A2Steve
A2OC Donor
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- BCB bottom end, (new timing kit, waterpump, death pipe and thermostat housing all changed).
- AUB head,
- AVY inlet and injectors,
- AVY 4 branch manifold
- Larger ignition leads
- Pipercross cold air feed
- AUA gearbox with new clutch and flyhweel (quicker to rev)
- Stance+ coilovers
- Adjustable drop links
- Audi A8 speedline 16 hole alloys on 205/50/16 tyres
- 20mm spacers at rear, 15mm spacers at front
- backbox deleted
- slatted service flap
- bonnet, 4 doors, tailgate, front bumper and rear arches swapped for better items
- stainless free-flowing exhaust and 200 cell sports cat.
- black dash swap
- 288mm brake
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It looks like I’ve inadvertently started another A2 build.
@2work offered me a nice early pine green 1.4 for a very reasonable price as it had just failed the MOT with a few issues.
At the same time a friend of mine @Hef offered me a pine green 1.4 as a breaker with great bodywork, but a rough engine and some electrical gremlins.
I’d initially advertised it as a spares repair when I was running out of space, but issues with my everyday car meant that I need to get this car on the road.
A plan started ticking, make one good car from the 2 and then sell it on.
The trouble with that was that the clutch was on its last legs and so any prep for selling it would require the fitment of a new clutch.
I personally hate changing the clutch on a car as there’s not a lot of room and it’s hard work without ramps.
As daft as it sounds, I’d sooner change a whole engine than a clutch in situ and seeing @celsisone mention that his tuned 1.6 engine was available I decided to go a bit more full on.
The engine is a Golf BCB block, with a Polo AUB head and sump, Polo GTI inlet manifold, throttle body and Polo GTI exhaust manifold. Brett believes it to be running around 135bhp so should see the car getting down the road nicely.
The cars now in my garage and I’ll hopefully be taking the original AUA engine out on Wednesday with the aim of starting to fit the BCB/AUB hybrid at the weekend.
While the engine is on the floor it makes sense to change the clutch with the ease of access so I’ve got a new Borg & Beck clutch kit on its way in the next few days.
There doesn’t seem to be any wiring changes needed to the loom bar the connectors on the injectors and so this should be a plug and play fitment. It’s been running in Brett’s own 1.4 for about 20k miles so should be good to go.
This conversion would allow 1.4 owners to have an A2 using oem parts that’s got an extra 60bhp over standard.
I’ll post one photos along the way,
Wish me luck.
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