83 Ur Quattro 20v build

[Blagave]

Fresh deck machining on your block
Next the block will get Main bearings journals with new ARP studs will be line honed for straightness and slight added bearing clearance and of course it will be digital honed with a torque plate to the new piston size and clearance specs. Will be .020 oversize or .5 mm. 81.5 bore when finished. Can't have any decent motor without fresh bores.

[Blagave]

Jeff has been busy on the engine. All 5 chambers have been re-worked. The chamber face work let's flow start unobstructed as soon as valve cracks open and continue till back on its seat. Head goes out next for porting and mill work.

[Blagave]

Started fitting the Coupe GT dash around roll cage. Everything has gone very well and only minimum notching was done and glove box and drivers shelf all fit great and work properly. In order to make the dash come in and out with windshield in I cut the window side corner dash pieces and made the pieces so they could reattach by magnets, the speaker grills will tie it all together when finished.

[Blagave]

Finished up the underside and heat shields.

[Blagave]

Purchased new heat shield material and heat insulation to wrap the original heat shields on the car.

[Blagave]

After finishing the rust repair, I wired brushed any areas where the undercoating was nicked and used a sealer/undercoating to patch the areas and then sprayed the entire bottom with a undercoating.

[Filip_FIN]

Wow things are moving fast with this project, keep going man, interesting thread to follow

[Blagave]

The things you do to get your engine built by the best. After fully dissembling the engine and then taking the block, head, oil pan a few other pieces to be fully cleaned and broken down. I reassembled the motor and built a metal cradle for the engine to sit in and then built a over kill box for everything to be shipped in. I am exhausted, but happy to finally get the motor sent off.

[Blagave]

Good work on the sunroof, it's really tricky welding in a new panel without distorting the roof, the trick is keep the welds short, no more than an inch and pulse weld, let them cool and work in a criss cross pattern, even then it's unpredictable.

I'm quite tempted to do away with sunroof fitted to my B3 80 project as I seem to recall the whole assembly is over 15kg's, though I don't want to do anything ireversable so would probably simply make a thin alloy pannel to stick over the opening.

That 928 conversion looks pretty crazy, is that a Hemmi or LS engine? I'm not too clued up on US engines.

Thanks,

LS3 E-Rod with Vortex Supercharger married to a 6 speed Z06......Too much hp for the size tire that could be fitted without flaring.....car would go side ways at 50 just accelerating hard. Sold to a guy who had quite a few other LS swaps in his garage.

[K Simmonds]

Good work on the sunroof, it's really tricky welding in a new panel without distorting the roof, the trick is keep the welds short, no more than an inch and pulse weld, let them cool and work in a criss cross pattern, even then it's unpredictable.

I'm quite tempted to do away with sunroof fitted to my B3 80 project as I seem to recall the whole assembly is over 15kg's, though I don't want to do anything ireversable so would probably simply make a thin alloy pannel to stick over the opening.

That 928 conversion looks pretty crazy, is that a Hemmi or LS engine? I'm not too clued up on US engines.

[Filip_FIN]

Wow ! looking really good , keep up the good work !

[Blagave]

Got my Porsche 996 calipers back from powder paint and rebuilt with new seals and pistons. AndyP here in the forum is making front and rear mounts along with parking brake mounts, which is very much appreciated, since the mounts are not available.

[Blagave]

Started sunroof delete. I used the stock sunroof as a template and added tape to make the exact pattern. I spent almost 2 hours tack welding and using shop air to cool between tachs and still got som shrinkage and minimal warp. I have to give the pros credit on how they do this and it turns out perfect. In the end, the body/paint guy will have a little extra work to make perfect.

[Blagave]

Made a make shift pressure washing booth to clean engine bay and underside. Worked great, but not a fun job

[Blagave]

Trunk section.