Re: bonehead drivers

[Eliot Lim <eliot@u.washington.edu>]

On Thu, 2 Feb 1995 PDQSHIP@aol.com wrote:

> Surprised that the 4.11 doesn't have more lowend I guess.  

the culprit is the slushbox which saps quite a lot of power as well
as the extra inertia of the extra driveshafts.  this is exactly the
same box that bmw is using for their V12 cars and if you look at
their acceleration numbers they are unremarkable for 300 bhp.

recently they put out a 850i with 6 speed and that thing kicks
ass in a big way.

but the secret if you want to launch quickly is to brake torque
the thing.. you know that a 240 bhp audi v8 is not going to stress
something built to handle excess of 300 bhp.

> And now the resale of the v8 has jumped in a big way...

really?  by how much?  any numbers?  that would be good news to me. 

>Had some neat thoughts about tweeking that v8 with its
> awfully low claimed BHP for the size.  Must be alot available in there if
> audi switched from the 5turbo to the v8 in their racing programs last year.

the GTCC V8s had over 500bhp from 3.6 liters.. same engine as the one you
can buy, except for wild cams and associated hardware.


eliot