Monthly Archives: February 2017

AgS4

Another engine in place

I am not a fan of stock downpipes.  The added pain in the ass they create when installing the engine is not welcome.

This engine install was also a little trickier on account of the shift rod being a stock length, where I had done the Innovator mod to mine, that is now in the Avant, several years ago cutting it down slightly and re-threading the rod.  That makes putting the transmission back in the tunnel a little easier.

In addition to needing to raise the engine higher with the stock DP’s I have to work around them to reattach the driveshaft and the cover.  Just added difficulty that the ASP downpipes do away with.

Eventually though I did get the engine back in place.  I called it a day at this point.

Sensors

Tangled in the web

While I’m a fan of the hair band song with the same title as this post, removing all the wiring that supports the various sensors and displays on the homebrew gauge panel was an unpleasant tangled web to work through on the Silver S4.

Gauge Panel

This time with the displays I had a plan to simplify the wiring and de-clutter but it still came out looking like this.

Gauge Panel Back Side

The Dataq logger has been a tremendous addition to the equipment collection enabling the recording of 8 channels of data simultaneously.  It took over the footwell on the passenger side.

Dataq

Meanwhile getting all the sensor wiring out of the engine compartment was made easier by removing the entire ECU box.

Engine Compartment Spaghetti

I’m going to hold off on attempting a reinstallation of all these systems into the Avant until I have a good reason to tackle the project.

Avant

It is… alive!

This afternoon I finished putting the major components back onto the Avant and drove it out of the garage under power from it’s new 47k mile engine.

2001.5 Audi B5 S4 Avant

The instrument cluster is out with Speedometer Solutions having the LCD replaced with a new OEM unit so I’ll hold off on driving it until I get the gauges back.

With space freed up in the garage I pushed the Silver S4 in.

Now I’ll be turning my attention to putting the accessories onto this engine and installing it into the Silver S4.