This item came in today for flow testing:
A couple of more pictures:
Here’s a link (Extrude honed Audi intake manifold) on Quattroworld to some additional information about the intake manifold and pictures of another manifold that was also extrude honed.
This is an otherwise stock intake manifold, it will be interesting to see how it compares with the other 2.7T B5 intake manifolds that have been flow tested.
I’ve gotten pretty far behind on making product reviews. Added to the slate are these Stern motor mounts which are replacing a set of RS4 motor mounts.
Another new addition is a Driveshaft Shop single piece drive-shaft. The driveshaft support had been damaged on the manual transmission driveshaft and in weighing my options, one being to purchase an aftermarket support to try and install, go with a completely re-manufactured driveshaft, or purchase the single piece unit, I decided the added cost would be worth the easier install and slightly lighter weight. I will be interested to see if I notice a difference.
I also began to re-install the motor and transmission. I decided to begin trying to install the axles while the motor was still a good ways out from the mounts so that I could have an easier time of it. That didn’t work as well as I had planned and after a good 3 to 4 hours of work I finally had inched, literally, the motor into position where I could bolt the axles to the transmission. At times I was lowering the motor a half an inch at a time to ensure nothing was being bound up or crushed. I’m seriously considering just installing the axles after the motor is in place the next time I do this.
As an additional note, I connected the stainless steel slave cylinder line while the motor was pretty far out. It was a fair bit more difficult to get the AN fittings to thread properly versus the stock configuration which just snaps into place. I ended up removing the driver’s side primary O2 sensor so that I could get my hand into a position where I could get the threads to mesh properly. With the O2 sensor out of the way things went smoother.
I also ended up removing the bottom portion of the transmission mounts so that I could manipulate the axles. Yet another reason to think about installing the axles at the end the next time,
Today I installed the charge pipes and the inlet piping. I then put the intercoolers in place so that I could perform a pressure test. There’s a few spots that would normally be plugged, like the brake booster line, that I had to improvise a cover for and that restricted me to testing at very low pressure.
