I just bought a 1985 4000 S with a 114,000 miles on the clock. It is in
excellent body condition, It surges when running though, but it has been
sitting for a while. Are there any magazines that deal with Audi, for parts
and tips, etc. All the magazines seem to deal with Japanese cars. I have the
1.8L motor and am looking forward to building this car up. Any webs links,
books that will help me appreciated.

Jim

 

>From: "James" meyersjr@tampabay.rr.com
>
>I just bought a 1985 4000 S with a 114,000 miles on the clock. It is in
>excellent body condition, It surges when running though, but it has been
>sitting for a while. Are there any magazines that deal with Audi, for parts
>and tips, etc. All the magazines seem to deal with Japanese cars. I have the
>1.8L motor and am looking forward to building this car up. Any webs links,
>books that will help me appreciated.
>
>Jim

And what do you mean by "building this car up"?
Engine;
I think with the 4 cylinder engine your choices for beefing up the engine are
good since it is VW based. Changing the engine might be the least expensive
route for having a bigger engine. You could probably drop in a 2.0 liter,
maybe even 16valve easily.
Maybe even get a Corrado engine with a Supercharger on it or a VR6 engine.
All it takes is some $$$.
I would say that I have not heard of anyone dropping in a 16V in there A4KS
yet, but a lot of 4000 Quattros at least have the larger 5 cylinders in them
and some with turbos.
And I don't know what the European Audis have in them. <

Not sure if you have endless choices to do any mods that you want, but I have
always thought that money will get you what you want!

http://www.audifans.com/
http://www.audiworld.com/
http://audiquattroparts.com/

do a search on the web too!

driving my 83 A4KS (VW GTi engine)
later,
dave
Reminder........
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way,
when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their
shoes. Frieda Norris

 

In addition to Dave's suggestions - there is a magazine called "Audi Driver"
which Chapters carries in Canada - mostly new Audis in there. Audi made a
run of GT coupes (front wheel drive) in 1987 with a higher compression
version of the 5 cylinder engine common to the 4000/coupe GT - the coupes
can be identified as being produced in the latter part of 1987, have a
body-coloured rear wing, rear disk brakes and digital dash.
That said, however, you might consider "souping up" a 4000 quattro - there
are a number of folks on Audifans running 4000q's with turbo engines from
5000 turbos. An inexpensive 4000q should not be too hard to find.
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 Audi 5kTQ - no, you can't have my engine.
1980 Audi 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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"James" <meyersjr@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I just bought a 1985 4000 S with a 114,000 miles on the clock. It is in
> excellent body condition, It surges when running though, but it has been
> sitting for a while. Are there any magazines that deal with Audi, for
parts
> and tips, etc. All the magazines seem to deal with Japanese cars. I have
the
> 1.8L motor and am looking forward to building this car up. Any webs links,
> books that will help me appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
>