[urq] 1988 ABT Audi 5000....

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Was gonna say -- I know that car -- though Scott knows it far better...

-Ingo
On Oct 26, 2012 4:06 PM, "Scott Justusson" <qshipq at aol.com> wrote:

> Jim
> Email me privately, I have more informaton on that car than you will get
> anywhere else.  Glad to hear you are the one doing the final build to it.
>  It's a 1987 btw, the flares are not a 200 application, the trunk lid is
> not v8, it's 5ktq, but with electronic trunk release.  Spoiler rear and
> skirts side are standard Zender parts.  The RS script is directly from
> Porsche from the first owner, the stripes were added by the second owner,
> and should be deleted IMO.  Possible LOL on the vision by the second owner,
> but I've driven that car a couple thousand miles, including at the track,
> and it was really fast.
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> Cheers
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> Scott J
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Furdyn <quattrojim at gmail.com>
> To: urq <urq at audifans.com>
> Sent: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 2:51 pm
> Subject: [urq] 1988 ABT Audi 5000....
>
>
> Hey guys,
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> Ok, sort of UrQuattro related.... update on my own #0170....it will
> probably be going to final paint in a couple to a few weeks!
>
> The real reason I'm posting. My friend just picked up a 1988 ABT Audi 5000
> Q. It's pre-1991, yet it has wheel arch flares like a 200 20v, coil-overs
> all around, it's a 10 valve with a two piece EM and an RS2 turbo. (the RS2
> is still bolted to the stock EM in the trunk. The cylinder head was
> apparently heavily modified (no evidence but it being very clean right now)
> Some other "oddities", it's still CIS yet he was told it was a CIS fuel
> dist from a Porsche... ABT special ECU, and that's all I could get out of
> him at the moment.... The car is a darker gray, almost gun metal and has a
>  mat-black stripe going up the hood, over the roof and terminating at the
> end of trunk lid. It also has a trunk lid from a V8 Quattro with a rear
> spoiler. On the hood, the stripe has "RS2" on it...(LOL) The trunk lid,
> back passenger side has an "RS2" inscription.... Both the stripe and the
> rear inscription "RS" font looks like its directly from an RS Porsche....(I
> offered my scraper to my friend)   He was told that this car was once in
> European Car magazine, yet a search yielded no joy. I'm just trying to
> locate some info on the car for him. It's pretty unique and it looks like
> it was a pretty sweet car at one time in history....but without the stripe
> going up the driver's side of the car....
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> Jim Furdyn
> UrQ #0170
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