Thread: 2008cc 20 Valve Turbo Stroker Build

Originally Posted by Fahim

What an amazing thread. The work, time and effort you put into this car is amazing. I have goosebumps just writing this!

I love your car. It must sound amazing and go like **** of a proverbial shovel.

What I would like to know, is how do you know all this? How to build an entire engine from neigh on scratch? Are you a mechanic?!

I take my hat of to you sir, some feat of art you have there!

Thanks for sharing this with us. Enjoy the ride and i love the fact you showed the VXR the time of day!

Thanks a lot mate it's always nice to hear someone enjoys reading through it all, It did take a while to get to this point but it was worth all the effort and money. It certainly does sound beastly and can embarrass some expensive cars, I saw off an Overfinch Range Rover the other day as well as a Carrera 4S and he was not happy so it can certainly shift.

So how did I learn all this? most of the skills I have picked up over the years playing with cars, motocross bikes, superbikes etc. I also use to repair gearboxes from all kinds of stuff from 16 speed trucks to full on race cars. I'm a time served engineer and have worked all over the place in many different industries and you just pick up lots of tips & tricks I suppose. If im honest though this is my first four cylinder turbo engine and I was willing to take the risk of building it myself, you just learn so much more doing everything and I now know the 1.8T inside out, there is fortunately lots of info out there if you search and this was invaluable as I learnt all the common failure points and worked around them. All the welding was a first for me, I have supervised welding teams in the past and learnt by watching really, its so enjoyable I urge everyone to at least try it, Having the power of the sun in your hand is awesome and TIG welding isn't half as hard as its made out to be.

Again thanks for the kind words and keep checking back in, Im not finished yet! Theres more grunt in there somewhere, Im just taking a break during the worst of the winter and gathering more parts!

Whats your next step?

Originally Posted by aragorn

Whats your next step?

Well quite a bit actually, although the numbers from the first dyno sessions were very promising there is without doubt more power in there. The biggest issue was the ignition, the OE coils just weren't man enough and the boost was blowing the spark out and starting misfiring like mad, the ignition was retarded quite a bit to avoid this happening, numerous plugs & different gaps were tried as well as playing with the dwell settings, unfortuantely the misfiring couldnt be avoided, so we settled on reduced power output with some safety margin, that said it is set up in waste spark which obviously doesnt help and I think the coils are probably saturated. So first off will be some high output coils and small wiring mod for sequential ignition & injection and hopefully some more aggressive timing.

Other plans are some new camshafts (undecided which yet) & ported AEB head, WMI for safety and I'm currently working on my own inlet manifold with bigger throttle body. Im considering making my own T3 twinscroll manifold in 321 SS to try and reduce lag, just struggling to find a supplier of schedule 10 321, so I will also need a twin scroll turbine housing. After that I dont think there is much more I can do without getting silly, If im honest i dont really want a bigger turbo the lag would too much for me, I think If i make the power Im hoping for (500+) the clutch will have to go also before it gets smoked and i will get a lighter flywheel at the same time. Sounds like alot now I've listed it all and spoilt the surprise! God knows when I will get round to it all but thats the plan so if it all happens there will be some parts for sale on the cheap

It took me ages to read but i got there in the end.

Simply amazing mate.

Why we havnt seen a vid yet is beyond me

Yeah there's a lot to read hey, certainly gives an impression of how much work has gone into this car. As for getting video together, still haven't got a camera yet. I'd rather spend the money on bits for the car, lame excuse I know but its true, there are lots of little odds & sods that need tidying up, it all costs money plus Christmas has put an end to car spending for a while. I will eventually get round to it, just not a priority right now.

There certainly is, and i would suggest when you are almost finished (You will never finish, there will always be something you want to do) is get the Project report tidy it make sure you have the best photos etc and get it printed in a book form. I think if you have put in all that hard work you may aswell show off all your hard work where ever you go...

Was going to do this on my R5 build.

