Pearl white coupe revival

[ottawa coupe]

Progress! However minor.

got the license plate light sorted from someone down south. It works great. I THINK i have everything sorted such that upon reassembly i will pass safety inspections.

Tomorrow i get someone coming by to look at the condition of the shell to the aim of getting a better quote for paint.

I was SO close to finishing the brake adapters for my s6 but then all of the 30yo electrical decided to pack it in on my mill. So going to find the bottom of that rabbit hole and build a whole new controller and replace the remaining steppers. I got a taste of making stuff i want and now i want more lol. 17z adapters for this and some sort of seat mounting bracket are on the short list of things to make. Maybe 12v turbo stuff gets added once i am up and running consistently lol.

[ottawa coupe]

So i have been chasing down answers and poking around sale ads and ebay listings....

The whole ghetto 12vt is actually not terrible lol. Turns out the 12v bottom end is quite stout? And could easily absorb the max 300hp i'd chase. 2.7t mls head gaskets appear to fit so i could stack multiple inner layers up to drop compression into the 9s. Ghetto AF but i did it with a 16vt racecar running 25psi for years. A spare engine harness is all of $100 on ebay and there's a guy literally 5kms down the road who's got a pair of b5 s4 turbos in decent shape for $150.

All i would need to figure out is what is wrong with my vems, deal with the 6th injector channel and get a second o2 input sorted....

Very tempting cheap thrills lol

We'll see what next week brings in terms of paint quotes and timelines.....

[ottawa coupe]

Got someone coming by to look at the car on monday to get me a quote. If i hqve time, i'm hoping to bring it to another shop so they can look at it too.

Got the mill working again so i am back to making brake adapters. Getting better at it, i need to write down a checklist though as there's a few things that fusion automatically puts into the program that i need to take out or bad things happen, like after the program ends, it tries to drag my $75 carbide bit through the part and bends it . I really need to get the limit switches working

Now for developments on this actual car..... lack of sleep is bad for the creation of bad ideas. I have an old vems for my s6. It bricked and i am going the speed density motronic route for that car now. The AAN is sequential ignition and injection. The AAH is sequential injection but batch fire ignition. Meaning i would only need to ensure the vems has the one extra channel to run a 6th injector to get it working on the AAH. Get a coupla k03s from some 1.8ts in the scrap yard, weld some pipes together, make a cheap 250/300hp??? Surely even the stock rods could handle 50hp/cylinder??

I mean, it would probably add a year to the project but could be fun??? Besides, this'll feel very slow in the face of the 400hp the s6 is about to get???

[ottawa coupe]

What would you do?

Finally getting some numbers back from bodyshops for painting the car. $10,000 starting....

A buddy said he could do it at my house for 1000 plus supplies, which will be around 3000 nowdays. But the product would be lower qualityfor a host of reasons. plus he's got all kinds of things going on which makes it hard to get it done.

These numbers are a lot higher than i thought they'd be.

maybe i dive back into the fun greasy stuff and go straight to 2.7t....

Edit: it gets crazier. In these parts, it's widely acknowledged the audi dealer has the best bodyshop in town. 15-20k and they are booked till next spring.

now, that would be a better than oe result but damn...

but if i decided i wanted to knock this outta the park???? Let's go find an a6 2.7?????

The man math at work here is that DIY in my garage is a good chunk of change no matter what so maybe the lower quality is not worth the savings..... so, maybe a pro is actually worth it.

[ottawa coupe]

Well, i've burned thru 3 blanks but i have one of the urs adapters made. Fits well too. Hopefully the second will be done tomorrow and then i will be able to swap s6 with coupe in the workshop. Still learning on the mill. Much crashing, endmill shatter... such fun lol.

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[ottawa coupe]

Still no work done on the coupe as i am FINALLY getting to my mill. The learning curve has been vertical but i got the first side of the urs brake caliper adapter done yesterday. This was the second attempt as on my first, the clamping failed and i returned from the grocery store with it on the garage floor......

One thing this experience has revealed: we pay a hell of a markup on BBKs. The raw material cost me just under $10 each cut to length. I got 6 of them anticipating screw ups.

my only other observation is holy crap this makes a mess! Especially with coolant. My machine is not enclosed but boy to i need to do something about that. The front corner of my shop is now treacherous as i woke up to it reading -25 outside. Not the greatest seal on the door so all the coolant spray has frozen on the floor....

