My project Audi, never ends..

[Chance91]

This is the car I use for winter. Its an old Audi V8, auto, awd, etc.

Just doing some work on the interior right now, as the old headliner was falling, and the interior is very nice, but ugly in my opinion.

Anyway, doing the headliner in Suede, and the pillars are already done in suede. Adding in more sound deadening in the roof and floorboards/tunnel area, and cleaning things really well. Probably redoing some sections of the seats' leather as a few holes/cracks have appeared in all the seats due to mistreatment by the PO. Working on merging the current gauge cluster with an Audi //S6's dash so I can get the silver trimmed rings and the white gauge faces and such... and searching for the //S6 sport wheel still.

Suspension will come when the interior is back together, I've got a new set of control arms, a number of bushings, a rear subframe to add in a sway bar (S4's had one, V8's didn't) camber plates, still waiting on Koni shocks/ 2Bennette springs, and was contemplating welding the subframes/door frames for a bit of added rigidity, because the car really could use some.

So, here's a few simple pics of the garage as it sits right now, and what I've got

Car as it sits in my Garage..

[Grr]

very nice, i love beater builds

[Chance91]

Grr;288599 wrote:
very nice, i love beater builds

Oh yea, its fun.. nowhere to go but up with a broken down car. Granted, this one is in pretty good shape all around. The V8 have good ratios for stretching its limbs on the freeway.

Spent about 2 hours sanding down that Fiberglass roof. Should be laying the headliner material soon.

[thrash]

+1 on old Audis!

One thing that made a HUGE difference on my B3 platform car was going to solid mounts in the CAs and subframes. 034motorsport has solid aluminum subframe mounts; putting these in took an incredible amount of slop out of the handling. They also had some nice CA bushings. Not sure what their D1/V8 parts are like but its worth a look, and if you don't see anything, the motorgeek.com forums are where the 034 guys hang out and you could certainly ask what they have / what adapts / what they can make for you.

the 3.6L V8 also takes nicely to turbo charging.. there are a couple of bi-turbo V8s with that motor running around the USA

[Chance91]

thrash;288674 wrote:
+1 on old Audis!

One thing that made a HUGE difference on my B3 platform car was going to solid mounts in the CAs and subframes. 034motorsport has solid aluminum subframe mounts; putting these in took an incredible amount of slop out of the handling. They also had some nice CA bushings. Not sure what their D1/V8 parts are like but its worth a look, and if you don't see anything, the motorgeek.com forums are where the 034 guys hang out and you could certainly ask what they have / what adapts / what they can make for you.

the 3.6L V8 also takes nicely to turbo charging.. there are a couple of bi-turbo V8s with that motor running around the USA

Oh, I know, I've seen guys making crap-tons of power with turbos and with centri/roots blowers as well. Wish I could do something like that, but this car isn't a good candidate.

Not sure if you can go solid control arm bushings in my setup? The T44 has a lame front suspension design, and the control arm/swaybar are the only lower mounting structure. its very... odd. to say the least.

I'm on MG often, though. I'll check out 034's stuff again, see if I missed anything.

[Cobra Rob]

3.6 L V8 is tiny what the HP

[thrash]

240hp, 258ft/lbs.

[i.e. more power than most of the 5.0 V8s Ford was putting in Fox mustangs...]

Formula 1 is running 2.4 liter V8s. They are making around 800hp, iirc.

[Chance91]

Cobra Rob;288813 wrote:
3.6 L V8 is tiny what the HP

Yea, it is small. They switched from the 3.6 (89-91) to the 4.2l (92-94and 97-present) later on. Its been redesigned like 4-5times, going from belt to chain driven, and a twin turbo rendition, from radical cams as well, on up to direct injection now.

Good motors, they respond well to intake/upper end mods, heads flow very well, and they like to rev like nuts from the factory.

Also, the motor is all aluminum (audiworld is wrong) and high silicon content block (~15%) which allowed them to acid-treat the cylinder walls, making most of the exposed wall silicon, and incredibly tough/durable, and some motors themselves run past 300k, the rest of the car, another story...

[capitlj]

I'm digging it chance, I almost bought one just like it right after graduation.
+1 for turbos.

thrash;288829 wrote:
[i.e. more power than most of the 5.0 V8s Ford was putting in Fox mustangs...]

Only 15 more but less torque. I imagine it has a higher redline than the 302's 5500.

thrash;288829 wrote:
Formula 1 is running 2.4 liter V8s. They are making around 800hp, iirc.

They make that kind of power by revving the nuts out of them tho.