quattro digest, Vol 1 #3555 - 15 msgs

[David Eaton]

another truly impressive stat is that no audi has failed to finish le mans.
100% reliability, over 4 races, (10 cars?) in the world's toughest race.

is the r8 optimised?  there was a test drive of the r8 in the latest
"autosport" magazine.  the driver loved the low down torque and
instantaneous throttle response.  pretty impressive, although i'm sure there
is at least 1 lister who could have done a better job...

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

		-----Original Message-----
		Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:19:21 -0700
		From: Mike Veglia <msvphoto at pacbell.net>
		Subject: Re: Audi R8 (and a little Le Mans congratulations)
		To: quattro at audifans.com

		In a message dated 6/17/2002 Eric Kissell writes:

		<< Yeah, impressive, but what was the 30-50 time? >>

		Probably too short to measure ;-) Can you say a blink of an
eye?

		<< Does that car use a K24 or RS2 turbo? >>

		Garrett Research twin turbos...no doubt as custom as they
get. There was a
		guy who used to post in the seventhgear.com forums (a CART
fan site) who is
		with Garrett (username "turbo" of course) who showed off
some impressive
		photos of the turbos used in R8s, apparently they had one on
a stand in
		their lobby at one point.

		<< Was the turbo "optimized" or not? :-) >>

		Well, the car is choked down by ACO/ALMS LMP900 class rules.
Low boost,
		inlet air restriction, etc. all keep the power well below
what that engine
		could crank out if fully unleashed. No doubt the turbos are
as optimized as
		they get for the job at hand. CART engines are only 2.65L
and run very low
		boost levels now, yet they still crank out over 900HP.
Unleash that R8
		engine and now doubt it would be way up, but as it is the
engine makes a
		bunch of power and runs 10,000km between teardowns. A truly
amazing power
		plant. Five Audi engines ran Le Mans this year, all five
finished.

		Hats off also to the LMP675 class winners (Lehman power, an
engine formerly
		known as VW) and huge congratulations to the Sears Point
based Racer's Group
		team (one time q-lister Mark Nelson once crewed for
them...not sure if he
		still does) for their GT class win!