Fw: quattro digest, Vol 1 #2826 - 19 msgs

[Larry C Leung]

IMHO, you are not going to get any notable gains in performance on a
street driven car without a converter in place (i.e. either test pipe(s)
or hollow converters), it's illegal, and environmentally, immoral. Early
converter cars did have losses, mostly related to the lower compression
used to deal with the availible octane of unleaded gas at the time. We
aren't at that point with even these cars now, are we? The difference
even with a turbo car at WOT would likely be almost unoticeable on a seat
of the pants basis, the only time it really might matter is timed at a
track event. And keep in mind, there is a finite amount of air out there.
If everyone felt that the easiest thing to do was to drop the converter
from their system,  the amount of added exhaust emissions would start
adding up. I know one can argue that a well tuned "unsanititzed" car can
be cleaner than a poorly tuned "sanitized" one, but a well tuned
"sanitized" car is still cleaner than "unsanitized" (though admittedly
the gains in cleanliness are less). No BTDT on discount converter (though
from prvious posts, I get the opinion that their products are up to OEM
spec), but find an appropriate set and put them in. When it comes to our
environment, we can't all be totally selfish, if we are we'll eventually
end up ruining things for everybody.

Off soapbox.

LL - NY



Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:39:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Covington <malth at umich.edu>
To: TM <t44tq at mindspring.com>
Cc: Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>,
	S-Car-List <s-car-list at yahoogroups.com>, <200q20v at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [200q20v] Discount Convertor?

Taka,

How about removing your existing cats, hollowing, and reinstalling?  Best
bang for the buck / fitment.

Otherwise there's http://www.discountconverter.com, which may or may not
be the ones advertising in the back of Road and Track, Car and Driver.

Chris
'91 200q20v

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