MNAudi101's Build/Journal thread

[victimdumper]

what studs are you running?

ringer-racing's stud kit, i would definitely suggest them too. Mike seems like a really nice guy and is very helpful answering questions (quickly too)
also fyi, he told me his kit can take up to 15mm spacers. so if your looking for more than that you would have to look elsewhere.

[MNAudi101]

ringer-racing's stud kit, i would definitely suggest them too. Mike seems like a really nice guy and is very helpful answering questions (quickly too)
also fyi, he told me his kit can take up to 15mm spacers. so if your looking for more than that you would have to look elsewhere.

alright stop thread jacking now haha

[kneel]

ringer-racing's stud kit, i would definitely suggest them too. Mike seems like a really nice guy and is very helpful answering questions (quickly too)
also fyi, he told me his kit can take up to 15mm spacers. so if your looking for more than that you would have to look elsewhere.

he sells the O34 ones right? i heard they rust up pretty quickly. Been looking else where for a quality stud.

[victimdumper]

alright stop thread jacking now haha

haha sorry ill stop

he sells the O34 ones right? i heard they rust up pretty quickly. Been looking else where for a quality stud.

I'm actually not sure if they are the same at the 034 ones. I initially though he was supplying his own but i really have no idea.
they look the same as the 034 ones but from their pictures, but the pictures they have look like all studs hah
I've only had these on for about 2 or so months + a couple snow and rain storms and no sights of rust yet, but I'll make sure to mention it if they start to.

[MNAudi101]

haha sorry ill stop

haha

[MNAudi101]

So I was having a little vibration with the new brakes and figured it might be the rotors so I had them turned, cost me around 15 dollars per rotor and this is after I picked up the rotors from getting turned, they look new and feel brand new, no more vibration or pulsing. God I love these HP2's now. Well worth the money and there is no sight in pulsing or vibration






I also got bored today and started to make my homemade center grille for my ultra sport bumper using my stock center grille and a DIY I found online. Here is just the beginning with fusing the botom halfs together with some plastic weld and now its time for some fitments test. it will be awhile until its finished but its a work is progress





Making the grille wider




It really looks good and will look almost identical to the stock one you would buy from the store

[BigTone]

Cant wait to see the Grille done. Was thinking about doing the same just never had the time.

[MNAudi101]

Cant wait to see the Grille done. Was thinking about doing the same just never had the time.

Thanks, it will take some time but Ill just keep plugging away a little at a time and make it look really nice. I also found metal mesh that looks identical to my upper and fog light grilles and its free so its way better then spending 80 bucks on that LLK stuff

[heywier427]

hey, hint on the grill.

tuck something up into the lips of the grille and epoxy it in place as well. its pretty brittle with out some kind of support.

i used a piece of aluminum flat stock, but even that started to split.

[MNAudi101]

Picked up the wheels I have been searching for, I know they are nothing special but I have always loved them

Still need to be cleaned and then get these snow tires off, whats nice are they are practically new tires so someone will get a good deal.

[MNAudi101]

hey, hint on the grill.

tuck something up into the lips of the grille and epoxy it in place as well. its pretty brittle with out some kind of support.

i used a piece of aluminum flat stock, but even that started to split.

Yeah I did, The picture was just a little base to test everything out, it now has some support and then another 2 layers of plastic weld

[gotboost]

Looks good. What tires you going with in the summer?

[MNAudi101]

Looks good. What tires you going with in the summer?

Not totally sure. I need to sell these snow tires before I even start to go shopping for new rubber for these. I also need to clean these up

[MNAudi101]

Picked up some slightly used Yokohama Advan a13c tires for my usp wheels, next on the list is to clean them up and get them mounted along with cleaning up the Avus wheels and putting them up for sale.

[MNAudi101]

Started to refinsh my wheels and fix the two that had a little rash on them, One I could just sand everything out where the other needed some filler which isnt bad. Here are some i-Phone pictures of one of the wheels.

3 coats primer, 4 coats hyper silver, 3 coats clear, then wet sanded and wiped down.

How they started. this is one of the two best ones:



finished with the primer:



Finished with the silver and before the clear:



All finished: clear and wet sanded: I think they came out amazing, cant wait to get them on




Here are a couple pictures of the one that needed filler. just waiting for it to dry to start sanding:

[JustinM]

I'm in the process of doing the same thing to some different wheels. Which silver paint did you go with? I see you have dupli-color can in the picture. The finished product looks pretty good.

[SlickFix]

Looks amazing, sir. Make sure you don't sell your Avus wheels before talking with me. Thinking of buying them from you for putting on Wifey's Avant.

[MNAudi101]

I'm in the process of doing the same thing to some different wheels. Which silver paint did you go with? I see you have dupli-color can in the picture. The finished product looks pretty good.

I just went with the dupli color silver, the dulpi color you see in the picture is the filler primer that I used. I need to get better pictures of them when I finish all four. the clear coat really helps with how good they look. I just finished sanding the filler, just need to prime and then fill again and sand. All the wheels will look great with no rash what so ever.

[MNAudi101]

Looks amazing, sir. Make sure you don't sell your Avus wheels before talking with me. Thinking of buying them from you for putting on Wifey's Avant.

Thank you man, it will take some time because during the week I am not home so cant work on them until the weekend and for as my Avus's I will forsure contact you before I sell. they will also come with some continental conti pro 245/40/18 tires with around 75-80%.

[JustinM]

I just went with the dupli color silver, the dulpi color you see in the picture is the filler primer that I used. I need to get better pictures of them when I finish all four. the clear coat really helps with how good they look. I just finished sanding the filler, just need to prime and then fill again and sand. All the wheels will look great with no rash what so ever.

