The Project Pad

pploco wrote:perhaps you should turn the boost down on the car - be a shame to have a passenger soil your hard work.

I'm with this guy! :stupid:

Looks like you're spending too much time on your seats and not enough time on my mani! :slap: :wink:

I am missing my rear folding seat from my a4. I am borrowing a truck tomarrow to get some more argon. :-)

Oh, and I am sooo sick of the under the dash wiring of the early URQ. For whatever reason, my windows wont work at all, my dim light is non functional, as is my passanger rear lights. The worst one though is that all of a sudden, my rad fan is not kicking on above 93C like it used to, which causes overheating on flog sessions. It has affected my blower fan for my vents inside the cabin as well... Urrrgg.. Must do fuse box swap..

This would fix the wiring... not cheap but really cool looking...

http://www.isispower.com/

:(

find a CGT to get the whole harness from.... i have one in a box for my UR.

The frowny face is becuase I think I may have had an injector misshap, and one of the pistons may or may not have a broken ring or something. Four of the plugs show no signs of detonation, but one does. It happens to be the cylinder that was not wanting to open at idle when I got the car back up and running these last few weeks. I cleaned it up, and it appeared to work. Wideband readings were 12.0:1 timing was pretty safe. I'll have to tear it down and see what is wrong. I took a friend on a ride doing a second to third gear pull, shifted into third, and it missed hard, and smoke filled the rear view mirror. Pulledi into a gas station, and popped the hood only to see oil spewing out of the catchcan and breather setup.

It happened in a fairly rough part of town. There are some appartements that share the parking lot with the gas station. A man in a brand new A6 4.2 pulls up and gets out saying" Clarksen called this the car of the decade in 91, The audi quattro".. He fit the mold of people that stop and look at the car. 40 years old and can remember his teenage years that was during the rally days. So I was there with another skinny fellow and the audi stranger, and SWAT pulled up and raided one of the condos. He looks over at his kids sitting in the car for the last 15 minutes, and says,"I probably should leave so my young kids dont see this happen"... It was funny on a few levels.

It is a pisser though. Happened today after I found out my heatercore was leaking in the s6. I woke up with 800hp worth of 20vts and I go to bed with none. I'll post an update as soon as I pull the head.

oh crap! its never easy. good luck hank!

Bummer dude! :(

That really sucks Hank. Maybe I can come down and give you and hand with tearing down the cars. Let me know.

Bummer Hank, sorry to hear this.

the good news is that I have prett much a spare bottom end I bought with intentions of doing my s6(wisecos and scats, with arp hardware). I need a block though with stock bores in good shape.

Darin, you are more then welcome to come help out. I will probably haul the car back up to park city for the tear down though. You should come out to Daves tonight at 5 to help me put my s6 back together. We can swap bad fortune stories and cry together. I need to get ahold of Brent in Ogden too and see if he knows of a block I could use, and to see if he could get me a deal on machining for the rotating assembly.

Hank

Sorry to hear....

Call me later today. I can probably come.

Did you check with European only? they have about a hundred engines just sitting in their shelves... it kinda scares me to think how much they might want...

I figured it was only a matter of time, but it's still a bummer! :( It's not like that motor hasn't been run hard a time or two however. At least you still have summer school finals you can put your heart into. Find a low mileage 5ktq that you can take the MC for the block and I can have the 016. I'll go halfs with you. Sorry to hear Hank. I guess when it rains it pours up there in Salt Lake.

WHAT?? Sorry to hear that god luck with rebuild

Bummer to hear, Hank :( . A few words of advice after what I went through trying to find a bottom end--

-81mm blocks setup for piston squirters and such are a bitch to find. Having to buy a car to get a block = stupid.

-The MC blocks seem to suffer from lots of bore wear around the top of the top ring's stroke, even in well cared for examples. I looked at a couple of motors out of 140kish cars, relatively low miles, but they had as much bore wear as 190-200k motors...the pattern made me wonder if it was due to the short MC rods, or the tall ring landings. 3B/AANs, even with similar mileage and seemingly regardless of useage history, always seemed to be in better condition, with no bore damage or lip developed...they're just spendy.

-2.3 blocks seem to be in good condition much of the time and are common as shit. Noone wants their stock NG/NF/7A bottom ends. The MLS gaskets work with 82.5mm bores, and I bet you could find a free motor, freeing up some cash to buy 82.5mm pistons...

Good luck!!!

Sam

He has a free one at my house if he wants it, but pistons are a lot more spendy then a block...

SeStone wrote:Bummer to hear, Hank :( . A few words of advice after what I went through trying to find a bottom end--

-81mm blocks setup for piston squirters and such are a bitch to find. Having to buy a car to get a block = stupid.

-The MC blocks seem to suffer from lots of bore wear around the top of the top ring's stroke, even in well cared for examples. I looked at a couple of motors out of 140kish cars, relatively low miles, but they had as much bore wear as 190-200k motors...the pattern made me wonder if it was due to the short MC rods, or the tall ring landings. 3B/AANs, even with similar mileage and seemingly regardless of useage history, always seemed to be in better condition, with no bore damage or lip developed...they're just spendy.

-2.3 blocks seem to be in good condition much of the time and are common as shit. Noone wants their stock NG/NF/7A bottom ends. The MLS gaskets work with 82.5mm bores, and I bet you could find a free motor, freeing up some cash to buy 82.5mm pistons...

Good luck!!!

Sam

Good advise Sam. I think I am going to go the WR route because do have pistons already, and I will just bore it out to 81mm. I would love to run a 82.5 piston and pick up some free displacement, but I dont hav the money for pistons. I wouldstill have pistons squirters and I would have fresh bores. That is the plan as of now. I may even weigh the JE's against the Wisecos and see if I can match their blueprinted weight by shaving weight, and then keep a rotated asssembly that is balanced. My motor felt silky smooth at 8500, and I dont think I can go back now. I have a hunch that the wisecos are lighter than the JE's though..

Hank

Hank, did you even take the head off yet? Do you know what's gone bad down there?

I can see the nastyness down the spark plug. I will try to yank the head off on Saturday to get a better idea. It si blowing out oil like crazy though. Best case senario, a ring busted, and didndt screw anything up. I have not checked compression in a while, but I had a slight puff of smoke at start up, and hopefully it was just a ring.

Looks like I have to be out of the house saturday, I can help you tear it down...

That's right Dave, I'm coming over so you better be out...

Good luck with whatever it is Hank!

Hank excuse my ignorance, but isn't the stock urq block the WR one?

If so, I believe the block will have to be welded to accept the later
style head gasket.....something to do with the oil drain passage?

Just a thought.

good luck,

Craig.