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The Red Car
so a few years ago a friend sends me pics of this thing
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and after some back and forth, we decide to trade some junk, and i went up to pack the thing up and take it home, or course its in quite a state!
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we tossed the engine and trans in, literally. cleaned out all the junk and took inventory, and packed it back up
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got the engine in, although its just placed there. more to pack all the stuff up, and then we tucked it in the corner
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planning on doing a pretty much stock rebuild, i scored a radiator and all the intake stuff at the junkyard
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the fun really begins when i come back a couple months later to pick it up and we find this guy, the smell was incredible
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more pics from the packing up and bringing it to my house process. the convertible in the garage is at my house right now getting an REW swap..
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the rats were able to get in through the hole for the engine wiring harness, but then they were kind of stuck, and after pooping on everything, decided to die there....
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and it stunk up my friends trailer for about 6 months before i had space to work on it. we packed it up about March 2016, and then this is at my house in October. overall things are ok, the odometer turns out to read 248,000 and i was hoping for a lower number, and it smells like rats and bad gas, but other than that its just filthy and gross, but body is decent, paint is ok
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Lot of work ahead, good luck! :)
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Originally Posted by hIGGI
(Post 12401863)
Lot of work ahead, good luck! :)
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i tried cleaning a wheel, it came out ok. i wanted to run some Volks or something on this car, but the USA turbo wheels are USA only, and they are big and shiny, so i decided that would be neat
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Not USA only, Europe too
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More, started pulling it apart
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You should burn that carpet. YEEESH
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Originally Posted by djSL
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You should burn that carpet. YEEESH
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it looks like the net step was to pull off the stupid Audi wheels... happily everything is there, and filthy, but in ok shape
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more pics, i wanted to have a good reference before i really pulled it apart... i also did a TON of research about odd things like where the hose clamps go, and just odd things like that
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is it a snake? or a harness? condition was ok, some broken plugs...
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more research, the FC amazes me when you dig into the details, the people who made it really dug deep... there are two kinds of airbox bolts, the late one is the silver early is the gold zinc. this one being an 88, gets the silver ones
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once its stripped down the cleaning starts...
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more cleaning.. i have high hopes at this point, stuff is coming up really nice
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at this point i have some stuff left to clean and put back... or the car threw up
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