I hate xmas for that, i love christmas just not the silly spending. Cars need chrissy presents to!!!!

Originally Posted by A3 Oly

There certainly is, and i would suggest when you are almost finished (You will never finish, there will always be something you want to do) is get the Project report tidy it make sure you have the best photos etc and get it printed in a book form. I think if you have put in all that hard work you may aswell show off all your hard work where ever you go...

Was going to do this on my R5 build.

I hate xmas for that, i love christmas just not the silly spending. Cars need chrissy presents to!!!!

Yeah good shout, cracking idea on the book. My bro is a keen photographer and once the paintwork is all sorted he is going to snap some decent shots of it. It was never my intention to make a show car of it and it isn't what I would call a show car but it is fairly clean and tidy, I'm sure this winter will have a good go at changing that though!

Xmas certainly gets more and more expensive every year, does my head in really. I've done all my xmas shopping but forgot to get the car something! We'll see if I can stretch to something though. Looking forward for the show season to get started again now, should be in for paint in the new year, should make it look alot better.

Any updates and or vids of this cracking motor car yet fella?

Originally Posted by phoenixv6quattro

Any updates and or vids of this cracking motor car yet fella?

Oi oi, how we doin. Unfortunately still haven't managed to get any video done yet, im so lame I know, I will get this sorted soon!

As for updates, the A4 has suddenly started pumping oil into the coolant, I'm 99.9% sure its that damn awful OEM oil cooler so thats coming out & getting replaced with a mocal air-oil cooler setup. The head is also off and awaiting a pressure test to be sure its not cracked, fingers crossed its just the existing oil cooler & funnily enough it was the first thing the guy said when I dropped it off for pressure testing after I explained what was happening, must have seen this too many times. I will get it back early next week to either reassemble and chuck back on or strip out the valve train and drop them into the spare head which is prepped on stand by.

Whilst its quickly getting sorted out I'm stripping the bumper, skirts, lower door mouldings off for paint, I can't drive around with it in different colours anymore, its getting embarressing! It needs to get done.

So over the weekend I'm gonna fit this little lot.





Other than that its now done close to 5K miles, the engine is stronger than ever, its had a pretty brutal break in after the dyno tune was sorted and pulls like a mofo now, I've been making minor tweaks to the fuel map in areas just too smooth things out a little and the driveability is now awesome, the most responsive car I've ever driven and 4 wheel drifts with ease, scares the crap out of me frequently


I've also added another quattro money pit to the fold, introducing my new daily............



1993 Audi S2 ABY, the force is strong with this one, trying sooooo hard to resist the temptation to go nuts and turn it into a monster!

You changing the HG anyway?

Of course, I never re-use headgaskets once they've been torqued.

ahh right, the head was off anyway, or you removed it to find the crappy oil cooler was the cause of the mayo?

Yeah the head was off already.

Tomorrow I start taking it apart again, got to get this paintwork done.

Anyone want to buy some used S4 sideskirts and an S4 prefacelift rear bumper. Open to offers.

****** to that. If I spent that much time and money on a car I would be eating fried testicles the same night (yes my balls).....Must be nice doing what you want and spending it on what you like (£ too!). AHHHHH sigh, miss the single life sometimes.

Originally Posted by phoenixv6quattro

****** to that. If I spent that much time and money on a car I would be eating fried testicles the same night (yes my balls).....Must be nice doing what you want and spending it on what you like (£ too!). AHHHHH sigh, miss the single life sometimes.

Well a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do! Were only here once after all.

We're here for a good time not a long time........

Anyway must dash need to hoover and wash up.

Looking good buddy - Is it stopping alright?

Originally Posted by DaveB1970

We're here for a good time not a long time........

Anyway must dash need to hoover and wash up.

Looking good buddy - Is it stopping alright?

Oi oi, long time no see, how we doing chief? I will make sure I pop in some time soon and take you for a quick spin. The car is in pieces at the mo and finally being painted so I should have it back on the road soon.

