Re: What is a WX engine?

[Brett Dikeman <brett@arthur.malebolge.com>]

At 11:37 AM -0500 on 1/20/98, Phil Payne wrote:


> In message <v04003902b0ea792b88e3@[10.1.1.4]> Brett Dikeman writes:
>
> > > I'm not aware of any MBs reaching the USA.  US imports ceased in 1985 -
> > > the MB did not ship to customers until mid-1988.
>
> > Perhaps you were refering to US UrQ's, but every single '87 5000CST(+Q) I
> > know of in the US has an MB engine inside(including mine.)
>
> Interesting.  That would account for the numbers - Audi seem to have
>numbered
> several thousand MB engines but only a few hundred MB ur-quattros.  I
>thought
> the 5k engine was stamped as an MC?
>
> Several dozen questions immediately arise.  I assume emission controls, and
> therefore OXS sensor and some ECU _other_ than the lambda-less MAC12D.  I
>would
> be _VERY_ interested in the code from such an ECU.
>
> Magnets stick quite nicely to MB blocks.  It's the blocks that magnets
>_DON'T_
> stick to that might be valuable.  There are some out there, somewhere.
>
> --
>  Phil Payne
>  Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club

Oh.  Whoops.

You're right.  MC.  I just made a fool of myself.

MB's are in '86 5000CST's maybe?

Brett

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