[s-cars] Re: MOTEC ECU Installation instead of chip tuning
Chris Reed
kostritzer at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 16:45:28 EST 2005
Thats exactly what I plan on doing with an EFI technology ecu! What did you
end up using for a crank trigger?
On 12/11/05, s-car-list-request at audifans.com <
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> 1. RE: Looking for a urS6 avant (calvinlc at earthlink.net)
> 2. Friday snowstorm S4 makes a good snowplow! (Jack Gagnon)
> 3. MOTEC ECU Installation instead of chip tuning. (Tony Guttmann)
> 4. Re: Friday snowstorm S4 makes a good snowplow! (Nick Stuart)
> 5. Re: MOTEC ECU Installation instead of chip tuning. (Kent McLean)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 20:11:49 -0700
> From: <calvinlc at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [s-cars] Looking for a urS6 avant
> To: "Chris Ludlow" <pacludlow at hotmail.com>, <yumyjager at gmail.com>,
> <brucem105 at comcast.net>
> Cc: neilsphoto at yahoo.com, s-car-list at audifans.com
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> Chris,
>
> There is one here in Denver for sale at like $15k that has 90k miles on
> it.
> I have no info other than that on it. It is in the Autotrader online if
> you
> want to look.
>
> --Calvin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com]On Behalf Of Chris Ludlow
> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:19 PM
> To: yumyjager at gmail.com; brucem105 at comcast.net
> Cc: neilsphoto at yahoo.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking for a urS6 avant
>
>
> 12k is way too much. Even for the fastest color Audi has made. On the
> UrS
> cars I believe none were clearcoated at the factory. They were a single
> stage paint. Why? Only Hans and Franz know. Ski cars have not only roof
> dings/scratches but severe road rash. And if maintenance has been sketchy
> 12k is again too much.
>
> What has worked for me with the Tornado is using Menzerna's Final polish,
> followed by glaze, and then their FMJ. Since I've done that I can go
> about
> a month and a half or so here in Redding. yes I'm going for the respray
> one
> day but I have too many mods to pay for first :)
>
> Chris (eagerly awaiting delivery of his HID kit)
> 95 UrS6 - Tornado Red
>
>
> >From: Emre Washburn <yumyjager at gmail.com>
> >To: Bruce Mendel <brucem105 at comcast.net>
> >CC: Neil Swanson <neilsphoto at yahoo.com>, s-car-list at audifans.com
> >Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking for a urS6 avant
> >Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 18:07:28 -0500
> >
> >My '90 Coupe quattro is Tornado Red with out clear coat, and I could
> >go 2 weeks until it starts to get blotchy again. But when it is
> >freshly waxed, the paint looks brand new. YMMV.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Emre
> >92 //S4
> >90 Cq
> >40 valves 'O plenty!
> >
> >
> >On 12/10/05, Bruce Mendel <brucem105 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > i think most were not clear coated. i'd hesitate to do the wax thing.
> i
> >used
> > > to do that on my car...it would look great for two-three days, until
> the
> > > oxidation started coming back. so unless you like waxing your car
> every
> >2-3
> > > days, not a good idea!
> > >
> > > i did hear once that if the paint was in great condition except for
> > > oxidizing, it can be prepped by a body shop to make it look perfect
> long
> > > enough to apply new clearcoat. That's far less money than a new paint
> >job
> > > (50% or less), and will keep the oxidation at bay for years.
> > >
> > > B
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Emre Washburn" <yumyjager at gmail.com>
> > > To: "John Karasaki" <johkar at teleport.com>
> > > Cc: "Neil Swanson" <neilsphoto at yahoo.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:14 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking for a urS6 avant
> > >
> > >
> > > IME, the car should be closer to $9,000. You might want to try to take
> > > some carnauba wax on a spot and see if it shines up. Some Tornado Red
> > > Audis did NOT come with clear coat, leaving the paint very susceptible
> > > to oxidation.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Emre
> > > 92 //S4
> > > 90 Cq
> > > 40 valves 'O plenty!
> > >
> > >
> > > On 12/10/05, John Karasaki <johkar at teleport.com> wrote:
> > > > Guys,
> > > >
> > > > Our coupe quattro is a pain with our infant son. Our 1999.5 A4
> avant
> > > isn't
> > > > much better.
> > > >
> > > > I am looking for a 1995.5 S6 avant. There is one here for sale in
> > > > Portland. I looked at, drove and viewed all the repair
> records. The
> > > > owners are very nice.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, the car isn't. It is red, with the wicked VW/Audi
> red
> > > paint
> > > > fade. The family is into ski racing, so it has seen alot of
> mountain
> > > > time. The ski and rack roof damage is extensive. The paint is
> worse
> >than
> > > > any Audi I have ever owned, and I have owned many "parts
> cars". IMHO,
> >it
> > > > needs a repaint.
> > > >
> > > > There is a bit of differed maintenance as well (timing belt and all
> >that
> > > > entails, clutch, shocks, steering rack, bushings, etc.).
> > > >
> > > > He's firm at $12000 which I think is too high for a ski car. I'm I
> >all
> > > > wet? Mileage is almost 160k.
> > > >
> > > > I have not seen the two Avants that are for sale in California in
> >person,
> > > > but from the Audifans ads, they seemed in excellent condition for
> >around
> > > $14k.
