After graduating before moving to the next step I got a call from my mother telling me that two of my dad's tech's just quit and he was working himself to the bone. Having a strong sense of duty and what not I called him up and asked if he needed me to come down and help. That was three years ago. Besides some training with my dad, most of my experience came from the two years of auto shop I took in high school. Even with my limited knowledge of cars it put me light years ahead of the rest of the class, and the teacher recognized this. She would take extra time to help me because in turn I would help her by teaching some of the other kids and helping them.
Anyway that's just a little about me. Some other things I guess would be that I'm married, my wife and I started dating 7 years ago and got married last year. She is in grad school with the goal of becoming a forensic anthropologist / coroner / medical examiner (depending how much schooling she wants to do). My current goals are to keep studying for and taking my ASE certifications, as well as my dad has been training me to take over the shop in 10ish years. Now on to the car.
I don't name my cars as soon as I get them, I wait until our relationship has advanced to the point where the name comes to me. In her case it was Vikki. Edit: The original owner bought her from the local Audi dealership and took okay care of her. Unfortunately a tree fell on the drivers C pillar and did a lot of damage. Most of it got repaired well but the respray was done poorly, but well enough to last until I got her. The car was serviced at the dealer and then my dads shop until the owner declined the timing belt service, recommended early at 80k. At 90k the belt snapped and bent valves.
The customer sold the car to my dad who fixed it up and used it as his vehicle / an extra vehicle for the shop. When I came down to work for him I needed a car to drive so he let me use the Audi. I really knew nothing about B5's then, didn't even know it was a B5. I did know I really enjoyed the car even if it was only FWD. I had put about 100k miles on my wife's 03 Passat with the 1.8t, auto, so switching to the manual made the experience a lot more fun, even if I lost some horsepower. After a few months my dad offered to sell the car to me so he wouldn't have to pay insurance on it anymore. He gave me a great deal and sold it to me for $600. After that is when I really started to do research about it. Went through a few different forums before finding Audizine and falling in love with the car, the forums, and most of you ******s.
That her more or less unmolested.
First mod was a boost gauge, followed by an upgraded D.V, and a k0mressed tune.
Next was time for some new tires, so I got new rims as well.
Heres with them on, still 4x4 status.
After I got my first major productivity bonus I decided enough with the 4x4, time for some coilovers.
Worst issue was the rear control arm bolts, I ended up cutting them in half to extract then throwing the new bolts in the opposite way.
Dropped it on the ground and it was pretty low, so I raised it up to 26" and then just today in the pursuit of diagnosing noises, lowered it after re-installing the rear coilovers. This is how she sits now, 24 and 5/8". Will probably raise it a bit.
Bonus shot of my area with toolbox.
I'm sure I'll update this main post or make it better at some point, but I'm just riding the high of fixing the car and making her ride nice again so I decided to bust this out.
Edit: Plans for the car. Not too sure really. Probably get a FT with a few supporting mods. Some of the mods like fuel injectors would be to replace some aging bits and what not. My main goal now that I'm happy with the car is to get the body work fixed and a respray. I plan on contacting the local College body shop and seeing if they can do the work. At the time I get the body work done I plan to do a sunroof delete. Not sure what way I want to do it, weld in a steel plate or cut a piece of plexiglass and use a rubber gasket.
For the respray I want to go white with a black roof. I've always been a fan of black and white. All the bits in my computer are black or white. And I figure if I keep the roof black then having the engine bay and door sills black would be okay. Still undecided on any of this, but that's what I've been thinking about doing.
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