East German 2 stroke /was- Classic Audi spotted!

[Zsolt]

Weren't the Trabant and Wartburg of East Germany continued the
development of the 2 stroke engines?

I know in my first car, a '71 Trabant 601 I had a 600cc 2 cylinder, 2
stroke air cooled engine delivering 24HP. The bigger cars the Wartburg
had 3 cylinders and 1000cc water cooled engines. The Wartburg of the 60s
looked similar to the SP as well.

The 2 strokes were quite a quick revving engines (think of a 2 stroke
dirt bike) the older models required 1:33 ratio fuel/oil mixture and the
later ones ran on a leaner 1:50. They had pumps with the mixture
pre-set. One could select the ratio he wanted. AFAIK, when Germany got
united they still had some cars to get rid of and they were installing
VW engines, but were still not hot sellers.

Zsolt

Steve Sears wrote:

>Reminds me of a meet I took my Junior to last year (1300 cars showed up -
>http://www.haugensbbq.com/photos/appreciation_cruise_2002.jpg
>In case you are in to playing "Where's Waldo?", I'm in the last row, about
>2/3rds of the way to the left boundary, cream-coloured car, black roof, with
>a crowd in front of it)
>It took me about an hour to get out to the main road - the car idling most
>of the time.  All of the cars were pulling out onto the road, directed by
>traffic cops to proceed northbound (to the left).  The road was lined with
>spectators, cheering as the "muscle cars" peeled out onto the road, drag
>slicks clawing and smoking the asphalt for all they were worth.  When I
>pulled up to the road, a number of people chuckled as my beetle-sized,
>'57-Chev-looking car sputtered and rumbled (as only 2-strokes, or stalling
>4-strokes, idle) waiting for the officer to stop the traffic.  He waved me
>out and I floored it, all 36 horsepower springing to life, vapourizing the
>oil in the gas (40:1 premix Belray H1R) and whatever was left in the exhaust
>from the prolonged idling.  As I shifted into second (column shift, btw), I
>looked in the rearview to see the crowd at the exit disappear in the
>resulting fog.  The window was down, and the throng on the shoulders of the
>road was suddenly quiet - so much so, I heard someone say to his
>friend....."Holy sh!+!!!! Look at _THAT_!!!"
>Yeah, baby, ya ask for a smokeshow....I deliver!!!!!
>The SP's are, like Per wrote, like a classic T-bird in looks alone.  The 3
>cylinder 2-stroke engine was "tuned" with a 2 barrel Zeinith carburetor
>(instead of a 1 barrel Solex unit) to squeeze those 50 horses out of the
>design.  BTW, at the time VW scrapped the 2-stroke engine development, Auto
>Union engineers had developed a 6 cylinder 2-stroke which developed over 100
>hp (one of which was saved and is powering a AU 1000S in Germany).
>BTW, if anybody comes across an old derelict Auto Union/DKW in the
>weeds/local junkyard/etc. - please contact me and I'll pass the info on to
>the Club.
>Thanks!
>Steve Sears
>1987 5kTQ
>1980 5k
>1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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>>To: lindgre at online.no
>>Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:15:54 -0500
>>Subject: Re: Classic Audi spotted!
>>From: cobram at juno.com
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>>Yeah, but IF the other car gave you a few seconds headstart, you'd
>>usually win the race....nobody could see through the smoke cloud you'd
>>leave behind at full throttle.  At most they could hope to locate you via
>>the chainsaw noise through the fog.
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>>I've seen alot of these old DKW's converted over to VW boxers.
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>>BCNU,
>>http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
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>>Per Lindgren <lindgre at online.no> writes:
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>>>According to a feature I read in an issue of the German magazine
>>>"Audi
>>>Scene", the 100SP was known as the "Poor man's T-bird" in Germany
>>>back
>>>in the days. Unfortenately, the AU didnt have the power to back that
>>>up,
>>>as it is powered by a 3-cylinder 980 cc 2-stroke engine with a
>>>whopping
>>>50 hp.
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