RE: Shopping time!

[Jonas Karlsson <jkarlsso@metabolex.com>]

Michael Helms wrote:
> The euro curve distributor is intruiging, but I just can't muster up
>the $400 American for a new one.  Where can I find one of these for
>less?

like everyone is saying, Potterman has this for $100. go to virtual world 
and check it out. parts4vws.com I think its a *special* this month for 
$100 including shipping. reg 120. 


>
>When I do the Audi 5000 TB, I'll be porting and polishing the intake
>manifold to match it up to the head.  I can't imagine there is much
>else that i can do to the intake - shy of moving the battery to the
>trunk and replumbinb the box to give me some sort of cold ram-air
>setup.  I can see the advantages of having the battery in the trunk,
>and I'll probably be doing that mod before the snow flies ...
>

I put in the Audi TB,  and it's great. I didn't have time to take out the 
intake and port it to match the TB mounting, so once I do that it should 
be even better. Make sure you find a way to shorten the "pivot arm." The 
VW TB has a shorter arm (the piece that the throttle cable clips on to, 
and which opens the TB) so that if you just straight swap TB's you will 
be just short of getting full throttle. There is about a 5-7 mm 
difference in the arm length. What I did was to pull off another arm 
from a TB at a junkyard (audi 5000 TB). I then removed the "ball stud" 
from the VW TB arm (hard, be persistant) and drilled an appropriately 
sized hole in the spare audi arm at the right distance. Then pressed it 
in with a vise. No welding. (I used an angle grinder for some of this. 
coarse but fast)

I'm interested in this ram-air setup. Thinking about attempting something 
like it. Let me know if you do this and what materials you used. 

Also if anyone else has done this, what are the results? Recomendations, 
etc. 

HTH

Jonas
85 Scirocco

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