RE: @%#$&%!@

["Duff, Ian" <iduff@charter.com>]

Hope you didn't drop a valve, on the 20v motor that gets expensive.

I had a Capri (the German one with the agricultural 2.3 SOHC motor) that
burned an exhaust valve. Symptoms came on rather suddenly, same
clattering (due to ignition happening in the combustion chamber, the
exhaust header, and points south) , same lack of power, cheaper (but not
much simpler) to fix than valves and pistons doing a tango. It required
pulling the head, and minimally replacing the burnt valve and valve stem
seal.

While I was there, I had the head planed, new cam, new springs, new
valve stem seals, and a nice 3 angle grind done. The incremental cost to
do the upgrade was not huge, but the performance difference was!
Unfortunately Schricks for our 20v motors are around $1100 for the pair,
Extrude-Hone is over $700, but fun costs. Now might be the time to find
a nice, bent '91 200q or S4/6, and do a little transplanting.

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Ian Duff, 1990 Coupe quattro 20v, Red/Black

Home: New Bedford, MA, USA
Work: Charter Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA, USA
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>From: 	Brendan Rudack[SMTP:rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, 14 August, 1996 03:43 AM
>To: 	audi
>Subject: 	@%#$&%!@
>
>Go figure,  monday night i finished putting in my new valve lifters,
>water
>pump, cam seal, valve cover seal etc.  Ran wonderfully all day until
>the
>engine blew up a few hours ago!  It must have not wanted me to drive it
>to
>Michigan on Friday.  With the help of Mike Spiers and Carl Jerritts we
>determined that #2 had ZERO compression.  
>	THe sequence of events were as follows:  Driving in 4th at ~
>3000RPM car lost all power and started making an awful clattering
>racket
>like something was loose inside the engine.  There is no visible damage
>on
>top of piston so does that rule out dropped valve?  Anyway I am P.O.'d
>and
>it has been a really long day.   Tomorrow I will haphazardly rip apart
>the
>engine(THe intro to Star Trek comes to mind!) and determine what
>screwed
>up.  Any pointers?  Ben H.  I now feel your pain! This Sucks...
>
>Brendan Rudack			rudack@ucsub.Colorado.EDU
>88' 90Q may have a turbo motor sooner than I planned!
>Boulder, Colorado 
>
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