[s-cars] Subject: Re: Sciroccos and Audis

[Tom Winter]

If I remember correctly, Cody Forbes had a van with an I-5 turbo motor
installed in it. Fast. Damn Fast.

Tom
'95 S6 Avant

On 3/18/07 8:14 AM, "Charlie Smith" <charlie at elektro.cmhnet.org> wrote:

> Earlier, Tom Winter wrote:
>> 
>> On 3/13/07 5:39 PM,  Rich Assarabowski wrote:
>>> Funny how many S-car owners have their roots in VW's.
>> 
> ...
> 
>> Which then, for no good reason I can think of, was followed by two '78 VW
>> camper vans.
> 
> The talk about sleepers, early Sciroccos with 16V engines, brings back
> memories.  I fell into European cars in 1964 with a '57 Volkswagen.  Just
> a few months after it showed up, I found a '57 Porsche engine in a junk
> yard ... and found that it could be inserted into the VW with remarkedly
> little pain.  The first trip down the block impressed me with how little
> brakes the VW really had!  This developed into 15+ second 1/4 miles,
> which brought open mouths from people watching a 'stock' VW bug.  This
> was in the days before EMPI started making go-fast parts for VW engines.
> 
> Several Porsches later, the tow car for a '69 Porsche SCCA C production
> was a '68 VW microbus powered by a '72 Porsche 2.4L 911T.  The biggest
> problem with that one was that my ex-wife kept burning out clutches.  %#$&
> 
>   - Charlie
> 
> 
> Charlie Smith                charlie {at} elektro.cmhnet.org
> http://www.elektro.com/~charlie          Columbus Ohio   USA
> http://www.elektro.com/~audi         photos & technical info
> 
> 95 S6 Quattro  -  24 PSI, RS2 6 speed, and other features
> 97 Dodge Ram   -  40 PSI, 4x4 w/Cummins turbo diesel
> 
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