Jimmy AudiA4_20T is the guy that did the swap you are talking about
My comment still stands. I am glad he finally got it done. Should be a cake walk to fit a timing belt 4.2 V8 engine in for him then and it would be interesting to see. Peer pressure peer pressure. Why not go all out and fit a RS6TT timing belt V8 with a huge single turbo. This guy on Audizine cut his cowl area open on a C5 A6 and what a masterpiece of piping. The turbo isn’t mounted in the cowl area though.
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll37/Jimmybones777/27Tsingleturbo.jpg
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/418059-A6-Single-Turbo-Build/page8
I appreciate it. I apologize if I snapped a little, doing the swap in college while your car is 3 states away is tough so I hate when people say “it took forever” or “he’s still working on it, it’ll never get finished”, but I’m happy with the way it turned out and I took it to work this morning! I was considering what engine to do in my next B6 project and I considered the timing belt V8 and building one, but the cost jumps WAY up to build it and WAY up to turbo it. The 2.7T is just like cheating. Might do a 3.6 VR6 too, I honestly have no idea what it’s going to end up being
^^^ there you go. That’s a 5.2 V10…and THAT is $7000… (and nobody is bidding)
Well, if you were looking for a motor that came out past the front bumper lol
the point is that particular 5.2 engine is $7000…while you said a used 4.2 chain is $7,000. As jimmybones (who worked at Audi) expressed, the price you quoted was closer to the new BHF engine cost than that of a used engine.
Your big b e n e f i t about the 2.7t swap (or whatever) is that it costs $7,000 for a 4.2 and a fraction of that for these other engines…and even after all the other costs associated with the swap, you come out ahead. Truth is maybe you just weren’t trying hard enough to find an engine for a reasonable price? As I’ve said, we have seen people scoop engines from $1500-4000 pretty regularly. I know two people who scooped used 4.2 engines for $1500…one of them posts on this forum in fact.
Telling half the story always makes it look great. Like the ‘timing belt motors don’t suffer from chain guides and scored walls’ argument that you made last page…but have yet to reply to posts that put that in the toilet.
case in point. ASKING $3600 for a B7 S4 engine with 30k miles on it (according to seller)
$3000-3300 should have it in your crate and on the way to you