[V8] Suspension

[Ingo Rautenberg]

What rear bar?  None of my v8's has/had one -- did the 92-94 ones have them?

Any time you're stiffening up the front suspension mounting points (which is
what a stiffer/bigger front sway bar on these beasts is), you are making the
car more controllable.  The front bar on these cars does double duty because
the control arm itself only mounts to the subframe in one point (compared
with two of conventional A-arm -- like my Urq).  So basically there are
three mounting points for each front axle: Top of strut, balljoint attached
to control arm to subframe (I'll count that as one), and front swaybar.

OTOH if you REALLY want to reduce understeer then I suggest wider
wheels/rubber up front and narrower in the rear.  German tuners were known
for doing this a few years back.  You can experiment by underinflating the
fronts a bit and overinflating the rears if your running all the same size.
Of course, I'm not sure what the torsen will want to do...uh oh, I said that
word...

-Ingo
'91 200q20v...Slightly modified
'84 Urquattro
'91 v8q 5-speed w/ lots of mods :-)
http://hometown.aol.com/quattringo/index.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coleman, David" <David.Coleman at blackrock.com>
To: "Jeffrey Goggin" <jeffrey.goggin at cox.net>; <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: RE: [V8] Suspension


Bigger front bar actually helped?  Given these cars' propensity to push thru
turns, I'd be inclined to beef up the rear bar, not the front... BTDT w/
FWD, but not quattro.

-DaveC.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Goggin [mailto:jeffrey.goggin at cox.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 10:04 AM
> To: v8 at audifans.com
> Subject: [V8] Suspension
>
>
> > What kind of options do we have as far as stiffening up the
> suspension
> goes?
> > Sway bars, strut tower braces, things of that nature.  I
> wanted to look
> into
> > the best ways to stiffen things up because I would like to have more
> > responsive steering and tighter car all around.
>
> You've gotten plenty of good advice about shocks & springs so
> I won't go
> into any of that.  As I recall, though, the front a/r bar
> from the 4.2L V8s
> ('93 on) is slightly larger than that on the 3.6L versions
> and even though
> it's a dealer-only part, it wasn't all that costly as
> compared to typical
> aftermarket prices (not that there is anything such thing for
> the V8, of
> course).  I may be wrong about the diameter -- as my
> Audi-tinkering days
> wind down, my memory for details is fading -- but you might
> investigate this
> further.  I installed one on my '89 200q and it works quite well in
> combination with the '92 S4 factory springs, Koni Sports, and a
> semi-aggressive wheel alignment.
>
> Jeffrey Goggin
> Scottsdale, AZ
>
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