Re: A4 Chip

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

Message-ID: red-46-msg951208014243MTP[01.51.00]000000a0-28666

I just talked to Ned Ritchie at IA and he said that he won't be doing 
anything for the V6 A4s, but will be able to supply up to 280bhp from 
the 1.8 Turbo about 3-4 months after it hits the market. It will cost 
app. $3200 (very, very tentative price, he said) as it involves exhaust 
manifold, chip and a new turbo. Apparently, the small factory turbo 
pretty much chokes the engine off at around 150bhp (std. output), so to 
get any sort of usable increaes out of tuning, you need a new turbo.

He says the V6 is about as finely tuned as you can get it from the 
factory, so there's no point in doing anything to it.

- peter, peterhe@microsoft.com

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| From: Robert D. Houk  <rdh@sli.com>
| To:  <darons@lucasarts.com>
| Cc:  <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
| Subject: Re: A4 Chip
| Date: Thursday, December 07, 1995 7:17PM
|
|
|    I have read that there will be a chip available for the A4 soon.  I am
|    interested in the possibility of using a chip to improve the A4's
|    performance.  However, I am concerned about the warranty.  I 
assume that
|    replacing the PROM will void the warranty.  Can anyone confirm this?
|
| Oh yes yes yes. You touch it, you void it.
|
|     Also, can the PROM be switched back if I need any warranty service, or
|    is their some type of seal on the chip so that the dealership 
would know
|    that an aftermarket PROM was used.
|
| It will be obvious to anyone who looks, but I can't imagine anyone actually
| taking the time to look unless there is some really obvious reason to, like
| wondering what that aftermarket turbo is doing hanging off the exhaust mani-
| fold...
|
| 					-RDH
|