damgrmn’s 1997 Audi A4

This is how the car sits right nowI’m in the slow process of building a rally car funding is short so it's a slow process I finally installed a stage 3 turbo kit and fine tuning it but now she is running optimal I'm at the point now of finding a new daily driver now so I can finish striping the dash and interior out and weld in a full race cage. I did get a new set of coilovers and droped the car 3" 1/8 in the back and 3" in the front looks pretty good but the handling is amazing, I also made a skidd plate for the front end.

I have just built and installed solid transmission mounts and a rear diff mount it took me a bit to build and modify them to fit just right but they made the shifting and throttle response feel a lot crisp.The rear differential was the biggest, Ya! You know what but wow! What a difference it made.

I did some studying and found out that I should replace every thing while in there every moving part. This picture is after I replaced most every thing but I figured while in there I mites as well do some up grades.ECS tuning, under drive pulley kit, O34 motor sports front mount inter-cooler, Mocal front mount oil cooler thermostatic sandwich plate, badge less front grill, ECS oil drain plug, APR snub mount, painted valve cover.

Good shot of my semi new turbo and apt intake blow off valve. Below is also A good shot of the new adjustable fuel pressure regulator from ECS tuning along with the oil cooler kit with Mocal thermostatic sandwich plate and a 16 row x 235mm heat exchanger, from Mocal also & ECS magnetic oil drain plug, also a picture of the timing kit.

But still took me a little bit to build. I have built and installed solid transmission mounts and a rear differential mounts it took me A bit to build and modify them to fit just right but they made the shifting feel a so much more crisp no where near the slop. I have put 23,022 miles on them now of daily and hard driving and still no cracks or bad wear.30 PSI  BOOST GAGE

along with installing new 17" wheels from an 07 audi so now i can do a big brake up grade as well.  before coilovers                                               After coilovers

I have also done a lot of weight reductionfull A.C removed, full sunroof assembly removed, all of my evap system, full rear decking (custom build rear strut bar), full back seat removed (but still able to re-install rear seat), full glove box, passenger air bag, driver air bag, center console, head liner, rear carpet, rear pillar liner, spare tire well removed, and lastly I trimmed out 18lbs of small metal from various places.my goal was to get the cars weight down to between 2500-3000 lbs with me in it and half tank of gas, I got the car down to 2838 lbs with 1578lbs in the front and 1260 lbs in the rear of the car and I still need to put a light weight battery and remove my fuel tank and install rear fuel cell to help even out the weight from front to back.Rear diffuser built and installed  Really cut down on how lose the rear felt after all of the weight reduction because of wind turbulence catching under the car where my spare tire well was and mufflers were after removing them it left a 3x4 and 2x3 foot hole for wind to catch.

Pictures of the defuser and rear NASCAR style spoiler and new Motor all powder coated up finished the install about one month ago and finally finished breaking her in.