AAN Inlet Manifold on ABY

[PeterS]

Dahlback IM 2

[PeterS]

and for comparison sake, the wagner cast IM (MTM style)

[puppetman]

id be interested if the price was right. i have a 7a that im slowly trying to turbo.

[Robatron]

I have always wondered where on earth I would find an s2 engine for a transplant, sorry if this seems out of place, but I just read Peter Schulz's signature.

I'm assuming the ABY engines are also the later engine with the 6 speed gearbox?

[S2central.net]

If you try and get a GP organised soon I would be interested. It is hard to get 20 people interested in this - especially since the US guys have no need since they use the AAN inlet already.

You can only try and get some firm orders and see how many are willing to put money down Lee.

I'd be up for one if the price was £500. Not for the daily driver, but for something else that's cooking...

Paul

[PeterS]

I have always wondered where on earth I would find an s2 engine for a transplant, sorry if this seems out of place, but I just read Peter Schulz's signature.

I'm assuming the ABY engines are also the later engine with the 6 speed gearbox?

Robatron:
We never got the S2 or RS2 stateside - there is NO way that these cars would have passed the federal crash standards with the "bumperette/fascia/spoiler"...so we build our own :-)

Now if you CAN buy an S2, why on earth would you want to go through the trouble building one...sell your existing car and buy the real thing.

As to where I found my engine...I found it at All-Audi...Dean Chiswell was a pleasure to work with and was most accomodating...the process of importing the engine to the state was interesting to say the least.

-peter

[Robatron]

Thats fair enough to say the least.

Well I suppose its the issue of having to pay so much, and as I'm more than fussy, I'm going to wait until the perfect one crops up, full electrics, leather seats, air con, perfect condition throughout and ofcourse at the right price.

I could be waiting sometime I think...

[audiman]

I would not want to lose my Air con if i did this mod. Also 3B owners cant move the rad either as the battery is under the hood in the way too. If you want to use my car for a development car then i dont mind Mark as soon as you have made Dougs you can then do mine.

[Josh-stateside]

The infamous javad is using a toyota mr2 electric power steering pump.





Happen to read about it not to long ago, and then happen to stumble upon this.

Figured I mention it.

CHeers
Josh

[audiman]

Is that high enough pressure for the Audi hydraulic system then. As its one hell of a pressure that the system runs at?

[Mark Halligan]

This is how far I’ve got so far, I just spent all day experimenting and ‘welding’ the AAN manifold up. I used a Mig welder (no Tig I’m afraid) with aluminium wire and argon gas. I haven’t welded in years so it took a while to get the hang of it again, had a couple of fires too, which was a bit of a laugh.
As you would expect my welding is atrocious and the actual welding probably only took minutes, grinding down the dags took hours, I came out of that shed looking like a coalminer!
I started with this after butchering it (and me) with all kinds of blades and stuff for a few hours.

[Mark Halligan]

That was a couple of weeks ago and my hands have healed up now so I finally got round to having a go at putting it together, I suppose you could call it half finished.

[Mark Halligan]

It needs a bit more tidying up inside and I will try to weld a new plate onto the side.

Life would have been much easier if I could have used a proper tool (bandsaw?) to cut it open as this would have saved hours and also if I had someone near to me with a Tig (well I have but he charges money, and I don’t have any left).

Also the water manifold needs modding too, so that’s more cutting and welding.
And the PS pump needs to be moved down. I think the URS4 bracket is the one to use, as this mounts it much lower.
It needs the AAN fuel rail too, but I might just be able to get around that one.

I’ll post some pics of it when I’ve finished it.



P.S. I think I’d better pressure test it when it’s done, just in case it blows apart at 2 bar plus internal pressure.

[Doug_RS2]

Are you ready to do another one yet

Are you using the orignal piece you chopped off or are you getting a piece of flat alloy to weld onto that? And what sort of metal do you use for welding onto it?

I have a MIG but I haven't tried the alloy stuff - I have the wire and the gas - just too scared to attack the manifold. Did you just use the welding wire to fill the holes?

[Mark Halligan]

Doug,

I'll try to weld a fresh bit of aluminium plate to the side and see if that works as the old one is a bit rough and has a hole where the throttle body originally was.
I did use welding wire to fill two of the holes up, but the two to rear of the manifold were too big so I cut a bit of ally plate I have up and plugged them that way and welded them up.

Mark.