[s-cars] A good weekend with a couple of UrS4 guys...

[Paul Friedenberg]

If its black and not blue, its just the car running rich. I don't know what
the altitude in Columbus is (fairly low I assume) but here at over 5,000
feet, all cars like to run rich. Especially at full throttle.


>From: Rfeagleye at aol.com
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: [s-cars] A good weekend with a couple of UrS4 guys...
>Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 19:19:44 EDT
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>I was in Columbus this weekend, and had the chance to get together with a
>couple of list members and check out there cars.
>
>Saturday I visited Charlie Smith and saw his 1995 S6. I went there to pick
>up
>some near new Dunlop SP 8000 tires in the stock 16" size for my car that he
>didn't need and was really great to offer them to me at an awesome price!
>Charlie sure knows his stuff, and in the hour or so I spent there I learned
>a
>lot about the "little things" in my 1992.
>
>He also took me for a ride in his car...WOW, the car pulls like crazy! He
>has
>an IA chip and a few other things and boy does the car run strong. It looks
>great with the Avus 17x8 wheels too!
>
>I then had the tires installed at Discount Tire and the car drives much
>better! The snow tires on the car just didn't cut it in the 100 degree
>heat!
>Thanks again Charlie!
>
>Today I had the chance to meet Dave Burig and checked out his 1993 S4. Dave
>took a little time out from getting ready for his son's 5th Birthday Party
>to
>meet with me. After looking at and comparing stuff on our cars, we traded
>keys and went for a fun little low speed drive around Columbus (well, maybe
>not actually low speed...)
>
>His car is nice, I kind of wish I had the carbon fiber in the 1992 :(
>
>I also discovered something about my car after riding behind it in Dave's
>1993...my car SMOKES a bit under full throttle. I don't notice it when I am
>driving, but when Dave was in my car I saw puffs of dark smoke each time we
>pulled hard on the straight roads. The car drives fine, no hesitation, no
>sputtering, and gets full boost, anyone have any ideas on what it could be?
>I
>have been on it hard, but not as hard as today...
>
>Good thing I am taking it in for a new owner "check up" on Tuesday!
>
>All in all a great weekend of Audi fun!
>
>
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