1983 Audi quattro-Catching up on past progress…

A little more catching up on some past progress.
Early last summer, around May or so, I started pulling the engine from the urq. As mentioned before, this experience was a major deciding factor in going 20VT. Anyway, here are some pics of a few days of wrestling parts free, and pulling the head out the top. The block ended out coming from the bottom with the subframe and tranny.

Everything’s there.

These were the open valves while sitting for all those years…

And the block…

Finally pulling the head after a tedious partial disassembly.

Around June, I started pulling the interior to prep for the rewiring of everything. The carpets on so many of these have turned this blueish color.

Sun-fade and UV damage…

I picked up a minty brown 4K carpet from the ‘yard two summers ago that will work in place of this crumbling mess…

There was a major unattended leak that put quite a bit of fluid into the footwell and soaked the padding. It can’t all be good news, right.

Removing the padding.

I used a scotchbrite pad and water to remove what was left. Then, I scraped up the softened sound deadening material.

It showed some surface corrosion along the seam where the seam sealer had also deteriorated from the fluid. I hit it with a flap wheel.

And threw some primer on there for now.

It will need some seam sealer and I’ll probably just lay some dynamat back down where I pulled the layer. Not really interested in removing all of the coatings from the shell at this stage.

And the original ’83 fusebox with the supporting ‘mods.

In August, I honed the AAN block…with some dingleberries

With a calculated stroking motion and calibrated index finger for rpm, I put on a perfect crosshatch. You can notice there is a visible ridge on the walls. I will hone this block a bit more and see how it mics out, but plan on using it without reboring, along with the original pistons and new sets of rings.

In October, I picked up a ’87 4Kq that I needed some parts from.

I needed a few wires; so out comes the harnesses…

I needed the driveshaft; so out comes the drivetrain….

But, then I needed to move it; in comes the dollies…

And the fusebox/flange will be used as well…

So now I have this 4kq shell and a bunch of parts that I need to get rid of…

Now, I’m mostly caught up on the work done, but can probably update on all of the purchased and gathered parts for the build. I really want to get started building the suspension.

I will be doing something along these lines…

DIY Coilovers

Thinking about 350lb front/400lb rear 8” springs…maybe 7” if 8” isn’t low enough…but, dampers..not sure there…I need to do more research.

Need more input, Stephanie.