UrS6 Saloon restoration

[Wrath]

Thanks,

Going to film something later on and put up here, just check back in a couple of days

[quattrostyle]

cool! Can't wait to hear the sound

[Wrath]

More updates

Had a garage day today with my friends and of course i forgot my camera AGAIN
But some i think i must share some pictures anyway...

Changed my alternator today and took a picture of my carbon fiber vinyl wrapped parts for the egine bay that ive been testing for 2 weeks now, still havent wrinkled of the heat, im impressed... just bought some vinyl to see how it´s gonna look, then i´ll do the real deal and carbon skinn them. Took the carbon spark plug cover off to clear coat it as it´s get more depth in it

And also this is the inside, neet and tidy:









mmm this baby will last a longer time then a used one i hope.



Took some better picture of the exhaust system but don´t have them yet...

But this is how it looks... going to fine tune the right one as it´s a few mm lower and the left one sticks out 4mm to much and so... but a custom bracket for the custom floor got real nice.











The hole my friend took up looked really good, nice to have friends that´handy and want to help out.







And the sounds is mindblowing, sounds like a 911 turbo or something, really deep dark tone with that crispy 5 cylinder noise...

Going to upload some sound files later on... and the best is that it´s no resonance at all and quiet on the road when cruising Just gonna drive around tomorrow and smile

[Wrath]

Thanks guys !

Macspring: The thing is that I polish car for a hobby so I can make a 20 old car look stunning without to respray, or you could respray it in a garage and then wetsanding it to a mirror. Did a buddie of mines S6 Avant that was Ming blue pearl... my god 17 years without polishing, took me like 14 hours but the result was stunning. But sometimes you just spray away the problem, the small extra stuff have alot of friends that´s working as painter, tyreguys, mechanics and so on so have always help with bigger jobs as alignment an such. gonna upload a picture of the wrinkle that i was thinking of, just a small hint picture and nothing that you see really how it looks, but red on black is nice ! Really like Thuppu´s black wrinkle but would look kinda off on a black car. Did my valvecover same color as the car first and that looked like crap

Wrinkle:




Buddies S6 Avant under treatment...







Wasen´t in the best condition, therefore he cried every time he washed it, i can understand him... but nothing that i couldnt fix





First run with Menzerna Power Finnish, had to run it with 3M Fast Cut Plus on some spots aswell alot of wetsanding 4000, 3000 and some 1200



After that and some runs with Menzerna Super Finnish it should look like this... Wow a different color



Also my friend had some rust on the hatch so he told me that he was going to repaint it friday (was taking on the car on saturday) My god but hey at least the paint is soft. Also he said to me that he never did it before , but i just told him to use alot of clear top coat you can save alot with wetsanding and polish.

The mirror looking part looked like the lower part before... just a big blur




After:



I didn´t do the rear spoiler so much as it was in really bad shape, you can even see the scratches on the photo... he had a dog so

Same problem there with my camera (used my 3GS instead of Nikon D40) byt a hint of what it looked like.

Zoig:

Exactly my feeling, talked to my buddy that also do custom paint for custom customer and he said that the Obsidian black was the blackest metallic in direct sunlight and on cloudy days it looks really black, I was thinking of the BMW black sappire black but this looks alot darker, but we´ll see when this will happend.

About the spare wheel box, there is no problem fitting a fully pumped 17" wheel for example (had this in the spare wheel box) in the boot, also got my 2 amplifiers and 12" subwoofer and there´s no problem with space

The gopro footage is not on the net as I havent got around to edit them, but some day maybe.. they are just like 6 month old now

[anthonys2]

Great job done on your restoration project good looking car

[Zoig]

...It looks really good on cloudy days but to gray on sunny days...

I have the same problem with my UrS6, looks excelent until the sun comes out and then i'm thinking "damn, i didn't buy a grey car..."

Obsidian Black seems like good idea, what is the Audi equivalent for that? I googled a bit about that colour last evening and it looks promising - blackest black metallic paint for mercs. I might try that for my car.

