Quattromog: The Original

[the german]

In a surprising turn of events it appears that the collective wisdom of the internet has made a clear and decisive decision, and I couldn't agree with it more!

Dan, kudos to you an a fantastic suggestion. You have earned a turn in the driver's seat of quattromog if you're ever in the area.

I got really excited and made a logo.

[alxdgr8]

Now to find a vinyl shop to print a windhsield banner

[PRY4SNO]

That's brilliant, and totally agree with Alex... that would be an awesome windshield banner.

[ringbearer]

I’m honored to contribute to a project like this in any fashion!

I better get up there for a drive! S-Fest West could be a possibility.

[CommieGIR]

Been in love with the lifted Quattro ever since I first saw its photo being circulated. Thanks for raising the bar!

[k2exoman]

This car is amazing.
Really impressive work.

+1 Quattromog

[dana]

awesome on all accounts....

I just wish it had an ALH tdi in it with a smoke stack up the A pillar.

Think of the whistle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny8LiAMVtXk

[the german]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Dana - if you have a spare you want to donate to the cause and I'll happily put it in

[CommieGIR]

How would you even bolt in an ALH to a 016/01e transmission?

....damn it stop tempting me!

[Marc]

How would you even bolt in an ALH to a 016/01e transmission?

....damn it stop tempting me!

you should probably check out dana's project thread, then

http://theprojectpad.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=686

[dana]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Dana - if you have a spare you want to donate to the cause and I'll happily put it in

I do have a spare that I paid $100 for, but shipping would be a killer

[dana]

How would you even bolt in an ALH to a 016/01e transmission?

....damn it stop tempting me!

you should probably check out dana's project thread, then

http://theprojectpad.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=686

photos are all photofucked, here is a link to the album.
http://s1103.photobucket.com/user/danap ... t=3&page=1

[the german]

Thanks for the kind words everyone!

Dana - if you have a spare you want to donate to the cause and I'll happily put it in

I do have a spare that I paid $100 for, but shipping would be a killer

I'd probably be better of flying over to buy a donor car and driving it back.

[CommieGIR]

How would you even bolt in an ALH to a 016/01e transmission?

....damn it stop tempting me!

you should probably check out dana's project thread, then

http://theprojectpad.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=686

.....BRB, got another project to plan!

[vt10vt]

How would you even bolt in an ALH to a 016/01e transmission?

....damn it stop tempting me!

you should probably check out dana's project thread, then

http://theprojectpad.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=686

photos are all photofucked, here is a link to the album.
http://s1103.photobucket.com/user/danap ... t=3&page=1

This works really well to display photofucked photos:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... aedg?hl=en

[the german]

Mercedes is trying to copy quattromog.

http://autoweek.com/article/luxury/would-you-buy-mercedes-e400-all-terrain-4x4-squared

[the german]

For my birthday a few weeks ago I spent the weekend camping and tearing up old logging and forest service roads with my wife.



Built-in breakfast bar = practical


Leavenwoth is a faux Bavarian tourist town on the eastern side of the Cascade Mountains in Washington. The town it's self doesn't do much for me but all of the climbing, hiking, and kayaking in the area make the region one of my favorite places to go play outside in the summer. There are also thousands of miles of forest service roads in varying states of disrepair to go get lost on, which is pretty fantastic.

There is one road in particular that I have been wanting to venture up for years, but until now haven't had a vehicle capable enough to deal with the deep ruts and washouts. Until now

About 1/2 mile up this section or road I found the fun stuff starting with a nice gatekeeper: a big old washout! There was about 1/4 of the trail left, a ~10' drop, then a few hundred feet of steep run-out mountainside below. Just past the washout in the trail was a deep rut from snow melt about 2' deep. Exciting!

Tractions was good in the dry and Quattromog handled it pretty easily driving halfway on the hillside around the washout.



Past the washout it was clear I was the only one up here so far this year. The trail was super overgrown with slide alder and other vegetation in places, which really just made it more fun.



