Will Holman’s Audi Quattro
5-Cylinder All Wheel Drive Weapon.
Update January 2010
'Always buy the best car you can afford', is the advice PPC mag regularly churns out to readers. It's sound too, but unfortunately Will couldn't really afford a quattroso he bought a shonky one for 1200 quid. He managed to get it on the road but the engine went pop quite soon afterward.
At the time, pistons for the 10-valve five-pot turbo were unavailable so Will bought a 20-valve unit from an Audi S6. In bits. After Charlie had finished swearing at him he managed to get it in the car and badgered Dave Walker to build him a custom Emerald ECU to run the five-pot turbo engine - it needed sequential ignition and injection.
A year, a lot of head scratching and several false starts later he had it on the road and it made 280bhp on stadard boost - the extra 70bhp mostly down to the massive Allisport front-mounted intercooler. He was planning to up the boost after he'd fitted the bigger brakes and sorted out the tired dampers but PPC's Mallory Park track day put paid to that.
On only his first complete lap the quattro span off into the Armco doing nearly 100mph. 'It's the only time I've ever seen Charlie Broomfield lost for words,' says Will. Both of them were unhurt but the car is rather a mess, as you can see. Even the roofs kinked. Will nearly gave up with it at this point but the car is now off to Manchester College, where the third year students will restore it to it's former glory. Details in PPC mag every month
