Audi GTT coupe -87

[Nosliwe]

Well, its probably time for me to put up my project here after a couple of months in silence just reading threads.
Short about my self. Im a 26 years old guy from Sweden working as a laser operator at a company making shop interiors out of sheet metal, so bare with me when it comes to grammar :)

The car is a 1987 Audi GT coupe that i bought 6 years ago. I drove it for one winter and after that i decided to fix some rust. That was the start of a much more serious renovation and rebuild of the car that i had planed.

The car when i bought it.





Since im the 22th owner, there was alot more rust to fix then id expected.







It had been in a accident, but i just thought it was in the front left corner. Not the entire side of the car.




after a lot of welding and sanding.





The next winter i decided to renovate the original engine which was a 2.2L HY N/A 136HP.




Also bought some new wheels and a SPQ hood and group B wing. Took 2 years for me to get that hood on hehe.



And i also went for a flocked interior with racing seats and some sparco details.



Never got the engine to work properly since i had some oil problems the whole summer. Suddenly on my way home from work the oil pressure dived to 0. Had a minor accident before that.




and well, the oil problem. Caused by a defect oil pump. (was new)





I have to go to work now, so ill continue writing later.
Here are some pics of what the car looks like atm though.





Laters!

[a4_matt]

Dang man. Total transformation! Nice job!!

[Nosliwe]

Home from work and got time to write some more.

Since i had that minor setback i had to get another engine. Managed to find a cheap HY engine a couple of miles from the garage.




During that winter i swapt the engine, painted the struts, fited 60/40mm lowering springs and relocated the battery to the trunk.





Even though the summer finally came (winters are extremely long and boring in Sweden), i decided that the SPQ hood had to get on the car!
And for those who don't know how much difference there is between a GT/UR and a SPQ. The grill doesn't fit, the headlights doesn't fit and i couldn't just buy a SPQ grill and put on it because that doesn't fit the GT fenders since their not as wide as a SPQ.
So i had to build my own grill and get a hold of some SPQ headlights.





I actually drove around like this for a week haha





And the half finished result.



At the end of that summer i got a offer from a friend that i couldn't resist.
He had a 200 10V MC2 Turbo engine that had recently been gone through with new seals and all gaps measured and he only wanted a "sandwich cake" as trade :D



Had to get a turbo, WG, manifold, intake, fuel distributor and some electrical stuff to get it back to the original state. The previous owner was halfway through a compressor conversion of the engine.

And now to the boring part with living in Sweden.
In order to get the car road legal with the turbo engine, i have to register the car as a rebuilt vehicle. Which means, i have to swap the entire front or rear subframe, the entire break system and the drivetrain.
So i went for the chassis and break upgrade that winter.
The setup:

90 20V wheel hubs (in order to keep the 4x108 but still get the S2 breaks.)
S2 2 piston calipers.
90 20V 276mm discs.
S2 front beam.
S2 Forged wishbones.
S2 break cylinder.




When i was at the end of the upgrade i lookt into the car for the first time in a couple of weeks.

This



Had turned into that!






Rats!
Just had to bite my lip and start a new project when i were supposed to start driving the car again.
Managed to get a good price on black furniture leather (free) and bought some alcantara. And sat down at the sewing machine for the first time in 15 years. Last time i used one was when i had to do stuff like potholders back in school.








Also swapt to a 7A gearbox in the middle of all that.
Some cleaning.




Interior back together and the car out of the garage.

[Nosliwe]

My brother in law decided to organize some autocross events that summer and it was a good way to find faults.





Had to tie down my wild 136 (originaly) HP since my engine mounts didn't like my new weekend driving.




Here is the car together with the "sandwich cake" friends car. A 1985 GT Quattro that had been resprayed a couple of weeks earlier.



Looks a bit different atm. You'll see a little bit later.
Also painted the bumper covers and the side skirts that summer.




As usual i don't stop working on the car during the summer.
Since i had the racing seats in the car i could start working on the original seats of the car. (After more then one hesitation)









The winter 2014/2015 came and i started the Turbo project.

Setup to get this working:
Home made stainless steel airfilterbox replacer.
Stainless steel 2.5" Urquattro downpipe.
Saab 900 IC. (I don't like it, but it fits perfect.)
Aftermarket 16 rows oil cooler.
Audi 100 MC2 engine harness and ECU.
Golf MK2 GTI rubber bellow.
A whole lot of sweering, researching and soldering.













After getting the wrong AN hoses, drenched the garage floor in 3L of oil TWICE i finally got the car fired up!

[Nosliwe]

Managed to get the backseat done in the middle of everything aswell.





Also managed to get a hold of some rare red seatbelts.




It was an option to get red seatbelts when ordering a urquattro back in the 80s. I have only seen one so far with it.

Problems so far during this summer.

Managed to fixate the oil cooler hoses a little to tight, the engine managed to destroy the AN cones and the car started leaking oil. (Thats my friends GT quattro atm)




And the water return pipe from the turbo ruptured once and the new one didn't stand the heat. Emptied the whole engine outside my apartment...



The car haven't had any accident in a couple of months now and its time to put it back in the garage.

Whats up this winter:

Registration as a rebuilt vehicle.
Widening
Fixing all minor faults.

[salmjo1]

This is awesome!
I just started on mine, am in the process of tearing it apart.
Would LOVE to find some red seat belts!

