Soul searching (or what to do with the 91 200q hull?)LONG

[David]

Finish the MCed CGT, sell it to me, use the funds to fix up the 200. I'd love to have an MCed CGT, especially a Comm Ed, but I have NO technical expertise and I would never swap out the engine in my 87.5 (too rare to f' with IMHO)... :)

Dave
1987 CGT Special Build 2.3
SE Virginia

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> From: qshipaz at juno.com
> Date: 2003/07/08 Tue AM 04:33:27 EDT
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Soul searching (or what to do with the 91 200q hull?)LONG
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> Greetings Audinauts,
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> As I inch along in reassembling the 86 CommEd CGT (broken subframe bolt, control arm bushings, clutch, strut mounts, CV boots, prep for MC transplant...+ 110F temperatures here in AZ), thoughts turn to the fate of the 1991 200q (20V?)
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> The CGT came into my life for $300 as a runner with missing digital cluster and dead clutch hydraulics. I got it working with the help of TPC and a junkyard analog cluster. So far still not to the $1000 mark, it should be a decent daily driver (already tagged/insured thru 5/05!)
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> It was intended as a replacement for the late great Datsun 240Z. This was the beast which I drove daily, hard, while bench racing about Audi projects. Totaled 4/1/03 by errant SUV. CGT purchased around 4/25/03.
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> 240Z v2.0 came around on May 21st. So now I'm driving that (much like the first one- shiny, quick, simple, loud, rough. No Audi but that's not what I ask of it.) and the CGT is coming back together. I am moving at the end of this month, so the Audi will either be finished, or I'll die trying...
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> So: Mostly stock 240Z (NAC, I know) and CGT also make up the fleet. Welllll... not entirely. I also have a half-stripped, really cosmetically heinous '86 5ktq. The engine from this is sitting next to the CGT in my garage. Rumor has it that it will eventually hop into the engine bay of said Coupe. I don't think the 5ktq will ever be a car again, but it's not a bad parts beast. However, the storage situation is likely to evaporate.
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> That's not the real quandary, though. Parked next to it is a project gone amok. '91 200q. Indigo metallic (my favorite 44 color) over black sport interior. Shiny, nice finish, great interior. Completely empty engine room. (It was bought by a friend to be a 4ktq 20v donor) The transmission looks to be slated for Ken's '91 200q20v. I was intending to put the '86 MC into the '91. Further reading on the limitations of CIS slowed that project- the 240Z total+ CGT purchase stopped it dead.
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> So, what do I do? Budgetary concerns preclude the purchase of a complete 3B with harness to make it whole. Even if I bit the bullet on that and got it together, I don't think I can justify upkeep on 3 cars. So, which two to keep? As this is an Audi forum, I can see how the Datsun might be a casualty... but really, what's the justification for keeping an MC powered CGT when one has a 91 200q?
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> Plan C has been lurking in the back of my mind ever since the days of my first Audi, an '87 5kcst 5spd. I was thinking that a "simplified" 44 might be an interesting project. '89 100E manual AC controls, type 43 ATF steering and vacuum brakes, G60s in place of UFOs, manual diff locks in place of Torsen, and an EFI MC engine. Oh, and a Modine radiator (all-metal).
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> Now that I've laid out the Frankenaudi specs, and knowing that I have access to all the bits except the 100E AC controls and the EFI setup...
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> What's the consensus?
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> Rob
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> '86 CGT
> '86 5ktq (parts)
> '91 200q (fate uncertain)
> *and in related topics*
> '86 CGT (roommate's)
> '87 5kt (RIP)
> '85 CGT (sold to friend)
> '93 90S (sister's)
> '75 Fox (Dad, what did you start back in '78?!)
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