engine transplants into 80/90q

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <199804061501.JAA01875@su049.ast.lmco.com> Harry R Glesner III writes:

>    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) ...

The German word is "Spurstange" - in English, it's a "track rod" and in
American English it's a "tie rod".  The ur-quattro version is S-shaped
to avoid the wastegate.

Audi does _not_ keep large stocks of this item.  Audi (UK) keeps 4
(yes - FOUR) to support over a thousand vehicles.

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