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Re: 4000 turbo conversion advice
Yea, but you can lighten a 4kq too. I was talking stock UR-Q. Can you
answer my question in a previous post on how much the 85' UR-Q weights
compared to 83-84 with the lighter Trunk Lid???
Thanks
Todd Phenneger
1984 4000s quattro / modified/ awaiting Turbo Transplant.
1985 4000 quattro / Silver / Fixing it Up.
1987 4000cs quattro / Saphire Metallic Blue/ Girlfriend's
1996 A6q / Volcano / Dads Car
*****1985 5kt / PARTING OUT!
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Martin Pajak wrote:
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> Todd,
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> > THe 4k turbo Quattro is a couple hundred pounds lighter.
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> Only the stock 4kq is lighter by 200 lbs.The turbo motor adds weight: turbo,
> exhaust (extra bits), oil cooler, intercooler etc.
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> By removing air conditioning and changing bumpers to Euro you could get the
> Ur-q to weigh as much as the stock 4kq. Look at the Euro specks I posted
> from the Euro Ur-q test drives.
> There it weighs ~2800lbs which is exactly as much as a stock US 4kq!
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> HTH
>
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