My A4 1.8TQ "Evolet"

**M�ki** · 15th February 2009

I wanted to start a thread about my car to get some opinions about it, feel free to say anything you like about the car.
I'll also make this thread to a little project.
And I'm sorry for the spelling!

Here's the picture from the ad, bought it 2 days later, june 6th -08.

Interiour.

And this is how she looked from august.

Then it became winter and the ice came!

Then the turbo gave up, so I decided I would go a bit further with the project and this is now, she's quite sad

**Adam-D** · 15th February 2009

whats the plans for it

**Siena** · 15th February 2009

Nice car, I admired it too on Audizine.

**Soupie69uk** · 15th February 2009

Loving this pic.

**Blue_Thunder** · 15th February 2009

Buy my 415bhp S4 engine (94k miles) off me!

**M�ki** · 15th February 2009

Originally Posted by Adam-D

whats the plans for it

New turbo, manifold, VR6 throttle, 3" downpipe, FMIC. And there will be some other small things as well.

Originally Posted by Siena

Nice car, I admired it too on Audizine.

Thank you, love your car as well!

Originally Posted by Soupie69uk

Loving this pic.

"pick by www.emo82.se"

Yes, he's a very good photographer!

Originally Posted by Blue_Thunder

Buy my 415bhp S4 engine (94k miles) off me!

Can't afford that, and it's an all day car so it would be much work to change engine every year.

**CraigG** · 15th February 2009

is the an M3 CSL rear spoiler? or is it custom fab'd? looks exactly like what im wanting for mine.

**M�ki** · 16th February 2009

Originally Posted by CraigG

is the an M3 CSL rear spoiler? or is it custom fab'd? looks exactly like what im wanting for mine.

That's a rieger spoiler that I molded into the trunk, it was the only way I liked it

**jcb** · 16th February 2009

nice.
what turbo? why VR6 throttle body out of interest?

**aragorn** · 16th February 2009

I presume its larger?

**M�ki** · 16th February 2009

Originally Posted by jcb

nice.
what turbo? why VR6 throttle body out of interest?

I bought a quite cheap turbo just to try if it will hold up. And the VR6 tb is bigger than the stock one.

Originally Posted by aragorn

I presume its larger?

Exacly!

Pics of those parts.

**jcb** · 16th February 2009

looks good, what A/R or trim is it?
reason I ask about the TB is that the general consensus from people running much larger turbos (GT35 etc) at very high power (500bhp+) is that the Throttle body makes little difference in power output.
there are much more restrictive aspects of the inlet tract than the throttle body.

I would send you a link to a very interesting trhead but the search function on Vortex is down.

**M�ki** · 16th February 2009

Originally Posted by jcb

looks good, what A/R or trim is it?
reason I ask about the TB is that the general consensus from people running much larger turbos (GT35 etc) at very high power (500bhp+) is that the Throttle body makes little difference in power output.
there are much more restrictive aspects of the inlet tract than the throttle body.

I would send you a link to a very interesting trhead but the search function on Vortex is down.

I'm sorry but you will have to excuse me.
But what do A/R mean?
And I'm not really sure what you mean about " much more restrictive aspects of the inlet tract".
But the maf will be modified to 3,5", it will be a new air filter and the piping to and from fmic will be all new also, the intake manifold will be just a little bit modified to match the tb better.
Again, sorry for my english.

**Oranoco** · 16th February 2009

Love it.

It looks spot on. Subtle but different without being too much.

**M�ki** · 16th February 2009

Originally Posted by Oranoco

Love it.

It looks spot on. Subtle but different without being too much.

Thank you, s4 sideskirts is on the "to buy" list also

**Oranoco** · 16th February 2009

Not just me with an ever growing shopping list then.

Mine was supposed to be a daily hack for the work run.

**M�ki** · 16th February 2009

Originally Posted by Oranoco

Not just me with an ever growing shopping list then.

Mine was supposed to be a daily hack for the work run.

Mine still is and will still be a all day car (when the engine is running again ofc), but I always find new things to do. But who said everyday cars couldn't be fun?

**jcb** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by M�ki

I'm sorry but you will have to excuse me.
But what do A/R mean?
And I'm not really sure what you mean about " much more restrictive aspects of the inlet tract".
But the maf will be modified to 3,5", it will be a new air filter and the piping to and from fmic will be all new also, the intake manifold will be just a little bit modified to match the tb better.
Again, sorry for my english.

the A/R gives the ratio of the turbine/compressor wheels to the housing and gives an indication to the flow capability of the turbo. usually expressed as a decimal less than 1.0
i.e GT2860 turbine (exhaust) A/R 0.56

the restrictive bit was about the inlet system as a whole. Excluding the MAF as that needs to be bigger to feed the turbo, but there no point having a huge 3.5" throttle body if your intercooler outlet pipe or any I/C tubing is 2.5" or smaller than the TB.
your most restrictive point is where your pressure and limitations will be.

**M�ki** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by jcb

the A/R gives the ratio of the turbine/compressor wheels to the housing and gives an indication to the flow capability of the turbo. usually expressed as a decimal less than 1.0
i.e GT2860 turbine (exhaust) A/R 0.56

the restrictive bit was about the inlet system as a whole. Excluding the MAF as that needs to be bigger to feed the turbo, but there no point having a huge 3.5" throttle body if your intercooler outlet pipe or any I/C tubing is 2.5" or smaller than the TB.
your most restrictive point is where your pressure and limitations will be.