Yea, I'm fixing some curb rash as well. I was afraid the Dupli-Color wouldn't look as oem so I went ahead and ordered the Wurth silver wheel paint and high gloss clear coat.

[J Boy]

Wow those brakes look amazing!

And did you make the stencil yourself?

[MNAudi101]

Wow those brakes look amazing!

And did you make the stencil yourself?

Thanks man I love the bigger brakes and the improvement, as for the decal I had a local guy make me a set. cost was 5 bucks, cant go wrong

[MNAudi101]

update on the wheels, finished all four of them and they are now stored in my basement until I get some new rubber on them. The pictures I have here are from the one that had all the rash on it and I filled. I think it came out great and you can not notice it. I am very happy and cant wait to get these babies on.

A little more filler and sanding from the first day.





here is the area when it was all sanded and then primed.







First couple coats of hyper silver, look how rough it looks without clear and wet sanding.





Clear coat on and wet sanded, all done

[customa4]

Damnn, nice paint work. Those came out good compared to what they looked like.

[MNAudi101]

Damnn, nice paint work. Those came out good compared to what they looked like.

Thanks and I am proud of my work on the one that had the rash, I wish I would have got a before picture of that one it was pretty bad and now looks great and they are all smooth and feel like new wheels.

[Lexxielex]

Nice build fellow Minnesotan!!! I just added some pics of the lil things I've done so far....going big this year though!! I would love to see the beauty in person and I'll be checking on your awesome build!!

[MNAudi101]

Nice build fellow Minnesotan!!! I just added some pics of the lil things I've done so far....going big this year though!! I would love to see the beauty in person and I'll be checking on your awesome build!!

Thank you man, means a lot to see people like my thread. I always am in the cities so maybe we can meet up sometime, also I recommend you attend Cars and Coffee when the time comes, I always there with other fellow MN audi guys. check out www.MNAudi.com if you havent

[crazy88]

Did you just hand sand them? I've got some s4 wheels that need a refurb in the summer. Two area quite bad, but the other 3 aren't too bad so just wondering how much sanding to give them. I might take the two bad ones almost back to metal as some of the kerbing is pretty nasty.

Good job on your wheels though, they really do look new. Can't wait to see them on.

[MNAudi101]

Did you just hand sand them? I've got some s4 wheels that need a refurb in the summer. Two area quite bad, but the other 3 aren't too bad so just wondering how much sanding to give them. I might take the two bad ones almost back to metal as some of the kerbing is pretty nasty.

Good job on your wheels though, they really do look new. Can't wait to see them on.

Thanks man I cant wait to get them on too for painting and sanding here is what I did,

two of the wheels were good so I just used 1500 grit sand paper and went over both of them, then primer 3 coats then 4 coats silver and another 3 coats clear and then wet sanded with 1500 grit. One wheel had a couple dings that werent too deep so I was able to use 800 then 1500 grit sand paper and get it all out and smooth then repeated the painting step above. For the last wheel that had the large deep gash I sanded the whole wheel with 1500 grit and then used filler and filled the gouge, once dry I used 800 grit and smoothed it out and then went to 1500 and finished it up, for painting I primed and then sanded and primed and sanded and primed and sanded then 3 coats primer ect,ect. I was using filler primer on all the wheels so that helped as well

[SlickFix]

I wish I had the skill and patience to sand like you do. Your wheels look fantastic now!

[MNAudi101]

I wish I had the skill and patience to sand like you do. Your wheels look fantastic now!

Thanks man, I had a little practice last summer when I worked on a motor cycle referb. I wanted them to come out and last so I didn't skip any steps. It wasn't too hard though

[BesI]

Good job on the rims, I really like how they turn out. I just picked up a pair of Tt wheels too and I'm redoing them because the person that had them painted black and it's chipping. What kind of sand paper did u use and primer?

[MNAudi101]

Good job on the rims, I really like how they turn out. I just picked up a pair of Tt wheels too and I'm redoing them because the person that had them painted black and it's chipping. What kind of sand paper did u use and primer?

sand paper was just the standard wet sand paper you can pick up at ace hardware and other stores and it was dupli color filler primer. make sure you get the filler one

[Lexxielex]

Thank you man, means a lot to see people like my thread. I always am in the cities so maybe we can meet up sometime, also I recommend you attend Cars and Coffee when the time comes, I always there with other fellow MN audi guys. check out www.MNAudi.com if you havent

You're welcone. He'll yeah that would be awesome! Yeah my buddy told me about Cars and Coffee about six months ago, I just never remember to find out when they are. I'm not on MNAudi yet, but I'll be getting on there soon. Is your screen name here as the same on MNAudi?

Edit- I am on MNAudi just forgot that I was lol. My SN is the same.

[MNAudi101]

On MNAudi my screen name is Audi101

Today I test fitted the best center cap I had to see if I wanted to paint to match instead of having it look like brushed steel. I decided that I like the contrast and will be putting an order into ECS for 3 more.

[MNAudi101]

Got my new rubber on today and sold the Yokohamas, killed two birds with one stone

All packed up and ready to go



and the new rubber is on and will be ready to be put on the car tomorrow morning

[victimdumper]

^ Kumho Ecsta ASX's?
let me know how they are, there is a guy on CL around here selling some cheap-ish

[MNAudi101]

will do they have a rating of 9.4 on discounttire and have a tread ware of 420 speed z traction A and Temp AA so seems like it will be a good tire

[MNAudi101]

So took some pictures of what came in my ECS package:



As you can see on the table I got new center caps for my new wheels



And then I got this for a coolant flush in the spring when the weather gets warm.



Along with that I got a new cap and then clips

[MNAudi101]

here are a couple shots with the new wheels. I had to remove the wheel liner screw but now we are all good.

just a couple quick i-Phone shots