Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Parts Hoarding! Shiny!

Today my friend Chris came over to swap N75 valves (in order to help diagnose his sporadic boost) with the Avant. We also reoriented an exhaust clamp that was rubbing on the trans brace. He also helped me push the s4 in under the tent, and we started installing the turbos.
I realized I wanted to replace the exhaust manifold gaskets, so the turbos got put on hold for a minute while I removed, cleaned, and reinstalled with new gaskets and hardware. Passenger turbo is all in, just need to torque the 3 manifold to turbo bolts. Driver turbo is all in except for those same 3 bolts and one coolant banjo bolt.
Old vs. new

I later got the manifolds all buttoned up and then the turbos both on with all new crush washers and oil return line gaskets, and clamps for the wastegate lines.
Downpipes came!
A quick mock-up
Decided to cut them and hold off on extending them until I see how they fit in the car
OE LUK RS4 clutch came!
And my billet steel flywheel from TTV Racing came all the way from the UK. It’s gorgeous.
I also picked up a ton of parts at the junkyard: B6 3.0 exhaust (chopped up a bit to fit in the car), an A/C line, fuel return line, mk4 sun visor for the wife, mk3 glove box for a friend, wood trim coin tray for my car, and wiring harness from a 2.7t, as well as wiring from a B6 which I dropped off to get made into a jumper harness to make the 2.7t ecu work in the B6.


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