Re: Diesel turbo transplant to 20v?

[james <james@jua.res.cmu.edu>]

On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, John P Mahala wrote:

> This may sound supid.  If it is, so what.  I admit my ignorance.  Today I
> had talked to a guy that runs a VW/Audi salvage business and he told me
> that many people have been buying up the turbochargers from older
> turbodiesel Audis (or perhaps VWs) and having them mounted to their 5cyl.
> 10 or 20v engine.  His reason was because the older turbos would not need
> to have the  "brain" operating it.  
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Is this true and/or doable?
> 
> 2) He said that he packages all of the intake and exhaust components with
> it and that it will (for lack of a better word) easily fit right to the
> engine.  How?  It seems altogether obvious that manifolds from a 4cyl.
> would conflict with a 5cyl.
Old generation Audi 5000's were available with 5cyl. diesel engines.  
Turbo 5 cylinder were only available in the later years 82-85?
I believe that Diesel 4000's all had 4 bangers in them.

I'm still waiting for a quattro TDI.

James (former Audi 5000 Diesel) currently driving a VW Fox


> 
> 3) Either he is feeding me a line or I really am that clueless.  Which is
> it?
> 
> Please help, I'm starting to shake and sweat from upgrade fever.
> 
> Thanks,
> JP Mahala (jpmahala@juno.com)
> 91 Coupe Quattro licking its chops
>