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DirtyMike

Turbo Fluffer
Aug 8, 2005
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My own world inside my head
eh it's just a regular AAN. The RS2 had porsche emblems on the valve cover. That one says quattro.

I appreciate the effort, but why take 65K luxo barge, put smaller engine and bigger turbo, remove leather and AWD, and go drag racing? Seems a bit confused.
They should have done that to a 4000.

edit: not that anyone cares, but I'm pretty sure the RS2 motor was a hopped up AAN (rs2 cams, intake, exhaust, turbo).
doesnt it say "turbo"

does seem a bit dumb to take a heavy luxury sports car and put a older 5cylinder in there but to each his own.stock RS5 is 444hp


Just guessing, but maybe they blew up the car, had some older parts from another drag car, maybe something happened inside that jacked the interior, and they just have too much money so they decided to have some fun.

Cant really think of any other reason for it.
 

blackohio

Generous jaywalker
Mar 12, 2009
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Hellafornia. Formerly stumptown.
There have been some serious limitations to making power on the FSI motors, im not so sure on the TSI engines though. I can tell you carbon build-up has been a serious issue on all direct injection engines.

With that the 20vt motor is a phenomenal source for making power, it's fairly common to see well tuned 2.2l's making 1,000hp. The early group b cars were well tuned s1 engines. At 1,000hp the drivers said the cars were almost entirely undriveable. Dalhback used a adu engine (destroked to 2.1L to make anywhere from 600-1000 hp)

without knowing if the car was totaled, had a bad motor etc, they took what is the best tuned motor that ever came out of ingolstadt.


It comes down to there being almost 30 years of tuning this motor and tuning it to 1000 reliably. If you wanted to race a car, make a large amount of power, do it rather easily and be able to race it without alot of problems then that's what you go to. plus it's just a damn cool little motor.
 

CurbJumper

Turbo Monkey
Aug 31, 2010
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Central FL
^^The Dahlbach RSi Golf is one of my favorite all time "fun" cars. I'd love to build something similar one day. I might go for an AAN-powered B5 A4 Quattro... :drool:

have some fun.
and THIS is probably the reason for the A5 drag car.

If you've got the money, who gives a sh!t what you do as long as you're having fun.
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
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I appreciate the effort, but why take 65K luxo barge, put smaller engine and bigger turbo, remove leather and AWD, and go drag racing? Seems a bit confused.
it might just be a body in white vin-less shell they bought.
 

Mr Jones

Turbo Monkey
Nov 12, 2007
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I would love to know the story on whats going here. So much win.
I figure it was an attempt at the speed record for the fastest pedal driven ride. The porsche, with it's air dam and skirt, would create a vacuum as it zoomed along, theoretically allowing the rider to ride behind it without any wind resistance; coupled with a tall rider, dropped front end (best aerodynamic position), and the super massive 300T chain ring just == AWESOMENESS