[Ms.S4]

Holy shit, this is an epic build. MOAR!

[Nosliwe]

Thanks!

Besides widening and a respray, im actually starting to run out of ideas!
Might cover the dashboard in leather with red seems aswell.
And the fuel system is going into the trunk.

[Coup]

Great job on the car I'm in the US i was wonder if digital dash is easy to find in the USA not easy well for me.
I hate to bother you out of nowhere but maybe you could help

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[Nosliwe]

I would love to help, but unfortunately im 7000km away from US. Im from Sweden, so i dont have a clue :D

[Nosliwe]

Doesnt happen that much atm with the car. But i made some HY downpipe flanges in stainless steel with copper gaskets today.



At least Audi GT related ;)

[Nosliwe]

Been slacking alot with my updates on the international forums. So here comes a post of what has happen the last couple of months.

Rebuilt a 100 instrument cluster with some new gauges.






Not finished yeat though.
Also started building myself a SPQ dashboard, which might explain the new instrument cluster. A lite bit updated since the 80's SPQ cluster hehe.






Been slightly irritated of my fuelpump, filter and pressure accumulator placement since the fastenings has been gone long before i bought the car. So it was time to move it into the luggage and create a new box to hold it all.






Thats all for now. Started with the dashboard yesterday and cut it today. Prob continue with it tomorrow. I'm one of those idiots going through the Swedish "Vasaloppet" Which is a 90km long cross country skiing event. So i have been busy training for that during the last couple of months. The snow melted away a couple of days ago though, so now its focus on the car.

[Nosliwe]

Foam everywhere...

[Nosliwe]

Gotten a bit further with the dashboard.
While test mounting it i noticed that the cluster is hitting the steering column bracket. So ill have to cut more or less 1 cm out of the cluster to clear it. Will be fine since i only use the cluster shell.






Also got a package of AN hoses and fittings. My father pressed the connections at Volvo Cars in Skövde. Quite helpful having their engine factory service workshop at my disposal. :D
Also made a pipe for the AN connection that is going to be welded into the tank.

[Nollywood]

Subscribed to an epic build.

[Nosliwe]

Haven't updated in a while, Also had some boring stuff to fix. RUST...

Bought a urquattro steering wheel a couple of months ago in quite bad shape.

Before restauration



And after



Bought a 044 fuel pump.



Welded the fuel filler plate shut with a piece of sheet metal that i embossed so that the fuel cap got countersunk into it.



And fixed that boring rust and some other crap on the car. Some idiot thought that 2 antennas wasn't enough, so he drilled a hole in the roof and placed another one there. Even better is that that moron didn't manage to get it centered on the first try, so he drilling milled the hole a bit to the left. No comment on that one... xD













Haven't done that much recently since my job and and the poor Swedish spring weather takes a lot of my time away.

[Nosliwe]

Well, this update sure took some time.
Was starting to feel tired all the time and what ever I did (or didn't do) I started getting pain at weird places of the body. After plenty of hospital visits I got diagnosed with Fibromyalgia 2019.
Life has since been a struggle both mentally and physically.
Try telling a 30 year old with way to many ideas projects going, together with a brain that constantly wants to build and improve stuff, to sit down and do nothing!
I'm still not fit to do anything during the cold winters here in Sweden. Its a bit more bearable during the summer. Heat helps a lot and I live in the wrong country.

Anyways. What makes me pick up this project again that I really really miss is the end of life vehicles submission from the european commission lurking as a dark cloud over Sweden.
I feel forced to get it back on the road again. And I also really really miss to drive my car I love almost as much as my wife.
Started the summer by towing it from the mice infested barn to our house we bought 2.5 years ago. I wanted as my wife called it "A garage with a house extension" but ended up with a house without a garage but decent parking space.




First thing to do was to start searching for places were the mice that kept hunting this car was getting inside of it.
Took some pictures of the inside of the rocker panels and noticed that on the left side there was some daylight sipping in that wasn't supposed to be there.
Had a look from the outside and noticed that 40% of the panel is corroded beyond rescue. And the reason is the plastic sideskirts that is bolted from the underside. The rust started at each bolt connection point.






This will have to be fixed as soon as I get the car running and can drive it to the sheetmetal factory I work as a CAD engineer at. We have a fully equiped welding facility.
What needs to be done in order to get to that point is to fit a fueltank, fuelpump and fuelfilter bracket. Then connect everything.
I also still have to paint all the fixes that was done 2016. Going to try and do that this week.

What I also need to try and fix is the homebuilt dashboard.
My 3D printing hobby picked up quite a bit when i threw away the creality printer and got myself a Prusa I3 Mk3s. No more chinese crap!
Recently also upgraded to a Mk4.
So 3d printed myself a spacer for the foot rest and a new mount for the switches that originally mounts to the instrument cluster.









Used some threaded inserts on the mount to make it easier to remove when needed.

Also need to replace the old floormat since it was very disgusting.
Bought some "marin grade" floormat in the same material as the original one and started molding it to the shape of the floor.
Had to stich the corners a bit, other than that it went very well.




Haven't taken any pictures after the sewing yet since I don't leave it in the car while not being in it.

Also need to fix my fuel and brake line mounts. So 3D printed some new ones in PETG and going to mount them with popnuts.





Side thing I'm doing is copying the original interior parts for 3D printing.
Top part in the pic is printed.




More updates soon!

[Stubek]

Great work! That car is lucky to have you.