S2 Avant into saloon

[dest]

@dest - have you changed your medication recently...

Sell the lovely Avant as is... Use that money to get a rough looking (mechanically sound) Avant donor and a tidy looking (mechanically rough) B4 Sedan - THAT is the best path to enlightenment.

Id have to rebuy a lot of bits that Ive already got though!
Shocks, boost hoses, brakes, wheels etc etc
I know mine is mechanically sound, where as buying a different cheap avant could open up tons of extra costs sorting out problems with it.
Where as, at the moment all I would need is a saloon and maybe some different springs due to the rates

[Skull]

The rear avat seats are a no go dor the saloon btw...

[Al Wyn]

Theres a chappy name of James who lives on the Isle of Wight (not terrybullwon) who is/was `making` a S2 saloon... not heard anything of him for a while (maybe a year or so) but when i popped over there he had done loads of research on the correct parts and had a few donor cars at his garage with various parts being trialed and errored. Im pretty sure that James (terrybullwon) would know how far hed actually got with the project.

[lind4hl]

Jamo:

If you are going to put in so muich time and effort to do that, i would rather build new from scratch with right rollcenter/caster/camber/kingpin etc. etc.


Back to topic though!

[Jamo]

I wonder when someone will put the dual wishbone front suspenders from a B5/6/7 into a B3 or B4 - that could be fun

Scary, I have been thinking about whether this could be done for sometime now!!!

[Rusty]

Alpinweiss =

[S2central.net]

@dest - have you changed your medication recently...

Sell the lovely Avant as is... Use that money to get a rough looking (mechanically sound) Avant donor and a tidy looking (mechanically rough) B4 Sedan - THAT is the best path to enlightenment.

[S2central.net]

Hate to say it - but the B4 rear suspenders are superior to B3... feels more planted somehow - even my tired old saloon shows that (over my tired old coupe)...

The rear of B4 made its way into B5 and stayed essentially the same thru to B7 including the RS4 - so that says a lot.

I wonder when someone will put the dual wishbone front suspenders from a B5/6/7 into a B3 or B4 - that could be fun

[dest]

Getting the engine mounts swapped from my avant would not be an issue atall.
My regular tuner would be able to do it no problem, and has a plasma torch too

[dest]

Basically, if the S2 saloon was sold in the uk, that is what I would of originally bought.
As it is a relatively easy thing to create, then it is something I would LOVE to do.
Literally the only thing stopping me is having somewhere to do it, but I do now have access to a single (but big) garage which also has storage for parts during the swap.

Hmmmm!! It is VERY tempting.
Budget is obviously a big part of things, as would have to buy the saloon, but then if the engine is good it could be sold, along with interior, bumpers etc etc to help with further funding. Then just need the bumpers sprayed to match the car.

Now to find a really cheap quattro saloon with dead engine, preferably in white

[Rusty]

I posted something about this up a few months ago, seems that it'sa matter of getting the engine mounts cut off and swapped (or new panels welded in) and then swap everything across. Nice idea if you can get hold of a decent B4 quattro base car. Starting with a B3 90q is saves on welding but the B3 is the same as the coupe (as above) and stuggles with large wheels and tyres due to the different arch profiles. Could always start with a typ85 90q

Edit:- here's the linky.

[S2central.net]

Engine mounts are your only grief as there wasnt a 5 cyl version of the B4 sedan sold in the UK... But this can be solved with suitable mounts from the front of a 5 cyl coupe or avant donor...

Is this the new plan dest ?

[Jamo]

Speak to Jas11n he investigated this and it is basically near enough bolt on

[Jamo]

You would need coupe suspension...

So an Audi 80 donor shell and a S2 coupe donor for bits...

no, no, no Avant subframes and suspension all the way

[dest]

Thats what I thought! Was rather confused at that lol
So really, its a case of unbolting everything off the avant and swapping it over? (Apart from engine mounts)