90SQ

Doing carbon clean on the long easter week end and a small plastic tumbler, i supose, fell out of my intake when i turned it over on the work bench so i guess i'm in need fore a new one.

Is Jim ellis the cheapest way to go at 1764$ or anybody know one at a lower cost?

Car is '08 S8

BASARAB

I bought one from audiusaparts.com for $1560. Contact them to see if they will sell it to you for that price

90SQ

Thanks, just sent them a message...they have it listed at 1719.90$, will see if they offer me the same deal you got.

-Treser-

90SQ in case you use the walnut blaster technique for cleaning the carbon did you also find the special attachment tool that fits onto the inlet ports of the manifold or did you make your own. I seen some for BMW but imagine they don't fit perfectly.
Did you also check the inside of the manifold with a camera probe to figure out where this part came from. Seems very extreme solution you have to buy a whole new manifold due a plastic part that broke of.

90SQ

No, i went with brake cleaner soaking them for 30min each than drill with zip ties for the big gunk, wash dry with brake cleaner, scrape dry carbon with screw driver then big pic, than small pick, and finish off with brake cleaner on tooth brush. Once the primary soaking is done takes me around 10 15min per hole and end result is perfect.

After reading your post i had descide to reinspect the intake more carefully and whil inspecting it a flap fell out of it so back to purchase on a new one.

90SQ

Talked to Mike and he said the price you paid was a 1 time deal back in november.

So they still are the lowest costing ones over Jim Ellis at 60$ - with shipping quote but still a big chunk of money at 1719.90$ before 163$ shipping quote.(roughly 2500$ cad for me at the current rate + 10% taxe on that upon reception).

PaulW

90SQ: Post a picture before and after and let us know how many miles on your car. Thanks!

90SQ

Car has 140k km and i suspect cleaning has already been done before. Now trying to get the injectors out so can get them cleaned.

Sorry only bad cell pics.

EHLO

Don't risk damaging the O rings by removing the injectors, instead just clean using PEA with something like Redline SI-1.

If you don't mind sacrificing torque over 4K RPM (4.5K under load), some people have just removed the broken intake flap system.

Here's a tool to make sand blasting easier, etc.;
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...eaning-Adapter
https://www.audiworld.com/forums/a8-...intake-2943261
https://www.harborfreight.com/portab...kit-37025.html

Turbo Tony

The same thing happened to me and I bought a new intake manifold from AudiUSAParts. Good luck!