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
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 ****** 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