> > > >
> > > > What's the going rate for these rare beasts? And more importantly,
> >does
> > > > anyone know of one that's in great shape and for sale at a
> reasonable
> > > price?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:17:19 -0500
> From: "Jack Gagnon" <bullitt at gwi.net>
> Subject: [s-cars] Friday snowstorm S4 makes a good snowplow!
> To: "S-Car-List" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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> Fellow listers,
>
> Over here in southern Maine we managed to accumulate 17 inches of snow
> between the time I left home at 6am and got home at 4:30pm. My drive is
> 900
> feet long and weaves up an down a few hills in the woods. As I approached
> the driveway I locked the rear dif and gave it to it. I turned into my
> drive and the snow immediately piled up over the headlights and covered
> the
> windshield. I flipped on the wipers and continued to give it gas. The
> car
> was simply amazing! I climbed the first hill and the snow continued to
> pile
> up to the hood and covered the headlights. Fortunately there was a bit of
> moonlight so I could make out the path of the drive. I made it all the
> way
> to the garage and was able to park it inside the garage. I wish I had a
> camera to take a few pics because the front of the car was completely
> covered in snow. My wife came home shortly after I did and the 2.7T A6
> made
> another nice set of tracks into the other garage bay. It is so nice to be
> able to drive the car up the drive instead of parking on the road, walking
> 900 feet to get my plow truck and rushing to get the driveway clear.
> Quattro is good, Quattro is great!
>
> Jack G
> K-port, ME
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:34:21 +1100
> From: Tony Guttmann <T.Guttmann at ms.unimelb.edu.au>
> Subject: [s-cars] MOTEC ECU Installation instead of chip tuning.
> To: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <20051211173421.B12832 at digican.ms.unimelb.edu.au>
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>
> Due to unsatisfactory results trying to chip-tune my S4 here in Australia
> where there is no local expertise, I have replaced the Motronic ECU with
> the (locally made) MOTEC M600. A preliminary write-up and pictures can be
> found on my web-site www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~tonyg
>
> Just click on "UrS4", to be found on the index panel at left. Warning: the
> associated pictures are rather large, so a download will take a couple of
> megabytes. If you are paying by the byte, you can switch off images and
> just
> get the text.
>
> I propose to integrate lower resolution pictures into the text, and put
> the
> result on the audifans web-site when I figure out how to include .jpeg
> photos
> into a Latex document and reduce the resolution and post to audifans! I
> also
> plan one further iteration of the tuning cycle. Meanwhile, I hope this
> will
> be of interest to some of you.
>
> Tony Guttmann
> 1994 UrS4 (with steering wheel on the side God intended).
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 09:39:52 -0500
> From: Nick Stuart <baredok at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Friday snowstorm S4 makes a good snowplow!
> To: Jack Gagnon <bullitt at gwi.net>, s-car-list at audifans.com
> Message-ID:
> <ef848dbf0512110639h8eeed3ar4fa4970c9741a665 at mail.gmail.com>
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> Would have to agree. I'm a bit Northwest of you and while we didn't
> get quite as much snow I still came home to an unplowed driveway. I
> have a fairly steep drive way and faced a sizable snow bank in the
> beginning. I plowed through that and actually had to stop because I
> couldn't see. After which, locked the diffs, cleaned the wind shield,
> started on up! I little slide here or there but she manged to plow the
> way, with another stop to open the garage and the final run into the
> garage.
>
> Quattro isn't so much a nicety here, its a requirement.
>
> -Nick
>
> On 12/10/05, Jack Gagnon <bullitt at gwi.net> wrote:
> > Fellow listers,
> >
> > Over here in southern Maine we managed to accumulate 17 inches of snow
> > between the time I left home at 6am and got home at 4:30pm. My drive is
> 900
> > feet long and weaves up an down a few hills in the woods. As I
> approached
> > the driveway I locked the rear dif and gave it to it. I turned into my
> > drive and the snow immediately piled up over the headlights and covered
> the
> > windshield. I flipped on the wipers and continued to give it gas. The
> car
> > was simply amazing! I climbed the first hill and the snow continued to
> pile
> > up to the hood and covered the headlights. Fortunately there was a bit
> of
> > moonlight so I could make out the path of the drive. I made it all the
> way
> > to the garage and was able to park it inside the garage. I wish I had a
> > camera to take a few pics because the front of the car was completely
> > covered in snow. My wife came home shortly after I did and the 2.7T A6
> made
> > another nice set of tracks into the other garage bay. It is so nice to
> be
> > able to drive the car up the drive instead of parking on the road,
> walking
> > 900 feet to get my plow truck and rushing to get the driveway clear.
> > Quattro is good, Quattro is great!
> >
> > Jack G
> > K-port, ME
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:53:42 -0500
> From: Kent McLean <kentmclean at mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] MOTEC ECU Installation instead of chip tuning.
> To: Tony Guttmann <T.Guttmann at ms.unimelb.edu.au>
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <439C5996.5000606 at mindspring.com>
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>
> Tony Guttmann wrote:
> > I propose to integrate lower resolution pictures into the text,
> > and put the result on the audifans web-site when I figure out
> > how to include .jpeg photos into a Latex document and reduce
> > the resolution and post to audifans!
>
> The Audifans KnowledgeBase is written in Twiki, which is very
> simple. To see how simple, select a topic, select Edit, and
> view the text. See also:
>
> http://www.audifans.com/twiki/bin/view/Audi/HowToContribute
>
> The KB also lets you upload an image, and reference it within
> your text, not unlike HTML.
>
> HTH.
> --
> Kent McLean
> '94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
> '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>
>
>
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