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In coupe relevent developments, wives are funny.... as of the temporary shelter's demise, i have shuffled the coupe into the house garage while i work on the urs in the shop. My wife really hasn't seen it before. Had a chat yesterday and it went sorta like this: "i've never really seen that car before, it's actually quite nice, are you still painting it white?"

suddenly she's all invested in colour selection lol.

i'm hoping to have the urs brakes sorted in the next few days. Maybe by the weekend i have shuffled cars again and i can get back to work on this.... if i have 2 blanks left, i may just make the 17z adapters for this too.

[ottawa coupe]

Well, dodged a bullet. My temporary garage collapsed under st snow load. Thankfully, i was able to squeeze the car into the workshop beforehand....

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[ottawa coupe]

No actual progress other than the bulb trays have arrived. I decided to buy new from tradition as it turns out the ebay ones are coming from ukraine. Didn't see that little detail before i pulled the trigger. So who the hell knows when i will get them. Oops.

I have tracked down a license plate light thankfully.

this is taking temporary move to the back burner as i get some work done on my s6 and racecar.

But i must say i hope for 2 things on this project now: i hope it is done by the fall and that next winter is like this winter. Which is to say: this winter is the first one in a while that has been a properly classic canadian one. There's 20+cm of snow on the ground, it's been consistently cold and there's another 20-30 coming tonight. If it were a coupla degrees cooler in december, there'd easily be 2 feet on the ground.

basically the perfect winter for this classic donut machine. I hope next winter is just as good for it lol.

[ottawa coupe]

Well, i believe things have woken up to an acceptable extent. I still need to dig out all the door lock parts though.

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The last electrical booboo is the license plate light. Thar be dragons left by the previous owner.

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the wiring is fixable but does anyone have the coupe specific plate light they wanna sell me? Thankfully it is the same worldwide but still, coupe specific so none found either on ebay or tradition.

the part number is 895 942 021

failing that maybe some sort of adhesive led strip would work? I don't want to just leave a bulb in there like they did as it will melt things eventually....

[ottawa coupe]

Well progress. Fixed battery connections and i have 12v getting to all the corners for the lights. There's a short harness that goes from the main bulb tray to the outermost bulbs on the rear lights. Anyone happen to have a part number or better yet, a pair of them? The terminals in them are QUITE dead. Front running lights issue was because both 5w filaments were broken....

a handful of other switches to look at and then i'll simply check for power at various points and it SHOULD be ok. The rear lighting just took a serious beating due to leaks it seems.

getting somewhere, finally.

[ottawa coupe]

So, i started poking away and i am just getting frustrated. I am pretty sure my batttery connections are less than stellar, i'll sort that tonight. But i am having problems with lights. Turn signals, low and high beams work but running lights and fogs aren't . This is weird because i didn't touch that stuff at all. I am going to have a few hours this weekend with no one at home so i am going to just dig in. I am still missing rear bulb trays so maybe that's part of it.

frustrating as this is just taking far too long now lol.

[ottawa coupe]

Thought i was getting better but suddenly another week has passed and nothing done cuz i've been half dead.... cautiously optimistic i am finally on the mend....

while everything is on the bench, i was thinking it might be a decent idea to clean up the light switch/wiper stalk assembly. What grease is used inside? Is it regular dielectric or is it something else?

Thanks

[ottawa coupe]

Well, i've spent that last week in bed with nasty bug, finally starting to feel human again. No progress in that time except to say damnit on the bulb trays from tradition. Shoulda thought of that. I paid the same price on ebay for used and it's going to be at least a month before they get here.....

gonna try to get back into this but i gotta put some time in with the family and work first.....

[hashluck]

vodka fueled w12 fever dream over, i am back working on what i have. a big issue i have is that the contacts for the tail lights are severely corroded, as are the bulb holders. luckily i ran across a pair of bulb holders on ebay for a reasonable cost. where can i find the part numbers for the female contacts in the connectors? i think it may be just better to replace them. i have been vigorously subjecting them to vinegar/salt solution in an ultrasonic cleaner and lots of junk is coming off but a significant amount of plating has degraded as well. if i have everything on a table, i may as well fix it all?

i have separated the coupe wiper stalk so that i can transfer that wiring into what i am using. slowly getting it all worked out but it definitely seems to be a bigger hill than i initially thought..... that said i am glad i am doing it now as opposed to after putting it in the car!

Me too, worth the investment ONCE you have cured any water leaks!

[newsh]

Goor work man!

Just FWIW, the coupe rear cluster bulb holders are available on Tradition, I got myself a pair in one of the GBs last year.