Re: Synchro Scirocco

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

I saw a 10v 5cyl Turbo Quattro Scirocco once. It was schweet! They raced it up
Mt. Washington. It was NOT a roadworthy (read: road legal or comfortable) car,
and they basically cut the whole bottom out of the car, including the firewall,
and just refabricated it. The 5-cylinder engine doesn't really fit in the
engine bay (that's why they had to modify the firewall), and they just welded
in the subframes from a 4000 Quattro. The engine was from a 5000 Turbo. Pretty
cool stuff! The exhaust came straight off the manifold, through the firewall,
through where the passenger's seat would be if there was one, and out the back,
through the rear hatch, with exhaust diameter of probably 4" all the way back.
That thing accelerated so fast it was scary. It was the fastest car in a
straight line at Mt. Washington. They were going for the record, but didn't
make it. (Frank Sprongl did, of course, in his Audi S2)
    Basically, it requires refabrication of the whole car. This one was just
Scirocco sheetmetal. Everything else was made from scratch.
    -Josiah
    '83 Scirocco (for parts)
    '84 GTi (temporarily dead- needs fuel pump?)
    '86 Scirocco 8v (broken frame)
    '87 QSW (daily driver)
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah


Brandon Dove wrote:

> Can anybody give me the low down on why no one has built a synchro
> Scirocco? Is it simply that there is far too much modification necessary
> to fit the synchro drivetrain etc. in a Scirocco? Thanks
>
> -Brandon Dove
> 89 8v Scirocco
>
>



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