Project Heidi

The day I️ picked her up

Waiting for her ride home...

Arrived on a flat bed

Peeling center console

Peeling headlight switch

Peeling window switches

Showing off her guts

Her heart...

Block and pistons look okay

Old cylinder head. Warped = bad

Head gasket

Dirty old cylinder head with cracks

3 small cracks on this cylinder

Dirty old cylinder head with cracks

Dirty old cylinder head with cracks

Cracks between intake and exhaust valves

crack between exhaust valves

Cracks between intake and exhaust valves

Crack between intake and exhaust valves and crack between exhaust valves

Crack closeup

Crack close up. also tiny cracks near the spark plug bore

Replacement cylinder head. No cracks! (Good)

So clean...

You could eat off of it

And the deck is flat! (Even better)

New water pump (shiny)

Water pump time

FSI coilpack conversion (and new plugs)

Crappy stock brakes

Porsche Cayenne Turbo calipers

Fresh from powder coat

Front brakes looking good (new brake rotor is from a Mercedes ML 55 AMG with the center hole bored out by 1 mm to fit the Audi hub)

S4 rear brakes are on and powder coated

New brakes + suspension

Front suspension on! New upper and lower control arms, tie rod ends, etc

H&R springs + Bilsteins

Crappy wheels but pretty brakes

New headlight switch

No more peeling switches

cleaned up the center console with the climate control face plate from a B7, replaced the ESP button and the cup holder

Clean dash and center console + ECS tuning boost gauge

A rare sight...a B6 with no warning lights

Old taillights (old license plate)

New taillights (old license plate)

Not too shabby

Sky matches the brakes

New license plate...

The rear brakes are so small...