Okey! 0,63 A/R.
Well, the IC tubing will be the smalles part, but I got the tb free, so I don't loose anything to use it.

**jcb** · 17th February 2009

good deal.

**M�ki** · 17th February 2009

So, hope this mani will do it's job now, I'll have som friend who's a welder to check it before I mount it.

**Byzan Pics** · 17th February 2009

I have loved this since i saw it on the 'Zine , in fact it inspired me to get the LED tails too.

Is that turbo an Ebay jobbie??

**M�ki** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

I have loved this since i saw it on the 'Zine , in fact it inspired me to get the LED tails too.

Is that turbo an Ebay jobbie??

Thank you

That's nice, have you mounted the led's yet?
I didn't buy it from ebay, but it is a cheap turbo, so this is most to learn how to build. But I think the turbo will work, I'm not plannin any huge hp.

**Byzan Pics** · 17th February 2009

Yeah they are on, look very good IMHO The best aftermarket ones yet!!!!

It looked like a non Garret, but if yo are not going to push it too hard then it should be ok i recon

**M�ki** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

Yeah they are on, look very good IMHO The best aftermarket ones yet!!!!

It looked like a non Garret, but if yo are not going to push it too hard then it should be ok i recon

Yes, they are great, good fitting and everything!
Ah I se, yes, I think it will hold up good with not to much pushing.

**jcb** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by M�ki

So, hope this mani will do it's job now, I'll have som friend who's a welder to check it before I mount it.

that looks like an eBay chinese stainless special.
I bought one a whie back but they had cunningly photographed it so as not to show the dreadful welding under the merge collector.
wil do the job if you can get it checked over and stop it cracking.

**M�ki** · 17th February 2009

Originally Posted by jcb

that looks like an eBay chinese stainless special.
I bought one a whie back but they had cunningly photographed it so as not to show the dreadful welding under the merge collector.
wil do the job if you can get it checked over and stop it cracking.

Ok! I just gave it to a welder to weld on a T25, and I asked him to check all the welds when he was on it.

**M�ki** · 21st February 2009

The head is of now.

Not to bad

I miss the driving

**M�ki** · 5th March 2009

I orderd megasquirt today! A lot better when I'm tuning and changing my mind often

**M�ki** · 15th March 2009

So I got the manifold from my neighbour today, he replaced the T3 with a T25. I also tested how it would look with the new wastegate on. I'll mount the head tomorrow.

And I will adjust the boost with this.

**S3 Rav** · 17th March 2009

looks good so far

**M�ki** · 17th March 2009

Thanks!

**frankiejr** · 17th March 2009

looking interesting!

**M�ki** · 17th March 2009

Thank you!

**Markey** · 18th March 2009

Nice

**M�ki** · 13th April 2009

Today I took her out for the first time since she broke i January! It was SO nice

**fermented** · 13th April 2009

started life looking exactly like my ugly 1.8tq, but now it looks fantastic

**Byzan Pics** · 13th April 2009

How does she go on that new turbo? And is the MS on yet?

**M�ki** · 13th April 2009

Originally Posted by fermented

started life looking exactly like my ugly 1.8tq, but now it looks fantastic

It's not ugly, just not different

Thanks by the way!

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

How does she go on that new turbo? And is the MS on yet?

I don't have the tuning on yet. I couldn't afford the rest for the moment, I'll start with it again sometime at the winter.

**M�ki** · 25th September 2009

Well here it goes!

My car the day after the accident (no one got hurt).

Stripped it down, it wasn't so bad.

New and fresh.

Also quite new [

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These are used though.

Bye bye interiour.

This is unnecessary [

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Not broken VS broken.

And the fan is mounted.

Need to repair the radiator [>_>]

Hmm [:D]

And this is the last picture I got.

**Geeman** · 25th September 2009

Ouch!

At least it gives you the opportunity to play with it some more!

**M�ki** · 25th September 2009

Originally Posted by Geeman

Ouch!

At least it gives you the opportunity to play with it some more!

Yes it does, and now I got an everyday car to use. So this will be more racing

**AEB A4** · 25th September 2009

Sucks about the accident. Looks like good things are coming out of it though.

**Markey** · 25th September 2009

Sorry to see it damaged like that, but im guessing it will come back better than before

**Lee Goodall** · 25th September 2009

Oh no, sorry to see that mate!

Did you get the megasquirt running/tuned? If so how did the turbo perform?

**M�ki** · 25th September 2009

Originally Posted by AEB A4

Sucks about the accident. Looks like good things are coming out of it though.

Yes, thanks

Originally Posted by Markey

Sorry to see it damaged like that, but im guessing it will come back better than before

Yeah, it'll be a bit more brutal than before

Originally Posted by Lee Goodall

Oh no, sorry to see that mate!

Did you get the megasquirt running/tuned? If so how did the turbo perform?

No, unfortionally I didn't have the time to finish that then, it will be done this winter instead, I promise all of you here on audi-sport a pair of movies when it's running.