I had a very early '82 Urq back in the late '80's which I had a love/hate relationship with. After having too many wiring problems I sold it at quite the loss. Like many relationships years later I had forgotten about all of the problems and only remembered the good, and I always liked the muscular look of it. So, I searched for a high mileage minimal rust car to put a 3b into, high mileage because I wouldn't have any guilt about not keeping it stock and I wanted something that would start at 11,000 ft. which the old low compression WX with CIS was always reluctant to do. I found my car quickly down in Denver so I could even look at it in person before purchasing it - not that that helps because I always have blinders on when I want a car, I always think its perfect and find the problems later which were obvious from the start if I were to have been impartial.
I have modified and rebuilt most of the car and have the interior and paint to do now, except Hank has made all of these great parts to make the mechanical even better. So I am back at the mechanical....
Plans are 01E which is ready, higher pressure steering rack so I can use the newer pump (and get rid of the horrible pump noise at idle), and an RS2-ish set up with an AAN ECU. I will move the pins and use the distributor for the cam position sensor for now. I am planning to keep the AAN ECU because of the huge changes in altitude that I see (sometimes 7,000 ft in a day) and I don't want to mess with constantly trying to tune a standalone. I also don't need huge power (yet). I have been procrastinating the work lately because the garage is a little cold still. Today it's 40* out so it is definitely getting warmer so maybe it's time to start...
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Thanks to the old audi community here and elsewhere on the internet!
We'll be expecting you.
I think red with white looks pretty good.....I like Dereks white 4k20vt with his red interior. Looks hot.....come to think of it, his car runs quite well also.