The brakes are absolutely immense after I got all the air out of the ABS module, they certainly give me the confidence to drive the car quickly, there bloody noisy though but I guess its to be expected, I wonder if some of those anti squeal shims that sit in the pistons would help? I've considered fitting B5 RS4 fronts to match the rears but the price of the discs has held me back, but for the quiet braking they might be worth it plus the fact they would match the rears asthetically hmmm what to do, what to do.

Paint i hear, hmmm, there was inspiration after all then??? Ha

Sounds good mate, what did you go for, colour change? Any different bits? Look forward to seeing the outcome!

Originally Posted by Foxmeister

Paint i hear, hmmm, there was inspiration after all then??? Ha

Of course mate, plus the fact im sick & tired of it looking like a scrap heap challenge car, it deserves to look the part.

Originally Posted by Foxmeister

Sounds good mate, what did you go for, colour change? Any different bits? Look forward to seeing the outcome!

No colour change just yet its staying silver, I'm only getting the bumpers, skirts, grills & door mouldings done so its all actually silver! So just a plain jane OEM S4 look for me, I have splashed the cash on an brand spank facelift S4 rear bumper & skirts though which I actually got for a fair price. I wish I could find a facelift bonnet for good money to replace my scabby stone blasted one but that will have to wait for now, desperately trying to get everything tidied up before modified live at Oulton park on the 16th April!!! The cylinder head is still on the bench in the garage, still need to fit the oil cooler, fit the body trim, modify the intercooler pipes so the grills will fit into the S4 bumper, change the backbox, tidy up the gauges in the car, a few ECU wiring additions to increase functionality etc etc so lots to do really and the weather just isn't making it easy!

Pics will follow as usual when there's something to see

you have simply built a beats, too much wrds to describe it but beast fits in nicly

Andy pop in for some proper anti squeal shims, got a b5rs4setup as well for buttons best price on the discs though is 440!!!!!

Originally Posted by 20v-turbo

You have simply built a beast, too many words to describe it but beast fit's in nicely

Cheers fella, that is exactly what I intended when I set out with this project, build a beast for the road pure & simple. No flash paint jobs, pulled arches, stretch, poke or any kind of bags for me. Just a purpose built point to point animal and think I've achieved my goal and I can honestly say I'm almost content with it the way it is, well almost

Originally Posted by DaveB1970

Andy pop in for some proper anti squeal shims, got a b5rs4setup as well for buttons best price on the discs though is 440!!!!!

I will try & pop round sometime during the week, it'll be good to see you again matey its been a while. I'll give you a ring to see when your about.

Well my goal was to re-assemble the A4 and have it ready for the 16th to take to Modified Live at Oulton Park. I've worked endlessly to sort out the issues make some changes and further mods. In the end I made it, just! I finally got the car road ready late last night for an 6:00 start this morning, in a tired daze I forgot my bloody camera though, idiot. I'm hoping someone else I went down with managed to snap a couple for me. Any who some pics of the recent changes

I binned the standard oil cooler suspecting it to be a potential cause of the oil in coolant issue in favour of the Mocal unit, problem is there is sod all room in the front of these B5's without it turning into a hackjob. Heres where it ended up anyway



I even got all fancy and used captive nuts, also note new rad as well!



I know someone will say its upside down & I know this but its better to cool the heat exchanger than the pipe fittings right? Anyway it works a treat and oil temps are way down compared to the water cooled OEM unit, I've noticed the viscous fan also draws loads of air through it so even stood in traffic should be alright, it now maintains at about 80 even after a brief mash of the loud pedal, result.

Mounting this cooler displaced the power steering cooler so it needed a new home, shoved it down here with another dodgy bracket I made.



It didn't work and I think I may have boiled the fluid a little today, so it will need moving again, space is getting properly tight upfront now. And whilst on that subject I made some mods to the intercooler pipes as I will never get the S4 bumper grills in without making some changes.







