Cory's Lifted / Rallyx CQ - Winch Installed

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Fri Feb 15, 2013 6:19 pm

lining up the holes for the spoiler to mount into place, before installing i have to reinforce the holes on the spoiler with some more layers of fiberglass

tracing and marking the holes

weather was nice enough to wash the vehicles, dad washing his jeep, i did my coupe, 39deg out and it felt like 50 in the sun

pictures of the headlights to show how nice the lens's are and the chrome behind them

lil moisture got in the drivers side, have to reseal it a bit better

shiny turd!

washed the coupe just so that it would look nice when the spoiler was finished mounted.

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 7:21 pm

3-3-13
184,500 miles

I installed the reiger spoiler finally last night, i still love it. Looks fantastic with my RS2 rear end.

I decided to go ice racing in Hammond NY with the chump car thing. 10$ and racing on a frozen lake? what could possibly go wrong with that?!

First time driving on a frozen lake.

Andy came along with me, he's a cool guy, he has brians old turbo'd coupe. Sounds evil.

The track was 3/4 of a mile long, and we were told it was more rough then usual do to the ice/slush combo. they plowed a good 2-3' of snow off the sides, so it was a solid Ice barrier around the track on either side... this was kinda intimidating...

i slipped and fell on my ass right around here. fell on an ice chunk, felt fantastic

one of the menard class racers (crazy studded tires)

anyways, we were told to take some practice laps, passing was allowed, so basically racing began... slowly. I kept up just fine with the car in front of me for the first 3/4 of a lap. Then i failed to negotiate a 90degree right and plowed into the bank, breaking my bumper, to what extent idk because after the cars passed i threw it into reverse and was able to get out (quattro definitely helped, if it was a fwd/rwd they would of been stuck i'm sure). i noticed that i left some pieces of my lower valence in that snowbank and thought, well it probably just split at the center where it was mended before and lost the center grill.

i completed that lap and went on to the second lap following behind CJ in his bmw, once again keeping up just fine, not really pressing too hard. The course was UNBELIEVABLY rough on my poor coilovers. 350lb spring rates is not good for this. there were some nasty divots in the ice where it seemed levels of ice were just sheered off.

i started my 3rd lap and decided to try to swing the back end around a 160degree corner... it didn't rotate, i had no traction, i felt like the titanic heading for an iceburg. CRUNCH. right into a giant pile of frozen ice, a good 3' of it at least. the car was high centered so i tried rocking it off at first but it was useless. while i sat there waiting for the truck to go by, other cars drove by... i felt the shame as that was my second time off the course. getting slush splashed onto the back of the car that was still on the course a good 3' or so.

As i sat there in my car... i looked out ahead 10'=15' and saw a piece of glass, looked to be from my fog light... but wasn't sure. i prayed it wasn't my headlights. i also saw other pieces of black plastic hanging around. I must of hit it harder then i thought.

Finally got out of the car when the truck showed up, laughed and said "i think i mighta broke something". I then walked out to the front of the car and noticed my lower bumper was in about 5 pieces. the upper part only had the font most still intact, the drivers side fog light and turn signal were shattered. Heart sank a little at that point seeing how bad it was. It wasn't just cracked, it shattered into pieces.

I assessed under the car, a large chunk of ice was under my driver side control arm. there was ice chunks everywhere. i looked to see if there was any damage to the radiator or oil pan, but those were still just fine. thank god. if i had lowered the car instead of raised it i'm sure that wouldn't of been the case.

anyways, truck pulled me off the bank after some digging of the ice. i completed the 3rd lap, and pulled into the pit that everyone else had pulled into. I felt the shame once again as everyone stared at my beaten car :(

parked the car and took some pictures

To kick it off, my alternator decided to stop charging the battery. It was pretty wet so we concluded that was the problem and let is sit. Andy agreed with me that it was too rough and he parked his car for the rest of the day next to mine. The ONLY awd cars there were sitting on the sidelines. granted we had the nicest cars there, but way to represent!

we left early and limped my car home, swapped the batteries over when the one in my car got low. eventually it started charging again, must of dried out. I was in better spirits then so i took some photos of andrews car and a video

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 8:49 am

Very nice! sorry about the bumper dude. At least the Voyager Grill survived, lol.

DE80q · Post by **DE80q** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:54 am

Umm... ouch. That sucks. did you at least have a little fun?

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:29 am

well, duh! He kept racing afterwards!
i think

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:24 pm

i only did one more lap after i crashed. it was too bumpy so i called it quits early. made rallyx on the dirt feel like i was driving on butter.

i had fun though, it was interesting having so little traction in the car, next time i'm only going to race if there isn't embankments that i can run into.

DE80q · Post by **DE80q** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:08 am

I don't blame you there. That was a somewhat expensive misshap on the track.

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:17 am

WHen did you swap out headlights?
Where are the Valeo?

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:18 am

correction-Votex

DE80q · Post by **DE80q** » Wed Mar 06, 2013 8:27 am

IIRC, they got switched back because he didn't like the light output of them.

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:26 am

are the lights not upgradeable? its a sealed beam?

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:59 pm

yeah that's correct. only putting the votex's on for special occasions. they're not that great with the light output.

3-9-13
here's what happened to the previous s2 bumper. i'm missing quite a few pieces still

finished making my mudflaps. i think they came out great.

3-10-13
decided to go for a nice little rallyx. it was a ton of fun.
after 4 runs

after 8 runs

after 12 runs

and a picture afterwords by dan, definitely a beautiful photo

there was so much dirt in the wheels afterwords, causing some major vibrations so i stopped to scrape it out
here's a nice little pile from one wheel

DE80q · Post by **DE80q** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:17 pm

Looks like you had some serious fun! let me know about the bumper struts, so next timeout don't have to run such an expensive bumper in the dirt.

