UrQ option code 764 (fwd)

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <9703211747.AA09644@vtkapp.voicetek.com> Bryan Gunn writes:

> > Don't forget we're talking "ur-quattro".
> 
> How are these cars percieved in the UK and Europe? 

Yippeee!
 
> > 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.

Right.  Many 10Vs are run on "Super Unleaded".

> > 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? :-)

No voice on a 1989 car.  The digital dash is great because you can customise 
it by switching bits off and on, and by cycling through a number of displays 
such as remaining range, MPG, hours driven, etc.  At night, on long cruises, I 
switch it _all_ off bar the speedometer and turn the light down on that.

> > 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. 

Umm.  Where is it?  My warm-up regulator is directly connected to the metering 
head.

> > 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.

Jeez.

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