The V8 Owners Forum -

Thanks I will get a pair of hoses ordered tomorrow too didn't see that posthiding there :oops: and I will get this radiator welded up too I've had it nearly 2 weeks now and not got it sorted. This is a video of the first start in the car it had run before on a table in a small room and it wasn't for...

Well not 100% sure on the 2.7 part then it's what I was told I think the code is DQS but true it had an empty speed sensor on the diff looks like one but was hollow. I swapped it for one off another box I had and it works luckily :D a problem I have found is my ecu for my engine doesn't have a vss i...

I got a 6 speed box from a 2.7 tdi a6 I think it's a fwd box 01e it was for a midengine rwd project but... Mine never had airconditioning in the first place unfortunately I was thinking of retrofitting but looking at the work involved I think I will leave that for another day lol. Btw for the heater...

Yes mine id front wheel drive lol I've had the engine and box for a while just sat in the shed they were for something else but that wasn't looking like it was going to happen then my waterpump went on the 1.8 so what better way to fix a waterpump? I think if I set the radiator roughly where it was ...

Nobody in their right mind makes a front wheel drive V8. :oops: oopsie Yours is looking good alot better than mine I still haven't got round to welding the radiator up yet I have connected the exhaust up to the original 1.8 exhaust system now no more need for hearing protection when I pull it our t...

I used a wiring harness from a c5 s6 from the same year. I got the connectors for the car side from the s6 and a engine harness for the same year and engine as mine and made a little interface harness so I didn't have to change anything in the car other than add the dbw accelerator and what a job th...

Hi it's a d2 s8 engine code AVP going into a 1998 b5 it is in and running connected to a 6 speed 01e box all that remains is a radiator and reluctantly connecting the exhaust up. What I mean about the radiator is are they not like this inside? http://static.speedwaymotors.com/RS/SR/Alternative/39/10...

Don't mind me asking I am in the middle of a swap with a d2 v8 and I am upto the radiator and the lost driveshaft part :? I like the way you have done your radiator but just out of interest doesn't the radiator split in 2 parts on the end with the pipes? The standard plastic radiator flows from left...