Hey there! New member, joining from the US.
Some backstory about how I ended up here:
When I was younger, I was all about Japanese cars. I still am, but nonetheless- I was autocrossing my little speed3 and working on a single turbo rx7 project. Down a road I used to drive on often I’d see this weird little coupe/hatchback thing alongside this beautiful stone house, it was absolutely something I’d never seen before. I eventually knocked, and the owner was super friendly and educated me. It was his Audi 90 coupe, with a super cool bag of snakes exhaust manifold. 7A, n/a. All we got here in the US. A drunk driver hit it, caving in the rear right, and he parked it. I adored the interior and it’s all business look. These cars are rare here, and even rarer actually on the road. Over the next few years I kept it in mind, researching every now and then. Two years back an S2 clone popped up for sale, about finished, and in need of bodywork but had an immense load of spare bits. I frantically tried to fire sale my 97’ M3 and in the end the guy sold it out from under me.
Last year I got the opportunity to trade an E55 AMG for a pretty nice silver on grey interior urS6 sedan. It came from a good home, and was originally owned and MTM tuned by
Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni. Kinda neat. I bet the in car handset held some pretty crazy conversations. I drove it about 700 miles home with ice cold A/C that was stuck on for most of the drive. I love it, the sound, dash, interior, feel. What an absolutely cool car. I’ve driven fast rear wheel and front wheel, but I haven’t driven something that delivers power through corners like this and it was exciting!
About two weeks into having it on my turf, driving it and getting a feel for it, it started knocking. I ripped it apart that weekend, and found:
-Oil was clean and was at the proper level
-Cyl 2 and 3 bearings were spun, 1-4-5 were on their way.
-Main bearings were perfect
-Cyl 3 piston had contacted the head, the top ring is still free so it might not have been that hard. No valve contact. While that happened, some carbon broke loose and gouged the cylinder. Not crazy but your mail will catch it.
-The exhaust manifold is cracked. Very weird, I absolutely didn’t hear a thing.
-Hard to reach oil pan bolts were loose
-The engine and engine bay was dry, but at some point it looks to have had a pretty substantial oil leak.
The second owner of the car was a collector, and had many of these. This was apparently his nice one, I acquired it from a family friend after he passed away. I suspect that at some point it had an oil leak gone fatal, had a quick bearing job done, sat garaged for some time then ended up with me.
I guess my question is, what would you do? It’s time I get this thing out back together, my friends call the right side of my shop the Audi side. I don’t have a surplus of parts for this car and it’s all very new to me. I was supplied with an equal length stainless manifold of unknown origin, a Volvo hybrid turbo with a matching EFI tuned ecu, injectors, fuel pump and relay kit, an s4 intercooler, a ton of silicone couplers, and a coil conversion kit I had been running. Because of the bearings a set of H-beam rods are planned, and because the need of block machine work I’ll be in the market for a set of pistons. I’m looking for a realistic 360-400hp, which I believe should be reliably obtainable. I’d love to have some recommendations shared, some companies to check out, anything. The ur/quattro/AAN family knowledge around me is limited.
Thanks for reading my lengthy post. I appreciate your time and suggestions, if you decide to leave any!
Some backstory about how I ended up here:
When I was younger, I was all about Japanese cars. I still am, but nonetheless- I was autocrossing my little speed3 and working on a single turbo rx7 project. Down a road I used to drive on often I’d see this weird little coupe/hatchback thing alongside this beautiful stone house, it was absolutely something I’d never seen before. I eventually knocked, and the owner was super friendly and educated me. It was his Audi 90 coupe, with a super cool bag of snakes exhaust manifold. 7A, n/a. All we got here in the US. A drunk driver hit it, caving in the rear right, and he parked it. I adored the interior and it’s all business look. These cars are rare here, and even rarer actually on the road. Over the next few years I kept it in mind, researching every now and then. Two years back an S2 clone popped up for sale, about finished, and in need of bodywork but had an immense load of spare bits. I frantically tried to fire sale my 97’ M3 and in the end the guy sold it out from under me.
Last year I got the opportunity to trade an E55 AMG for a pretty nice silver on grey interior urS6 sedan. It came from a good home, and was originally owned and MTM tuned by
Gianluigi Longinotti-Buitoni. Kinda neat. I bet the in car handset held some pretty crazy conversations. I drove it about 700 miles home with ice cold A/C that was stuck on for most of the drive. I love it, the sound, dash, interior, feel. What an absolutely cool car. I’ve driven fast rear wheel and front wheel, but I haven’t driven something that delivers power through corners like this and it was exciting!
About two weeks into having it on my turf, driving it and getting a feel for it, it started knocking. I ripped it apart that weekend, and found:
-Oil was clean and was at the proper level
-Cyl 2 and 3 bearings were spun, 1-4-5 were on their way.
-Main bearings were perfect
-Cyl 3 piston had contacted the head, the top ring is still free so it might not have been that hard. No valve contact. While that happened, some carbon broke loose and gouged the cylinder. Not crazy but your mail will catch it.
-The exhaust manifold is cracked. Very weird, I absolutely didn’t hear a thing.
-Hard to reach oil pan bolts were loose
-The engine and engine bay was dry, but at some point it looks to have had a pretty substantial oil leak.
The second owner of the car was a collector, and had many of these. This was apparently his nice one, I acquired it from a family friend after he passed away. I suspect that at some point it had an oil leak gone fatal, had a quick bearing job done, sat garaged for some time then ended up with me.
I guess my question is, what would you do? It’s time I get this thing out back together, my friends call the right side of my shop the Audi side. I don’t have a surplus of parts for this car and it’s all very new to me. I was supplied with an equal length stainless manifold of unknown origin, a Volvo hybrid turbo with a matching EFI tuned ecu, injectors, fuel pump and relay kit, an s4 intercooler, a ton of silicone couplers, and a coil conversion kit I had been running. Because of the bearings a set of H-beam rods are planned, and because the need of block machine work I’ll be in the market for a set of pistons. I’m looking for a realistic 360-400hp, which I believe should be reliably obtainable. I’d love to have some recommendations shared, some companies to check out, anything. The ur/quattro/AAN family knowledge around me is limited.
Thanks for reading my lengthy post. I appreciate your time and suggestions, if you decide to leave any!
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