I just looked at a couple on there.
There was one for $18500 that looked verrrrry nice.
Yes, we only got FWD Coupe GT’s in the States.
That car has 460 hp and does 0-100 faster than the enzo???
The GT were fwd but we did get quattro coupes aswell.
I just wanted to make sure I was reading those stats right. If so then that is sick. I love the look of the car too.
I didn’t mean for that to sound disbelieving or anything which it kind of did. Just was confirming I had read that properly.
The first car posted and the comparison I posted are different cars, granted both old school Audi’s.
Quotes from the article:
“There the Sport quattro, at it´s debut 1984 with 195,000 Mark the most expensive German car of its time. With 224 cars made even more rare than the Enzo. Made for homologation - it´s the street legal version of the Group B beast. Und this one´s even more violent through Hohenester´s tuning.”
“Instead of the original 2.1l five cylinder with 306hp, Hohenester utilizes the 20 V engine from the 200 Turbo. With a different crankshaft, 2.5l of displacement, a bigger turbo and intercooler, Shorty´s power up to 460hp.”
The cars you are refering to are the 90 Coupe Quattros. quattro coupes in the States are the Ur-Q’s. In Europe they got the GT’s we got, same body without the fender flares, and quattro. I know, it gets confusing.
Where does it get its reference point for boost from? is that factory boost gauge really a boost gauge…? Maybe we should hook up one for testing purposes or add one to the car and lets pressure test the system. Sure with the age of all those hoses… its probably the cause.
Jeller
Wow. My mistake. That sounds downright evil. +1 for running the translation, too. :tup:
Off the top of my head, I can not remember where the guage gets it’s boost from, trying to visualize it but I am having a bit of trouble. The guage is a bit weird, at least in my mind. It goes 1-0-2. 1 to 0 is vacuum, 0 is atmosphere, 0-2 is boost. So determining exactly the psi it is hitting is a bit hard, but it does spike up all the way to the top and it doesn’t take long to get there. The car has a Schrick cam, an Intended Acceleration chip, and a wastegate spring, so it has some things to wake it up already. Basically, the car feels like it is only making power right before you have to shift gears:gotme: All the items the other Ur-Q owners told me to check at Carlisle, fuel frequency valve, waste gate diaphram, etc are all fine.
The ur quattro was a coupe originally and it was sold in the US.
Ur just means it was the original version.
The only one the states didn’t get was the “shorty”.
The 90 coupe was a totally different car built later and obviously was not an original/ur.
I included the full translation on the first page at the bottom of my post.
AWDrifter: There is a guy who lives next to Hamlin Park on Prospect who has one of these. I know NOTHING about these cars but I think its Aa FWD version. Looked really clean and in the summer time if you drive by his house you can usually see it sitting in the driveway or garage. His house is the one that borders the park by the playground.
To clarify a bunch of posts.
The first GrpB cars were long wheelbase UR’s with out flares. The A1
The second GrpB cars had the flares and engine changes. The A2
The third GrpB car was the short wheelbased SportQ. The S1
The fourth GrpB was the short wheelbased SportQ with the 6 spd, biggest engine, uprated suspension and full body kit(flares and big wing). The S1 E2
There wera lot of model roll changes throughout the development of the GrpB cars, For example the early GrpB cars got steel struts, then they went to aluminum, then magnesium, and finally an uprated magnesiom. It’s sort of a fancy to try and figure them all out.
Then there was/were the pikes Peak car(s), and the development cars. Including one putting out 1000HP, a viscous coupled variable toque split tranny. Lot’s of of neat stuff.
After GrpB they tinkered with grpA for a couple years then it was all over for good. Most of that I think was for development of the new B and C chassis motors.
Europe got the A1 in a road verison we got the A2. We never got the SportQ although there are at least 2 over here that I know of.
Our Coupe(GT) was a FWD version only.
We did get the CoupeQ in '90 & '91, although only around 1800 of them.
And technically the TT is considered a Coupe also.
And Rick…I still want those wheels.
Cool. I have to see if I can still get the NOS set of silver ones I have a line on