Much neater I think you'll agree, I managed to remove two bends and considerable length from both sides so happy days. Also got the motor back in one piece thats obviously alright now, for the moment



Well thats everything mechanical attended too. Now i thought it was time to try and work my way through the tar & bird bombs, find my paint and try and revive a little bit of shine on the old girl. No real before pics unfortunately but it was swirly mess.

First I used these to prep the paint for polishing:-

TFR
Meg's gold class wash
Tardis
Iron-X
Bilt Hamber clay
Meg's Deep Crystal paint cleaner
Masked off rubbers, headlights etc

Set too with the DAS6pro & Sonus pads. I found the Sonus compounding pad with Menzerna 85RD3.02 removed all the bird etchings & heavy swirling and finished down quite well, still then buzzed over it with Menzerna final finish 3000. There is still some random scratches & swirling but not worth cutting out in my opinion, I took loads of pics but can't tell them apart my camera is crap! So here is the best one I have, this could well have been after I applied the carlack 68 nano systematic cleaner followed with two coats of carlack 68 long life sealant, the camera actually almost shows the flake pop.



Wheels followed a similar pattern with cleaning, the Iron-x has literally repaired what I thought were knackered wheels, it removed all and I mean all the embedded rusty horrible mess from the inside of my wheels, proper chuffed. I then also used Carlack68 NSC to clean the wheels further followed with three coats of poorboys wheel sealant.



Now the car was all shiny it was time to finally assemble all the bodywork in silver, the body shop did an amazing job painting it all, even came down to my house with spray samples testing colour match, I had a word with the sprayer and asked for a few extra coats of clear

Skirts & door mouldings on



New rear bumper



Oddly I dont have pic from the front, I will post one up tomorrow.

As it stands now

Loooking fantastic mate, great once your over that almost finished hurdle eh? Then again, these projects are never finished really, just ready fir the next stage !!! Ha ha

Originally Posted by Foxmeister

Loooking fantastic mate, great once your over that almost finished hurdle eh? Then again, these projects are never finished really, just ready fir the next stage !!! Ha ha

Cheers mate, It does feel good when it all starts coming together especially considering how long I've been at it, I can't stop looking at it, just looks completely different now and dare I say actually looks quite mean. I will be leaving it alone till the end of summer now I think, just want to get out and about in it really, maybe a few more little cosmetic mods but nothing mental, might even turn the boost down a touch.

Here's some pics from the front









And a comparison of when I got it to how it is now.

Before



After

Love this thread, ive checked in on it for quite a while now. Has given me great inspiration for my GT30 S3 project. Like the dedication you have given tot he project.

Great stuff!!

fantastic work as always...proper sleeper

That looks friggin amazing dude!!!! Bet you're loving it. Thanks for that final update, glad it all seems to be working sweet as a nut. I'll miss reading about your projects.

Whats next? Hehe

Originally Posted by MUSH

Love this thread, ive checked in on it for quite a while now. Has given me great inspiration for my GT30 S3 project. Like the dedication you have given tot he project.

Great stuff!!

Cheers dude, always good to hear people enjoy reading it, makes it all worth while, good luck with your build as well, you should start a thread. Its always nice to see what everyone else is up to.

Originally Posted by AudiS3-Turbo

fantastic work as always...proper sleeper

Cheers matey, she's gettin there hey.

Originally Posted by Byzan A4

Originally Posted by crazy88

That looks friggin amazing dude!!!! Bet you're loving it. Thanks for that final update, glad it all seems to be working sweet as a nut. I'll miss reading about your projects.

Whats next? Hehe

Thanks man, I have to confess I actually do love it, its awesome & beyond my expectations. I'm well chuffed with how its turned out, I'm still not done yet though, there a few more minor mods and of course some kind of footage to top it off, when I finally get my lazy arse round to it that is!

