Polo's B5 S4 Build

[gpolo]

After a visit to Montenegro, I fell in love with a imola b5 s4 plowing through the mountains, the understated body style with the exhaust tone of axe murderer. After that i knew i had to have one, so that's what i did i picked up a 2000 Sanatorin s4

Here it is in its stock glory







Shortly after I did a downpipe,exhaust and a 4:1 center diff to shift the power more to the rear wheels and to bring out the sound, plus the power gain was fun





it sat like that for a good bit, the paint job was a lot rougher than pictures show, so I did what anyone else would do and tackled a DIY vinyl wrap job





shaved the head light squierters while i was at it





and the finished product



the full diy write up is located here (http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...l-wrap-project!)

Again it sat like that for a good bit. Ended up trading a friend my stock suspension for coil-overs, so it was lowered some.



I also found a deal on some LM reps, 400$ with a set of pilot sport ps2's how could i pass that up?

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so i enjoyed it the way it was for about a year, maybe a little longer than came time to swap out the turbos. It just so happened to be my friend had a spare low milage motor laying around that had rods, some rs6 hybrids plus injectors all it really needed was a tune, so we went at it.



after about a gallon of degreaser the bay was actually clean



both motors together



old ko3's



new rs6 hybrids



old motor mounts



heres the new 034 solid mounts



at that point the motor went in, and started up on the first try



unfortunately thats all it did is start, I went to shift into first, nothing, second nothing. At that point i was super aggravated. Hours upon hours of work and the car didnt move. Swapped the slave cylinder out, no luck
swapped the master cylinder out, no luck
So again it was time to drop the trans and take a look inside

Inside i was greeted by this:



somehow under installation the clutch disk bent, so i ordered clutch masters ordered a new fx400 6 puck. at that point all i could do was wait, so a good friend gave me a loaner car.



while my car sat like this:



now you may notice the wrap missing from the fenders. From touching the wrap with greasy hands, the wrap stained very badly it turned almost a yellow color. All around the car it was starting to show its age, although very photogenic in person it wasnt up to par. After about a week the clutch came in, and again i did what anyone would do. I ordered plasti dip.



oh and i also picked up a euro trunk









i peeled the excess off and then took some photos with my buddy





and thats preety much it so far. Im sure im forgetting a few things, I'll get some interior shots up later, need a break from typing all this out. Future plans are to peel the lime green dip off, and spray another color. The lime green was cool for a day, im sick of looking at it. After it gets re-dipped im gonna switch my focus to the interior , as of right now I should be getting a set of red bride seats for christmas, along with that i will be dying the interior red, and re doing the steering wheel etc. Hopefully sometime during spring I will pick up new wheels for the car, and once summer hits it will get a fresh Sanatorin respray with maybe a special added touch to the color.

[hi its me alec]

Sweet car, I love B5 S4s.

However, I don't understand the vinyl wrap and plastidip. For that money, you could have repainted any bad panels and buffed the rest of the car out. Unless it really was 'that' bad where paint was peeling from every edge of the car.

[NeilP]

interesting build!

glad to know the lime green is going though!

[gpolo]

Sweet car, I love B5 S4s.

However, I don't understand the vinyl wrap and plastidip. For that money, you could have repainted any bad panels and buffed the rest of the car out. Unless it really was 'that' bad where paint was peeling from every edge of the car.

It 100% needs a full re spray if you look through the wrap thread you'll see how much body work was done just to wrap.

[G535]

Damn, so much work put into the engine swap and upgrading. This car deserves a proper paint job!

[mike-81-240d]

This is a great build thread so far, excited to see where it goes next.

[Kielan]

Good to see you made it over here man!

[Quicksilver]

Good to see a lot of 2.7t S4's and A6's around here I myself might get either the RS6-R turbos or the Frankenturbos. Tell me how yours are when you get the chance!

[Raarasutra]

funky build funky color, all is well here

[TeckniX]

that RS6 #powa!

[coveibrv]

I don't understand the vinyl wrap and plastidip.

[basyrfang]

Looking forward for some more man!

[gpolo]

Good to see a lot of 2.7t S4's and A6's around here I myself might get either the RS6-R turbos or the Frankenturbos. Tell me how yours are when you get the chance!

In the process of tuning so once that's all done I'll post a video of some pulls

[detsooB]

I really like where this is going!

[mrg7243]

George, its Matt with the URs4. That green is holy shit bright.