My B6 "S4" - Project Lemonade?

[Danaldson]

Re: My B6 S4 Project - Project Lemonade

Looks like you've got a lot of work ahead of you! Do the B7 S4 motors have the same timing chain guide and cylinder peeling issues as the B6 S4?

Also, how do high school kids have so much money these days? I was dead broke at that age!

i found that i had plenty of cash to spend in high school, uni on the other hand.....it hurts to buy groceries

[idlandk]

Re: My B6 S4 Project - Project Lemonade

i found that i had plenty of cash to spend in high school, uni on the other hand.....it hurts to buy groceries

I seemed to have unlimited free time in high school too. That quickly disappeared in university

[GingerBeef]

Re: My B6 S4 Project

I know it's not important at this point in time but why not just get the car totaled in the first place, collect the insurance and purchase another S4 with the money you get? It would be a heck of a lot easier and might be more reliable as a daily?

Sadly it was an at fault accident :( I was turning left onto John Laurie and there was 2 cars the perfect distance apart that the car in the closer lane (an Acura MDX i think?) Was completely blocking the Buick in the further lane. It sucks, i thought it was clear, shouldve double checked before i turned but hey... hindsight is 20 20 i guess.

Anyways, i only had basic coverage, so the S4 was my problem. I did the math, seeing how much i could make back from parting it out. I figured that buying a B6 for 1500 would pretty much mean a free repair, once the left over B6/B7 parts were sold. Its just gonna be a lot of work haha

[GingerBeef]

Re: My B6 S4 Project - Project Lemonade

Looks like you've got a lot of work ahead of you! Do the B7 S4 motors have the same timing chain guide and cylinder peeling issues as the B6 S4?

Also, how do high school kids have so much money these days? I was dead broke at that age!

I dunno haha, i made some decent money last summer flipping cars and detailing, and i dont really pay for food or housing... just the occasional McDonalds run so i guess its easy to save up a good amount of cash. i didnt have enough money to pay for the S4 initially so my parents loaned me a bit, but i payed them back.

If im not mistaken, the B6 and B7 s4 have the exact same engine and transmission. The B7 has an upgraded diff, and slightly re-engineered suspension, so i guess this will kind of be a B6.5 S4 haha

[PRY4SNO]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Nice work, this is the kind of project I approve of! B6 is hands down my favourite style Be sure to grab the updated cupholders in the centre console while you're in there. And keep the glovebox/latch/hinge... common fail point. Are you swapping the headliner too?

Is that A4 a fwd? Or just partially debadged?

B7 had upgrades to the timing chain guides, just be a religious zealot with the OCIs.

There's a guy on motorgeek looking for an S4 bumper, maybe he'll be willing to ship.

Will be following for sure!

[GingerBeef]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Nice work, this is the kind of project I approve of! B6 is hands down my favourite style Be sure to grab the updated cupholders in the centre console while you're in there. And keep the glovebox/latch/hinge... common fail point. Are you swapping the headliner too?

Is that A4 a fwd? Or just partially debadged?

B7 had upgrades to the timing chain guides, just be a religious zealot with the OCIs.

There's a guy on motorgeek looking for an S4 bumper, maybe he'll be willing to ship.

Will be following for sure!

Thanks! Yup, im planning to swap over almost all the B7 stuff. As for that A4.. its pretty much as base model as base models get, fwd, no power seats, no alarm, nothing haha. The main list of thigns that are being swapped over are:

-The engine and tranny (obviously)
-Quattro swap (rear beam, diff, gas tank)
-Interior stuff (Steering wheel, black S4 headliner, recaros, carbon fiber trim, center console etc)
-Exhaust, suspension, brakes
Pretty much, both cars will be getting stripped to a shell, then reassembled...not many parts are staying on that B6

Ive already ordered a USP lip, as mentioned earlier, the B7 rear valence will be grafted to the B6 bumper.. gonna do some other things on my own as well cosmetically. I really want to make this S4 MY S4 haha

[All_Euro]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Awesome project - good to see you're making the best out of things. Looking forward to updates!

[onceover]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

You're getting way ahead of yourself with the cosmetic stuff. Save money for potential hiccups and worry about the small things like that later!

[PRY4SNO]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

You're getting way ahead of yourself with the cosmetic stuff. Save money for potential hiccups and worry about the small things like that later!

x2

[RAubry]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

That's awesome I wish I knew as much about cars to do projects like that!

[GingerBeef]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

You're getting way ahead of yourself with the cosmetic stuff. Save money for potential hiccups and worry about the small things like that later!

Yeah, normally id agree haha but the USP lip was on sale... and in Canada.. and there were 3 left... so i kinda just jumped the gun on that one haha.

[MechEngg]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Sadly it was an at fault accident :( I was turning left onto John Laurie and there was 2 cars the perfect distance apart that the car in the closer lane (an Acura MDX i think?) Was completely blocking the Buick in the further lane. It sucks, i thought it was clear, shouldve double checked before i turned but hey... hindsight is 20 20 i guess.

Anyways, i only had basic coverage, so the S4 was my problem. I did the math, seeing how much i could make back from parting it out. I figured that buying a B6 for 1500 would pretty much mean a free repair, once the left over B6/B7 parts were sold. Its just gonna be a lot of work haha

Ah okay that makes a lot more sense now. Maybe now from that little incident will come the lesson to always put full insurance on any car you care about/want to have around for a while. Everybody makes mistakes.

I'm excited to see this V8 turbo project go full speed ahead

[BolideVW]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Ah okay that makes a lot more sense now. Maybe now from that little incident will come the lesson to always put full insurance on any car you care about/want to have around for a while.

Too bad it'll cost you your soul at our age for full coverage.

[MechEngg]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Too bad it'll cost you your soul at our age for full coverage.

I have dealt with high insurance, trust me.
I would still recommend full insurance on an Audi S4. Or get a cheaper car that you don't care about is always another solution.

[bydesign]

Re: My B6 S4 - Project Lemonade?

Great Project! A good way of making the best of a bummer situation. Parting out the B7 will help pay for the project since the sum of parts are worth way more than the car as a whole.