Removing the spare wheel tub for exhaust is the biggest drawback with that dual exhaust, at least I would have tried keeping enough room to fit the "pizza slicer" spare wheel in there.

You should do DIY topic for the leather restoration, result looks superb. Any chance seeing that gopro footage somewhere?

Good luck with the car

[Thuppu]

Ok, this is some serious work here. Really nice car with great updates! Looks thousand times nicer than my UrS4.

Keep updates coming.

[macspring]

Relieved you take my comments as constructive criticism, as they were intended to be so.

Bilstein in my mind are always considered quite stiff, once you are aware of that, it’s all good.

Wheel and tyre sizes noted, thanks.

Twin twin exhaust - reply noted.

If say you’re sticking with maybe 18” winter and 19” summer wheels, and you like the look of the bigger / flash brakes, what about a bigger disc than 330mm, maybe 345mm. Easy for me to say I know.

The 323mm work perfectly fine on my 18” rims with 4 piston Porsche calipers, like yourself, just like the idea of the look of the bigger disc with Cayenne 6 piston calipers.

Wrinkle red - photos awaited before I can constructively criticise.

Vems - you’ll have couple of new life long friends from here.

Envious of the idea that you can "spray away” any imperfections in your bodywork, like I might decide to wash my bodywork of a Saturday afternoon.

Re your comment on the colour and the sunlight, don’t take it out on sunny days.

Buy an urS6+ for the sunny days.

[Wrath]

Forgot, yes the headlight glass are some aftermarket i bought here in Sweden brand is TYC and cost like ~22£ each so... they are not oem but they do their job


Trackday:



Notice the smudge on the front right corner... first lap i took a cone
And when people was fueling their car with enough fuel i had filled mine with 80 liters, and instead of pulling out the caraudio i just made some bracket for the amplifiers and subwoofer (35-40kg total) Don´t have any picture on that but have also build in 6,5" speakers in the front doors with no modification on the door cards at the visible side. 1-2mm free space to the glass when having the window rolled down...
People was saying it wasen´t possible, I say everything is possible...

[Wrath]

Macspring:

Nice to hear some contructive criticism...

I raised it becaouse it was to low, but now it´s to high and stiffer and jumpier with the Audi springs :O So i´m going with the Bilstein B12 kit, have heard alot of good words about them. the rims are 8,5x19 and tyre 235/35/19
One set of twin exhaust is to common, my exhaust is number 3# ever build so

planning to change the caliper for cayenne calipers and 330 rotors in the near future but that is last on my plan as these work´s like a charm... did some trackdays last summer and they are stunning with the race pads.
But never that i go black on the calipers, yellow is just to show of, therefore i painted the rims gunmetal in the center... looks really cool when spinning/rolling... just a polished edge and yellow calipers floating in the middle

My plan was to make the valvecover and intake manifold wrinkle red but haven´t got around to do that yet... just painted that on my coffe break one day at work... and the paintjob for the body dosent cost money just time for me... but I don´t want to do something i regret. It looks really good on cloudy days but to gray on sunny days...

[macspring]

Thuppu was right about doing a thread.

Car is black enough, no need to change the colour until you’ve done everything else, and are bored with money and time making a hole in your pocket.

Needs to be lowered though. What size of 19” rims, and with what size of tyre ?

If it was me I’d only have one set of twin exhausts.

Would have done the calipers in black as they are not big enough to draw attention to.

Leather seats are a revelation - good work.

Is the headlight glass different to oem, or just brand new and obviously better ?

Back door is fantastic.

Carbon cover is lovely.

Blue engine parts in not for me, glass bead back to oem, or wrinkle paint in black. But I appreciate fully why you like the blue.

Keep up the good work, and keep your good camera in the garage.

Nice garage.

Kind regards.