Thanks everyone for your continued interest

Andy

Originally Posted by IN 2 Deep

Cheers dude, always good to hear people enjoy reading it, makes it all worth while, good luck with your build as well, you should start a thread. Its always nice to see what everyone else is up to.

ive got a thread in the A3/S3 section mate, thought it was more relevant at the time and its just spiralled into a build thread.

Originally Posted by MUSH

ive got a thread in the A3/S3 section mate, thought it was more relevant at the time and its just spiralled into a build thread.

Cool I will have a look during lunch see if I can find it and have a mooch.

Please do mate, your opinion would be great!

Awesome read! Great thread, thanks for sharing. Gives me plenty of ideas

Cheers matey, glad you enjoyed the read. I still have a few plans left up my sleeve before I close the cheque book on this build but im staying tight lipped for the time being. Now I have the S2 also I think its time to start turning my spanners on that if I want to keep it, its easy to forget its 18 years old and defo needs some love, maybe I will start another build thread for it but im determined to keep the expenditure reasonable if thats at all possible lol.

I've always wondered what this car had done to it when I walked past! I could see the fancy brakes so obviously something clever had been done to it.
I liked the original wheels!

Alright Teddy, you should say hello next time you walk by I'm normally faffing with one of the quattro's on the drive!

I would have liked to have kept the original wheels but they didn't fit over the brakes and wheel spacers wasn't an option for this car, the wheels on there now are function rather than form, they're much lighter & wider than the original Ronals and much stronger. Have to admit though I do find myself constantly looking at wheels.

I took the car to Wales over the weekend with a mob of other fast automobiles to drive round the EVO triangle, horseshoe pass and few other awesome roads I've forgotten, what an epic drive out it was and just on my doorstep, well nearly lol. The car performed faultlessly and im gaining confidence in it more & more.

A pic from the weekend

best read by far mate amazing work and effort well done!!

Why thank you fella

I'm glad you enjoyed the read and actually left a reply, most wouldn't and don't, hence I don't really frequent this forum anymore, plus im spuds deep into my S2 so far too busy, the A4 has also naturally evolved, maybe one day I will take the time to bring the thread up to date.

Cheers, Andy

thankyou for spending the time to do a detailed build thread, looking forward to doing mine, cheers

Originally Posted by oubas2

thankyou for spending the time to do a detailed build thread, looking forward to doing mine, cheers

Cheers mate, always nice to hear someone has enjoyed reading the thread. If you need any help regards your build feel free to PM me, I didn't include all the technical info as it tends to make for a very boring read! If you want to discuss tolerancing of a 500+HP motor I will gladly chew your ear! The specs are very different to an OEM motor. My engine has done over 11K miles now running circa 2BAR boost and pulls better than ever

Make sure you start a thread matey, we all like a proper build thread.

EZ

Have just read this from start to finish and what an amazing build and effort, the workmanship is second to none i have just rebuilt my motor after failure and although i was fairly thourough i wish i had taken the effort to put i n as much attension to detail as yourself

Have you had it back on the rollers since turning the boost up a wee bit?

Originally Posted by StaceyS3

Have just read this from start to finish and what an amazing build and effort, the workmanship is second to none i have just rebuilt my motor after failure and although i was fairly thourough i wish i had taken the effort to put i n as much attension to detail as yourself

Have you had it back on the rollers since turning the boost up a wee bit?

Thanks for the kind words matey, it took me two years to complete the car. Its been just over a year since it hit the road but in my eyes its never been finished properly! I bought an S2 to use as my daily but it really needed some serious attention and came off the road which meant the A4 was needed for daily duties, a year later and I can't continue to beat its head in everyday! I have just decided to cut my losses and part the S2 out! I plan to buy a diesel so I can retire the A4 back to toy status and finish it, I would like to re-do some stuff and upgrade certain items so I can get the most out of the setup. I might continue to update this thread once I get the A4 off the road!

