Hey Chris -- yep, you can chip an 86. Scott Mockry is a Quattro lister who
is very well thought of for his well performing, yet very affordable chips
(like 200ish bucks for 60hp, pretty hard to beat. He also has a web site
just _loaded_ with all sorts of Q info. I highly recommend you check it out.
He goes into detail about where the hp comes from -- basically increased
boost, remapped timing and fuel mixture and also has good info on how to
prepare your car for more boost.

http://www.teleport.com/~scottmo/

Intended Acceleration is another vendor -- that's tuning stud Ned Richie
(http://www.intendedacceleration.com/). I've head real good things about his
chips, but they do cost more. I think he's about the only way to go for the
S-cars (S4, S6). Other vendors -- TAP, Superchips, don't seem to rate as
high according to general Q-list consensus.

These mods tend to be very reliable thanks to the bulletproof Audi
powertrain. There are plenty of folks running high HP and boost on motors
with well over 250k miles. Have fun.

BTW, I think this is fair game for the vanagon list because of all the
recent discussion about Audi motors as wasserboxer replacements

Tim
Seattle, WA
89 200 Audi tqw
83 Vanagon that has seen better days. hope to someday replace with a chipped
Audi MC motor-powered syncro westy (we can all have dreams)

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From: JordanVw@AOL.COM <JordanVw@AOL.COM>

>will the chip work on a '86 5000 TQ? i assume its the same engine?  what it
>the stock hp, by the way? where can one get this HP boosting chip?, and is
>there any "side affects" of installing the chip?  is this the chip put out
by
>"intended acceleration"  (tuning company)??
>