sport compact car turbo golf/audi monster

[Per Lindgren]

4 weeks ago, I was at the VW-Audi Club Norwegen's annual meeting. On this
meeting was a Swedish gentleman with an Audi TT which Hans Dahlbäck, the
creator of the 900 hp Golf, had tuned to about 470 hp intentionally for track
racing. Now, the TT owner told me that he had driven this Golf. It was like a
rocket, he told me. Just point the direction with the steering wheel, then
press the throttle and wooosh, you were there. No chance of correcting point
of travel while under full boost! Still, while on the track (Kinnekulle Ring),
the Golf was only 2 secs faster than his TT, due to the fact that his TT had
better curve speed.

Best part was that the TT owner had same first name as me, Per Henrik :-)

PerL
92 Cabrio 2.3E


"Beatty, Robert" wrote:

> I have heard of over tiring a car... first time I have heard of over
> engineing a car... 900 hp in a golf is a rediculous waste... you cant even
> get that power to the ground for any use...
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Rickert [mailto:rickert at engr.orst.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 2:00 PM
> To: audi list
> Subject: sport compact car turbo golf/audi monster
>
> Has anyone seen the new Sport Compact Car article on the Swedish, street
> driven awd 20v audi powered golf with a claimed 900 hp? I was struck
> with the pure lunacy of such a vehicle. The cost is an equally sick
> $500k! This car has 10 800 cc/min injectors, 4.5 inch exhaust that exits
> in front of the rear wheel, a titanium turbo running 45 psi and has been
> lightened to ~2000 lbs. I thought some of you folks might be interested
> in this thing. It is in the october issue.
>
> Luke
>
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