Audi A4 BAT - Quattro Project by Tom's Garage

[mgpdoc]

Hello there, and thank you very much for your comments.

Seats, are TILLETT Seats, and will be receiving them in some time I think . . . They are not porsche seats, they are full CF seats, with Alcantara trim and I think they are the best I could buy. Not cheap AT ALL, 3,5kg approximately each one of them. Cant wait.

As for the car, I am searching for a 2JZ Gearbox, a V160 one, so I will be going RWD.
Had a ride with a Supra today, first of my life, and I loved the lift at 2nd gear.

[andreas.mulle]

Okey, they just looked a lot like some recaros i think, that is in the gt3 or something. Cant wait to see the interior coming all together though! Danmi love alcantara, relly nice rollcage you have, and dash for that matter

[loudest03cavi]

This cant be. It can't be....I just spent the better part of two days casually reading these 19 pages... I was really hoping for some form of resolution! Now what am I going to do at work?!?

Please proceed

[mgpdoc]

So it has been some while with no updates here. Or not.

Either way, I have not been lazy. I was always looking to find the right time to go for a gearbox. Searching here and there, things were not easy.

One option that appeared, was a re-inforced auto one, from TITAN, that could easily stand 900whp, and has already done 9sec passes.
Drivable in the streets . . . BUT . I dont know, if I can live with an auto on the streets. I dont just want the car for strips. I also want it to have fun on my own on the street if and when I choose to. So . . . I couldnt go for the auto one, despite its being stronger, according to TITAN than the manual one, and almost three times cheaper if you also add the cost of the clutch to follow in this project . . .

So, in the end, I decided to go for a new manual one , from TOYOTA, not refurbished one, a brand new one, through TITAN Motorsports.

However, at that same time, this Supra from Greece





Informed me, that after a race, the owner was thinking of letting the manual go, for the sake of a THS-300, a 3-gear auto one, drag-queen-to-be.

So, despite the fact that I would very much prefer a new one, over a used one, that I would not know, the use it had, the potential damage or rebuild cost, with this one, that wasnt the case. We even had a ride in the Supra, and saw that it seemed to have no problem at all shifting in 9000rpm, pretty logical if one takes into consideration that this car was rarely used. So we made a deal to not only take the gearbox, but more things that were on it, like the shifter, the shifter linkage- which is Supra MKIV Short shift, TRD Gearbox mount, the valves, the slave cylinder, and what is more the first part of the central axle to be used maybe later.

So it was an offer I could not let go, and grabbed it. I know I could buy a new car with its cost. Or two. Or three. But I could not go for another gearbox.

Some pics of when it arrived in my garage. Me, smiling is an understatement.

















Here you can see the TRD Gearbox mount, plus the very rare M11 Studs coming out for the axle



Side removable caps that allo for playing with the clutch - I wish the VAG ones were like that too



Cleaning to come soon





Love the vintage feel in this



And I also got this





Fun Times to Follow

Cheers guys

[mgpdoc]

Early this morning, a friend came to help me with the cleaning of the gearbox. I knew it was not an easy task, but decided to give it a go.

So here are some before showing the general state of the GETRAG box.



















Not too much grease and dirt, but it had some heavy embedded pitting on the alloy-magnesium casing.

Our Weapons:



Household cleaners, Various brushes and sponges, old trusty Wheel Brightener, CG All Clean, Meg's APC, Valet Pro Citrus Tar and glue remover, wire wool and some cheap-o-mf-towels.

At first we decided to try Valet Pro Citrus tar and glue remover:







Excellent results on baked on tranny oil, I have to admitt.

We pre-soaked the whole gearbox with Meg's APC and rinsed.




Attacking the inner casing with various sponges, wire wool and all of our available cleaners







After the inner casing was cleaned we attacked the exterior. This was a very time consuming procedure sadly













After 3 hours under the hot sun, it was time to bring the tranny inside the cool shade, and have some relaxing time.



As for the side caps - looking tired before



But looking almost perfect now




After the long degreasing session, we stumbled across some weird pitting.




Metal polish and a wool polishing ball was the weapon of choice.



Unfortunatelly, we couldn't get all the pitting out even after three sets of polishing. Any ideas on how to remove those stains? Soda blasting might work.

So here are our final shots, after lots of fun and very dirty palms.




















The end result isn't satisfactory in my eyes but I dont want to paint it for the moment, and leave it be at stock appearance.

Cheers

[Semu]

Had a boring day at work.
Took me 4 hours to read through this thread.
Wicked!

But i really want to know, how much money have you buried into it?

[mgpdoc]

Why? Where will it help you?
Which part of the build will it make more interesting?

Cheers

[loekaaz]

Had a boring day at work.
Took me 4 hours to read through this thread.
Wicked!

But i really want to know, how much money have you buried into it?

Enough to be worth it I guess

[mgpdoc]

Looks like I made another order, since I sold the Aeromotive A1000 I had.

A2040 Series, Bypass Regulator
Fuel Injected High Pressure (120 psi + base)
by Weldon

[mgpdoc]

Came down to my garage, only to see that something was missing . . .





Hm . . . were could it be . . .

Think I found it



And it was not there by itself





Happy Times



More to come . . .

[mgpdoc]

Today, I moved some more pieces with my DaiLy_ProjeCt. Rather heavy ones.



What do you know . . . They Fit. . .



Yes. I do like that image of a puzzle of pieces coming together



Hello Starter







Dont Mind me. I am just sitting here smiling while looking at the parts. LoL



Cheers everyone

[mgpdoc]

Next piece of the puzzle, is this.

[MuTToN_DaGGeR]

Oh my god !

[mgpdoc]

Eh...?

[loekaaz]

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