by Mark Kelley | Dec 8, 2016 | Audi, Audi A8 4.2 Quattro, Cars
The Audi A8 4.2 is a great motor, and this example has over 220,000 miles on it. It needs some attention and TLC for sure. So first up was a full set of front brakes and huge rotors. They had to dust off the boxes at the parts store when I picked them up, I guess...
by Mark Kelley | Nov 21, 2016 | Audi, Audi 80, Cars, RDC
So Wednesday of this week entailed stripping the engine from the Audi 80 2.7tt and rebuilding the entire thing on the block I picked up Monday. By the evening I had it all back in, leaving Thursday to fill it with fluids and such. The scariest moment was probably when...
by Mark Kelley | Nov 15, 2016 | Audi, Audi 80, Cars
Who’s there? Connecting rod. So during the last hour of Drift Matsuri I had a rather impressive and total failure of the oil relocation fitting on my oil pump. I was just transitioning off the 1st corner on the fast track when what can only be described as a...
by Mark Kelley | Nov 11, 2016 | Audi, Cars, News
This is a post mainly for my North American friends. I love a quattro, so when I saw this A4 B5 (1998) 1.9TDi Quattro Avant, I picked it up. Maybe nothing special in the UK (although trying to find a replacement gearbox for it tells me they weren’t plentiful),...
by Mark Kelley | Oct 23, 2016 | Audi 80, Cars, News
All gaskets are not created equal. I’ve been battling an oil leak of the left bank of the 2.7 twin-turbo. It took me a while to track it down as there were a few oil leaks in the vicinity (one was coming from a stress crack in the valve cover itself from a...
by Mark Kelley | Oct 21, 2016 | Audi, Audi 80, Cars, News
Had time to fit a short shift kit to the Audi tonight. I changed a few things on the kit I didn’t like to make it stiffer and it’s now also harder to get the car into reverse accidentally. I was having trouble downshifting from 3rd to 2nd with confidence...
