWDs, which are
faster than the quattros, since they were lighter, slightly.)

B
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