European Car Magazine: Project Audi Coupe GT? (old)

[Fisher, Scott]

auditude wrote:

> I didn't realize EC mag did a project series on the Coupe GT.
> I saw the reference to it on the SJM website.  This was back
> around '86-87 or so, before my involvement with Audi's and EC.
>
> Does anyone have any information about these articles?  I
> would like to know what was covered and so forth.  Actually,
> If someone had some scanned versions of this that I could
> check out, that'd be terrific.

Ken,

Here's another CGT article from EC -- it's given me a lot to think about
regarding my '83 CGT:

http://www.europeancarweb.com/archives/features/0102_features_88audicoupe.sh
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One other question for the assembled throng, on the subject of hot-rod
Coupes...

Recently we had to jump-start one of my old, not-often-used cars (a battery
sitting for five months over the winter will do that).  We rolled it out of
the garage and hooked it up to my wife's 100CSQ (noting that the + post in
the engine bay works just great).  While waiting for the old battery to
charge I got to listen to the V6 exhaust note without being muffled by the
100's normal sound insulation (not to say the, er, enthusiastic chatter from
my kids in the back seat).

At the same time, I was babysitting a friend's Alfa Romeo GTV6/2.5, which
has a really superb exhaust note -- but no better (if somewhat louder) than
the Audi V6 with the hood open.  (Neither was as good as the 4-cylinder
Spider when one of my exhaust welds broke on a trip to California, leaving
me essentially with an open side pipe for about 350 miles.  The most
hair-raising sound of any car I've ever driven, maybe ever HEARD -- but
that's a gush for another list.)

Anyway, so here we are listening to a surprisingly melodious six-cylinder
vroom for about ten minutes while my wife charged up the dead battery in the
356.  And the Grinch, as they say, got a wonderful, awful idea.

Did I or did I not once read on this august journal that the I-5 and 6-cyl
engines use the same bolt pattern on the bellhousing?

Since then I've been wondering whether I want a 20V in my CGT... or a 30V.
(Actually, the 12V 176-bhp engine would be just fine in the lightweight
Coupe, and shouldn't overtax the FWD chassis at all.)

So... was I dreaming, or do the bolt holes line up 'twixt engine and
bellhousing?  It's been a while since I had a car that was too fast...

--Scott Fisher
  Tualatin, Oregon