picked this up for a few hundred since the audi is being sold. ran rough, didnt want to start unless i poured gas on the filter, and had some low oil pressure. The engine is an S4 motor, recently swapped, and poorly. moving the distributor didnt change anything. sounds different than a one rotor situation, engine had even strong "poofs", and it has no power.

i think the low oil pressure is the front cover o-ring going to be taking a peek here this week.

I got all the S4 ecu, wiring, and sensor bits to just run the S4 stuff in an attempt to get the car running right. Began the process of making the S4 wiring harness ready for install... (hence the pile of wiring)

 

hard to resist going to the kitchen and making pasta for dinner after seeing this



awesome race car in the back ground too!

 

How do you get the money for all your cars O.o

 

::shrug:: paychecks?

 

so that's the se you were talking about,well at least you can use the suspension for the rally car.

 

This is going to be my daily driver since I sold the Audi. Which was poor timing really. I have to commute the rally car 70 miles, one way, to work til this is done...

Ill post some updated pics here shortly. I've been.. busy...

 

that GSL-SE is nice, its too bad the previous owner(s) did so many horrible things to it!

 

agreed. But now she is in my care. she will be better, stronger, faster, less sticky from duct tape

 

those are all good things!

 

FC subframing like it ain't no thing!

 

some bits came in for the suspension! muhahaha

 

well I have some bad news bears:

I was cleaning the front cover to put back on then right about when i was done, I noticed a semi-circular chunk ground out of the inside.... uh oh. following Ted's comments about bearings and the nature of e-shafts to migrate I walked over to the motor. The front counter weight had a nice polished around on the edge, like it had been hitting something... uh oh.

but she still turned by hand nicely and I couldn't get any play by hand. So i used a small prybar between the counterweight and the front iron. And the whole shebang moved about 3/4"... oh uh... scratch that.... ****! at least that explains why the rear main seal was compromised.

So yea. car needs an engine... all because some fuckwad didn't torque the wee bolt holding the oil pickup properly and it basically came loose.

 

some pictures from the progress / regress. Pictures of the suspension / cleaned up the sunroof disaster and installed the glass panel. Then pics of the epic metallic failure.

 

Got some things done today. The steering rack is installed. Was a three hole rack I depowered per the DIY thread in the archives.

Then i dug up some spare Eibach springs, some B46 Bilsteins, and my ST sway bar. Got all that mess installed. Kinda makes me want to get my clean freak on underneath the car, but that will await.

 

horrah updates! i got me an engine!!! and some wheels!

 

Good progress! Are those enkei's? What size did you get?

 

thanks! yup, enkei compes, 15x8 0 offset

 

 

Rx looks sweet, I wish GSL got 4x114.3 or even 4x100

 

well today was mostly productive. Worked on converting the large 4 piston / 5 lug braking system to a 4 piston / 4 lug braking system.

My machinist guy in WA burned these out for me from some Al. You have to space the rotor off the hub to make this whole thing work. The spare 3rd spacer i used in conjunction with a spare 4 lug hub i modified to mark up the 5 lug rotors to redrill them.

thankfully i have this 250lb monolith of a bench drill press from 1947.

The first rotor went on nicely. Somehow i was like 1mm off on the second one so ill probably just drill the holes larger since it centers to the hub anyway.

Before I assemble the brakes i want have the rotors turned.

 

Nice ride keep going

 

Do you plan on running fender flares with those wheels?

I like those wheels, by the way.

Also, I'm looking forward to seeing a picture of the wheels mounted at the front to get an idea of what the FC subframe offset (front to rear) looks like.

 

thanks! She is coming along!

Ill likely run flares eventually. If I had less of an offset wheels i would be a non issue. I MIGHT be able to use a roller and get things proper though. We shall see.

I have pictures of my 82 rally car. Its also on the FC subframe.

 

Got the car on the ground! Needs a little more lowering up front to match the rear, but I also do not have all the weight on the car yet.

Also managed to score another glass sunroof for 20 bucks from the pull-a-part! Woo!

steering seems finished up. Needs an alignment since it has MASSIVE toe. And the steering wheel is far to close to the dash so ill need a spacer for that.

 

some updates now that I am getting settled into California. FC radiator is in. Made the oil cooler lines. most of the intake and fuel stuff is in. Need to finish off the wiring mostly now. Still plenty of "details" to wrap up though.

End up using the FFE injector spaces since I was missing the little injector atomizer things. Worked quite well I'd say.