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  1. #641
    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Got the last bit of hardware I need to get this thing done. Last week I placed an order with Ace Race Parts and CX Racing for exhaust and intercooler piping. Likely going to let the fabricator chop up the no longer made 034 Motorsport full length downpipe to adapt to everything else. 2.5" intercooler piping and 3" exhaust. I have a screen and turbo blanket from Turbo Guard on the way as well.

    1998.5 A4 1.8TQM My Build

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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    CSF radiator arrived this past Friday and got it installed earlier today. Great build quality on these things!







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    Got my Turbo-Guard stuff installed today. There is no room for a filter and with the guard installed, the headlight is still pushing into the screen.









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    Shes off to her new home......... for the next couple of weeks, hopefully. Exhaust and intercooler piping is finally getting done.



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    Veteran Member Four Rings A1 A2 German's Avatar
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    Audi A4 B5, Audi Fox, Audi AMLS TT, GS450, CB175, CL175
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    Nice! Looking good.

    I had the same issue with my headlights (both sides because my ic piping), it's a pretty east fix, the problem with not addressing it is the engine lift via every rev/wot pull and worst....your headlight's beam will jump all over the place going nuts in conjunction with the engine idle/rev and or looks like it's flickering, on it's way out. I even had people stop me to let me know about my headlight lol.

    You'll take the headlight cap, mark the spot being hit, consider for the motor jumping up and down and cut that part out completely. Because of the design the cap water seal lip sits out the furthest so you may lose the seal/seal lip/seal cavity, don't worry cut that out/off. You'll notice on your picture of the cap, there's an 'inside recess/cavity", which is the part your plug is set in, when you make the new seal the new seal will sit inside the inside cavity against the inside wall of the main body of the headlight.

    To address the hole in your cap you go on E-Bay/Amazon get a ~1mm thin/~16G 12"x12" sheet of black plastic for $8. You'll cut little squares/pieces and plastic weld the hole shut using zip ties as soldier. To get a seal again, on that inner indented cavity/pocket, along the newly made inside new lip you created, you use this stuff: (note this is a generic pic for visual reference, the stuff I use is small, I actually go to an auto shop for 1 foot for $1.25) https://www.amazon.com/Rubber-Channe...09YPZC9Y9&th=1 When I modified/shortened my ECU box I used the same seals and ~16g plastic, same idea as had to cut off an entire corner of the ecu lid losing the outer/top seal, and now the new seal sits in just deeper on the inner part.

    So now the seal sits inside the cap, opposed to the outside trailing edge, against the inside body of the headlight. What's nice is it's just the cap(s) you're modifying, if you ever sell the headlights or what ever you just get new/used caps for cheap as you're not cutting/touching the main headlight body. If you've never plastic solidered ($4 Walmart normal soldiering iron) it's super easy, and kinda fun to do.

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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Thanks! I may look into that if it becomes a problem. With solid mounts, Im not sure how much movement there will be.

    Got some updates on the car over the weekend. Got the inter cooler mounted, started mocking up the piping. On the exhaust, the v-band flange I purchased, hoping to fit the Tim's Turbo exhaust housing, seems to fit a little loose, not sure what to do there. I emailed Tim's Turbo but no response just yet.









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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Car is back in my hands from the fabricator. 2.5" intercooler piping and 3" exhaust all the way to the Vibrant muffler. Pulled it out of the garage today and washed about 4 years of dirt off of it. Still need to plum the boost controller, wastegate and blow off valve and fix an oil. leak







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    Awesome

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    Got my wastegate and bov plumbed tonight, along with re routing the wires for the boost valve and wideband. Hoping I have the wastegate plumbing right






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    Veteran Member Four Rings A1 A2 German's Avatar
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    Looking good, nice and clean, good call on doing the black out engine bay.

    Speaking of boost valve, did you see MaxxECU makes a Maxxecu boost controller? And, now no need to buy like a BLITZ or what ever, that has it's own brain/ecu/harness and pay extra because you need a screen, control button interface, display as this set up runs straight to the Max ECU and that holds your inputs, and the screen is a tablet or your phone. But wait! There's more! Act now and it's not just a boost controller, is a dual solenoid C02 assist boost controller. FML right? Just when you thought you weren't going to fork over more cash...but all and all it's not too expensive, $225 for the entire Max controller, and then buy a C02 bottle kit...just one easy line from the bottle that plugs directly into the boost solenoid. I feel like I've been living under a rock, as never heard of a C02 boost system but it has some crazy benefits and people state you won't even recognize your own car before and after having one. Faster boost....and holds higher power through the entire mid range. Probably grabbing a set up this week (minus the bottle set up as I don't think he sells them) from Steve Nicholas.

  11. #651
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    Picked up my A4 last Wednesday from the tuner. Guy had it for about 3 weeks and fixed a few problems, even my Deatschwerks fuel pump burning up while he had it. I got to enjoy it for a few days before all 6 front driver axle bolts decided to leave the chat. Got back to it today with some new bolts and loctite, hopefully that helps.









