Mix N match engine swap?

[Jim Green]

--- Alexander van Gerbig <Audi_80 at msn.com> wrote:
>     Well I hate to say it, but I love to agree with
> Huw on this one.  My FWD
> 80 was a better ride than the 90q20v.  I know this
> is blasphemous to some of
> you, but in a real world comparison I really liked
> my 80's handling
> characteristics better than the 90q20v's.
> 
>     We'll see what happens when I get the same
> suspension setup in the
> 90q20v, but right now it's a very tight stock
> suspension, ask Eric
> Renneisen, and I really liked the 80 in stock form
> more than this car.  The
> 90q20v understeers more, slower in, but it's great
> to fly out of a turn
> which my 80 couldn't do.  So I'd really think if I
> tossed the 80 and 90q20v
> into turns simultaneously they would almost end up
> at the same point at the
> end of the turn, just driving through it would be
> different.  Flame on!
> 
>     Then again I'll take the quattro in the winter
> any day of the week.  I
> think both the FWD and Quat have their benefits. 
> The FWD has a less
> sophisticated rear suspension which worked damn
> well.  I think the
> independent rear suspension really wasn't perfected
> yet on the earlier
> quattro's.  My opinion may change once I setup the
> 90q20v with 2B coilovers,
> Bilstein shocks, and so forth.  Though I really did
> like the way the 80
> moved through a corner.
> 
> Alexander van Gerbig -- '90 90q20v -- '88 80t
> (R.I.P)
> 
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Good points, I've never driven one of the FWD cars, so
I guess I really shouldn't bad mouth them.  I do know
that every other front wheel drive car that I've
driven with any power to it has driven me nuts with
torque steer and squeeling tires.  I've been slowly
squeezing more power out of my car, and it is starting
to torque steer when I really hammer it.  I couldn't
imagine it with only FWD.  Anyways, you think he could
get that engine in there? ;)

=====
Jim Green
'89 90tq 
http://www.geocities.com/jeg1976/

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