Audi S3

Lupton_20vt wrote:

looking good dude rear spacers and lows needed

Yeah I will need spacers when i put new pads in it as the clearance is fag paper width at the moment on the caliper itself will get some proper hubcentric though.

djdougalno1 wrote:

what happend to the tt comps and are those bbs reps

Still have the tt comps. Was somebody already said they are interested in them but going to clean them up a bit first and see if he would like them still. If not ill be putting them on here for sale. And yeah these are reps. Always on the look out for wheels though so might change these if i see something i like.

well done jimmy, wheels are looking sweet

Yeah i like them, not sure how long ill have them though as a few sets on edition caught my eye plus i want some real ones ideally. Have to wait see if any turn up.

Did you say you was quite interested in the comps? Havent put them up for sale yet incase you wanted them mark. Have to let me know if youd like them mate

Im begining to get slighty bored of this car

Lovely to drive but just not 'fun' hmmm i really cant cancel another insurance though. I have been driving since 17 and still have zero no-claims as i havent owned the same car for a full year or used the same insurance company for a full year i would have had some no claims but the company i had with the golf wouldnt go near me on this so had to cancel and start from scratch

I found this photo of my old mk2 on my camera today, hadn't seen this one before. Its not helping the situation.

does look good on them wheels!


do funds allow for a second cheap car? how long you got till insurance matures? ask company your with for quotes on ......(what ever your thinking mk2 etc................corrados are very nice!

james pm me the details on the s3 change maybe good

james. wrote:

Im begining to get slighty bored of this car

Lovely to drive but just not 'fun' hmmm i really cant cancel another insurance though. I have been driving since 17 and still have zero no-claims as i havent owned the same car for a full year or used the same insurance company for a full year i would have had some no claims but the company i had with the golf wouldnt go near me on this so had to cancel and start from scratch

I found this photo of my old mk2 on my camera today, hadn't seen this one before. Its not helping the situation.

Looks cool, easpecially with the bazooka on the roof.

lol potato cannon ftw

Lupton_20vt wrote:

lol potato cannon ftw

Just pm'd you by the way mate.

Right.. made a small start yesterday and have done just about all i can on this today now. Managed to get everything disconnected from the head, (inlet manifold was a b****** ) just waiting till tomorrow so i can buy or borrow some torx sockets for the exhaust manifold and some spline drives to take the head bolts out then with a bit of luck she should lift off. Should then be able to find out what the awfull tapping noise was after there was a pop oh well its all fun and games eh.


Currently at this stage now minus the timing belt


Looking a bit sorry for itself at the minute


Worlds most messy workshop, and this is after a whole morning making room to fit a car inside

is there any signs of damage at the minute?

i think the head bolts are ribe bits not spline or torx's, mine were ribe anyway.

I can't see much wrong at the minute. Though the cam chain tensioner/variable valve timing thing seems to 'squelch' and ouse oil out when turning the engine over by hand, im not sure if thats normal when its not running as lack of oil pressure? But will get a better look when its right off.

And yeah thats what i mean , i always get those mixed up! I have some torx and spline drives but none of those fit them.

has the cam chain got any excessive play in it, could the noise be chain slap from the tensioner being fubared?

No the chain seems tight enough i think. I've never done one of these though so im not really sure how much is excessive but its definatly not flapping around loose.. just the actual 'hydraulic ram' part of the tensioner makes a squeltching noise when turned over by hand on the crank nut. I can press the ram part of the tensioner down by hand if i try hard enough, but again im not sure if im supposed to be able to do that or not as never done one before

Also there is quite a bit of slack on the chain in places when turning it over, so that for a small time only one cam is moving, if that makes sense.. but im not sure if thats due to no oil pressure on the tensioner.

i'm pretty sure that sounds about right for the tensioner to me, there should be 16 links between the 2 cams when timed up properly, could the timing have jumped at all, hence the 1 cam only moving and it sounding like a bag of nails

Im thinking that could be a posibility but im pretty sure it hasnt slipped the belt end so would have been the chain if it has slipped. Quite worrying though as it had apparently been changed along with the timing belt not that many miles before i bought it. I have only dont about 5500 miles in the thing

Well managed to buy some internal torx sockets and a set of ribe drives this morning so got the head off today.. Not looking good

There is something wrong here i think

ah james im sorry to hear this

Lupton_20vt wrote:

ah james im sorry to hear this

Yeah i was hoping it was just going to be a new cylinder head but the way that piston is sitting and the amount of slop in the bores

time to build some crazy 400bhp engine then id be interested in some bits is your scrapping the old engine though. i.e turbo, manifolds, injectors and fuel rail

If i do repair it i will just get reconditioned block and head, i won't bother putting new turbo ect on as this one is ok i think.

On the other hand im in two minds whether to even do that at the moment, breaking it for parts has crossed my mind but that could just be because im sick of the sight of the thing right now

lol i was the same when i had the issues with mine just wanted to rip the thing apart i think we all react the same haha if you do end uo getting a whole new block with turbo etc let me know

Yep I will let you know mate

That don't look good dude,

I'd say you need a new head and perhaps the bearings have gone on the rods somehow on that piston hence the lower positon

i think there's a few engines for sale on ebay and edition

well thats a bit s**t. then again im with kit on this one, every cloud has a silver lining, in this case a 400 bhp silver lining