came away from.the ford scene years back after I sold my saph cosworth, life got in the way of cars but I was offered this 2003 rs6 avant of a good customer cheap so decided to buy it and do a rebuild as I've all ways loved them, I'll get some pics up but general plan is a full engine overhaul and gearbox refurb! hope you all enjoy.

 

quick bath before stripdown

 

Engine rebuild? Notorious oil burners

 

no mate big end failure

 

Jeez that sounds like an expensive engine and gearbox build good luck with it

 

Awesome cars will be worth it when done

 

con rod bols are 18 pound each and have 16 of those lol but I purchased another engine with a damaged valve as there is nothing available new like crank shaft, and no one makes oversize bearings or pistons.

 

There's a guy over in America with one of these, he got it minus the engine/box and ended up putting a manual conversion in it with an american v8 and rear mounted turbos. Last I saw it was on the dyno and he did some track days.

Good cars but the auto box and suspension would have to be changed out for me to own one long term.

 

suspension is all ready sitting on full blistein setup, manual conversion is quite straight forward too.

 

started to strip gearbix today as it caang be removed on it's own.






then a few bits for the engine arrived from tps

 

Awesome project, those engines must be tuneable for huge power easy enough

 

yes mate only turbos hold them back, guy in unit next door is helping with box as he rebuilds them out off those massive dump trucks

 

I went out in one years ago that had been tuned by mrc to take it over 1k torque, it had issues with the box when I was taken out in it and it was ok but weight didn't help with the auto box.

The sound made up for it though

 

finally made it to the bodyshop!

 

What box do people use when converting these to manual?

 

o1e out same model car, either 2.7t or the 2.5tdi. I'm currently hunting a doner car.

 

Is the o1e the same as in the b6 s4? If it is I’ve got a car you could rob what you want from

 

I belive so mate

 

so called round to bodyshop and there cracking on very well, hoping to get shell back mid march. also the doner car has arrived so gonna get cracking stripping that down ready



orderd correct spaced for gearbox conversion. and flywheel has been ordered. I'm also adding the vw phaeton brake duct upgrade.

 

Is she gonna get a couple of hoofing great turbos on her ?
them engines must be ripe for it even more so than the newer ones

 

just looking into that otion now tte can rebuild standards to stage 2 which are proven for 650bhp, and not overly expensive. anything else requires new manifolds really. but I think I'd be happy at 650. all though the manual gearbox gives so much more space to play with people are running twin gt30 which are good for 1000bhp

 

Twin gt30s are a good call
You've got a massive motor even gt35s should be responsive on there, it's a 5.2 isn't it v10 ?

 

no mate 4.2 v8,. shape.

 

back from the paint shop.in morning!