460 watts of Hella
Page 1: Info & (somewhat) current pics
Page 2: Old pics
Page 3: Fiberglass Taillight project
Page 4: Other projects
Page 5: Inspiration gallery
Page 6: Soundsystem
Page 7: Crash pics
Here is some basic information about the car:
- 1990 Audi 100, manufactured Oct 89
- not quattro or turbo
- 2.3L 10v 5 cyl
- 3 spd Auto
- Zermatt Silver clearcoat metallic paint
- Two channel 4 wheel ABS with disable switch
- Factory Ronal 15x6 lightweight alloy rims
- Platinum grey leather
Check out Audiworld for historical Audi specs.
Exterior:
- Paint matched mirrors
- Custom fiberglass taillights
- 20% window tints and sunstrip
- Debadged
- Dealership pinstripe delete
- Paint matched wiper arms
- Depo clear corners (e-code)
- Corner lights modded to also be turn signals, stock turn signals removed
- Paint matched bumpers and body moldings, B-pillars
Interior:
- Streetglow zinc shifter
- Sensoro radar detector, hard-wired
- Garmin GPSII+ fitted in dash with external antenna
- Stock dash buttons changed to toggle switches
- Krysor digital clock
- About 60 square feet of R-Blox sound dampening in trunk and doors
- Rear shelf covered with audio recording room foam spikes
- Blaupunkt Acapulco deck
- Audiobahn Components with 6" carbon woofers and 1" silk tweeters, fiberglassed into doors
- 50x4 RMS Clarion Amp
- Alphasonic subwoofer with 2 10's in ported box with matching amp
- 1 Farad Cap
(soundsystem pics will come eventually)
Performance mods:
- Euro-spec Hella H4 headlamps with city lights (sent from Germany)
- Hella 500 amber fogs and clear driving lights, currently just the driving lights mounted offset in the grille
- Aux Hellas now upgraded to 100w
- 100/130 Hella yellowstar H4's
- Hella micro DE work lamp rear mounted for back-up
- Bosch platinum plugs
- Exhaust: Gutted cat, 2.25 pipe into a 50 series Flowmaster muffler.
- K&N air filter
* With those simple mods, I get 23/27 mpg. From the factory it is rated at 19/23.
- polished exhaust tip
- KYB nitrogen charged gas shocks
- H&R progressive rate lowering springs
- Kuhmo Ecsta 716 HP4 tires
- Eurorotor Magnum cross-drilled front rotors & EBC Greenstuff pads. Wow, this thing really STOPS now. Huge improvement, I thought I would need a caliper upgrade for this.
Some recent replacements that I can think of:
Alternator, rear wheel bearings, rear calipers, coolant hoses and resevoir, CV joints, tie rod ends, 02 sensor
Fluids used
Mobil motor oils
Aamco semisynthetic ATF
Lucas fuel additive
Zerex phosphate-free coolant
Shell V-power gas (good stuff)
