Re: Water cooled turbo conversion-ur-quattro

[GaidosIII <GaidosIII@aol.com>]

Anton:
What is your intended purpose for the UrQ?  If heavy track use is your
intention, a K26 is likely a winner.
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My original intent was to keep it bone stock. A Sunday driver yes, but no
track time.
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If, on the other hand, you intention is street use, I'm with Glen that
the K24 is the way to go.  My 85 UrQ already had a K24 when I bought it.
(IA stage 1 mods, but otherwise stock)  Compared to other UrQ's I'd
driven, throttle response and general drivability were significantly
improved.  The K24 easily puts out 2.0 bar... maybe not as efficiently
as a K26... but it spools up _much_ quicker. Perfect for the street.
Just my .02

Bill Elliott
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One of the questions raised by the K24 is what other changes must I make if I
follow this route. My intent is still to stay basically stock but enough of
you have mentioned this option to make it worth exploring. I'll already have
the turbo out and it is going to cost me a minimum of $300 to rebuild it
anyway.
 The two big issues for me are 1) money and 2) time. I'm leaving on a 4500
mile trip over summer and I want to have the car ready or we're taking the
Jetta. The unfortunate thing is my wife just spent $1300 on a washer/dryer set
and that was with a discount. I was going to use that on my car. Ugh!
Anton