No subject

ordering a few of the less involved components to help keep us on the road.

But you would have thought that they could have been more creative about the
process even if the end result was that we had to pay a ton to get the
parts.  I am not sure whether I would buy a head JIC?  Beddor might with his
4 SQs, but I cannot imagine Audi ever selling more than 2 or 3 in a 5 year
frame.  At the cost which would approach Formula One prices, I cannot
imagine them building these to sit on the shelf.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
To: "Phil Payne" <quattro at isham-research.com>; "Jim Haseltine"
<Jim at ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>; <urq at audifans.com>; "qlist"
<quattro at audifans.com>; "ccohen5" <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [urq] Timin Belt change time


>
> At 9:34 AM +0100 11/4/01, Phil Payne wrote:
>
> >The belt on David Sutton's KW (S1) failed as Michele was bringing the car
> >back to the paddock after a second practice run at Goodwood.  It was
eleven
> >years and 900 miles old.
>
> I would really, really not want to be the guy who was responsible for
> the "do we change the t-belt" decision.  Can you say, "keel-hauled"?
>
> >  Audi have a VERY limited stock of parts and getting
> >the bits necessary to rebuild the head was a matter of negotiation.  I
> >_think_ the engine has now been rebuilt - it's about four years since the
> >incident.
>
> You would think that it would be in everyone's best interests,
> preservation-wise, to get the original supplier of the head to
> re-tool and produce some more heads.  It's not like most Sport Q
> owners couldn't afford the price of such an endeavor, right?
> Wouldn't -you- rather have one on hand, that you had to pay a hefty
> price for, rather than not have one at all, just in case?  Granted, I
> bet it would lower the value of the car if it ever had to be used,
> but probably not as much as having a useless motor(or a non Sport-Q
> motor.)
>
> I'm assuming that the casting is the most important part, that if you
> had it, that solves most of your problem(ie, the rest of the head is
> made up of obtainable or substitutable parts)?
>
> Brett
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