Re: TQC stuff

[John Karasaki <johkar@teleport.com>]

At 08:30 AM 1/26/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>John,
>Thanks for the urq article, I appreciate it. I will have the Dec 93 european
>car article on its way shortly. I have just finished copying it.

Thanks!

>I see you said that you will be picking up your ur-q this weekend.
>Which car did you end up buying? 

I bought Bruce Hochuli's '82 TQC.  It has a pulsing power problem
(hesitation) in the 3k to 4k RPM range that's bugging me right now.  Time to
hit the archives!  Oh, the joys of TQC ownership.

>Do you also have a list of the ones
>you came accross in you search? I have a database of TQCs for sale
>and would like to add more to it.

I'll try to find the old posts and notes.  Almost all were from this list,
Autoweek, or the Quattro Quarterly.  One person with a euro quattro e-mailed
me direct from Quebec.

>
>>Are there any benefits to the euro model besides different bumpers,
>>camshaft, and chip?
>
>I am not too sure here. The bumpers are lighter, it did have a diff cam and
>ECU. As you know the euro cars developed 200hp. I know on the very early
>euro cars, the fuel system fan open loop with no o2 sensor.
> -

This car has plenty of power to spare (even with the pulsing).  It has the
Schrick cam and ABT computer, so it's in the 200+ hp range.  The bumpers are
faded badly, otherwise the car's paint is perfect.  I will try to locate the
euro bumpers for the bumper respray I plan to do next year.

I'll keep you posted.

Regards,

John Karasaki

The Karasaki's, proud owners of AUDI automobiles

1981 Coupe
1982 TQC
1984 5000SW
1987 5000CST (for sale; Climate Control system now fixed! $3200)
1990 V8