hey guys!
The car sat for a little bit at the shop, but the plan is to get back working on it next week. I just dropped by today, and shot a few pics of the new dash. It has the alcantara dash, piano black surround, and carbon trim installed.
Pics arent great, but best I could do with the bright sun at the time
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Wow that dash looks amazing. I have been looking at s6 cars as of late and the biggest turn off on the entire car is the dash. looks like you found a fix for that.
Thanks Justin!
For a number of years, I used to drive taxi. The main car at the time was the Crown Victoria…a massive boat if there ever was one.
The first thing I noticed when I sat in the C6 S6 was the dash looked weak, and too light grey. Too much like the base A6, and reminded me of the old boat…
http://www.idmsvcs.com/2vmod/dashboard/remove/pictures/PICT5829.jpg
http://www.nogaroblue.com/cars/A6TDI2.jpg
OK, obviously not the same. But I did not get the feeling of a sports sedan, compared to the average run-of-the-mill audi 4-door sedan. This mod corrected that. And any A6/S6 can probably get the best bang for the buck by just getting the piano black bezel, or having a body shop spray it and polish. The stock grey is cheap looking, IMHO.
Anyway, in the end just more money down the drain for eye candy. LOL. But this whole project has been about taking everything to the extreme, so I guess it all falls inline with that.
Cheers man, and best of luck in your search for an S6. I dont know if CV told you, but I am the deal hunter, so please let me know if I can assist in any way 
and I owe you one anyway man
Just read through teh whole thread
That Dash is a nice touch, looks like it flows with the seats too.
The headers and exhaust are made by CV. He has made headers for the 4.2 S4 the 4.2 S5 and the 5.2 V10 they are impressive . Powerwise they actually test them to verify that there are better outputs. It will be interesting to see how much further ahead V8A6’s car is then evryone else.
Thanks guys!
As Justin said, CV is the artist behind the headers.
And agreed, over two plus years is a LONG time. Especially since I have never really had the car in my possession for any significant length of time, since it was purchased way back in mid-2014. And a boatload of cash has been dumped into the project along the way. Hopefully, we will have the misfires (and now overheating) resolved soon, so I can finally get the ECU and TCU tune on the car that everyone else has.
Since we dont know root cause of the problem(s) at the moment, it is extremely frustrating and not possible to predict an ETA for completion. It could be on the road next week, or it might still be in the shop next year. In any case, I will be sure to post an update as soon as the car is running. Fingers crossed it is on the road before we hit 2017
Any speculation on what the problem is? Your car has been in the shop since I was in HS and that was quite some time ago! Do you think there’s a bad combination of mods or faultiness with the actual car?
V8A6, of course, you already know all this, but for anyone else who is reading this and might be having similar issues:
Overheating - you may want to look at my new coolant leaks thread for some tips on where to start looking. Other obvious places to start: bad fan, water pump, or thermostat. The latter 2 items are worth replacing if they’re old anyways, especially if you’ve already got the front end off.
Misfires - the usual places to start are (in order of cheapest to most expensive): spark plugs, coil packs, carbon cleaning, fuel injectors.
Ironically seems our cars follow the same plight fix one thing one thing comes back. I haven’t figure out the overheating and it’s interesting in park the car can idle for hours without overheating in drive the car can sit for 5-10 minutes and start overheating, the gremlins are at it again
Ya, fortunately I don’t have any real major issues going on anymore at the moment, but since my radiator got fixed the other day, now I get a sporadic “Hood open” warning on my dash. Like, off and on 1000x during a drive. Pretty sure the idiots at my local shop put my front end back on wrong. There’s no way I’m taking it back to them to fix though, every time I have them fix something they break something else. Every time. Also just got a tire pressure light this morning that I need to look into, and my airbag light is still on. Would be nice to start my car one day and not have any warning lights.
That dash!! I need that dash!! So nice!!
Thanks man
So, they pulled the thermostat, that was just installed along with a new water pump, probably 1000 miles ago, and found it was not opening. Replaced with a new one, and no more overheating issues!
Now, we are back to troubleshooting the misfires. Will update again when we have some progress
Sweet, one of my things to check was the one! I’ll pretend like I helped 
Good luck with the misfires!
Wow that dash is sexy - looks like my first mod will be some interior color changing
well, we pulled the intake manifold again, and all looked pretty good. Unfortunately, when the split the clamshell the lower half got damaged.
Luckily, I have another one, so they are piecing the the best from both together, and should be back in action fairly soon.
In the meantime, ordered…
JHM Intake spacers
JHM lightweight crank pulley
JHM SAI blockoff plates
The only thing I havent added is the JHM lightweight rotors. I am a HUGE fan of lightweight wheels and rotors. The thing is, I have the RS6 calipers waiting on standby. So, if anything Ill have a custom set made for them, after all the rest of this shit is sorted out.
So, at this point I officially have the most decked out v10 S6 that doesnt run… LOL.
That said, there are only so many parts left on the car that have yet to be replaced with new. Where logical troubleshooting fails to determine root cause, throwing money at a bunch of new replacement parts will eventually resolve the issue. That is the plan, anyway.
Fingers crossed!!!
I love the piano black surround! did you respray yours or get one off an Rs6? I hace been trying to find an RS6 RHD one but they are like gold dust. i might just by a a6 one and get it sprayed piano black!
OR why not just wrap it with high quality gloss black vinyl? I might take a stab at it; I really dislike the silver as well.
Thats a good idea batman!
I got the dash surround from German ebay. It was from an RS6. It really should have come standard on the S6.