UrQ option code 764 (fwd)

[Bryan Gunn <bgunn@voicetek.com>]

Phil, et al:
 
> Don't forget we're talking "ur-quattro".

How are these cars percieved in the UK and Europe? 
  
> The smaller filler pipe for unleaded is a European feature, too.

Only on the 20V cars, right? They have to run unleaded. The 10V cars ran
on leaded and therefore differed from the unleaded-only US models. The
only reason for running on unleaded is for the sake of the cats.

> And a digital 
> dash can be switched from imperial to metric by pressing a couple of buttons.  
I can't believe you like the digital dash. Granted, I've never actually seen
one, but they look cheezy in pictures. Did you like the Voice, too? :-)

> I don't know what you mean by a "frequency valve". 

You're a lucky man. Actually, from the info you gave me, your car (you have
a 10V torsen model, right?) has one. It's a little device that can quickly
alter the CIS control pressure in response to a signal from an oxygen
sensor (via a computer that translates OXS voltage into duty cycle current).
Since the 10V torsen cars don't have oxygen sensors, I am guessing that
the ECU plays with the control pressure via the freq. valve during warmup
or something. It augments the warm-up regulator. 


> 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.

Yet those lights were legislated by our govenment. Vague, diffuse, dim bulbs.
And the lights suck, too.

> Box sections in the trunk 
> - what's this?

Again, you don't want to know. The US rear bumper is mounted on two bumper
shocks - they're like shock absorbers. The bumper shocks bolt to the chassis
at the same point as the "regular" rear bumper does. Audi decided to strengthen
this region in the US models by welding 2 box sections into the trunk. They
run longitudinally from the bumper shock mount point to the gas tank. Each is
about 4" by 4". They make the already small trunk border on useless, and
they make the spare tire hard to get in and out.
 
Weep for us.
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