audi 80 back at it!
Posted by aj_johnson
A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
Pete Remner Mega Moderator Location: Cleveland, Ohio Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 2,022 |
So tempting
 I might take you up on it if it's the MC style manifold and not the early manifold where the wastegate is only fed by cylinder 5. Those suck but they also don't crack.
I'll probably end up making a header anyway, since it's been a long enough time since I fabricated something like that. If I'd done it more recently, I'd still be thinking "Never again... never again!" and $1100 or whatever for the available header would sound pretty cheap. Supposedly it cracks a lot. But also, I never see anybody bothering to support the 20lb+ turbo and downpipe hanging off of a foot long lever made out of 1500F thinwall stainless steel attached to a vibrating engine, so I can understand why cracks would happen. Pete Remner Cleveland, Ohio 1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing) 1978 Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/25/2014 08:57PM by Pete. |
Vittorio Bares Professional Moderator Location: Londonderry, NH Join Date: 04/10/2007 Age: Ancient Posts: 413 Rally Car: Audi 4k (3b conversion) |
Stick with the 10v and get some cheap seat time...in fact with the money you save you can buy new tires - probably better upgrade
2 piece EM - very sexy... Melty injector wires - not so sexy... So did you dump fluids due to a warped head, or did you warp the head due to loss of fluids? and if you lost fluids, out of a expansion plug - how did that happen? |
Grant Hughes Infallible Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
Blocked off hose popped and overheated. Rush fix and likely not burped and overheated again. Grant Hughes |
A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
Pete Remner Mega Moderator Location: Cleveland, Ohio Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 2,022 |
A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
Stripping down and labeling
I swear this is progress 
See these are done! Doing this thing effing right this time, and not using an off the shelf 6 cyl harness adapted to work. Need new pins for the coil section, two injectors that just dont look pretty, a few gaskets, some radiator ducting and some carefully routed coolant lines. And she should be ripping again. Also redoing the dash to better mount guages. |
Vittorio Bares Professional Moderator Location: Londonderry, NH Join Date: 04/10/2007 Age: Ancient Posts: 413 Rally Car: Audi 4k (3b conversion) |
Nice combination of coffee mug, empty beer and water bottle
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A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
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A.J. Johnson Infallible Moderator Location: Pendleton OR Join Date: 01/07/2011 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,381 Rally Car: 88 Audi 80 |
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