Project 84 Days.
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:29 pm
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
It is a very solid base for this project. Here are a few more shots of how it sits on day 84:
Here is the status of the donor engine:
couple bent valves from when the head was removed:
and this has been purchased and should ship out today from Europe, making this swap doable on my time schedule:
S2 ABY engine harness:
and finally some of the good and bad bits on this car as it currently sits:
Bad= FLAPS exhaust:
Good= H&R springs with bilstein shocks:
Bad= open breather
Good=New microsuade headliner
Bad= Dried out and cracking tail lights:
Good/bad= RS2 headlights, one broken lens:
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!
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
It is a very solid base for this project. Here are a few more shots of how it sits on day 84:
Here is the status of the donor engine:
couple bent valves from when the head was removed:
and this has been purchased and should ship out today from Europe, making this swap doable on my time schedule:
S2 ABY engine harness:
and finally some of the good and bad bits on this car as it currently sits:
Bad= FLAPS exhaust:
Good= H&R springs with bilstein shocks:
Bad= open breather
Good=New microsuade headliner
Bad= Dried out and cracking tail lights:
Good/bad= RS2 headlights, one broken lens:
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!
