Alright Thought it was time to let you all in on my project. What I have is a Standard US spec 91 Coupe Quattro with the stock 7A engine and 01A. The motor has seen better days, It's at 275k miles and has lost a ton of power and is on the way out. The project came to be over a year and a half ago when a friend called My dad and said there has a V8q at the local junk yard. Well after 4 days in the july sun fighting the motor I had myself a 195k mile beaten up PT motor. Took it home where it sat till august when I decided to take a look see at it and popped the intake manifold off. The inside of that manifold scared me. It was filled with oil and gas(after sitting in the yard for a month and sitting in my garage for another) so I continued to remove the heads and found the pistons covered in about an 3mm's of black carbon. SO a newer much cleaner PT was sourced.
So that brings me to the newest motor a 130k mile PT. Well that came out of a very clean 91 V8q that got t-boned. So I then began looking into transmission options and suspension, brakes, turbo's you now the fun stuff. I found a guy online that was in the process of bringing over a bunch of 01E 5 and 6 speed transmissions. I did my reasearch and decided that a DQT code transmission would be about the right gearing for me, 8 months later I had my DQT 01E and it sits in my storage unit awaiting it's new home. In the mean time of waiting for the transmission to arrive I picked up some Porsche 996 rear calipers from Billzcat1 when he had a big clearing house sale. So I made up some hats to work with wilwood 328 by 25.5mm rotors. For the rear I had planned on running 04 S4 calipers, but after looking into the costs of maching brackets and fittings I decided on S8 carriers with girling g43 calipers clamping down on a 2 pc. wilwood 300mm by 22mm rotor.
After sorting the brakes I turned to the fact that all the brakes were setup for 5-112 hubs. I got those from a GB on them through another forum. So that brought me to the suspension, my car was in need of a rebuild as I had completely bone stock everything on the car. I got myself some coil-over sleeves and hardware, the springs are still to come once a spring rate is picked. I basically am just using the stock body and interior as I am redoing everything else. The rear will get just as much attention as the front does with a torsen going out back to feed power to the 255-40-17 rubber that is soon to reside on all four corners. Also with all the fun bits in the drivetrain I had to address some of the cars cosmetics that had aged or been damaged. The tail lights got replaced with Treser units, the head lights with Vortex daul round conversion units. The front bumper will be a fiberglass RS2 unit with S2 foglights and signals. completeing the look the upper turnsignals will be deleted and used as inlets to a set of custom airboxes to feed the V8 monster soon to breather under the hood.
Now that I have out lined the basics of my project now comes the parts I need a little help filling in. I have been having a very hard time finding the shift linkage I need for my car. I have nothing for it considering the 6-speed came from a a6. If any one has pictures that would help out a ton. Also if there is one for sale that some one knows of please let me know. The next hurdle I face is the fact that my local government (city/town) has been all over me this year for vehicle violations. In our town it is illegal to have a vehicle on your PRIVATE property that is not licensed insured and capable of running under it's own power. Hopefully I'll have a shop in a week (leasing argeements in the works).
So that brings me to the newest motor a 130k mile PT. Well that came out of a very clean 91 V8q that got t-boned. So I then began looking into transmission options and suspension, brakes, turbo's you now the fun stuff. I found a guy online that was in the process of bringing over a bunch of 01E 5 and 6 speed transmissions. I did my reasearch and decided that a DQT code transmission would be about the right gearing for me, 8 months later I had my DQT 01E and it sits in my storage unit awaiting it's new home. In the mean time of waiting for the transmission to arrive I picked up some Porsche 996 rear calipers from Billzcat1 when he had a big clearing house sale. So I made up some hats to work with wilwood 328 by 25.5mm rotors. For the rear I had planned on running 04 S4 calipers, but after looking into the costs of maching brackets and fittings I decided on S8 carriers with girling g43 calipers clamping down on a 2 pc. wilwood 300mm by 22mm rotor.
After sorting the brakes I turned to the fact that all the brakes were setup for 5-112 hubs. I got those from a GB on them through another forum. So that brought me to the suspension, my car was in need of a rebuild as I had completely bone stock everything on the car. I got myself some coil-over sleeves and hardware, the springs are still to come once a spring rate is picked. I basically am just using the stock body and interior as I am redoing everything else. The rear will get just as much attention as the front does with a torsen going out back to feed power to the 255-40-17 rubber that is soon to reside on all four corners. Also with all the fun bits in the drivetrain I had to address some of the cars cosmetics that had aged or been damaged. The tail lights got replaced with Treser units, the head lights with Vortex daul round conversion units. The front bumper will be a fiberglass RS2 unit with S2 foglights and signals. completeing the look the upper turnsignals will be deleted and used as inlets to a set of custom airboxes to feed the V8 monster soon to breather under the hood.
Now that I have out lined the basics of my project now comes the parts I need a little help filling in. I have been having a very hard time finding the shift linkage I need for my car. I have nothing for it considering the 6-speed came from a a6. If any one has pictures that would help out a ton. Also if there is one for sale that some one knows of please let me know. The next hurdle I face is the fact that my local government (city/town) has been all over me this year for vehicle violations. In our town it is illegal to have a vehicle on your PRIVATE property that is not licensed insured and capable of running under it's own power. Hopefully I'll have a shop in a week (leasing argeements in the works).
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