ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden) (01/14/86)
Kincade Webb asks: >Has anyone ever added turbocharging (or know some company >that does) to an Audi 5000? I have a 1985 manual Audi, >and until this year all Audi turbos were automatic. Rather >than trading a less than one year old car (and incurring >that cost!) I'd like to add a turbo to my car. A turbo-supercharger is just one more complicated and very expensive thing to go wrong with a car. Equivalent horsepower gains can be had with more ordinary hot-rod parts, a little common-sense, far less money, and with far less likelihood of headaches. For an Audi, or any recent (fuel-injected) German car, I would begin with a good set of headers, which to a German would be a Faecher-Kruemmer (fan-curver). The serious connection for Faecher-Kruemmers, as well as any and all German after-market parts is: D&W Auto, Sport+Zubehoer GmbH Versand Fritz-Reuter-Strasse 64 D-4630 Bochum 6 West Germany Phone (02327) 3943 No German car owner should be without a copy of their catalog. D&W is a cute little store (about the size of a typical K-Mart or Sears) with nothing but auto accessories for most European sports cars. A header for an Audi 5000 would run around 1100 marks. They also carry fancy mufflers and exhaust components, but buying those in Germany should not be necessary; I should think that a catalytic converter for a larger car or truck coupled with an ordinary Yankee Hush-Thrush would do nicely. Fuel injectors should automatically compensate for all of these neat things; I wouldn't recommend any of this for a carburated engine. The items I've mentioned should gain about 20-30 horses alone. If that still isn't enough, there are several outfits in Ca. who do head and valve work on Audis and Porsches. Expensive, but still far less so than turbos, and at that point, you're talking serious power.