The Project Pad

So the car started as a 20v DD during college. Although after a few rides in Jim Green's car I couldn't leave the car with its 20v na power. So in went a 20vt, IIb for fuel and ignition and a fun daily driver. Unfortunately one of my blue push lock aeroquip hoses decided it didnt want to stay on its barbed fitting anymore and poured fuel all over the downpipe resulting in a nice engine bay fire.

So what do you do when the engine bay catches fire? Remove everything from the car and make it faster, duh! Should have tubular control arms, motorsports mounts and race spec kw suspension from Javad in the car by summer. Then on to the cage and 20vt build. Thinking something likes Christian's coupe should do the trick.

Rear suspsension and subeframe is out. Most of the interior is stripped. Need to pull all of the wiring. I'll just be wiring back in the necessities for a track and sometimes street car.

A few pictures of the progress...

Lots of unnecessary sheet metal out of the way. Man its nice to climb around in the car now.


The old battery box riveted in and sealed with caulk. Need to do lots of cleaning and plan to weld the box in this time.


Thats a lot of wires! Good thing I can just remove them all. Where are my clippers!

and it's lago!!!! :woowoo:

sealed with cock

Are you sure you don't mean "caulk"?

psychorallyfreak wrote:

sealed with cock

Are you sure you don't mean "caulk"?

Oooops!!! Fixed, guess I should proof read what I type.

nice, you can get lots of weight out of the older cars real easy.

Nice Preston, glad to see it back in the garage again :-)

here's to lago cars!!! i love mine, but hate the color :cheers:

I'm thinking it won't stay lago, its going to need some fender widening which will probably bring a new paint job. So I'll have to think what color to make it.

A few updates. Removed some more parts on the car and started gathering some new ones. Stopped by a local audi nuts place and picked up a new front subframe and an 01a trans. My trans had some pretty bad syncros in it. As I took everything apart the subframe was missing one of its bolts and was bent! New one seems to line up nicely.

The other car in the garage and my competition


No more wires, woohoo!


You can where the fire took off the paint on the passenger side.


The nice new shiny subframe.

C5-Z06 (Or just a look-alike FRC)? Good luck.......! You'll need some fat gumballs on the 90 to hang with one, but it'll be fun trying! :-D

No trying to it! Preston's making room for bigger rubber. It's gonna be hawt! That zo6'll have it's hands full trying to keep up with the Prest-mobile! :-D :wink:

Thats a z06, its my roommates who never drives it. Currently it has no insurance and a flat tire. I think I should air the tire up and go for a spin. I don't think she would ever notice :-D

Yah, Todd who sold me the tranny and subframe is putting together some widebody kits for CQ's and B3's. I got to see one of his workshops last night and some of this work. Pretty cool, looking forward to seeing more in the future.

pro_mtn_biker wrote:I don't think she would ever notice :-D

She?!?

Cool.

Shes an engineer that works on nav systems for cars. Sounds cool right! Shes actually really annoying, can't drive the z06 worth a damn and never drives the car. Oh well. The neighbor has a 95 lambo diablo VT to add to my competition!

pro_mtn_biker wrote:Shes an engineer that works on nav systems for cars. Sounds cool right! Shes actually really annoying, can't drive the z06 worth a damn and never drives the car...

That's too bad. It would have been nice if she was a great driver, and looked like this:

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Oh how I miss that thread :woowoo: ...infact

Wasn't a huge fan of the diablo, but the vt i really liked! What's your neighbor do!? By the way, like your new home? You missed all the snow in CO. this year!

hahahhahha, again!

I figured we hadn't seen her in a while... :-D

MMM....Ms. Bell

Had a nice line up in the garage the past couple days. The neighbor was getting some new insulated garage doors installed so he stored his lambo in my garage. ZO6 in the middle with the bike and my 90q on the left. Not a bad line up if you ask me.

Also got some cool parts in the mail today from the 034 crew. This should tighten things up a bit! Guess what the ball joints will be attaching to!

Those are tasty goodies. We'll have to meet up sometime, I go to MI alot to hang with the Audi crew up there since Im close to the border. Too bad you cant make the MIVE day at Gingerman :(

AudiSport4000 wrote:Those are tasty goodies. We'll have to meet up sometime, I go to MI alot to hang with the Audi crew up there since Im close to the border. Too bad you cant make the MIVE day at Gingerman :(

Yah, too bad, but I'm sure there will be more events I can make it too. The car has a ways to go anyways.

So got the rear subframe all put together today. Solid AL bushings from 034. 034 motorsports side diff mounts and delrin rear diff mount. Got the subframe cleaned up and painted as well. Went back in nice and smoothly. Should be much more tight responsive than before! The diff looks really dirty after I cleaned everything else up. The plan is to put in a clutch pack style diff like what Christian is running so I didn't bother cleaning the diff up.