[urq] RE : WR Aluminum Engine
audijim at comcast.net
audijim at comcast.net
Wed Jun 13 11:31:19 EDT 2007
I totally agree with you on that one Brandon. All of my info came from Aelred Smith, the original owner of Dialynx Performance in the UK. He and I are friends, and what I wrote is what he told me a long time ago when I was hunting for one of these blocks. I would think that Audi would have complete engines ready to transplant with little down time for the customer. From what I understand, the alu engine was replaced with an iron engine. That might account for there being both an iron and aluminum block designation for the WR. Historians, please chime in!
-------------- Original message --------------
From: "Brandon Rogers" <brogers at terrix.com>
> I'd be curious about the history of the alum blocks in the street cars.
> Putting some of them in road cars for testing for the rally machines
> does not make sense to me at all. I would think they would put some in
> road cars maybe for homologation. And road cars don't see near the
> abuse of the rally cars - so I would think road cars wouldn't be a good
> testbed. Vice verse makes more sense IMO. And would an onwer really be
> happy about their car sitting for who knows how long while their motor
> is crated back to Germany?
>
> Very cool block - wodul love to hear if you can fel difference in
> handling. Anyone of the historians - chime in on history.
>
> Brandon
> '84 ur
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] On
> Behalf Of audijim at comcast.net
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:02 AM
> To: Andrée-Anne Bourgeois; 'Ingo Rautenberg'
> Cc: urq at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [urq] RE : WR Aluminum Engine
>
>
> This aluminum engine came from a Euro UrQ. The WR code is listed in ETKA
> (and take this with a huge grain of salt) from 1980 all the way through
> 1991. Rumor has it, that Audi put the aluminum engines in UrQuattro's
> and a few 200 Quattro's to use the public as a test bed for the blocks
> before they were used in the rally program. As the vehicles came through
> the dealers for service, the engines were removed and sent to the
> factory. The KW (Sport Quattro) and WR are both listed as alu engine and
> yet the WR is also listed as an iron block. ETKA also directs you to a
> parts data sheet 1-71 5/1991 for the WR alu engine. Engine internals are
> nearly the same with the difference of longer head bolts (10 X 90 vs. 10
> X 80) and a few other "aluminum engine" spec hardware requirements that
> at quick glance, are only length differences.
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Andrée-Anne Bourgeois
>
> > Can you elaborate about the origin ? Never heard of Alu engine in
> > early
> > cars...
> >
> > Louis-Alain Richard
> >
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : urq-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:urq-bounces at audifans.com] De la
> part
> > de audijim at comcast.net
> > Envoyé : 12 juin, 2007 19:54
> > À : Ingo Rautenberg
> > Cc : urq at audifans.com
> > Objet : Re: [urq] WR Aluminum Engine
> >
> > The block is sleeved. Its going to the machine shop this week to get
> > checked
> > out. I'll have more info about it soon. It weighs 52 lbs as you see it
> in
> > the pictures. I have an AAN block in the same configuration, I need to
> take
> > the scale to it, I was able to carry the aluminum block with one hand
> up a
> > flight of stairs to my office (where the shipping scale is)
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Ingo Rautenberg"
> > > Jim,
> > >
> > > Is that block sleeved? Nice!!!!
> > >
> > > Ingo
> > >
> > > On 6/12/07, audijim at comcast.net wrote:
> > > > I picked up a new block for my
> > > UrQ....http://www.tdif.com/phpBB2/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=6203
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