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Maintenance

Get Healthy Engine Out

Today the engine came out.  Detaching the driveshaft from an S4 that has never had the driveshaft disconnected before is fun, boy those bolts are in there good.  The driveshaft is also well attached to the transmission, even without the help of the bolts.

CP B5 S4 Engine Out

I tried something different this time to free the driveshaft from the transmission.  I put the car in gear, raised the driver side rear wheel and gently rocked the wheel back and forth until the driveshaft popped free from the transmission.  Much easier than laying under the car trying to pound the driveshaft free.

I was extremely pleased to have almost no coolant loss when removing the heater core hoses, there’s been times in the past where this part of the removal has produced a big mess on my garage floor.

Audi B5 S4 transmission removed
Transmission Removed
Misc.

Project Get Healthy

To make room for the built engine in the Avant it’s stock engine needs to go somewhere, that somewhere is this Silver Sedan.

Audi B5 S4 Sedan
Audi B5 S4 Sedan

Today I began taking the Silver S4 apart in preparation for the swap.

Turbocharger

Frankenturbo meet Mamba

The turbochargers that I intend to try out with the Mamba wastegate actuators are the Frankenturbo F21 retrofits.  This evening I installed the Mamba wastegates to see how well they would fit on the turbochargers.

Frankenturbo F21 with Mamba wastegate
Frankenturbo F21 with Mamba wastegate

The new wastegate actuators fit onto the turbochargers without any problems.

Frankenturbo F21 with Mamba wastegates
Frankenturbo F21 with Mamba wastegates

So far I am impressed with the Mamba product, it looks well constructed and the initial fitting went well.

Frankenturbo F21 and Mamba wastegates
Frankenturbo F21 and Mamba wastegates

Next up I am going to play around with the preload spring options.