[urq] My UrQ is slow..

[Rob Dupree]

Today was a productive one! After doing a F&R pad/rotor change out on the Touareg on Sat all I had the energy for was to get the 200 up on jackstands and then call it a day. We might be in fall down here - but the effort on the brake job plus the heat&humidity really sapped me.

So today Sunday was beginning tear-down on the 200. Overall got probably 5-6 real productive hours on it and the engine hangs in the engine bay with all the extra stuff removed now out of the way. I figure she's probably another 5hrs from motor and tranny sitting on the ground depending on how much fun I have with the bits that are sawzall friendly like the Procon-10 or whatever it's called wire thingy designed to make a tech swear when pulling the tranny.. I must say it's quite cathartic (sp?) being able to pull parts, take all the bolts/nuts/fastners off that I need to keep/horde and then simple chuck the rest. I truly enjoyed just busting up that darn typ-44 chrome that for years and years I've always had to be really careful with but always had to resort to zip-ties to get it all back together!

I'll try not to do verbose-twitters of what bolts came out today to the UrQ list, but figured this was worth it to close out the Slow UrQ thread. Yes - slow is relative. The fastest thing in my garage is my old FJ1200, and the slowest is the UrQ. The TDI is somewhere in between although clearly the most pleasant to drive of my fleet.

It's worth noting one minor correction to what Scott wrote. I never actually got the first 034 to work as it was a very, VERY early adoption (2nd or 3rd one out for public I think) and it was beyond my skill. The other 034 car was built by Rudak and then on-going support was mine... So this time when I bought the donor car I got it over to Marc Swanson who did the VEMS'ization to it so that when it was trucked here it was turn-key. I'm very happy with the base tune and the conversion work Marc did - so consider this a plug...

Oh in case anyone is curious - the front rotor pair on the Touareg are 74lbs, clamped by giagantic 6-piston calipers identical (except in color) to the Cayenne Twin Turbo. They are just a tad oversized for the UrQ since I think just the rotors are nearing 15" in dia... :)

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Subject: Re: [urq] My UrQ is slow..

Or... One might just give a hole filled raft and a walmart kiddie paddle to the guy and chuckle some. Eric, the '91 200 transplant donor of which he speaks is turn-key VEMS equipped and tuned, and one needn't dig deep in the archives to realize this is the same guy that had a couple 034EFI systems over the years, and built the LT1Q. And having driven Robs specific urq many times, and having personally built the wiki-quick turbo on it, slow is only relative to the Honda that likely was rotrexed. Then again, he could always just drive the tdi next time, but I say whatever motivates one to tackle the project!

Sawsalls last longer than those industrial grinders, eh Roberto? 

Cheers!

SJ