You know I was all set to go 20VT in the 5K, Now Im thinking V8TT again
Congrats Mark and thanks for the Video. With any luck I will time my first trip over there just in time for you gettign it all finnished hahahah
thanks guys, I'm psyched to get the car running finally. I just got back from spending the day with my brother at six flags, had a pretty damn good time. I'll have to post the video I took from the front seat of the superman ride all the way around. pretty awesome roller coaster
That place(sixflages) is 10min away from my house.
Gets pretty crazy to get to on the weekends.
Usta be called Riverside. They had a small circle track there, Jeff Bodine got his start there years ago. My ol man even raced there :woowoo: good ol times for sure.
Ronald G Wainwright+ wrote:[/quote]That place(sixflages) is 10min away from my house.
Gets pretty crazy to get to on the weekends.
Usta be called Riverside. They had a small circle track there, Jeff Bodine got his start there years ago. My ol man even reaced there :woowoo: good ol times for sure.
& great job on the car marc. Wanna sell it :slap: [/quote]
:slap:
I think I kind of want to finish it and drive it for at least a few years first :-P
alright, more progress this weekend. I started working on mounts for the radiator and the intercooler. Yesterday I decided to replace the timing belt cog gear as insurance, wish I had it on hand when I did the belt the first time around.. but it was interesting looking at the old one. There was a good chunk missing out of the keyway :-o
So after a bit test fitting (ok, a lot of test fitting) I fabbed up a bracket that looks like this:
a pair of stock 4kq rubber bushings on the bottom of the radiator
intercooler mounting. Yes I know its weeny sized, its only for one turbo.. the other turbo will run its own side mount intercooler
radiator mount holes
getting there...
misc. happenings around the shop. Myke building a spiral staircase landing for a friend
and dennis putting his mid-rise lift to good use repairing a wheel bearing on his boat trailer
Hopefully more tomorrow, not sure if I'll get a chance to be over at the shop or not.
I need to source supply and return lines for the turbos and I'm trying to figure out the best way to go about it. The cleanest way would probably be to use the turbo style freeze plugs on both sides but I dont think I want to go that route since I'm not even sure if the freeze plugs are the same size.
I'd like to run the lines toward the rear of the motor for neatness, so I _think_ I can get away with grabbing lines off the pipe that runs along the back side of the motor. The single port on the bottom with the long pipe extension basically grabs water from right behind the t-stat, so I would take that to be the water SUPPLY, since it will have just come off the radiator when the t-stat is open. The other two ports are connected to the back of the heads which I think should be the return. That pipe normally intersects with the expansion tank and the heater core lines.
Well Marc, your way smarter than me when it comes to audi's so im assuming if you've thought about it for a while its probably a pretty sound idea, none of that raised any red flags in my mind, but i am in no way 'smart' when it comes to audis