The A4 hasn't seen the rollers since it was mapped, I plan to change some stuff and upgrade the ignition coils and head back there after Xmas, I do expect it to be alot closer to 500HP this time, I do have plans to further upgrade the car but who knows weather it will ever happen!

Ive been a lurker here for a while now and found this thread by accident....I must say what a brilliant build thread.

Getting it right takes time and not guaranteed. I bought my psiconcepts 520 turbo(MHI TD05H-20G turbo) kit last September after noticing the engine is taking a fair bit of oil and narrowed it down to the K03(200,000km +23psi spike lol). Suppose to get all the stuff installed this coming March but a few days ago a compression test revealed that I may have to pull the engine apart to get re-ring'ed or a complete rebore, which means another delay but thats life, you can't win all the time.


With the car being a daily driver, how's the clutch like? are they heavy?

Originally Posted by flatshifter

Ive been a lurker here for a while now and found this thread by accident....I must say what a brilliant build thread.

Getting it right takes time and not guaranteed. I bought my psiconcepts 520 turbo(MHI TD05H-20G turbo) kit last September after noticing the engine is taking a fair bit of oil and narrowed it down to the K03(200,000km +23psi spike lol). Suppose to get all the stuff installed this coming March but a few days ago a compression test revealed that I may have to pull the engine apart to get re-ring'ed or a complete rebore, which means another delay but thats life, you can't win all the time.


With the car being a daily driver, how's the clutch like? are they heavy?

Alright mate, thanks for the props, glad you enjoyed the read. The car did take a little time to get right and I'm still tweaking it now to get more & more power from it . I'm sure you'll get yours all sorted eventually and pushing bigger numbers, shame you've got to rebuild it though, have you not considered getting another lump to swap in rather than rebuilding yours? It will work out cheaper in the end, unless of course you plan to uprate some internals in the process, rods aren't expensive these days and are good insurance against any knock induced failures, just food for thought.

As for the clutch I'm running, I don't think its too bad, it is heavy but you get use to it. Others that have tried it and asked me how I drive it about as often as i do! I suppose you eventually build the muscle needed lol. Anyway good luck with yours mate, you should start a thread for it

Originally Posted by IN 2 Deep

Alright mate, thanks for the props, glad you enjoyed the read. The car did take a little time to get right and I'm still tweaking it now to get more & more power from it . I'm sure you'll get yours all sorted eventually and pushing bigger numbers, shame you've got to rebuild it though, have you not considered getting another lump to swap in rather than rebuilding yours? It will work out cheaper in the end, unless of course you plan to uprate some internals in the process, rods aren't expensive these days and are good insurance against any knock induced failures, just food for thought.

As for the clutch I'm running, I don't think its too bad, it is heavy but you get use to it. Others that have tried it and asked me how I drive it about as often as i do! I suppose you eventually build the muscle needed lol. Anyway good luck with yours mate, you should start a thread for it

Mate, I would love to get another engine and rebuild it but wreckers/breakers here in Australia think they're like gold.

If I had to start from scratch I would go all out and get a 1.9 TDI tall block(long rod) and FSI crank with AJL/AEB head, or at least run an 06A block (more aftermarket bits e.g Fluidampr harmonic damper)

Any hook ups on a good/cheap wrecker in the UK?

Btw, I have a Eurodyne Maestro Tuning Suite 7 for my 557P ECU box( originally 558DA) but I may go with the Haltech PS1000 in the future as there's so much you can play around it.


ps: I already have a build thread on audiforums.com.au but I will copy and paste it here soon lol...just too lazy to type :D

Originally Posted by flatshifter

Mate, I would love to get another engine and rebuild it but wreckers/breakers here in Australia think they're like gold.

If I had to start from scratch I would go all out and get a 1.9 TDI tall block(long rod) and FSI crank with AJL/AEB head, or at least run an 06A block (more aftermarket bits e.g Fluidampr harmonic damper)

Any hook ups on a good/cheap wrecker in the UK?

