RE: engine transplants into 80/90q

[Harry R Glesner III <hglesner@ast.lmco.com>]

Glen: et al:

>Closure? Oh yeah, that's when you total the car on the very first test 
>drive......


   It's really hard to tell whats to pass for humor early on a Monday morning.
Here is some input as I see it so far on the right side steering arm...I spent 
some of Sunday with my nose into disassembled 5000/1000s and it look to me as 
though a new steering "rod" (I don't know what Audi will call that yet) could be 
fabricated to miss the wastegate with out aggravating a (potental) bump steer 
problem. It also looks that the ur-quattro had the same problem and Audi may 
have an off the shelf answer somewhere. My wife to be speaks and writes German 
at a college level (unlike myself) and I'm having her write me up a note to go 
to Herr Winzer to ask what the lessions learned are. Which I will share. It 
seems to me that the vacuum needed to lock the diff's could be profided by using 
another of the VW/Audi central door locking pumps.
   Believe me this is just the beginning of a long and winding road (tm 
Lennon/McCartney) I've got a ton to learn, the mechanical stuff i.e. engine 
mounts etc. will be the easy stuff. I still am interested in seeing if the 
brakes off a 200t will be adaptable to this situation? Were does the intercooler 
go? Will I have problem adapting the air conditioning system? Can I keep this 
prodject under 14k? On and on, but what fun, I love weird automotive challeges.
   
Rick Glesner 
Littleton, Colorado