I’ve had some discussion and it looks like I should be fine with the MLS, even with the deck cooling opened up to something more along the lines of the AudiSport stuff. Also discussed some highly positive real world performance benefits from the mods. So, I’m in the process of revising the design and...
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I decided to do a test run on a damaged head to keep from damaging/destroying any of my good 20V heads. I’ve scratched my head a few times trying to hypothesize the particular failure with this one. This is the head that came on the urs6 parts car that I picked up a few...
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And a little mini update. The heat here lately (shop gets to 95F by about 2PM…100F by 5PM…back down to 95F by 9PM and done into the 80’s by midnight) has been brutal. Went from the mildest summer last year to one of the hottest on record. My reducer is for kicking paint in...
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Had a few more hours this morning to work on the URQ… I’ve decided to try deck cooling with this motor…plan is to do both the head and the block. From a heat transfer perspective, it is hard to argue the obvious benefits of getting a substantial water jacket around the upper portion of...
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The eS2 has been taken off of the road to do a few things. First, I wanted to get the battery tray area cleaned up to finish the job and while doing that, it was a logical time to finally get the strut brace mounts installed. So, to get the access that I wanted,...
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It was about time to start building up this engine. But to build one up, sometimes, you have to tear one down. So, here we go… Lonely block in the shop… Getting prepped for some paint… If it didn’t weigh an extra 51 lbs, and have rust in the passages, I may think this...
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Need help from C4/urS masters! Top Level Problem: 1-Airbag light is on; blinks for about 30 sec at startup and then goes to solid on Underlying Problems: 1-VAG-COM cannot connect to airbag control module through underhood diagnostic connectors. Communication is required to figure out why the light is on. VAG-COM connects to both the...
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And I know we don’t have nothin’ on you Vegas boys, but reading a rather warm 105 on the freeway, it sure is nice to have working AC! …oh, and I made a new keychain a couple weeks ago from a… And picked up a later style 3 spoke Audi Sport wheel from my...
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So, I’ve been looking for a more practical vehicle than the eS2 (>=4 doors…) and more nice/comfortable than the Pathfinder (AC, lack of camo primer paint…) to use as a daily driver. I don’t put many miles on cars working from home mostly, so I’ll see maybe 5K miles per year probably spread across...
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Since today is the start of my weekend, I figured I would sneak a few hours in on the project… I did the mods to the 7A valve cover to take the 2.0T tall coil packs. I opened up the top of the hole .030″ on the diameter (from the original design mod dimensions)...
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