80Q performance mods - newbie questions

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.960903134543.20688B-100000@ucsub.Colorado.EDU> Brendan Rudack writes:

> The 90Q's easily have 10mph more on the top end 'cause of the rear spoiler!

Spoilers cost bhp and provide _GRIP_.  They're part of the quattro deal, and 
one of the reasons that bends _should_ be taken faster in a quattro.  If you 
don't come home with bruised sides, you weren't enjoying yourself.

> You know what I mean, at the stoplight with one of the big engined SUV's, 
> they hear the noisy Audi and humiliate you up to highway speeds!

Am I on the right mailing list?  The only recent humiliations have been the 
dork in the 328GTB who tried to out-corner me on the Glossop-Bamford road (the 
imfamous "Snake Pass") and the guy in the Golf GTI that I arrived behind a 
couple of weeks ago.  It was late at night, and he decided that _he_ wasn't 
going to be caught by another car.  Perhaps he didn't recognise the urq's 
_very_ distinctive light pattern?  Anyway, he got more and more extreme, but 
never more that tem metres away.  De dum, de dah.  And then he _seriously_ 
overcooked it, and almost had a nasty.  I pulled back and centred into the 
lane, just in time to see his wife/girlfriend deliver a _huge_ whack to the 
back of his head.

He signaled me past.

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 Phil Payne 
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club