Anybody tried this?

[David]

If for ANY reason he needs (or wants) a second test mule, I'd love to be able to go forced induction on my NG CGT. Heck, I'd even ship the car to them to be able to get in on it...

Dave
1987 CGT 2.3 (NG)
SE VA, USA
> 
> From: Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/10/13 Wed PM 06:00:11 EDT
> To: S Dewitt <sdewitt at stx.rr.com>
> CC: quattro at audifans.com, 
> 	Haskins Mitchell S TSgt 437 APS/TRP <mitchell.haskins at charleston.af.mil>
> Subject: Re: Anybody tried this?
> 
> "That's not entirely accurate"  (Independece Day)
> 
> I'm not even sure he's ever done a second one, but there's a guy here
> in town who had an 80q who worked for a supercharger place called
> Rimmer.  I'm not sure if Rimmer is still in business but that doesn't
> matter because the guy with the 80q left there, sold his 80q and
> became a (the?) Klemann distributor for MBenz which is located here in
> Colorado Springs.  A friend of mine and fellow Audi owner is friends
> with this guy and he's going to stop by their shop in a little while
> to see if the guy has any interest whatsoever in redoing what he did
> to his 80.  My Coupe GT has the NG engine and I will offer it readily
> as a development mule if so.  I have not really been interested in
> supercharging my FWD CGT, but I wouldn't hate it either.  ;-)
> 
> Back when he was at Rimmer I took my V8 5spd and he wagged about 5
> grand to do an s/c on it.  At the time it was not an option, but he
> did have a 100 or A6 in the shop at the time which was getting a s/c
> installed.
> 
> The type of s/c he uses is rotary (?) and it was installed within the
> metered air path, IIRC and he had it plumbed with some sort of bypass
> so it would work smoothly for on/off throttle transitions.
> 
> I drove the car and it pulled like a big V8 from the first crack of
> the throttle.  It kind of petered out on the top end, but it wasn't
> completely fleshed out yet at the time and he was playing with or
> considering some water injection or something.  I do remember that he
> had an oversized s/c on it because he was planning bigger and better
> things for it down the line so I think he had something dialed back
> somehow on the top end to protect the engine.
> 
> Anyway, it was exactly the sort of transformation I have always wanted
> for my 3.6 liter PT V8 here at 6k feet altitude.
> 
> There's a post here:
> http://gallery.mbnz.org/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=719498&start=1&fid=6
> that talks about how they flew a guy to TN to do a customer car, not
> that that really has anything to do with this.
> 
> Ed
> 
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:39:19 -0500, S Dewitt <sdewitt at stx.rr.com> wrote:
> > no one makes a supercharger kit for the NG engine. It will be up to you to
> > design one.
> > 
> > Scott DeWitt
> > Advanced Automotion
> > 817-939-6761
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