Kuma · Post by **Kuma** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 5:57 pm

Kthats looks hella fun

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:37 pm

DE80q wrote:Looks like you had some serious fun! let me know about the bumper struts, so next timeout don't have to run such an expensive bumper in the dirt.

Once your shocks come ill mount up that 1 piece bumper and get to working on mounting the brush guard. I need to find some nice hellas to mount to the front end. Its too bad I'm adding more weight to the already heavy front of the car. Maybe I can move some stuff to the back. Like the battery, electric power steering pump, radiator in the spoiler? J/k on that last one.

Getting the car aligned again tomorrow. Too damn cold for me to clean the dirt for the guys. Oops. I hope I didn't bend a tie rod. I have to stop robbing from my project coupe.

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 12:29 pm

First video my friend sent me, it was my worst run of the day, ran into the deep stuff twice, didn't carry enough speed through half the corners, and then lost traction and couldn't turn left, was afraid i'd go into the woods after the canopy tent that blew over.

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 11:21 pm

Alignments back in check, all the tires are holding air for now.
back to the project of the exhaust.

May have a fuel leak somewhere as i don't have pressure after the car sits for a bit. Fuel pump sounds good but the lines are crappy looking, and the filter is from 10 years ago... probably not helpin.

anyways, here's the pictures from Jim, thank you sir, they came our fantastic.

IMG_6336 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_5815 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_5990 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_6114 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_6141 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_6353 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_6358 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

IMG_6405 by TheKeyMaster, on Flickr

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:43 pm

here's mcboosts coverage of the rallyx on 3-10-13
the rest of the pictures are here http://mcboost.smugmug.com/TrackEvents2 ... &k=ZkTxFC2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
there's easily 50 shots of my coupe, left alone the other 400 pictures of cars that were there including my friend ian in his red 2.5rs impreza

still relatively clean, must've been my first run.

dat ass, show me another coupe with that same ass.

getting caught in the deep stuff, i make 5mph look good.

the face of determination

applying camouflage

understeer

don't forget to roll your window back up. it gets in.

moar understeer, and a nice shot of how little tread i had left on my tires

thank you

and goodbye

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Sun May 31, 2015 9:19 pm

Back to being on forums (was just lurking for the past 2 years).
Good news, projectpad is no longer blocked at work! (photobucket is though still :( )

picked up a 200 3b i was going to save... but then realized with the amount of money i have to sink into it... mind as well swap the motor into the CQ and make a cheap S2 outta it... then sell the 200 with just the motor swap stuff missing and not hacked up... someone else can save it if they wish or part it. I don't have time to part it and i would feel bad as it's all there, just needs brakes, suspension, and master cylinder.

So far i have been in talks with some of the S2forum guys in getting a hold of everything i need for the swap:
S2 airbox
S2 intercooler, crossover, piping
S2 3b/aby harness
S2 batterybox
S2 downpipe for single outlet modification (or one of hanks/efi's downpipes)
01E 6spd transmission
outdrives to make the axles work

What i have:
clean running 91 CQ with S2 body pieces
running 3b in a 91 200 (needs maintenance)
DIY coilovers with 12" springs and kyb strut inserts
5x112 hub swap (need to install)
4000 driveshaft
RS2 replica 01E mounts

possible quandaries...
can i fit a b3 90 1 piece front bumper over the front end with the intercooler (she's telling me no no, but i think i can find a way for the body to say yes yes)
can i swap out my nice rs2 style rear bumper for a 1 piece 90 rear so it's not damaged (never seen this done)
can i somehow mount this giant brush bar i have from a ford ranger onto the front of the car
can i get a hold of some allroad fender flares and adapt them to the sides of the coupe...

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 3:03 am

repainted the front uprights, tie rods and endlinks, also ordered the 12mm offset solid mounts for the rear of the car as well instead of the center mounted ones... because lift.

i still haven't dismantled the 200, if someone wants to donate their old brake setup that is still working then i'll pop it on there and save it... and a master cylinder.

loxxrider · Post by **loxxrider** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:52 am

Noone has posted to this thread because the large chassis Audi gods have cursed you for even thinking about ending that poor 200 20Vs life!

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:49 am

lol shut it chris. find me some brakes, and a master cylinder so it can stop and i'll restore this thing and sell it to someone who will appreciate its... beauty?

i need to find someone parting out their 200 20v so i can save this one. lol

the small chassis audi gods will kick your large chassis audi gods butts.
they're telling me to steal the motor and make another american S2 and berid the world of the ugliness that is the 200

DE80q · Post by **DE80q** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 5:59 am

This is getting good. What all parts do you need for the 200?

loxxrider · Post by **loxxrider** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:42 am

frostyflax17 wrote: they're telling me to steal the motor and make another american S2 and berid the world of the ugliness that is the 200

:(

frostyflax17 · Post by **frostyflax17** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 6:23 pm

Finished doing the rear rallyx coilovers

All put together with the 12mm offset

Full Droop is a touch over 30"

Compressed we're at 28" (new springs).

No rubbing so far except for tight turns in the front, I kinda took it over a jump to test it out... i may have gone a bit too fast as I wound up traveling 26' without the tires touching the ground. No damage to the car other than a crack in the plastic end tank of the radiator (no bumper on, my fault but i didn't expect to launch the car that far over a knoll in my driveway). So next up is a metal radiator, front bumper, driveshaft carrier bearing, brush bar, alignment, plate and drive.

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