And some glory shots:












A thunderstorm rolled in and dumped a ton of rain in a short period of time, making things VERY slick and muddy while driving back down the trail. That was fine right up until we got back to the washout. No video of this as my wife was busy spotting me, but the car realllly wanted to slide into the washout. Getting past it in the wet was a "dynamic" move using momentum and the hillside, and still resulted in one rear wheel briefly over the edge of the washout.

Back down in town there was an all-german car cruise going on. Quattromog stuck out a bit among all its shiny, clean, lowered brothers



At the end of it, I have to say that this thing continues to impress me and outperform my expectations.

The only issue I encountered in the whole weekend of beating on it was coolant temps getting slightly hot on long sustained uphill climbs, where I discovered the electric fans where not coming on. I jumpered the radiator fan switch to run them on high, but I suspect the root of the problem to be that the 20 year old A4 radiator is gunked up and not flowing efficiently. A new Hella radiator and fan switch were delivered Sunday and will likely go in next weekend.

[ringbearer]

So awesome!

[PRY4SNO]

My god I love this car. And my woman is impressed every time I show her photos/vids.

I will confess to an ulterior motive; because of your exploites, I intend to lift the Golf and make it into a quattromog-lite inspired Farmenwagen!

[the german]

My god I love this car. And my woman is impressed every time I show her photos/vids.

I will confess to an ulterior motive; because of your exploites, I intend to lift the Golf and make it into a quattromog-lite inspired Farmenwagen!

Yes!! Quattromog gang! I love this idea.

[PRY4SNO]

Except fwd-mog TDI haha but yessssss

[the german]

Duemog? LOL

[the german]

Time for some more incremental improvements!

First up is cooling. Coolant temps where getting a bit high on long uphill climbs the other week and the electric fan was not getting triggered by the OEM switch, which is located in the radiator. My theory is that the 20 year old A4 radiator was gunked up and not flowing efficiently. To remedy this I replace both the switch and radiator with new units from Hella. If I still wind up having issues, the next step is an external trans cooler.



Next up is some more body protection. I found a "near miss" where a pointy rock nailed the bottom of the car right next to the rear brake line, which inspired me to finally install the HDPE armor I made for the fuel and brake lines.

Unprotected lines, just waiting to get hit:


This is the stuff I used, which I picked up from onlinemetals.com


Ripped it and beveled the edges with a table saw:


I few riv-nuts later..




I used 6mm counter-sunk socket head cap screws to mount these, same as the aluminum skid plates. With these I also put some RTV on the threads to seal them since the holes do go through into the floor of the car and I would prefer to keep any water from coming up through.

Now off to test and see how it all works!

[FFF]

That looks like it should work very well.


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[the german]

Been slacking on keeping this thread updated with pics and progress! If you haven't seen it, Quattromog now has it's own IG account @thequattromog

In Sept. 2018 I quit my job and bought a bunch or really cool fabrication tools, which also happened to come with an architectural metal fabrication business. All my free time (and then some) has been spent building out a new shop, moving the business, growing, hiring, and trying to keep up. With all that Quattromog was a bit neglected.

That was... Until the snow hit Seattle 2 weeks ago and the whole city shut down. We got about 28" total snowfall at my house over a 2 week period, with max accumulation of about 12" at one time. There was LOTS hooning and Alex took some awesome photos.


















And finally.... may have gone a little too hard...




The car didn't actually overheat, instead the new B4 Febi coolant tank (which took 4 months to get) swelled up and the cap stopped sealing. Ended up replacing it with an old junkyard B3 unit that (so far) seems to be working. This is the 3rd or 4th coolant tank I've put in this car. I don't get it. They have all had a similar issue of the threads deforming such that you can't actually tighten a cap onto them. I think I'm going to end up either building an aluminum one, or finding one from a modern application that fits. This is a silly problem to have.

I'll get some video up as well