Re: Ripp's 5000TQ.

[audidudi@delphi.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>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.

Having been a member of the press in a past life, I wouldn't necessarily
hold Ripp responsible for the words that accompanied the photos of his car
... only true gearheads (like me!) are interested in reading about the
nuts-n-bolts details of what he's done and these articles are usually
"dumbed-down" accordingly.  :^(

>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...

Personally, I can't understand why he'd want a lower first gear in the first
place ... but you're correct, I don't know of any quattro wagon tranny with
a first gear lower than 3.60 either.

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