New car on the road!

[Beatty, Robert]

Rob-
Congrats- I take it that you know that G60s are not compatible with
G54 rotors?

Ummm actually I didnt know, but I do have a spare set of rotors kicking
around so thats not a problem.

As for tires- any reason you're going for 205/50 rather than the correct
+1 205/55?

Worked it out on a tire calculator and 205/55/16 is a .75% slower reading on
speedometer and 205/50/16 is a 2.5% faster reading.  As 2.5% isnt very much
and I was thinking the slightly shorter sidewall might handle a little
better.

Is the car is significantly faster, unless you had low compression on your
old car or some other problem that limited your power, I'd get the lower
wastegate hose checked out on your new car- could be a sign of a failing
hose. My old 5ktq was awesome with a bad wastegate hose, until the fuel
cutoff kicked in- felt really, really strong off the line, amazing.

This car for some reason always felt faster than most 5ktq.  My 87 had a new
MM hose on it and I had ironed out most of the engine issues in it, but it
never seemed to be as fast off the line as this one I just got (it was my
dad's).


Finally- colored city light bulbs, esp. in red or blue are illegal and can
get you a big ticket, depending on your jurisdiction. Don't do it- it's
totally rice.

Now since the city lights arent providing the color or the actual lighting
power of the head lights and the end result would be just a red/green/blue
backlit headlamp, is that illegal?  

Its not that rice :) besides SOME stuff looks good on a car, just not
EVERYTHING which is how riced cars tend to end up... 3ft wings, japanese
characters on it, giant chrome tips, that to me is riced, not to mention
those REALLY annoying clear tail lights.  

Most I'm doing to this car is blacking out the Audi rings on the grill and
perhaps blackening the trim.  I have to get a spare set of trim to see how
it looks 1st.  I'm certainly not going to put a body kit of some sort on it
or plaster silly stickers on it either.


Taka

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Beatty, Robert
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:49 PM
To: 'audi list'
Subject: New car on the road!


Got the new (to me) 86 5ktq on the road over the weekend.  Complete with the
Eibach and Bilstien (rears only so far), SMJ chip and WG spring (1.8 bar
spring).  WOW!  This car is significantly faster than my 87 5ktq for some
reason.  Even stock it would out accelerate my chipped 87 and now chipped it
FLIES!.  On the downside though, since its a pre 86 split car, it has the
old G-54 calipers in it, so braking leaves something to be desired.  A call
to Force5 and that has been remedied.  A pair of G-60's are on their way.
Now just to find the extra cash for some rotors and hi-perf pads!  As soon
as my rebate check gets in, its off to NTB for a set of Kuhmo Excsta
205-50-16's.

Another neat thing I did with this car is put in the 100 (H4) Euros I had in
my 87.  I also have wired in the city lights and I'm going to get a couple
different color bulbs and see what looks the coolest :).  I'm betting red
will look rather wild and it shouldnt have any effect on my light output as
the color is just going to be from a very low power bulb, not the headlamp
bulb like alot of these idiots with blue headlights have.  (note: I dont
mean the blue xenon ones, I mean the blue tinted bulbs you can buy at
Wallyworld or Autozone, which by the way are ILLEGAL!)  I'm gonna pick up
the colored bulbs tonight and play with it after it gets dark and see how
things look.  I figure I'll try red, green and blue.

Rob

86 5ktq
87 5ktq (sold but not forgotten)
89 200tqa