V8 hood

[Steve Sears]

Kneale,
According to Paul Fernandes, the hood is a straight swap for the 5k/200 -
somewhere on his web site he has a write up about making the swap, and he
used a cardboard template to verify that the latch landed in the same place.
I hope to do the V8 hood & Trunk swap someday with my 5ktq.....someday......
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net>
> Subject: Re: V8 hood
> To: quattrorunner at earthlink.net, "Tony Hoffman" <tfh400036 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: quattro <quattro at audifans.com>
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> My 200q20v has the H4 Eurolights (slanted inward at the inner lower edges
> of the lenses), and I just cut down the OEM square grill at the lower
edges
> so it'll fit between the lights.  Not a pretty sight on close review, but
> neither is the rest of the car.  When I picked up a bunch of parts from
> Steve Bednarski's rear-ended V8, he told me the hood would go right onto
my
> 200, using the 200's original latches and core piece.  I was getting the
> front end as spares for our V8, and since we now have two V8s, I haven't
> tried to switch hoods.  Was he wrong?  Somehow I got the impression he'd
> done that hood switch or had seen it done.
>
> I wouldn't do it if it required putting hood pins through the sheetmetal.
>
> At 09:36 PM 5/1/2005 -0700, brandon&trenna adams wrote:
> >Theres more room than say a type 89 and weve all seen what can be stuffed
> >into the front of those. That is a lot of parts though. How about if I
use
> >hood pins? That take care of the other conversion parts?