Re: Multiple valve engines, Audi Did make 25 valve

[Stephan.Kolaschnik@t-online.de (Stephan Kolaschnik)]

Yes, Audi did make 5valve-inline5-engine, but they didn't use it in the
IMSA-GTO car of '89 or in the TransAm of '88. Refered to the german
Audi-Magazin (distributed by Audi itself), they only have used this engine
for testdriving:
Original in German: "... Begonnen hat alles mit ein paar schnellen Runden in
Talladega, Alabama: Man schrieb das Jahr 1986, das Auto war ein Audi 200
quattro und das Triebwerk ein 2,2-Liter-Fuenfzylinder-Turbomotor mit 25
Ventilen und eindrucksvollen 487kW (625PS). Man fuhr dort einige Runden mit
einer durchschnittlichen Reisegeschwindigkeit von 332,88 km/h, und die
wichtigste Erkenntnis dieses hochbeschleunigten Tests war die ueberlegene
Leistungsfaehigkeit der Fuenfventil-Technologie (abgesehen davon, dass man
einen Geschwindigkeits-Weltrekord aufstellte)."

Translation: "... The developing of the 5-valve-technology have begun with a
few fast laps in Talladega, Alabama: It was in the year 1986, the car was a
Audi 200 (5000 for our Amercan friends) quattro and the engine was a
2,2-litre-inline5-turbo-motor with 25 valves and inpressingfull 487kW
(625hp). They drove a couple of laps with an average speed of 332,88km/h
(~207 mph), and the essential discovery was the superior
performance-capability of the 5-valve-technology (apart from, that Audi set
up a speed-worldrecord)."

Stephan
Stephan.Kolaschnik@t-online.de


On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Brett Dikeman wrote:

> >What I wnat to know, is why someone, NED???? has not
> >bought one from Audi and cast a copy of it to sell for a performance
> >upgrade.
>
> Umm..because it would be illegal?  You can't just take parts from a car,
> copy them and then sell them.  You'd get your ass sued so fast for patent
> infringement you wouldn't know what hit you.
>
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> Brett Dikeman
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> ~)-|
> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.  Qui annus est?
> Te audire non possum.  Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
> Ita, scio hunc 'sig file' veterem fieri.
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