Who needs fancy electronics...

[Starting]

Step 1 of V8 conversion: Rip everything and anything out of the car.

Step 2: Sell all my mods and audi parts to fund v8 project. Keep an eye out for anything listed in my signature link.

Step 3: Clean and smooth everything on the car and prepare to put a big engine in.

[biketsai]

WOW

[djwimbo]

Track car!!!!!!!!!!!!!

... do I sense a build thread soon? NTM I'm jealous. I want to strip my car down like that. There's so much crap that you don't need in our cars.

[andyrew]

1. Awesome.

2. What engine, and what power level goals?

3. Keeping Quattro? If not, what trani?

4. Awesome

5. Purpose of car?

6. Tell me its getting painted flat black.

7. Go with 3" magnaflows.

8. You have to try it with a Q jet carb. At least once. The power is not the reason here... OMG the sound.

9. Awesome

[SoFresh]

When you say smooth everything out... can you please also go widebody such as an DTM widebody track car....? lol

Going to be a sweet project to follow and keep an eye on

[Don Supreme]

Awesome ---

move to project forum.

[Lazer Viking]

you dont fuck around dude

[Starting]

1. Awesome.

2. What engine, and what power level goals?

3. Keeping Quattro? If not, what trani?

4. Awesome

5. Purpose of car?

6. Tell me its getting painted flat black.

7. Go with 3" magnaflows.

8. You have to try it with a Q jet carb. At least once. The power is not the reason here... OMG the sound.

9. Awesome

1. Thanks

2. Not 100% on the engine setup as of right now. That will depend on the budget from me selling my bt kit, mods, trans, all the little bits and peices that arent going to be reused.

3. Going rwd for now. That sounds more fun to me. This goes along with 2.

5. Fun. Low loud mean fast.

6. Maybe. I have a few ideas up my sleeve.

[Starting]

When you say smooth everything out... can you please also go widebody such as an DTM widebody track car....? lol

Going to be a sweet project to follow and keep an eye on

Widebody will be finished as a part of the project. When I say smooth alot of stuff will be filled, waiting to just be cut apart again to fit the engine.

[andyrew]

Whats your projected budget? 3k? 5k? 10k?

You know your going to have to get a bigger radiator right?

See the cars in my garage.. I have a little bit of experience in shoehorning v8's in places they werent supposed to go...

What are you going to do for the rear end? axle? Or are you going to go custom driveshaft to link the Audi rear to whatever trani you go with (Blowing CV's is going to be a problem here..)?



If there was a way to keep the quattro.. I would... with about 500lbs of tq on tap and the Diff mod, you could light up the tires like nobody's buisness... V8's are WAAAAY different from turbo 4's in regards to making TQ and spinning the tires.. However the cost for that would be over the roof...

[bassed]

Rich like I said on AW if you want a hand any weekend let me know. This is going to be a hell of a project, time consuming but worth every second!

Kudos for always shooting for the stars and reaching:)

[djwimbo]

You know your going to have to get a bigger radiator right?

I'm not sold on that one yet. The stock M/T radiator is used in 034's Time attack car, that thing is making >700bhp and staying cool. I'd be willing to give it a shot on the stock one. Obviously with electric fans though.

2. Not 100% on the engine setup as of right now. That will depend on the budget from me selling my bt kit, mods, trans, all the little bits and peices that arent going to be reused.

3. Going rwd for now. That sounds more fun to me. This goes along with 2.

*puts flame suit on*
LS1 + T56? RWD, pretty close to stock weight, and 320+whp on a simple tune and exhaust? Pretty please?

[Starting]

Whats your projected budget? 3k? 5k? 10k?

You know your going to have to get a bigger radiator right?

See the cars in my garage.. I have a little bit of experience in shoehorning v8's in places they werent supposed to go...

What are you going to do for the rear end? axle? Or are you going to go custom driveshaft to link the Audi rear to whatever trani you go with (Blowing CV's is going to be a problem here..)?



If there was a way to keep the quattro.. I would... with about 500lbs of tq on tap and the Diff mod, you could light up the tires like nobody's buisness... V8's are WAAAAY different from turbo 4's in regards to making TQ and spinning the tires.. However the cost for that would be over the roof...

Budget is hopefully going to be around 5k. Going to need a lot of new stuff. Just going to take the project step by step. Have access to a machine shop and am not afraid to cut weld and just make it fit. Might end up with a different suspension setup design. This is all stuff way down the road. Like I said step by step and I will keep you guys updated.

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech...-complete.html

[djwimbo]

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech...-complete.html

Dude, I can't believe it's already been done.

F- BAT on 1.8T's I'm puttin an LSX in this biotch

[andyrew]

I'm not sold on that one yet. The stock M/T radiator is used in 034's Time attack car, that thing is making >700bhp and staying cool. I'd be willing to give it a shot on the stock one. Obviously with electric fans though.