[Wrath]

Also forgot to mention that I´m not satified with suspension so I will be ordering a Bilstein B12 kit, and also i bought a complete chassie so i can change all the bushings. then I overhauled the whole chassie maybe it will be good then...

Chassie that ive bought:



Bambride´s bushings for the rear subframe



Thuppu´s bushings for the front subframe





plus adding all the stock bushings for the tripod and suchs... that should do it.
Will not be fixing the front strut as they are allready done

[Wrath]

We call them deer, the urS6 would not even notice hitting something like that, almost like a small bump in the road.

Lol, it didn´t... but alot got damage and the insurance company rebuild it for ~4100£
Almost exactly what I payed for it so i couldnt be happier... and it didn´t cost me a dime as I had the animal addtion tinhgy with the insurance...

I like the original colour.

best of luck with it and keep the photos coming please

The first step will be to repaint the rear bumper in LZ9U before i decide to respray the whole car... it´s a massive job so i really need to think about it but I really like it to be more black.

[Wrath]

more pictures from antoher server...

Also i mentioned that ive changed the headlamp glass, that makes a huge different.

Before:



After:



Also resprayed my chrome grill to black and bought a new S6 badge to match up with the rest of the car



Also changed the RS6 rims to BBS Le Mans replica and went from 18" to 19", the only problem was that i couldn´t get hold of any with a gunmetal center so i bought silver one and reprayed them in KH2 Skyline Gunmetal (R32)



Just some cleaning and rivet assemble and they are good to go



result:










Then it was time to fix the 17th year old leather, as I have worked with both painting and polishing this couldn´t be so hard, And it wasent, just time consuming.

Bought Leathermaster B/C black color and Leathermaster Top 3 non-gloss. Also bought some leather glue... Started with taking out the seats and went to my local upholstry guy that redid both backs and seats for ~90£ (both seats)

Before:



After:



Then I cleaned the seats with Rug Upholstry and a miracle sponge, after that used sand piper with grit 500 I believe, can´t remember as it was a while ago now... after that I cleaned the seats again with T-Red (don´t know if you have that in the UK) but some alcohol of some kind.

Then it was time to use the leather glue, sanding, gluing , sanding and so on until I was pleased. Then I used a real SATA minijet to paint and top coating it...

Before:



Leather glued:



Painted and top coated:







After this it was time to order a exhaust system, found a not so cheap but very cool exhaust system from BN-Pipes looking like this it was a easy choice.





The only problem is that you have to get rid of your spare wheel box, found a 6mm aluminium plate on my work that I punshed in the right shape. Then I cut the sparw wheel box away and had the plate painted (mixed in some bodyprimer so i went ruff)
Glued it one with 2k metal adhesive, looks oem and got really nice.

Package came for a while ago and hopefully me mate will help we this weekend (31/3-12) to install it, as I need a lift







My plan is to make a Y section and then a 200 cell catalyst on the right side of the gearbox to a 3" downpipe that I have in my garage, everything in stainless steel, even the exhaust system... going to get hold of a flex connection aswell but this will be a later project.

Meanwhile I´m waiting on my mec to help me sort out the exhaust system I changed the two catalyst that was just rubbish and got myself a magic box

Magic box:



Car really goes alot better since I got it tuned in with VEMS, also got my RS2 exhaust manifold, injectors, camshafts (brand new ) clutch on my shelf, and hopefully Rocco´s K26/27 turbocharger... should move allright then i hope.

Had to wetsand the right back door as the paintshop wasn´t as pedantic as I am but hopefully it got better, you decide :

Before:



Why this boring picture of a garage full of wood:



Just so you guys can see that ive done this before



I´m sorry tho for the bad pictures, my "real" camera ain´t present when I fixing my car

Also I painted my camcover and wastegate cover in Volvo Truck blue metallic as I worked on Volvo Truck as I painter, It´s a really nice color IRL



Got alot better when Aron sold me his spark plug cover in carbonfibre

[macspring]

Yes but,

They’re deer before you hit them, and then when you hit them they become dear.