Originally Posted By: Or
I had a bad heater core in one once; that was an annoying repair. I did not know a V8 would shoe-horn into a Coupe Quattro; that would be a mean ride.
I couldn't follow the whole build thread as my iPad and internet are not playing well together right now for some reason. I'll finish it tonight. I'm curious if you got rid of the distributors on the V8, looks like from what I saw on page 1 you were trying to. I'm interested in that and COP ignition if I could mine for that. I've had this V8 since about '99/99, I had another one (also 5 speed) before that which was lost to a deer on a dark Vermont night...
What happened to the 90/V8; I see you don't have it any more?
The V8 just BARELY fit into that coupe. It was a [censored] of a swap. So much torque and quattro at the same time.
I did have to get rid of the distributors when I did the swap. The left distributor wouldn't fit in there so I ended up pulling the valve covers, intake and harness from an ABZ (early 4.2 A8 engine) and made a bit of a hybrid. Then I could plug the distributor holes and switch to coils though I did have to keep part of the passengers side distributor for the hall sensor.
To do a swap on your PT (the 3.6 V8) for the coils you'd need to pull those same parts - but also need to swap ECU's to an A8 ECU. That's where it gets complicated. The ABZ uses a 60-2 trigger where your PT uses a mix of crank sensor, hall sensor and flywheel ring to time the engine. You can do that if you have a 10 bolt flywheel with a 60-2 ring milled in (early S8 from europe is the only thing out there)
I ended up going with standalone ECU for that car. VEMS
I sold it last year so I could build the 5 cylinder turbo audi 90 I am slowly working on. It stayed in Ohio and the new owner is a great dude.