2 litre Audi engine

Just read this ina review of the S3:

"I just presumed they�d use the 3.2 litre V6 in the A3 as that already produced 250bhp before they started tinkering with it. Not so. In fact they plumped for a 2 litre four-cylinder motor that derives its 265bhp from being turbocharged to within an inch of its life.

What this means is that while the S3 goes like hell � 0-62mph in 5.7sec � the quality of that performance is nothing like as endearing. The car suffers from turbo lag, which often means there is a considerable pause between your right foot requesting a gob of power to squirt past a long lorry and it actually arriving. In that time a less powerful but normally aspirated car such as the A3 3.2 quattro would already be on its way.

And while the V6 A3 howls sweet six-cylinder music, the highly stressed four-cylinder motor in the S3 sounds anodyne at low revs and increasingly harsh as the needle sweeps around the dial. I wonder how many people will think it worth paying the extra �760 that the S3 costs over the A3 3.2 quattro when its less responsive and refined engine gives a mere 15bhp extra. "

original article is HERE

Is this such a radically different engine to the Audi conversions - I’m guessing it must be but would be interested to hear from someone who knows.

The new TFSI engines used in the Golf GTi, A3/4/6 2.0T and this S3 are all based on the 06F series engine. The only thing it shares with the earlier 1.8T (06A) is the bellhousing bolt pattern. This one has a 4 valve head (notice how Audi have quietly backpeddled away from 5 valve technology so they can fit the injector into the combusiton chamber?) with roller finger followers, the block is similar in layout but the bore stroke is different and the oil pump sits in the sump integrated into a counter rotating balancer assembly. It has an updated cooling system with a better bypass flow control and a largish plate type oil to water cooler too. I didn’t pay much attention to the turbo though…

Cheers Bob I was surprised to read such a poor review of the engine.