Project 84 Days.

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Dave
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Project 84 Days.

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Well you've made it this far. Looks like you'll stick around. You probably want to know what this is all about. Well 84 days from today will be October 16th. On October 16th the Battleborn Quattro event will kick off in Las Vegas Nevada. I plan on attending this event, as I have for the past several years. I have never brought the same car twice, and I think I'm going to keep that tradition going for at least another year.


So now you know what the plan is, but don't know what it involves. I picked up a local 1991 Audi Coupe Quattro for cheap due to quite a few small issues that has been keeping it off the road. Now while it sorta runs and sorta drives, I dont want to just get it running and driving again, i want it to be better. SO I will take the AAN that i have in my garage and replace the 7a that is in it. The goal as you might have already figured out is to take this to Vegas in 84 days. Now the real goal is to get it up and running in 60 days so that I have 2 full weeks to drive it around locally and iron out any wrinkles it might have.


Here is the car, as of right now the only work i have done to the car is the following:
Replaced driver and passenger side window regulators
replaced steering wheel
removed headlight and painted the trim
swapped wheels.
replaced door handle and bowden cable

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It is a very solid base for this project. Here are a few more shots of how it sits on day 84:
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Here is the status of the donor engine:
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couple bent valves from when the head was removed:
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and this has been purchased and should ship out today from Europe, making this swap doable on my time schedule:

S2 ABY engine harness:
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and finally some of the good and bad bits on this car as it currently sits:
Bad= FLAPS exhaust:
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Good= H&R springs with bilstein shocks:
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Bad= open breather
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Good=New microsuade headliner
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Bad= Dried out and cracking tail lights:
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Good/bad= RS2 headlights, one broken lens:
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Overall I'm excited about this and feel like I can do it in the time table i gave myself. Keep in mind i work 40-50 hours a week outside of the home. I have a wife and child who also need my time. I only have hand tools in my garage and almost zero fabrication tools (ie i have an angle grinder).

Here is my current list of parts that i've purchased:
Full gasket set for the top end of the engine
Stock k24 turbo and manifold
Stock injectors that i was missing
ABY Harness
New lens for rs2 headlight
Oil cooler and lines
3b Water manifold
Black leather rear seats and door cards (have front black door cards and couple black upper seat backs)
stock exhaust
South bend clutch
S2 front bumper
Strut mounts, trans mounts, engine mounts
Modified 7a Valve cover for 1.8t coilpacks

Need to purchase/pay for;
new tail lights
Downpipe fabrication parts and fab time
Reverse inlet intake manifold (fab time)
Drivers rear pearl middle trim
Intercooler setup
air filter setup (aby or just a cone filter?)
JHM Short shifter (dont HAVE to buy it, but they make it feel so much better)
1.8t Coil pack harness
And I'm sure there are bunches of other random things needed...


Any donations are graciously accepted! :)
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Sounds fun. I'll be in a different car this year too.
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I'll be in an Audi this year! Good luck Dave, I need to get on mine...
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Badass! Love the project, love the goals! Will be looking forward to this for sure :)
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Holy crap, get to it!

Good luck!

Still have 2 UrS hubs if you need em, never heard back from you.
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Hell yeah!
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Boo, shoulda put it in the 4000 ;)

Looks like a fun undertaking, Dave!
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ringbearer wrote:Holy crap, get to it!

Good luck!

Still have 2 UrS hubs if you need em, never heard back from you.



yeah, sorry, I ran out of funding and it was very low on the list of necessities :hammer:
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jretal wrote:Boo, shoulda put it in the 4000 ;)

Looks like a fun undertaking, Dave!



while the car is very straight and rust free, i dont know the b2s and don't have the same affection towards them.
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This is an awesome project... Good luck. :-)
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Looks great . What style of intake manifold are you going with?
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Afterthought wrote:Looks great . What style of intake manifold are you going with?


I'm probably going to go with a modified aan like you have... I plan on keeping the oem radiator....
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Take a look at the last few posts in my thread, I have been having to make shrouds and such to extract every last bit of cooling from that rad setup I have.
Do you plan on using AAN or 7A accessories?
I don't want to derail your build, but just wanted to give my 0.02 which is at this point I find myself wishing I had left a little more space there to upgrade the radiator by making my own intake manifold.
On the other hand. if you modify the intake manifold, and use the stock rad rather than a different one like I did, if it doesn't seem to work as well as hoped you can upgrade later and only spend the money once.
Definitely retain the fan shroud.
Good luck with the build. Looks like an awesome project, and im jealous of your pearl :)
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How did you find that ABY harness? I would love to track one down
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Mcstiff wrote:Sounds fun. I'll be in a different car this year too.


I guess I need to stop in SLC so we can compare 90s ;)
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Afterthought wrote:How did you find that ABY harness? I would love to track one down



Europe. "i've been known to find things from time to time"

most of my friends know that i have a keen ability to find things when i need them. I just purchased an aby intake box as well, should help clean up the bay. Sadly the wiring harness, while it has shipped, could take up to 4 weeks to arrive.... Not ideal, but i'm going to push forward as if it is sitting on my self.
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Mcstiff wrote:
Mcstiff wrote:Sounds fun. I'll be in a different car this year too.


I guess I need to stop in SLC so we can compare 90s ;)



guess so... that is if you actually end up coming to bbq....
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Dave wrote:
Afterthought wrote:How did you find that ABY harness? I would love to track one down



Europe. "i've been known to find things from time to time"

most of my friends know that i have a keen ability to find things when i need them. I just purchased an aby intake box as well, should help clean up the bay. Sadly the wiring harness, while it has shipped, could take up to 4 weeks to arrive.... Not ideal, but i'm going to push forward as if it is sitting on my self.


Did you find it on ebay.de? So it's an S2 ABY LHD harness?
If it doesn't show up in time the wiring can be done and I can help you with that but it takes a day or two of being under the dash. The plug and play is a much better way to go !
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Afterthought wrote:If it doesn't show up in time the wiring can be done and I can help you with that but it takes a day or two of being under the dash. The plug and play is a much better way to go !


i'll keep that in mind, chris is a local and offered his harness up if i need an aan one!

I was out of town this weekend for work, but i got my gaskets in:
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I'm taking wednesday off work, so i plan on getting some car related business taken care of, I should have some real progress to show after that.
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Is it done yet?
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Stripped down the aan block, removed all the accessory mounts, removed the oil pan, I had high hopes that there was a set of upgraded rods in it, but was disappointed. Oh well, we're moving forward!

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Got a bit done today.
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forgot, these came in too!

I stopped by Mr. Brydon's house and pulled this off a spare engine as well, needs a bit of a polish, but all in good time:
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He was also kind enough to loan me this:

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big thanks to all who are helping me me out with parts and tools and such!
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:drive:
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Dave wrote:
jretal wrote:Boo, shoulda put it in the 4000 ;)

Looks like a fun undertaking, Dave!



while the car is very straight and rust free, i dont know the b2s and don't have the same affection towards them.


haha, can't fault you there! Still a fun project to undertake, regardless!
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