[s-cars] RE: Confessions of indiscretions

[Theodore Chen]

--- QSHIPQ at aol.com wrote:
>
> >With respect Scott, I don't see the connection your making.. Didn't Audi
> >put a highly modified 200 TQ
> >into competition with a 20V motor?
>
> No that was a 10vt motor actually, in both Rally and Trans Am.  At a time
> when the dominance of awd was used as a marketing tool to sell cars.  And
> according to the poster in my office, at under 2500lbs wet.

i think he's thinking of the IMSA 90 quattro 20vt.  definitely a smaller
and lighter car.

> Not sure I'd make that jump with you.  Every mod a lister makes is hopefully
> an hommage to his own ego.  The effort of Audisport and how they accomplished
> what they did is pretty well documented.  To start, I can't remember one that
> weighed over 3000lbs in competition form.

doesn't the world challenge RS6 come in at over 3000 lbs?  it's gotten
a bunch of weight penalties.

> I don't think he got close to 3000lbs.  That's a '95 M3 in full street trim.

you mean an M3 lightweight?  i didn't realize the regular E36 M3s were
that light.

-teddy


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