Sport Bilsteins on '91 200TQ

[Larry C Leung]

BTW, 

Did the same (Bilstein Sports, H&Rs) on my 200Q 10V and have to comment,
on broken pavement, the car can be rather harsh. Best example (Brett will
be familiar with this) from the Tappan Zee Bridge toll boths along I-287
to the I-287-, I-87 split. Lots of construction, poorly edged
overpavement, and broken cracks. Kinda harsh. At the same time, however,
now that my toe is correct, whoooeeeey!, does it turn in and does it
GRIPPPPP, i.e. feels similar to the abilities of my well prepped SCCA
stock GTi (though it still can't transition like that, you can't fight
the 1100 lb diff btw the cars). There is little of the list rumored and
feared understeer. Still a little more roll than I had expected (now that
the front end is gripping) so the next step would be a rear anti-sway and
front stress bar. It feels as if the car has lost about 300 lbs. And this
is with affectively puny 205/55-16's. I envy those with 20V's which means
you can stuff 225's under the fenders with no problems or special
adaptations. 

LL - NY

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:15:40 -0400 (EDT) Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
writes:
>
>On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Jagernauth, Stephen, BMSLS wrote:
>
>> I'm replacing the stock inserts/shocks with Bilstein Sports.
>> I have the special strut removal tool to remove the large internal
>> hex nut but the Bilsteins come with a different locking nut and
>> special wrench.   Before I embark on this, anyone installed
>> Bilsteins on the car w/o strut removal by using the wrench
>> between the springs?  The front UFO brake pad replacement
>> was a success this weekend.   Stock Jurids are the way to go
>> due to the special clips on the back of the pad.
>
>I had SRS in Mass do my suspension(bilsteins, h&r springs, nice combo) 
>and
>they didn't mention any difficulties...I also didn't notice any wrench 
>in
>the packaging.  Of course, the are a shop with a LOT of VW and Audi
>suspension experience, so if they probably already had all necessary 
>tools
>and experience.  Great shop, if you're in the area.  They regularly do 
>PCA
>autocrosses and one of their guys does the Mt. Washington 
>hillclimb...we
>keep bumping into each other.  They're very flexible; I picked up one 
>of
>their guys at the shop, drove the car to the local commuter line 
>station,
>and someone met me at the end of the day and drove me back to the shop 
>in
>the car.  It was a very, um, interesting drive.  Let's just say each
>install comes with a free demo :-)
>
>> p.s. is there still a 20V list anywhere for the 200TQ?
>
>http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/200q20v/
>
>Chris Miller and I admin that sublist, which was moved off my system 
>due
>to hardware problems...I think that was about a year ago.
>
>Brett
>