Re: Audis at lunch?, Now chipped A4

["Daryl Roxburgh" <droxburgh@email.msn.com>]

Seems I have a Scorpion exhaust on my recently acquired Urq. Is it any
different to standard?


-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Poplawsky <rlpplsky@ix.netcom.com>
To: Frank Amoroso <famoroso@sprintmail.com>; Audi quattro list
<quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: 16 May 1998 15:34
Subject: Re: Audis at lunch?, Now chipped A4


>You caught me Frank.  Don't forget to mention that one of the Hellas is
>broken (Colorado is also the place to watch glass cracking).  Anyway, I was
>returning from the Audi dealer where one of the service guys let me drive
>his chipped A4 1.8tq, 5-speed.  Since there has been recent interest in A4
>chips I will give a brief driving impression.
>
>The car has a TAP chip and the owner only said it is 200+ hp.  It also has
>Scorpion exhaust and 16" wheels, otherwise stock. (Remember, the altitude
>is 5500 ft.)  Low end is not bad off the line (read, good at low altitude).
> Turbo boost and torque come on at fairly low revs quickly but also
>smoothly and seamlessly with no flat spots or stumbling.  Mid range power
>is very good.  Torque is obviously trailing off after 5000 rpm.  I really
>missed the higher rpm torque that my chipped 20vt 5 cyl. generates.
>Acceleration was very good up to about 70 mph and decent but a little
>weaker after that.  All in all, very impressive performance compared to
>most of what is out there.  Way better at altitude than, say , a 172 hp v-6
>5-sp A4.  Not sure how it compares to a new v-6 A4 but I am guessing it
>runs as well or better up here.  The sound of the Scorpion was always
>audible but not loud.  The owner has lots plans for future mods, nice car.
>
>Ralph Poplawsky
>'91 200tq
>
>
>At 09:54 PM 5/15/98 -0600, Frank Amoroso wrote:
>>Lunch time today we pull out of our work lot in a co-workers Acura (I
don't
>>like driving distances that don't warm the car up). I see three pretty
>>choice 200s in about a one block radius.
>>
>>Lago Blue (?) 200 w/ clear turn signals and 16" 7 spoke A4 sport wheels.
>>Heading north on Foothills a Pearl 200 w/ Hella XLs. Ralph I'm assuming
that
>>was you.
>>Then heading the opposite direction a black 200, lowered (?).
>>
>>On the way back form lunch multiple A4s (including a Silver Avant).
>>
>>Colorado is the place to be for quattro watching.
>>
>>Frank--
>>
>