Marc's 1990 4.2L V8 Twin Turbo Coupe Quattro

billzcat1 · Post by **billzcat1** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:20 am

As opposed to not having a passenger side motor mount because there's no room for it. A fair trade to make, methinks!

Derracuda · Post by **Derracuda** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:22 am

wuss! just use the snubber as the pass. side mount

Post by **HT Motorsport** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:38 pm

My firewall mounted remote filter mount in the miata is the best mod I ever made, I can now change the oil with the car on the ground (which is good as I change it every 2 weeks in track season....

Post by **Marc** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:33 pm

:bump:

Another few baby steps forward on teh coupe. I finished welding the mount for the passenger side onto the body. Initially I was thinking that I would use the stock ABZ mounts and then a short adapter bracket between that and the body mounts but I'm debating this at the moment. There isn't a lot of room on the passenger side and I think it might be better to fab the engine brackets from scratch.. :-(

here's a quick (but not finished!) adapter bracket I made for the drivers side. Its too high in the pic but the engine is going to come down a bit.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:44 pm

woo hoo.. we're all making engine mounts this weekend. :bump:

Post by **Marc** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:47 pm

:woowoo:

Audilard · Post by **Audilard** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 8:23 am

I figure if I wait long enough until I'm ready to do a V8 convervsion, 034motorsport will have some engine mounts for sale! :-D

shlab · Post by **shlab** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:32 am

its only a matter of time now .... maybe marc can fab up some sort of ghetto V8 engine ideas! :-D

>>Emy

Post by **Marc** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:03 am

maybe if I hadn't been a dolt and hacked off the stock engine mounts I coulda done the R&D for the ABZ for you. It'll come out fine the way I'm doing it, but I dont think I had to remove the stock mounting locations.

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:07 am

Looks good Marc! :-)

Post by **Marc** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:15 pm

So I started thinking today (yes, in my thinking place derek, no, not the crapper :-P)...

I think I eventually want to turbocharge the v8, and I've decided that the ABZ 4.2 is the wrong motor for this for a couple of reasons, but mostly cost is the #1 factor. Blowing up an ABZ motor would kind of suck whereas destroying a 3.6 wouldn't really hurt my feelings 8-)

So here's what I'd like to offer as a feeler. I got a pretty good deal on this motor and I'd like to make a trade for anyone interested. I'll trade my ABZ motor for a good PT motor + $1000, and I'll consider other trades or $1500 straight up.

Anybody interested?

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:19 pm

a4kquattro wrote:So I started thinking today (yes, in my thinking place derek, no, not the crapper :-P)...

I think I eventually want to turbocharge the v8, and I've decided that the ABZ 4.2 is the wrong motor for this for a couple of reasons, but mostly cost is the #1 factor. Blowing up an ABZ motor would kind of suck whereas destroying a 3.6 wouldn't really hurt my feelings

So here's what I'd like to offer as a feeler. I got a pretty good deal on this motor and I'd like to make a trade for anyone interested. I'll trade my ABZ motor for a good PT motor + $1000, and I'll consider other trades or $1500 straight up.

Anybody interested?

Sounds good, how do we proceed??!

NoNonsense · Post by **NoNonsense** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:26 pm

a4kquattro wrote: or $1500 straight up.

Anybody interested?

D'oh! :slap: That's a great deal!

Post by **Marc** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:38 pm

JShadzi wrote:
a4kquattro wrote:So I started thinking today (yes, in my thinking place derek, no, not the crapper :-P)...

I think I eventually want to turbocharge the v8, and I've decided that the ABZ 4.2 is the wrong motor for this for a couple of reasons, but mostly cost is the #1 factor. Blowing up an ABZ motor would kind of suck whereas destroying a 3.6 wouldn't really hurt my feelings

So here's what I'd like to offer as a feeler. I got a pretty good deal on this motor and I'd like to make a trade for anyone interested. I'll trade my ABZ motor for a good PT motor + $1000, and I'll consider other trades or $1500 straight up.

Anybody interested?

Sounds good, how do we proceed??!

all about the logistics, you're on the wrong coast! :-D

We might be able to work something out, keep th eIM/email coming with ideas.

Post by **Marc** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:39 pm

newt wrote:
JShadzi wrote:Sounds good, how do we proceed??!
http://www.fedexfreight.fedex.com/

yah, but $500 each way is a bit steep for the selling price. If only one hunk of metal needed to traverse the coasts that would be one thing..

yodasfro · Post by **yodasfro** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:06 pm

Marc I found you a new motor. :-D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... Track=true

Post by **Marc** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:50 pm

yodasfro wrote:Marc I found you a new motor. :-D
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... Track=true

Lol, I'm all set, Mark Chang's v8 should be showing up next week 8-)

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:51 pm

So Marc, what is the latest on that "shipment", inquiring minds want to know

Post by **Marc** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:56 pm

JShadzi wrote:So Marc, what is the latest on that "shipment", inquiring minds want to know

Sigh, didn't finish the crate on Friday, I was in a hurry to get ready to head up to VT for the weekend. I have all the materials and the frame is built but no panels put up yet (they're all cut to size tho), nor is the motor fully secured to the pallet yet. I'm going to take a half a day on Tuesday to finish getting it ready. I'll ship it out as soon as I can!

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:58 pm

a4kquattro wrote:
JShadzi wrote:So Marc, what is the latest on that "shipment", inquiring minds want to know

Sigh, didn't finish the crate on Friday, I was in a hurry to get ready to head up to VT for the weekend. I have all the materials and the frame is built but no panels put up yet (they're all cut to size tho), nor is the motor fully secured to the pallet yet. I'm going to take a half a day on Tuesday to finish getting it ready. I'll ship it out as soon as I can!

No big hurry on this side, take your time! 8)

yodasfro · Post by **yodasfro** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:22 pm

I wonder if you could make the porsche intake work on the audi motor?

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:36 pm

yodasfro wrote:I wonder if you could make the porsche intake work on the audi motor?

Hell, at that point mise well make a new one using VW16v mani's., plus, aside from the weight, I'm not convinced how bad the stock one is for flow.

yodasfro · Post by **yodasfro** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 8:39 pm

True the stock one is a plastic/composite right? Well hey marc if you wanna try making one from vw 16v manifolds I got one kicking around. :-D

JShadzi · Post by **JShadzi** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:00 pm

Stock is a hunk of cast aluminum.

yodasfro · Post by **yodasfro** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:07 pm

Why is it black? Oh your talking about the newer v8's right the older from the v8q had a plastic one that was black I thought?