Re: Ripp's 5000TQ.

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ScottyCBoy@aol.com said:

>Well I picked up the July issue of Turbo Magazine to see Ross's 87 5000QT.
> The car looks nice and by the tone of the article seems to perform just as
>well but I am left with a few questions.

Same here.....

>1.  The article states that the engine has a "stainless steel" crankshaft.
> My question is why stainless steel?  Does the car have a submarine
>conversion kit on it or something?  Or does it blow headgaskets so often to
>warrant the corrosion free material?  The factroy Forged steel crank is good
>for like 700HP.  Sounds like a load of Hooey to me..  

This also go t me thinking.  seeing that Audi NEVER had a 5 cyl bottom 
end fail in racing I wondered too why anyone would want to build a crank, 
much less build a crank out of a material that noone in their right mind 
would build a crank out of.

>2.  The "HEADS" have been ported and polished.  I never knew of a 5000TQ to
>use two heads!!  Was this an early attempt by the factory to create a 20V by
>welding two   
>Ten valve head together??  Or is there a spare head in the trunk?  

was scratching my head on this one also.

>3.  The throttle body was modified "to flow more direct air int the intake
>manifold".  What is the difference between direct and indirect air??  I
>figured air was air??

sounds like he removed the ramp from the tb

>4.   The article states that "This guy "(Ned Ritche) "reverse-engineered
>Audi".  Does Audi know about this??  I know Ned did computers and turbo's
but
>I had no idea that he reverse engineered an entire car company!!

Hahaha.

>5.  There is also some mumblings of an Audi Quattro wagon having a lower
>first gear.  If it is an 016 Transmission then the only car that has a lower
>first gear is a 5000 diesel..  Someone goofed there...

This one jumped out at me as just plain wrong, the fiche's don't even 
show a PN diff wagon to sedan.  If I wanted to play with gears I'd pop in 
the N/A Q's tranny and diffs for the 4.11 final drives.

>Interesting paint job also....  

I'd best describe it as fugly.



Later!


Eric Fletcher S.O.C.
'87 5KCSTQ WAY too many toys
Trans-am/Sportscar Chassis Engineer
St. Louis, MO

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