What's in the workshop this week?

[MikkiJayne]

Originally Posted by 27litres

Nice find!
What's the story with the ten? NOS from Audi, or a special batch or something?

Also, what's with the filter arrangement below the exhaust manifold here:

Yeah NOS. They were kept on the shelf for warranty replacements. When the youngest car passed 10 years old they were all sold off to a surplus dealer.

Its actually a C5 S6 AQJ engine hence the oil filter arrangement - its part of the engine mount on that side. The engine itself is identical to the S8's AQH and AVP though - the 20hp difference between the S6 and S8 is all done in software. The oil filter housing, engine mounts and rear water pipe swap over from the original engine.

[27litres]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

Yeah NOS. They were kept on the shelf for warranty replacements. When the youngest car passed 10 years old they were all sold off to a surplus dealer.

Its actually a C5 S6 AQJ engine hence the oil filter arrangement.

Ah, that makes sense.
I remember a thread on Audiworld a couple of years ago where certain US dealers were selling off NOS S6 engines cheap.
Must feel pretty good to get your hands on one (or two!).

[briang9]

Originally Posted by David's8

mucking about with oily 2.8s anyway!

some say mucking about with oily 2.8s can be surprisingly rewarding however

[David's8]

You are going to have to get on with your "clean" engine workshop area now MJ!!

[awolfinsheepsclothes]

nice mine is a AQH too i'd love another as a spare i'll have to keep my eyes peeled

[MikkiJayne]

Office art

[MikkiJayne]

Some of you may remember this thread: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13497 Steve and I worked out a deal and I picked the car up last week. She drove home in limp mode (thats *not* fun with a 2.8!), and doesn't go backwards.

I got a chance to give her a clean today and have a good look around and she's actually in remarkably nice condition. Apart from a dent in the front driver's side wing where someone has tagged the bumper, she's very straight with no dings or obvious bad paint. Amazingly clean and tidy underneath too. She scrubs up nice



The wheels are pretty manky, and obviously there's a trim missing on the driver's door which is easily solved.

She's covered in some odd overspray, evenly distributed over the whole body.
You can see the light coloured specks here:



No idea how that happened, but it comes off with the clay bar



I did a wing and some of the bonnet and I think she'll look superb after a damn good detail.

So... what's happening with this one? If you read the other thread, you'll know the vultures were circling and I fully intended T42 to be a parts car just for the black interior, but I've had something of a change of heart having cleaned her up since I've always loved Ming Blue.

The reasoning is thus:

T42 is probably the lightest model of D2 available in the UK - front wheel drive, no double glazing, no sat nav, no xenons, no headlight washers, no parking sensors. In fact, the only two options she has are auto dimming mirrors (which are knackered anyway) and phone prep. Apart from FWD, which is easily sorted, that makes her the ideal recipient for...

This!



I was going to put this in my FE, but T42 has changed my mind, so the FE will be getting a rebuilt V8 and manual gearbox and then sold to buy go-fast turbo things

[HPsauce]

Originally Posted by MikkiJayne

so the FE will be getting a rebuilt V8 and manual gearbox and then sold to buy go-fast turbo things

Is that the Avus Silver one with Red interior (and broken valve) that you picked up with my help?
If so, I'd have thought it would be of more interest with a rebuilt engine and the standard auto box, becoming a very nice FE appealing to a select group of connoisseurs.

[Djinny]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

Wow! Lucky Vera.

and happy me thank you MikkiJayne!

[MikkiJayne]

Originally Posted by HPsauce

I'd have thought it would be of more interest with a rebuilt engine and the standard auto box, becoming a very nice FE appealing to a select group of connoisseurs.

Yeah that one. Its got no engine, no gearbox (broken), and no wheels (all fubar) so the only thing it does still have is red seats. If it wasn't an FE it wouldn't be worth rescuing at all. Its certainly not economically viable to rebuild the auto box to then sell it.