quattro digest, Vol 1 #4079 - type 44 burnout

[Larry C Leung]

It would be quite impossible to do a forwards donut on
a FWD car. BACKWARDS, OTOH.....

This was obviously a VERY powerful type 44Q. Most
of our type44 tq's don't have the kind of power to do this,
but obviously there are SOME that do. All in all, I'd be
willing to bet that a number of UrQ or 4KTQ owners
could do this, if they really wanted to, the lightness of the
cars (especially when fitted with smaller tires) would
allow the proportional power to be able to do this.

Stiff springs help and shorter wheelbases help too.
For the record, the only way to pivot my Solo2 GTi is
on lift throttle, although with different tires front and back
on a slick surface, once the tail is pitched, you can hang
it. It's NOT the fast way around, but it IS fun.

LL - NY


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> Message: 14
> From: Nate Stuart <newt at newtsplace.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:03:02 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: type 44 burnout
> To: <newt at newtsplace.com>
> Cc: <antar at attbi.com>, <quattro at audifans.com>
>
> > Good luck pulling vehicle rpm's like that in a fwd car/burnout.
> That
> > vehicle is most certainly smokin all 4 tires...
> >
> > Here are a couple more examples of 4-wheel-smokin-action:
> >
> http://www.nordicaudi.com/media/filmer/filmer/dbr-00/medium/dbr6_m.mpg
> >
> http://www.nordicaudi.com/media/filmer/filmer/dbr-00/medium/dbr4_m.mpg
> >
> http://www.nordicaudi.com/media/filmer/filmer/dbr-00/medium/dbr3_m.mpg
> >
> http://www.nordicaudi.com/media/filmer/filmer/dbr-00/medium/dbr7_m.mpg
>
> Bummer, looks like direct linking is a no-no with them now
> (understandably
> so)
> So if you feel like it go to the www.nordicaudi.com site, then to
> the
> media, then filmer pages.
>
> About half way down there is a section entitled: NA-DBR Borl=E4nge
> 2000 all
> the video's are in there
>
> -Nate
> '89 90tq
> www.newtsplace.com/90tq