Ant's Cq 20v - rebuild and upgrade

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:24 pm

Ant what was the damage on the TR-1's out of interest, plus where did you get them?
cheers
Darryl

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:35 am

£270 not fitted a good privce i thought, got them from tyre traders.

took the car to the garage where i'm working on it today. going down tomorrow to start work on it, starting with fitting the new black interior

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:15 pm

I thought you was leaving the interior out as it would be a track day car?

Still at least progress is good and I take it that the cars now at the motor club? Will you be getting your spare room back sometime soon Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:24 pm

no it was always keeping the interior, dont rly like driving stripped out cars. the car is at the motor club yeah, dont suppose we'll be getting the spare room back any time soon though Laughing

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:37 pm

so stiglet's down there doing all the work and your here online. Nice trade off. Laughing

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:43 pm

doing what work??

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:43 pm

He said he was down there with the car when I text him just now Confused

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:48 pm

lol nah hes here, were going down in a bit, hes working on his car neway...
hes giving me a hand to take the engine out tomo tho, decided to leave the interior till last, remembered a couple of bits i still need, btw do you have the heater control facia?? i need a non air-con one, also need the two rubber grommet/bungs from either side of the boot floor if you have them from the coupe your breaking?? also want a bee sting arial and poss a passenger door handle in good cond......

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:52 pm

Got the heater controls so thats no problem Laughing

i'll check on the rest, might have.....

Whats the plans for the engine?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 1:56 pm

nothing, just need to replace the gearbox and the steering rack and re-locate the battery so figured taking the engine out was the easiest option..... may give it a clean, maybe some paint ect....

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:35 pm

thought i'd post some pics, spent an hour or so taking some parts off the car.

This was as it started the day at the university motor club.

and after a bit of work.

Also i know someone asked me about the rear electric windows so i took a couple of pictures.

Ant

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:48 pm

Good start to the day, still not 100% sure about security etc down there against chav's, you should try rob the cover thats on the bmw near there, chuck some tarpaulin over it then it will be sorted.

Whats next? get it up in the air and the engine removed?

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:59 pm

yeah thats the plan, hopefully go down and label the wiring loom tonight and remove it tomo, maybe get the gearbox ans supension off too if theres time

Ant

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:09 am

looks like another red Audi in need of the G3 touch! Rolling Eyes

should be good though once done Wink

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:43 pm

Thought i'd post an update on this one, unfortunately my final year project has been taking up almost all of my time so the quattro has been taking a back seat for a while but on sunday i managed to get down to the garage and do some work, the rear subframe i managed to get off not long after i took it down there so i moved from under the car and separated it into its separate parts, down to hubs, driveshafts, diff. then burnt out the subframe bushes ready for the nice new ali ones Very Happy

i also managed to take out the battery tray, not as difficult as it looks actually. so a reasonably productive day.
today i managed to spend the afternoon down there too and got the engine and gearbox out so its all well on the way now, only things left on the bottom of the car are handbrake cables, fuel lines and brake lines so just waiting for some cash so i can buy some POR 15 and then its time to start bolting things back on Cool

in the mean time there is plenty to do in the engine bay and inside, need to replace the steering rack and do my vacuum assist conversion, then inside its dash out, carpet out, remove air-con heaters and controls, fit black carpet then put it all back together....

on a side note, for the vacuum assist i picked up a pipe that was lying about my mates house from his old octavia tdi, it fits PERFECTLY into the 20v intake mani and has perfect angles and length to worm its way to the assist bit!! Bonus!! Very Happy

Ant

Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:38 pm

well, i have had a change of heart the last few days and decided to to the 20v turbo route so bagged myself a 3B this morning Very Happy

its got a ported and polished head, unknown cams, stainless exhaust mani and when using a manual boost controller was running well over 300 so i'm told. that went off the 1.5 bar boost gauge tho Confused

i'll be running stock n75 tho so back down to whatever the stock is lol. plan is to get it in and running first, then start modding. first is to get rid of the stainless manifold as it puts the turbo at an 'off' angle so the airbox has to go. the downpipe has also been chopped up and rewelded quite a few times so dont suppose its terribly good flowing.

after market intercooler also with 7a cross member so i think rs2 intercooler is the next port of call. basically taking it back to stock parts, but from rs2.

also now my uni course is finnished i have a week off to get some work done, however i got a call on friday about a possible job and ringing back on monday so may be going straight to work lol.

Ant

Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:52 pm

well i have had a very porductive few days, went from having no suspension/drivetrain/brakes or engine to having everything except a clutch line (5 speed and 6 speed are a different shape, just havn't got round to bending it), a propshaft (just haven't done it yet), and the front driveshafts. the front driveshafts have actually been a real issue as the garage that pressed the new front bearings in managed to trash the splines on the hub Evil or Very Mad

but its back on its wheels and am pleased to report that the DSY box mates to a 7a with no mods to the bell housing, and 90% if not all the bolts line up! only issue is with the linkage as the DSY differs from the S2 box but only needs a spacer for 1 of the bolts. there is slight interfereance with the stainless exhaust but no biggy.
the best bit is that the avant handbrakes fit on Very Happy

there is some extra cable tho, and unless you buy new brake lines then the calipers need to be fitted on opposite sides which makes bleeding them annoying as they must be off the car. the other issue is that the distance between the hanbrake lever and the cable mounts is longer on a coupe, this means that the handbrake is basically constantly engaged Sad

but i expect that a 'spacer' of sorts can solve this very easily. i will try and get some of these made up.
you may be wondering why all the effort since the avant brakes are virtually identical.....well yes, they are but the avant brakes share the same handbrake mechanism as the S4 brakes do so i will be fitting the 300mm rear conversion in due course without needing to grind the discs down to 280mm Very Happy

the car is being trailord down to its new home tomorrow and will hopefully be back on the road as soon as i can afford insurance....which may be a while as i currently dont have a job lol

Ant