Hello James,
at first, my congratulations for your unique website.
Never before I saw a collection like this on the internet.
You`re looking for Information about the group A Coupe Quattro.
I was given the lucky opportunity to examine both the cars of David Preece (ex. Llewellyn/Short) and Armin Schwarz (Schwarz/Hösch).
Schwarz` car is in absolute original condition today, and still in his ownership.
Preece`s car seems to have undergone different changes in it`s life, but is still an authentic car with all the great Audi Sport drivetrain and suspension parts.
These cars were, if you search through the history of rallying from 1985 to 1990, surprisingly often used. And if they didn`t give up by technical problems, they usually reached a good placement.
The technical details are most common, an detail you don`t find to often on internet recources is the high compression ratio of about 12:1
While the "old" 10V Engines of Gr.2 and Gr.A (Bore 79,5 mm, 2,1L displacement) did their nearly 200 Horsepower at speeds around 7500 rpm, the "new" Gr.A Engine produced its raw power around 6500 rpm.
That`s astonishing if you consider the fact that there were used the standard inlet and exhaust manifolds. They were modified of course, but they based on stock parts, as also the k-Jetronic injection system.
Some time ago I collected a (surely incomplete) number of victories and top three placements of these coupe quattro:
1987:
Barum: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Bohemia: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hanki: T. Heinonen/Eirtovaara – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hebros: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hellendoorn: Gunnar Pettersson/Schneppenheim – Audi Coupe Quattro
Lavanttaler Fruhlings: Fischer/Zeltner – Audi Coupe Quattro
Polen: Ferjancz/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
Semperit: Recalde/Del Buono – Audi Coupe Quattro
Deutschland: Armin Schwarz – Audi Coupe Quattro
1988
Arctic: Heinonen/Eirtovaara – Audi Coupe Quattro
Gunaydin: Yerlici/Okan – Audi Coupe Quattro
Hebros: Ferjancs/Tandari – Audi Coupe Quattro
San Marino: de martini/Gibellini – Audi Coupe Quattro
RALLY DRAMMEN: 3). Bror Danielsson/Monty karlan – Audi Coupe Quattro
Neuseeland: Nr. 3 - Malcolm Stewart/John Kennard – Audi Coupe Quattro
Olympus Rally: Nr. 3 - John Buffum/John Bellefleur – Audi Coupe Quattro
Svenska Rally: Nr. 3 - Lars-Erik Torph/Christina Thörner – Audi Coupe Quattro
I have another list, but unsortet, with Audi Coupe fwd. and awd used over the years from 1982 th 1990.
Apart from these lists, there might be many many more cars used in rallying over the years, until today (i.e. in sweden).
Here a foto brought to you by
www.rally3.de
It`s from 2007, Eifelrallye in Germany, it`s the car Armin Schwarz made his first season victory in professional rallying.
Here, driven by Quirin Müller:
Fischer/Zeltner:
- 1987 4th place Waldviertelrallye
- 1987 1st place1 Lavanttal Rallye
- Österreichischer Staatsmeister 1987
A good resource for photos of these cars is the site of Oliver Steffes-Tun:
http://www.sto-rallyefotos.de/
These are amazing cars! [Dieser Beitrag wurde am 28.05.2009 - 08:04 von LordFritz aktualisiert]
