When I picked the car up it had roughly 320,000km's, was already a stage 3 with F21's, Jfonze tune, all the supporting mods and in need of a lot of love.
Here she is a few days after I picked it up
Driving the car home there was some clunking in the front end, I didn't think anything of it for the first few days as I needed to get around and it was my only option. The noise was starting to get louder so I put the car in the air expecting to find worn sway bushings... Wouldn't that have been nice! I found the upper control arm pinch bolt had been over torqued at some point and cracked the aluminum upright as well as a nice little bend to the stasis coils. Parts were ordered, all new HD control arm kit, cast uprights and H&R ultralow coilovers went in as well as a set of wheels I had found for a decent price!
Now that the car was running decent and safe for the road I could get to the little things... The paint was cloudy and interior needed a good detail so right away got on it with a full detail, interior shampoo, 3 stage polish and hydrophobic coating to seal things in. The cluster had burn't out pixels and the steering wheel had seen some good use so new cluster was sourced and wheel ordered! (still have to install the wheel but it is beautiful) I also refreshed the blacked out look on the front of the car with bits and pieces from some local friends and found a set of OEM brushed mirror housings from Australia. The US spec HID's headlights received a murimoto 55w D2S retro kit. Don't mind the lame europlate lol.
Fast forward a couple months and I find myself looking for a core engine to rebuild over the next while with thoughts that I'd like to build it to be... quicker lol. I ended up lucking out and finding a Eurospec 3.0L engine with rosten valves and retainers locally for a deal I couldn't pass up. Turns out he also use to own this car a while back! At this point I'm all in. The engine still had stock valves in it so the heads were pulled and sent out to get solid valves put in to accompany the springs and retainers.
Parts being used for this madness:
Eurospec 3.0L
Ported 2.8L heads
Supertech Incanal exhaust valves
Supertech stainless intake valves
Rosten Valve Springs
Rosten Titanium retainers
Eurospec crank girdle
RS4 Intake manifold and bi-pipes
Tial XR770 Turbos
SPEC Super-twin Carbon Clutch
JHM Drivetrain Stabilizer
JHM Shifter and linkage
JHM Rebuilt O1E
JHM 4:1 center diff
034 Billet Diff Carrier
034 Billet Diff Mount
034 Solid rear sway
034 Subframe reinforcement
034 Fuel rails
Track Density engine and transmission mounts
Fluidampr pulley
ID1000 injectors
034 Fuel rails
Aeromotive 340 series fuel pump
Electric fan Kit
Coolant pump relocation kit
All-road push down style valve covers
R8 Coilpacks
Wilwood 13" BBK
New turbos were ordered, this I debated about for a while but after riding in another local car that had gotten the new Tial xr770 turbos I was sold. After seeing them when they arrived I knew I had made the right choice. The new Xona CHRA's are beautiful to just look at. If I wasn't so excited to put them in the car they could literally sit on my dinner table as a centre piece, er well, if the wife would allow lol. Pairing all that with an RS4 intake manifold and bi-pipes, ID1000 injectors, water/meth injection and some other goodies the car should be fun!
Seeing as it was already stage 3 I wanted a baseline dyno to see where the car ends up. It did pretty good for the elevation, making 402whp.
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That pretty much brings it up to date, the engine is being pulled!
Fluidampr resting in place, engine timed!
Found a 13" BBK, not as heafty as the Porsche 18z setups out there but I think it'll be a welcome change over stock and leave me with more wheel options.
Picked out a semi-gloss gunmetal for the wheel color, eta 2 weeks. Ordered a few different sets of the bbs buttons and chrome nuts for the center caps since the ones on the wheels are getting powdercoating too. Not sure what combo is going to look the best.
June 19/16 Update:
RS4 intake manifold looking beastly
Turbos going on
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