B5 S4 Build

Vieussuex* · 06-01-2014, 01:41 PM

The first time I tried to run the engine in I've been plagued with issues.
Initially I thought I had a headgasket blow within the first 200km after the engine build, I was taking off very sedately at an intersection only to hear a pop and loose drive and whole heap of smoke come pouring out the hood with the distinct smell of coolant and oil.
When we got it back to the workshop we worked out that the oil cooler for the gearbox ruptured letting coolant fill my gearbox and the coolant system full of geabox oil

To top that off one of the metal coolant pipes that runs along the top of the block ruptured at the same time pouring a mixture of coolant and oil all over the engine hence the steam/smoking.
I'm sure your asking "but why did the car loose drive it's only coolant and gearbox oil?" well it so happened to also blow a driveshaft, drivers side to be exact....again all at the same time!

Fun times, at this point I almost canned the rebuild altogether.
I ended up coming to my senses and kept on going replacing everything that failed and had the gearbox pulled apart again.

Recently my only issue has been cam timing which I've finally sorted out..ended up being a tooth out on the intake cam in Bank 2.

While I was doing redoing the timing I also installed a ICM delete kit from 034 and also upgraded my coilpacks to Beru white tops.

So fingers crossed I can get back to logging now!

I'll finish with a pic of how she currently sits with some BBS LM's