[V8] V8 Twin Turbo?

[Bastian Homburg]

There is a tuner in Germany who offers twin turbo kits, good for 540 hp: 
http://turbotechnik-grossholz.de/fs002.htm
pictures: http://turbotechnik-grossholz.de/fs002.html. Expect to pay 
about $20k for that conversion.Oh, and forget about having A/C in it. 
But he got legalized in Germany, so yeah, that's doable.
There's another tuner who offers Lysholm supercharger kits for these 
engines: http://www.ehgartner-tuning.de/Kompressor/Kompressor.htm. The 
kits go for $10k.
The RS6 engine has the turbos located right where the steering rack is 
in the V8. Adapting that into the V8 is a nightmare, and I don't think 
anybody here has done that so far. I'd get an RS6 and leave the V8 as 
is, that's definitely the cheaper and less frustrating option.


Brian K. Ullrich wrote:
> You know, Tom, the supercharger thing is a possibility. I should look into
> that.
>
> I'm certainly not married to the TT idea on an existing PT. I figure if I
> did it, I'd have to find an ABZ TT from some totaled RS4/6 and transplant.
> But then, why not just find said RS4/6 and buy it instead....cost benefit
> analysis is the key.
>
> Just more of a mental exercise to see who had pushed the envelope on our V8
> Type 44's.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: toml99 at todomundo.com [mailto:toml99 at todomundo.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 11:42 PM
> To: v8audi
> Subject: [V8] V8 Twin Turbo?
>
> There's a short video on Youtube, of some germans who did
> it....sounds kinda cool till it backfires....It's been said that it
> would be tranny suicide to do it to an automatic....Someone(think on
> Motorgeek, may have been the English site) had pics of all the bent
> rods when their's blew up.  Love the quote from Newt(Motorgeek guy
> who did a swap) on page 36 after however long it took him to get it
> all together/fabricate said....."hope the motor lasts for more than
> one event!..... When I first got the Pearl car, and got it running, I
> was into it so little, that I had that dream also.....Spent days
> (weeks?) on Motorgeek.....then I started adding up the parts, not to
> mention all the time/energy(that I seem to have less of these days),
> to build something that could easily blow up.  I recall that the
> consensus was also that the supercharger, was a bit "safer"
> alternative(from the mouth's of people who blow up motors) and way
> less plumbing/etc.....then almost got stranded 40 miles offshore on a
> friend's fishing boat that had a Volvo Supercharger(diesel) sieze up
> (wouldn't run without it, and we limped back on 1 engine(same
> Supercharged/Turbo diesel 140hp) in bad seas which was way worse than
> side of the road btw......Oh yeah, and the clincher was that the
> supercharger(since it's for a boat) retailed for HUGE money...I'm
> recalling something like $4-6000 new )....and I decided my car was
> fine as it was, and has enough to go wrong with it as it is.  Not
> trying to be negative, and would love to see you do it, if you've got
> the time/money/machine shop/know what all those different graphs
> actually mean in reference to the "breaking point" of your motor,
> then go with it.  I'm pretty sure some of the guys @ 034 could take
> my 5-speed and "make it so".....for probably more than the Volvo
> supercharger, and I'd have a previously "huge maintanance
> car"....with more high dollar possible problems(see "cop"
> issue)........(not that I don't covet the twin turbo
> concept)......Just about then, the steering rack will
> hemmorage.....I'm just broke....Tom
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