UrQ option code 764

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <9703201953.AA01263@vtkapp.voicetek.com> Bryan Gunn writes:

> This is possible. Although, converting the car to Euro-spec is trickier
> than that. For example, the fuel filler necks on the US cars are smaller
> to only allow unleaded gas. So that would have to be changed. The instruments
> would have to be changed from US customary to metric (or the car made RHD),
> the fuel distributor has to be changed to one without a freq valve, plus 
> the weight and cosmetic issues associated with the US bumpers. And the lack
> of neat stuff like a rear fog light and driving lights. And the car cost
> like $10K less in europe anyway. I don't know if it would be worth Audi's 
> while to do this. Oh, and the box sections in the trunk reduce the amount
> of room in the already tiny trunk and make the spare tire hard to get in
> and out. Would a European buyer be willing to accept these limitations in
> order to get money off a car that wasn't all that expensive to begin with?
> Maybe so. What sort of demand was there for these cars when they were new?

Don't forget we're talking "ur-quattro".
 
The smaller filler pipe for unleaded is a European feature, too.  And a digital 
dash can be switched from imperial to metric by pressing a couple of buttons.  
I don't know what you mean by a "frequency valve".  The lights would 
_certainly_ have to be changed - the US cutoff is so vague and diffuse you'd 
be stopped by the very first copper you encountered.  Box sections in the trunk 
- what's this?

But I think the economics would nail it. 

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