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    Heck yeah! Still the best build on AZ.
    Past Audi:
    01 Cashmere Grey Pearl A8 100k cream puff
    02 Amulet S6 6speed
    00 Santorin/Nogaro S4 6speed X2
    99-01 Silver A4 1.8tqm avant X3
    04 Arctic S4 avant 6speed
    97 Cactus A4 1.8tqm
    01 Pearl S4 avant 6speed
    01 Santorin S4 6speed

  13. #653
    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by moclakens View Post
    Heck yeah! Still the best build on AZ.
    I dont know about the best but I appreciate it. Its been a long road for sure.
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    Veteran Member Four Rings Wet0willy01's Avatar
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    Did you keep that downpipe intact? One of my many unicorn pieces I should have never sold.
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    Before camber and tire stretch, there was horsepower and performance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wet0willy01 View Post
    Did you keep that downpipe intact? One of my many unicorn pieces I should have never sold.
    Unfortunately not and I kick myself in the ass for it every time I walk by the left over pieces.
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    Senior Member Three Rings moclakens's Avatar
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    Updates?
    Past Audi:
    01 Cashmere Grey Pearl A8 100k cream puff
    02 Amulet S6 6speed
    00 Santorin/Nogaro S4 6speed X2
    99-01 Silver A4 1.8tqm avant X3
    04 Arctic S4 avant 6speed
    97 Cactus A4 1.8tqm
    01 Pearl S4 avant 6speed
    01 Santorin S4 6speed

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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by moclakens View Post
    Updates?
    Nothing really. Ive been busy trying to remodel a home and get it listed on the market. Im hoping to get the cam sensor wiring straightened out and figure out the wiring for the idle control with the Maxxecu. Car doesnt like cold starts and takes a few tries to get it going. Still need to change out the steering rack and front rotors.
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    This past Saturday October 5th, I took the car for a 4hr round trip to Euro District car show in Jeffersonville Indiana. The car done amazing other than the rear brakes locking up but with a slight twist of the Wilwood proportioning valve, they loosened up and I was able to drive on. Only real thing I have done to the car in the last month is swap out the leaking Rock Doctor steering rack, changed to closed end lug nuts, made a bracket for the power steering cooler and polished the headlights.







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    Done my first modification to the interior today in a long time. Ive been wanting to add some color so I went with a set of Yellow gauge faces from Venoxy. I didnt realized until I installed them that they sent me faces for a digital clock and celsius temps. I put on the order that it was an analog clock and wanted fahrenheit temps. Other than that mix up, I kind of dig it. Ive also had to pull my brake booster out and try to modify the push rod from the pedal since my rear brakes locked up on me again. Thinking my problem is the rods are different lengths from the single diaphragm booster to the dual diaphragm booster.



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    Established Member Two Rings
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    95.5 UrS6 avant; 16 SQ5 (wife’s); 89 Jetta ; 90 Quattro V8(sold); 07 MDX; 85 Magna
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    Those gauges look sweet! Were they easy to apply? And how permanent are they?


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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by mk2_madness View Post
    Those gauges look sweet! Were they easy to apply? And how permanent are they?


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    Its all pretty simple. The faces basically just clip in, once you unclip the plastic cover and pop the needles off. The original rpm face had a little bit of adhesive on it but it came right off.
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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Venoxy Gauges finally sent me the correct face for the analog clock, temp for oil temp but forgot the coolant temp but I will live.



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    Looks good, just realized I saw this at euro district. I had the golf harlequin at the Ecs booth and my buddy drove my Imola b8.5 s4
    2013 S4 Imola Yellow / IE Stage 2 / ECS Supercharger Pulley / IE Intake / ECS HX / AWE Non Resonated Downpipes / AWE Touring Exhaust / Vogtland Coilovers / Rs4 Grill / Eurocode SS / Black Forest Shift Knob / BBS LM-R / Alcon BBK / S6 Rear Brakes

    1996 Golf Harlequin #10

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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by eurojunkjon View Post
    Looks good, just realized I saw this at euro district. I had the golf harlequin at the Ecs booth and my buddy drove my Imola b8.5 s4
    Thanks man. Yea we rolled in kind of late, I was with the bagged green mk3 right across from me. I missed the last couple of years with this car due to the build. Still need to tidy up some things.

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    Awesome, hope to see you again next year. I’m currently building a vr with the guy who had the purple bagged 1.8t swapped corrado to swap into the harlequin. Just na for now. My wife had the blue rs3 out there also, wanted to bring her tropic green b5 avant but had a bad inner tie rod I couldn’t get fixed in time.
    2013 S4 Imola Yellow / IE Stage 2 / ECS Supercharger Pulley / IE Intake / ECS HX / AWE Non Resonated Downpipes / AWE Touring Exhaust / Vogtland Coilovers / Rs4 Grill / Eurocode SS / Black Forest Shift Knob / BBS LM-R / Alcon BBK / S6 Rear Brakes

    1996 Golf Harlequin #10

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    Veteran Member Four Rings xdewaynex's Avatar
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    Id love to see that Avant, I like the color. I see you made the trek from Wisconsin, Id like to make it up that way sometime for Udderly Euro if Dinah and Brad are still hosting it. Ive known those 2 right around the time I got my B5 back in 09 and Brad was building the camo Porsche.
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    Udderly is definetly a good time, they did it a little scaled down last year but was still good. I’m hoping they will continue to do it since they lost their contact they had at the city.
    2013 S4 Imola Yellow / IE Stage 2 / ECS Supercharger Pulley / IE Intake / ECS HX / AWE Non Resonated Downpipes / AWE Touring Exhaust / Vogtland Coilovers / Rs4 Grill / Eurocode SS / Black Forest Shift Knob / BBS LM-R / Alcon BBK / S6 Rear Brakes

    1996 Golf Harlequin #10

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