Hey all, I havent been on here because I've been out of the country for the past month or so... anyways I been back a week and I managed to kill another aeb... (I'm hogging the aeb supply sorry guys)

What happened this time was I nvr replaced the crank gear bolt, instead I put it on with te red legtight and an impact wrench. Well i guess they say replace that bolt for a reason because the gear came loose, stripped its keyway, and slipped a buncha teeth on the timing belt. a couple valve broke off and went went through the piston valve stem first (Just when I thought I had seen it all)
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Anyways I cant deal with this on a college budget so I have decided to demod the car, and sell it stock or as close to stock as possible, and buy a dedicated prjoect car, and a dedicated daily driver (outback or forester). I bought the project car yesterday, which is my daily driver until the audi is gone...here she is Project 400AWHP BITCH BASKET
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she will be getting this initially

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Motor on left
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and the bigger turbo in the pic (Hx40) the smaller is what was in the audi (Hx35)
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This time the motor will be built by a pro, and the tuning will also be done by a pro so i dont hafta worry about my learning curve.

Needless to say I'll still be on here for a while as its gonna take ages to demod this thing!

 

Wow!! Never seen a valve do that!!!

 

I mean if you're not going to touch the engine in the "project car" to begin with, why not keep the Audi? VW cheaper to tune, I guess?

 

its sad to see you leave the b5 scene.

 

man, good luck with everything. Lots of work and lots of time. I bet it will turn out sweet!

 

I'll def be back in the b5 scene after school, prolly with a big turbo s4 though, just gonna take a short hiatius (sp?)

 

the audi is gone

 

YGM

 

cabbies can be fun though =)


My roomates was slow as ****, but all be damned if it didnt over or understeer at all.

You could just ****** the wheel around corners, and it would slow itself down just enough to take it.


Blast to drive.






despite the ultimate slowness (which is a problem you apparently are going to deal with)

 

I guess I don't get it. The rabbit won't do as a workmobile? Or you can't pay for the rabbit?