5kS (had) vacuum advance - was RE: Increasing turbo boost/performance on '88 5kcstq

["G. Benedikt Rochow" <rochow@segosf.hlo.dec.com>]

> ... here in the USA at least all of the throttle bodies from the early '80s
> on have idle and WOT switches.  Vacuum advance can be found on the cars
> other than the Motronic or "pseudo-motronic" [combined fuel & spark CIS]
> systems that Audi built.  By this I'm pretty sure this covers all of the
> non-turbo variants ... and perhaps some of the early '80s turbos ...

It's an '85 5kS non-turbo;
I just checked, and apart from a *very* wigly connector with
a 3-wire plug in it on one side of the dist., there is on
the other side a flying-saucer-shaped item with a thin plastic hose
going from it, the first few inches having a cloth brais around it. 
This hose goes to a Y connector by teh air filter; the other 2 sides
of the Y go to the throttle body and to another flying saucer
mounted by the air shroud etc. cluster.

I take it that that's the vacuum advance deal?

Except that that hose doesn't go - it's cut/molten where it would
pass behind the engine. The side towards the Y is glued or molten
shut.

What will I get for replacing that hose? Vast amounts of power?

(What sort of hose does this take? This one rather looks like one
could predict that it would melt against the engine, but then this
car does have a lot of broken wire/hose clips.


thanks,
-gbr