*puts flame suit on*
LS1 + T56? RWD, pretty close to stock weight, and 320+whp on a simple tune and exhaust? Pretty please?

HP is not the issue here. There is twice as much cooling that is needed at idle and cruise as there is 2x as many cylinders and iron that is needed to be cool. Your not going to overheat doing 20 second full throttle runs, your going to overheat at 70mph on the freeway, or at 30mph in stop and go traffic.

Trust me. I have built my own radiator system for my Porsche 914 with a 350 SBC running fuel injection.

[anmagro]

LS1? Ah man, the power. But....dont you think thats a little, idk, i think an Audi V8 would sit alot better in my mind then an LS1. I love Chevy, but, come on.

[djwimbo]

HP is not the issue here. There is twice as much cooling that is needed at idle and cruise as there is 2x as many cylinders and iron that is needed to be cool. Your not going to overheat doing 20 second full throttle runs, your going to overheat at 70mph on the freeway, or at 30mph in stop and go traffic

I'm not going to doubt your experiences with installing and iron block V8. However the LSx engines are Aluminum block/head. Fully assembled oil pan to valve cover weighs less than an Audi 2.8L. As far as cooling goes, as long as you run the '00+ water pump you won't have an issue.

LS1? Ah man, the power. But....dont you think thats a little, idk, i think an Audi V8 would sit alot better in my mind then an LS1. I love Chevy, but, come on.

Obviously you haven't been in a 10 sec car recently. They(LSx's) are relatively easy to work on, and maintenance is almost non existent, other than oil changes. You never have to worry about heat soak or lag. The Vette was gettin 28+ mpg on the highway, in stock form. Modded and >400whp it was getting 24-25mpg highway.
That Vette was about even with weight as my car, I just want that power and my drivetrain.

[slojoe]

This calls for a Ram Jet 350 and a built 700R4. Maybe a 12 bolt rear end too.

This should be very interesting, Good luck

-Joe

[Don Supreme]

RWDDDDDDDDDDD oh dear........... just buy a vette then man.

[djwimbo]

This calls for a Ram Jet 350 and a built 700R4. Maybe a 12 bolt rear end too.

700R4's are junk. If you're going auto 4L80E, but I prefer the M/T.

If any of you guys know about the guy & his dad swapping LS1's into E36's. I went to school with that guy, he's not a genius or anything, just creative.

[Tifun]

You could possibly fit the GTO rear end in there with custom axles since it is irs.

[andyrew]

I'm not going to doubt your experiences with installing and iron block V8. However the LSx engines are Aluminum block/head. Fully assembled oil pan to valve cover weighs less than an Audi 2.8L. As far as cooling goes, as long as you run the '00+ water pump you won't have an issue.



Obviously you haven't been in a 10 sec car recently. They(LSx's) are relatively easy to work on, and maintenance is almost non existent, other than oil changes. You never have to worry about heat soak or lag. The Vette was gettin 28+ mpg on the highway, in stock form. Modded and >400whp it was getting 24-25mpg highway.
That Vette was about even with weight as my car, I just want that power and my drivetrain.

He's not going to be able to go LSx with his budget. (Unless he picks up a LS1 Camaro for 4k, parts it and keeps the drivetrain...)

Enough said.

Besides he said he wants carbs..

He's got a LOT of money in fabrication that he needs to keep in mind. The mounting of the engine and trani are going to be completely custom, he's going to have to cut the floorpan for the trani. He'll need to either go with a custom solid driveshaft to link the GM trani to the audi rear end (In which he'll need to go with some stronger CV joints as I can bet they are not strong enough for the job), or he'll need to go with a live axle rear end and do a bunch of custom work to get the audi suspension and such to work right (easier way is driveshaft method IMHO).

Thats going to be a lot in materials, time, and machining costs..

[Starting]

The good thing is that all the fab is just time and materials. I have access to basic things at home and have a ful machine/welding shop I can go over to fabricate things in.

[Stampy]

Did you and Siena make a bet yet?

[slojoe]

[QUOTE=djwimbo;3163151]700R4's are junk. If you're going auto 4L80E, but I prefer the M/T.

Yeah forgot need to get my head out of the Landcruiser style. Good thing I didn't say NV4500.

[mike-2ptzero]

I'm not sold on that one yet. The stock M/T radiator is used in 034's Time attack car, that thing is making >700bhp and staying cool. I'd be willing to give it a shot on the stock one. Obviously with electric fans though.

But yet the Audi coupe with the Audi V8 that 034 used in the USCC was over heating every time the car was out on the track and that car was only making 256 whp.

[jrock]

Any updates?

[myers1.8TQ]

Wow, havent seen anything in a while. Looks like a good start, good luck and keep the updates coming.

[petera4]

he could keep the stock audi rear end, dont see why it wouldn't work

[@udikid]

im going to keep an eye on this thread