Btw, I have a Eurodyne Maestro Tuning Suite 7 for my 557P ECU box( originally 558DA) but I may go with the Haltech PS1000 in the future as there's so much you can play around it.


ps: I already have a build thread on audiforums.com.au but I will copy and paste it here soon lol...just too lazy to type :D

Ahh I didn't realise you were down under mate, there a very common motor over here to be honest and I could find you one for a very good price, however shipping it to you would very expensive I would think.

I have watched many builds of the tall deck motors with 20valve heads grafted on, they never normally last that long to be fair although on paper they do look a lot more promising. For me its all about cost to build, ease & availability of parts. The one thing that makes these 058 blocks cheaper to build is the fact no one wants them anymore really and the 92.8mm cranks are very very cheap here with stacks of spares in breakers yards, the FSI cranks are harder to come by used and normally folk end up buying brand spankers for big money, 06A blocks are also a bit harder to find for reasonable cash, plus you then need to find a big port head! just makes the cost alot heftier. But as they say, each to there own. There are plenty of folk out there making 600HP+ on the 058 blocks with 92.8mm cranks and they can be put together for peanuts compared to an 06A build and thats enough potential for my driving abilities

Not sure which parts you are thinking are available for the 06A & not the 058!?! My 058 has a fluidamper pulley in fact there isn't much I haven't included in my build.

As for ECU's there are plenty out there, some better than others, it all depends on what your trying to acheive and how much dosh you've got to burn!

Anyway I could rabbit on forever dude, stick a link up to your thread I would like to have a nosey

Well it’s been a very long time since I updated this thread with any progress on the car, I wasn’t going to bother but I’ve been asked to keep the thread up to date by some friends so here goes. I’ve had my hands full with the demise of my S2, that’s now gone albeit in many pieces but gone she has.





As they say every cloud has a silver lining and that is that it was worth a small fortune in piecesJ. So Now I trundle about in a diesel ahem, Volvo, It’s allowed me to turn my attention back to the A4 and obviously keep it as a toy instead of a daily which was killing me if im honest! So the days of the sleeper are over, now its time to make a menace of my A4



So I have taken the decision to make the car a lot more track orientated, there are many reason why I have taken this decision and I’ve thought it through for long enough. I know there will be plenty of divided opinion on this but hey, it’s done now! To put it bluntly I was going to kill myself / someone else, fact! The car was / is ridiculously quick and I can’t help myself but drive it like a loon, the horns just came out every time I sat in it, plus if the filth ever spotted me driving like an idiot which was also going to happen if I didn’t die first, I would lose my job when they put me behind bars. So justification over with, time for some pictures.

First job was to remove all the stupidly heavy interior and unnecessary widgets, its all free horsepower and God knows I’ve spent enough money already on that stuff! So some action shots!























All this was far too much for the cat to bear, he just couldn’t look any longer!



Then time to work my way through all that nasty wiring!











The list of stuff to be removed consist’s of radio, speakers, auto-changer (which gave up the ghost anyway), airbags, ABS, carpet, plastic trim, inertia reels, redundant wiring, sound deadening, roof lining, a ton of brackets, crap Audi pedal box (the worst design ever) If you can heel & toe this pedal box, you must be wearing ski’s! Servo etc etc, now this is still a work in progress but I’m slowly getting there. If you need any spares then now’s the time to shout up.

With all that plushness removed its time to introduce the more hardcore replacements!

The new captains chair!



That should help keep me still! Now time to address the stock pedal box, In a moment of madness I splashed out for one of these





That should make it a tad easier to drive on the limit, bit of work required first off to get it all mounted & plumbed up but I'm sure it will pay dividends in the end!

I've been at it for just over a week now, I've ordered some more shiny bits for the car as well but I'll save that for another day

Nice!!!!

Good to see you back mate, get the pics up! lol

Ohhh I'm well jealous Lovely car mate.