My Pelican blue 80

[Stoozy]

This car looks great!

[Mach.003]

Hi, I could ask for involvement 2000 A6 C5 diesel cluster in B4.

[Henkjan]

always a joy when this topic is updated

btw: can you give some details on the "BMW battery terminal"?

[quattrostyle]

All very tasteful mods, car gets better everytime

[macspring]

Great / interesting update with photos as 'usual'.

Thanks.

[mdz]

6,5k kilometers already done with 1.8T and smile from my face still hasn't disappeared. Every penny and second put into building engine was well worth it, it works just like new, had no major problems with it.
Thermostat was crap (Gates IIRC), but I replaced it with Mahle one which works well. My old front radiator turned out to be too small so I bought new bigger radiator with dual fans:


Did first oil change @ 1k kms and went for way bigger oil filter just to have some more oil in engine (~0,5l) - OC105 from VW T4 van:



Oil catch can with BMW battery terminal right next to it:



N75 valve from TFSI engine. It was 12eur for new Pierburg so i decided to give it a shot. It doesn't fit in original place, hoses and connector doesn't fit. So I made up a bracket, modified tubing and swapped connector housing. Works good.



70mm downpipe with cone reducing to original 50 or 55mm (don't remember exactly) exhaust diameter. Along with drivetrain swap rest of exhaust system will be upgraded to 60mm.




1Z TDI airbox with modified MAF outlet angle:



And engine at the moment



While ago I got S3 injectors (386cc @3bar) and to fit them I needed different injector seats so I got spare inlet manifold, gasket matched and ported it, installed new injector seats and painted it black.





Fitted injectors, modified software and they works as they should

And then I did my first remap. Now boost is ~0.95bar instead of 0.5, some more fuel an it goes very well. There's still lots of work to be done, but for first time remapping an engine I think I'm doing good an I'm very happy with the result.

And then the winter came

[waveydavey]

Thanks mate.

[mdz]

8D0 854 955 B for ring
8A0 854 953 for cover

[waveydavey]

These rings are going in holes. 4 on each side. They are NLA for B4, but B5 S4 has almost the same rings (thanks to Skull and Saltinot for confirming this) and still available. Bought more than necessary as suggested in thread I posted while ago as they can be broken easily.



Little bit of surgery



And they're in. Fits perfectly



These covers has to pushed through rings and turned by ~45° to lock. Same part for B4 and B5 S.

Do you remember the part numbers for these two parts?

Cheers

David

[hunker7]

next up *cough* quattro *cough*

[Typ89]

Nice! looks like a very clean setup.

[archiijs]

Hi mdz, your youtube video is private
But lookin real nice.

EDIT: now video seems to work fine

[mdz]

Hello from the boosted side
Engine is now in and fired it up last night.



Poor idle because of open vacuum outlet in intake manifold. Plugged it today and it idles good @800rpm



Still some work left on intake, exhaust and cooling. I'm very busy at the moment so more pictures and details will follow later.

[mdz]

It was 50eur for whole reflector and was done by local car restoration shop.

[RichLV]

50 eur per sphere, if it was done by hroms.lv.