Ur-Q Intake Air Boot

[Ti Kan]

George Selby writes:
> At 08:41 PM 1/28/05, you wrote:
> >As for why it is so, my guess is because that was
> >the first (and only) production Audi with a turbocharged I5 in the
> >type 85 chassis, and that's the way Audi made everything fit.
> 
> When I bought my first Audi (86 CGT Comm Ed,) I missed out on another Audi 
> at the same place by about 10 minutes (someone else came up and made an 
> offer while I was examining the 2 Audis available.)  Anyway, it was a 2 
> Door (in other words a Sedan Coupe) 4000 Turbo Quattro.  I'm pretty sure it 
> was factory (this was more than 10 years ago.)  So the UrQ wasn't the only 
> type 85 chassis available with the turbo motor (This may well have been a 
> grey-market car, however, and the UrQ may have been the only turbo-5 Type 
> 85 imported by Audi into the US.)

Nah, Audi never made a production turbocharged 4000, for the US market
or elsewhere.  There are a number of very good conversions, though;
either using UrQ or 5Kt parts or the Callaway turbo kit.  That's
probably what you saw.

-Ti
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