The Project Pad

Had to refresh my mind on your project. Looks like a way nicely done T44. I've probably got a lot more miles in T44s than I do in small chassis Audis and still have that soft spot for them. Yours looks clean.

Thanks!! It means a lot to me! I've wanted to build a 200 20v for over 7 years.... Slowly but surely getting there.

You are soo close! Get to it!

I know... Gotta make that money 'fo I spenz it!

Right..

Next rare part - strut tower brace! Hits the hood though, so I will need to persuade it downward.

can it be flipped?

my2000apb wrote:can it be flipped?

Interesting idea.... but no - that would make the mounting surface to the strut towers completely backwards angle-wise

sell it and well weld one in

my2000apb wrote:sell it and well weld one in

All I have to do is put each end in a vice... et voila. Plus I like that it's a TAP piece that is NLA. Welding one in would make it a bit of a hassle to work behind the motor too..

Cut the frame piece that the bar hits on the underside of the hood.

yeah jstu cut the hood

Yeah............depending on how much more clearance he needs looks like there is at least 1 1/2 of material that can be cut out before he gets to the hood sheet itself.
Cut out what hits and then box it back in.

heck no! I'm not cutting my hood supports up! Y'all er crazy! But you already knew that.

It's just aluminum... I'll bend it .75" downward to clear the hood.

its ok i know im crazy i cut the helloutta my cq

WOMBAT wrote:

Where'd you come across one of those?

I was considering sourcing some c4 strut brace mounts and coming up with something custom...

I snagged it up quickly from someone on here selling two of them used... Before that, I didn't even know they were made!

+50 points for the NLA parts factor

Wow, that look awesome! Nice score on the bar, too...and definitely try to bend not cut.

Nice get err done

Not to argue the point....read...NOT to argue the point but,
I just don't c the big deal here. The support's aren't even welded or seam sealed the whole length of it.

I cut out the support on a spare V8 hood and bolted it up. I left the hood shock supports and used hood pins at the bottom (or front of the hood) and it wasn't flapping around while driving.
Mind u I only tested it for a few rips around the local streets and highway, so I can't say for sure if the hood would just rip off the car at speed but u would only be cutting a small amount of it and then just boxing it back up to form a outline against the under side of the hood.
That's all :-)

Was that TAP bar intended for a type44 casey?

Started working on getting the IC mounted today



Moved the aux radiator upward to make room for the IC - This also lets me keep the hood latch





Then I wanted to use the stock crossmember and snub mount, so I had to do some cutting... welding to follow




Removed:


Modify snub



Cut the crossmember and will weld in some gusseting


About 3/4" between pulley and IC


Here's where I left off:

Looking good! Did you get your intake mani figured out yet?

What trans and motor mounts u got?

How that thing is call that goes from one shock mount to another? Does it have any sensible effect?

Here's an interesting mounting of the intercooler



Full thread if someone is interested
http://www.audiklubas.com/forumas/index ... 131.0.html

Its called a strut tower bar and I don't think Casey has driven the car with it on. Its good to have though because the stock firewall cracks where it meets the strut mounts. The strut bar should help that from propagating.

I'm the one that sold that strut bar to Casey. I called TAP one day and asked if they had any left, and they told me they had two 20v bars in the back that were beat up. Bought them cheap, and I ended up selling them both for cheap since they didn't really fit my 20v, but appeared to be 20V bars.

And then I bought a 20v TAP bar from Steve Ankney (that was actually mounted on his 20v 5000TQ), and funny enough it hits a hard fuel line when I try to bolt it onto my '90 10VTQA! Haven't had the time to mess with figuring out how to mount my TAP bar. Haven't had much time to do anything to the cars of late - new house.

Regardless, it looks great Casey!

loxxrider wrote:Its called a strut tower bar and I don't think Casey has driven the car with it on. Its good to have though because the stock firewall cracks where it meets the strut mounts. The strut bar should help that from propagating.