[s-cars] UrS as a Purpose Built Track Car?

[Tom Mullane]

Yeah, the Miata is an ok track car too.  Just add a roll bar, no other mods required. Use the money you save on cheaper consumables for more track time. 

Scott, no one is saying that a quattro can't be fun on the track, but if you are going to spend some money and effort to have something that is cheap, reliable and fun, there are far better choices.

Tom

On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:46 AM, qshipq at aol.com wrote:

> You guys are too funny.  The S car needs a diet, not 'mods'.  The weight part is easy, and ANYONE can do it.  Big Brakes are not only common, but a no brainer, put cheap *ss A8 brakes on it until you want to spend the money for BR.  The rest is creatively addressing issues, like directing airflow to the brakes, unshrouding the IC, DS fender liner venting,  maybe a larger oil cooler for longevity, removing A/C equipment (read shorter serp belt). 28mm front sb from a A6 wagon, a 26mm bar (Apikol) for the rear.  Coil over conversion in the rear, something stiff in front.  
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> A miata can be a fun car too I suppose.  But if I had a already amortized Scar to play with, making it a fast and fun track car certainly takes almost no fabrication skills at all.  The rest is all creativity playing with projects, not requiring massive fab skills.  A lot can be done with rivets and sheet metal from Home Depot, btdt.
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> You can even put some Mazda parts on your quattro track car if you wish, like I did here:
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> Those that discount the whole idea of a Quattro track car, just haven't experienced the fun of driving one.  I say just about any quattro can be damn quick for very little money.
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> From: Tom Mullane <tmullane at gmail.com>
> To: p.schulz at verizon.net; S-CAR-List at audifans.com
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> Subject: Re: [s-cars] UrS as a Purpose Built Track Car?
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> I don't know, Peter.  After tracking both the Miata and the S-car, I'd
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> That said, with right attitude any car can be tons of fun on the
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> As for modding a car for the track, unless you are a first class
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> It took me 2 or 3 seasons to get the supercharged Miata sorted
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> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:18:03 -0500
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> From: Peter Schulz <p.schulz at verizon.net>
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> To: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
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> sometimes its fun to be different, otherwise everyone would be driving
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> Look at what Hadyn Taylor did to an unassuming former rally car from
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