4Kq Callaway turbo kit (was European Car Magazine: Â Project Audi Coupe GT...

[JShadzi at aol.com]

>Does the Callaway setup put the turbo in a different location
>than the MC exhaust manifold does?

Yes, its a completely different design, the turbo is in roughly the same area, but there is no correlation between the placement of the MC and Callaway turbo.  The CW kit also used some kind of T3 turbo with internal wastegate.

>
>I'm wondering if a smaller Sanden compressor would allow me to
>keep it on the turbo side of the motor, while using an MC EM.
>

It might, Callaway won't know anything about it these days, but smaller AC compressors are readily available in the open market...

>My understanding of the Callaway situation is that the VW
>designs were sold to New Dimensions or somebody, while the
>Audi designs were not.
>

ND owns the rights to only the A1, A2, and A3 kits, and did somewhat of a redesign of many of the parts that CW no longer provided.  The whole ND-turbo kit thing is pretty much dead nowadays, I was probably one of the last people there who knew how to assemble a full kit, just a bunch of boxes of parts now, a shame really.  The CW Audi turbo kit never really did take off, and in retrospect, was a dumb idea since much better factory parts are readily available (and have been) since the kits release.

Javad