It was! Thanks for your help!
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It starts! And sounds better than ever. I do have a question, would the coolant that leaked out on the exhaust manifold make a smoke screen?
Yes. Spy hunter style
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That clears that up haha
Really been watching this thread as I’m pretty much in the exact same spot. Just finished VC gaskets and am about to get the manny off as soon as I can carve out another full day. Robo, I just have one question though as I’ve been following this thread - whatever happened with that rocker arm?
I took all the pieces out and of course it’s misfiring because of it but I’m going to have the engine dropped at this point
Gotcha - are you still planning on driving it or are you already starting to plan for a drop? Even with that loose arm removed - I would imagine a misfire alone would be at the low end of concern. How detrimental does this group suppose continuing to drive will be to the life of the engine?
I’m unsure honestly. I have an extended warranty that I just started and I think if it comes down to it I could get a newer engine. But until then I’ll take a few trips around town and get it up to operating temp a few times
Ok the passenger side fuel line that leads to the fuel rail under the manifold is leaking (the thicker line) my crows foot wrench from harbor freight couldn’t reach and tighten it much. What should I do because I’m now tired of the gas smell
Update: I got the fuel line as tight as possible that I could do without a wrench it doesn’t leak anymore which is a plus and the cold starts sound pretty good It takes 2 or so seconds and runs like 
for the first 6 or so seconds and stays at a solid 758 rpm and has a slow acceleration in 1st until you hit 3600 rpm. Once it’s warmed up it’s much more lively.
Good to hear it man! I’m right behind you with the manifold. Have only a few things left, fuel lines mainly. Hoping I can get it off by tomorrow and start cleaning.
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Robocop.
Just to re cap. Your lifters are still broken or just the arms are not there on 2 cylinders correct.
All of the cars good condition or not are going to missfre if you have your SAI still and the temps get cold enough on cold start. So I wouldn’t worry much about that. Also the cars tend to missfire if the ECU is adapting.
2/40 rocker arms broke and I saw the sai delete on jhm seeing it was one of the cheaper things on their website. I’ll look into that
Update: I’ve reached 850 mi and guess what? No problems! When it’s 65°F+ and has low gas it throws an esp fault but as soon as you throw some gas in it, the car is happy. When I take the car in for warranty work next I’m going to have them replace the HPFPs as well. So far I love this car and when I get it mechanically sound I can start with the mods. I feel as if Audi will take their time seeing that parts would need to be ordered but as long as they give me a nice A4 or something I won’t be complaining 
I dremmeled mine out too and its leaking like a MF in that area. I prolly need a new VC. Is yiurs leaking at all??
It’s leaking but I don’t know if it’s from the valve cover I don’t think it is
Thank you for this pos!
I will be eventually doing a CC, this will help!
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Hi All this post is excellent looking at doing my flaps and CC this weekend. Just one question with the flaps locked in position does it no throw a code and put EML on?
The inside TQ flaps don’t have a sensor on them so there is no issues there. The tumble flaps those are the ones just above the cylinder heads. Those have a sensor on them. Those you would get a code for.
The tumble flaps generally don’t have too many issues as long as theyre not all carboned up. Well aside from the fact that they kill Tq down low but other than that those flaps usually don’t break or get stuck.
It’s the internal flaps in the intake that have the issue.
So after a 12 hour session yesterday removing IM and decoke and to my surprise nothing broken! Even the rubber around the flaps looked good 
so put it all back together and checked for faults my original fault for the manifold flaps had gone but a new one appeared randomly P1653 fault in ABS controller and won’t clear 
left the battery on charge as it had been sitting for over a week other then that any ideas cheers guys
