Anyways, onto the car. I recently traded my turbo Corrado project for a 1989 Audi 200tq Avant from near Hartford, CT that I found on here. My parents (read: saints) towed the 'rado down with a dolley and drove the Audi 4 hours back with zero issues :mrgreen: So I came home for a week and spent it basically just working on the 200 to get it ready to come back to school in MD (~8-9hr drive). It got all new rotors and pads, 3 out of 4 calipers were stuck and had no dustboots at all so I pulled them apart and did a ghetto rebuild on them using some trimmed VW dust boots (temporary fix, need to find rebuild kits). Did plugs, wires, fuel filter, cap, rotor, CIS injector 0-rings (injectors leak anyway) and a couple other little things down here at school too, hoping to keep do a bit more preventative maintenance before doing some fun stuff but the car is in GREAT shape for a 22yr old, 250k+ Audi. On to the pics!
In my driveway the morning before the trip to md, fresh windshield
A NY service station to prove its moving under its own power
I finally have a daily turbo car :-) :mrgreen:
Pretty sure it's bone stock although I found a mbc in the top line to the wastegate, which I don't think is right...
Gross piston calipers, this one is so badly scored I might need to replace it
Right now the plan is to slowly get it to 100% before the fun starts. I just added a new turn signal in the front bumper, passenger's side mirror, and 2 regulators (rf and lr). I also worked to finish putting some of the trim back together but I really need to find a 200 in a yard around here for a bunch of little things to get her 100% happy. Then I need to do a timing belt and water pump (hopefully not an oil pump too...) and all those belts and then the fun can start :-) I'm a fuel rail, AN line/fittings and an air temp sensor away from having a full megasquirt setup which will most likely start as a fuel only and then will get distributor based spark control or I will upgrade to a newer version with better spark control.
Updates will continue whether they suck or not :wrench:
I may have to take you up on that offer though, the car has 280k (iirc, it got a newer cluster at some point) and it might still be on the original block/pump. Honestly, if it comes to doing an oil pump, that plus timing belt and H20 pump, I could do all that for ~$300 I think, but a newer block would probably be a bit better option
I think I have a boost leak somewhere because with the spring in the stock position and the nipple on the cap uncapped, the car only makes 5psi or so, but as yet I have been able to find anything and it looks like vacuum lines were recently replaced as they aren't too worn.
