WITW - The PF Exxon Valdez!

[Heksi]

Very nice and interesting to see you working with AHC-engined PF S8, just like mine

[strummagnet]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

Manky rotten rubber here would just have let the whole thing down

Better make sure the bonnet brackets and hinges are in good working order, predicting the new owner over using them showing off that engine.

[MikkiJayne]

Put the throttle body back on



This bizarrely complicated mess of plumbing is all for the brake vacuum, and oddly it just flaps about, which causes the bottom joint to fail and allow air past the throttle body which will cause misfires and poor running. The original one was quite badly perished at the bottom.



I had a spare set of pipes so put those on instead and gave the bottom joint some extra support with some adhesive-lined heatshrink



Then drilled a hole in the upper part of the intake tube (which is mostly solid apart from a couple of holes for the idle valve) and tapped it to M6



and then made a P-clip to support the pipework. Its nice and solid now so no more flapping about

[MikkiJayne]

Did an injector service and refitted them









Thats the engine done now, until its reattached to the gearbox, so on to the gearbox next

[strummagnet]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

Thats the engine done now, until its reattached to the gearbox, so on to the gearbox next

A manual gearbox?

[MikkiJayne]

Alas no, the 5HP is going back in. I don't have the mk2 clutch pedal finished or enough parts for another manual and, even if I had those, getting a manual AHC ecu is impossible.

[Ronin]

as a 2.8 AMX owner I'm jealous of the aluminum intake and better crank case ventilation pipes

[tintin]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

I don't have the mk2 clutch pedal finished or enough parts for another manual and, even if I had those, getting a manual AHC ecu is impossible.

That doesn't bode well for the future by the sounds of it - will that make any more conversions practically impossible, if such parts are unobtainable?

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by tintin

will that make any more conversions practically impossible, if such parts are unobtainable?

I think it just means, not with a PF 32-valve engine which AHC is I believe.

Did Audi ever make a manual PF or was it only after the facelift and 40-valve engines arrived?

[strummagnet]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

I think it just means, not with a PF 32-valve engine which AHC is I believe.

Did Audi ever make a manual PF or was it only after the facelift and 40-valve engines arrived?

I have seen a few PF manuals on the continent: https://www.reezocar.com/en/occasion...361963767.html

Originally Posted by Ronin

as a 2.8 AMX owner I'm jealous of the aluminum intake and better crank case ventilation pipes

I Agree, one touch of the pipes and they are toast!