[s-cars] Missing engine undertray

[Robert Pastore]

Tom:

There are a bunch of guys running without them w/o any bad experience.
IMO, the pan is necessary if you drive the car hard -- our little IC is
marginal at best, and the belly pan forms the floor of the duct that forces
cold air through the IC. Without it, the airflow will roll off & under the
IC, and in driving hard you might see higher intake air temps and reduced
performance.

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Green [mailto:trgreen at comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:27 PM
To: Martin, Gary G; 'AUDI S Cars Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Missing engine undertray


on 8/10/02 6:44 PM, Martin, Gary G at MartinGG at aetna.com wrote:

> Just wondering what the experience has been as far as running without the
> engine undertray or sound reducing tray or whatever it is called. Mine was
> in rough shape and this morning while going, ahhh, a little above the
posted
> speed limit, the front popped out and dragged on the pavement for about
ten
> miles. Looks like it may impact the flow of air through the intercooler,
and
> at full throttle, the noise level is higher, though I kind of like that
> part.  Any thoughts/opinions/experience/$$cost appreciated.
>
> Gary
> 94 UrS4 (with bottom exposed :-)
> 91 200 TQA
>
> http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/s-car-list

Several listers have commented that it didn't make any difference.  I like
the rock protection.  I saw some in a new Blaufergnugen catalog in the mail
today about $150.  I have no idea of list prices.  (They have new hardware
to hold them on too :-)
Tom '95 S-6

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