Hello from Michigan, USA...

[turbaxel]

And the never to be forgotten:

"Scott me up, Beamie!"

[SteveAngry]

Hi Steve,

If I understand correctly from your picture, you cut the square profile out of the front cross-valence (Querträger) to fit the lower connection of the intercooler?



I would expect that such a cut would drastically reduce the stability of the whole front section of the chassis?

And even though you have fitted the strut brace (Domstrebe), what would happen in a frontal impact? The cross-valence would collapse like a piece of cardboard... Not so?

Puzzled regards,
Mark

Yep I cut it. What you cannot see because I don't have pics of it is that after cutting I rewelded a piece of metal to go around the IC outlet that reconnects the metal and reinforces that area.

Steve

[200Turbo]

Hi Steve!
A lot of greets to Michigan! From where do you come? It is the skyline from Detroit on the picture? On the other pic there are a lot of german car´s in the background (the highway pic is what I mean)...there is a Corado and a Vento or Golf (?)...is it a german car club?
Greats from Stuttgart
thomas

[SteveAngry]

Hi Steve!
A lot of greets to Michigan! From where do you come? It is the skyline from Detroit on the picture? On the other pic there are a lot of german car´s in the background (the highway pic is what I mean)...there is a Corado and a Vento or Golf (?)...is it a german car club?
Greats from Stuttgart
thomas

Hi Thomas.

I live in a small town named Holland. It is near the city of Grand Rapids where the pics were taken with the buildings in the background. Holland is near Lake Michigan.

The picture of the cars on the highway were taken while we were on the way to a car show called Motorstadt at the Audi/VW of America headquarters near Detroit, Michigan.

Motorstadt is a car show that is run by a club called MIVE. MIVE stands for Michigan Volkswagen Enthusiasts.

Steve

[UFlO]

Hi Steve,

nice car and nice work too.



So which dimension of tyres do you use there?.

Greetings,
Flo

[juhakill]

Nice pics here!
From which Volvomodell your front spoiler is?

How exensive is speeding?
Is it depending in wich State you were speeding?

You must be kiddin here...
Welcome to Finland. Ok, when foreigner speeds it's not so expensive, but when you live in Finland it depends you incomes. Smallest ticket is over60km/h area speeding under 15km/h over the limit =70euros.

[Mario20v]

Smallest ticket is over60km/h area speeding under 15km/h over the limit =70euros.

OUTSCH!
How much is speeding for a foreigner?

[daneant]

Hi SteveAngry

nice work!
But can you give us some more information due to your Megasquirt EFI?

Some guys here are also interested in EFI modifications to the 10V,
perhaps you could give out your data....and the try and error part for those guys could be shortened
And maybe i try to do my WAES on a Megasquirt system....

kind regards,
daneant

[SteveAngry]

Long time no update but work continues...

New 034 efi silicone hose kit installed.

Throttle body hose:



Crankcase hose:



3way valve cover hose:



Picture's for the fun of it:




Next week the car gets a new headliner in black.

Steve

[SteveAngry]

More progress from the last month:

New OEM Audi windshield scored for $50:


Getting ready to pull the windshield:


Watching the guy pull the windshield made me cringe:


New windshield installed. So nice and clear:


Black trim instead of chrome:


Steve

[SteveAngry]

Redid the front and rear brakes also. Figured it was time to throw the bigger 20v rear rotors/calipers on:

Box of assorted brake goodies:


200 20v vented rear rotors vs 10v solid rotors:


Installed with used V8q calipers:


Steve

[SteveAngry]

I also installed this used TAP strut bar I bought last winter.

I've always thought it was a very nice piece. It's very lightweight and seems to stiffened things up nicely.

I'll probably powder coat it black later. Or maybe I'll leave it silver. What do you guys think?



Steve

[Mario20v]

I think ther is enough "black" maybee the colour of the car can look nice.

[Olli W.]

Hi Steve,

what´s that black window trim stuff - is it something specific for our cars or sort of a JC Whitney trim-to-fit thing?

Looks pretty clean and well to me - nice stuff.

The strutbar...

I would either paint it white or leave it "pure".

When i did my first strutbar in black, i soon discovered, that it was getting somewhat lost in the wilderness of the 10VT environment.
So i switched over to a stainless one and left it unpainted, that looks much better IMHO.

So in other words... leave it silver.

The TAP bar - is that made of Aluminium, i asume?

Fits perfect to the rectangular break reservoir of Gen. 1 Type 44 - will probably not fit to later cars with round shape reservoir.

What break rotors do you use at the front - stock 276x25 or something bigger?

Cheers,
Olli

[Sigar]

Figured it was time to throw the bigger 20v rear rotors/calipers on

This is nice upgrade! I'll do the same thing to my '88 100tq Avant soon. Have all the parts already. Why didn't You use splash shields?
Did You leave handbrake cables the same, or does this upgrade need 200 20V cables as well?
The cable thing confuses me a bit. There are at least 3 different sets of cables available for typ44 quattro. They probably differ only by the length...but what is the correct lenght? When I use WIN code the catalogue shows me cables that are ment for solid disk brakes and smaller calipers...

[SteveAngry]

Minor update: I picked these wheels up a couple of years ago with intentions to use them on the 5000 one day.

These Are Zender Challenger wheels 17x7 with a 45mm offset. I was thinking of powdercoating them black...or maybe leaving them silver???







What do you guys think? Hit it or keep the current RS4 wheels?

Steve

[Mario20v]

Black in my opinion.

[SteveAngry]

Headliner is finally done.

I went with some dark chocolate brown headliner material which compliments the carpet and dash colors very well.

I thought about Alcantara or Ultra suede but it seems like everyone's doing that right now.







I'm not sure what to do with the sun visors or sunroof switch panel yet. I'm thinking either leave it as is, spray paint it with vinyl/fabric paint or try to cover it in matching material.

I'm pretty happy on how it came out.

Steve

[The_saint]

looks very nice!! did you do it yourself?