"Hello, would you like to buy..."

[passat TS]

Something fishy. A stroker running up to 10K rpm!!!
It's real hard to believe.

Make sure this guy is not from Nigeria and is asking for a refund. ;)

Later,

Carlos


>From: Gerard <gerard at poboxes.com>
>To: Audi Quattro <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: "Hello, would you like to buy..."
>Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 20:20:57 +0200
>
>I just got a very strange phone call. It was in reply to my ad in a
>local performance magazine where I was selling some unneeded parts from
>my Audi 200 project. The person on the other side of the line was going
>to try and sell me something.
>
>He has for sale a Audi 5-cylinder engine as used in some car driven my
>South African rally king Sarel van der Merwe. Aluminum block, stroked
>steel crank (maybe 2.5-litre), dry sump and a turbo comparable to a T-62
>(he mentioned something like "262", so probably a big ass K27) and
>various other goodies. Asking about the head, it's a 10-valve. Not the
>20-valve units I usually saw him in. I could think of only one engine
>with those specs locally as driven by the "Van The Man" himself. It's
>from the type-44 which held the local public-road landspeed record over
>10-years ago (beaten afterwards by a daily-driver twin-turbo 7.2-litre
>V8 Pontiac TransAm and recently by some tubular-framed machine with
>normally aspirated 10-litre V8 running on locally-produced Dunlop street
>tyres (450km/h) on a track). I believe it was somewhere between 320km/h
>and 350km/h average when the Audi held the record.
>
>Around $3000 for it. :(
>
>I'm waiting for pictures as I'm interested in finding out more about
>this engine and to also lay aside fears that some joker upcountry isn't
>pulling my leg for posting nonsense on a forum somewhere. :)
>
>Apparently, the engine has been on display in an orthodontist's waiting
>room area, so it probably hasn't been run for many years. :) I wonder if
>it still turns over? Hmmm... indeed. :)
>
>And did I mention the 10,000rpm rev limit? (Not so sure about that
>either)
>
>G.

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