Hi all!

i am grega from slovenia, 30 years old. i allways wanted audi v8, and i finaly found some in slovenia. It is very hard to find one in slovenia so i dont have much to choose from

Well about my V8. It was made in 1993, has 4.2 engine and 6 speed gearbox. It has only basic extras.

Engine is in good condition, but overall car is in very poor condition.

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I had car for almost half of year now and i i have to fix quite some thinks so far:

-repair brakes (new ufos and pads)
-change dash panel
-change steering wheel
-change front blinkers and fog lamps
-repair hydraulik system because of some major leaks (wrong type of oil has been used )
-fix some engine problems: idle sped problems , lambda sonda problems

Engine runs very very nice now, use about 0,3l oil for 1000km, about 12l fuel for 1000 km. i guess that is ok ?

Car is very fast, almost as fast as my chipped audi s2. Previous owner told me, that v8 was somehow tuned, but i havent investigated that so far


Plans for future are:
-AC
-Tempomat
-Leather black seats wih memory and heating
-Bose sound system
-Respray complete car
-........

Well it is long time project so i am not in the hury with it.

Hi Grega,

a very warm welcome to our platform and congrats to the manual gearbox 4,2! Very seldom, even more in Slovenia.

I'm pretty often Styria, Leibnitz (very close to the Slovenian border). Where are you living?

Don't hesitate to bother us with questions regarding your problems. If you'd like we could also meet once and I can assist you with repairs, as far as my own knowledge and experience lasts (I'm a Tempomat (cruise control) junkie as every possible problem with that sytem yet myself, so I guess I can help a lot there).

Installing an AC if you don't have one yet is a real load of work - sincerely possible, but no Sunday evening task, I fear. BOSE is comparable easy to install, but I'd personally think twice about the leather interior 'cause the Velour version is very rare (as is the manual heat control). Which color do you have in mind?

Regards

Bastian

hi Bastian!

well i am from ljubljana, that is center of slovenia, but i have about 1 hour to gratz or klagenfurt. It will be very nice if we could meet sometimes and share our experinces

it quite strange that my v8 has allready tempomat instalation and tempomat valves installed. i check label with car equipment and original car was without tempomat. anyway i have all parts for tempomat allready ad home, all i need is to put it into car. i have some problems locating GRA ECU (Steuergerat) position, regarding to instructions it should be somwhere behind beifahrer airbag....

i would like to have v8 fully loaded with original equipment so there will be much work to do


ps.: do you know any v8 for parts?

Hi,

yes, I am aware of a V8 for parting in Bavaria, near the Austrian border. If that's in scope, I can connect you. Besides that keep eyes open for Austrian V8 offerings - there are plenty of them for little money. What's the maximum amount of money you wanna spend?

ECU for cruise control is behind passanger airbag - correct. Bad to get there, bad to loose it, but you are experienced with the dashboard, so no problem. ECU is most probably broken, I bet somewhat. If you have the ECU from another V8, it is most probably broken also. But perhaps it works. The drop arm could also be the culprit, but it's a bit nasty to remove it with Airbag steering wheel.

REgards

Bastian

well i have 3 different ECUs at home and i hope one will work.
i will try to fix that problem this weekend
so i have to take dashbord off again to do that

do you have any internet address where i could search for austiran v8 parts?
i regulary check EBAY.DE for parts but it is hard to find some parts for v8

Hi,

www.autoscout24.at , in case you want to buy a whole V8 to part. Otherwise, stick for Ebay or "Teilemarkt" here on the platform.

Regarding the ECU: We had the situation once that we tested not one, but a couple of ECUs and _all_ were death. Sincerely I thought it's not the ECU, cause that would be a strange fortune. By accident I got a ECU from an S6 monthes later and tried just for fun - and guess what, it worked!

I know really hardly any cruise control ECU factured between 1991 and 1994 still working. Most people head on for younger ones (used until 2000 or even longer, all compatible from ALL Audi models) or changed back to one from the 3,6 V8, but this requires solding - or at least re-patching.

Keep it in mind, but check the vacuum and the switch first.

Regards

Bastian

in worst case i will use ECU from my audi cabrio who has the same one. at least i know it works 100%

i dont need whole car for parts, but only some small parts.
f.g. now i search for plastic-gumi trims under doors and front bumper. as you may know, you could not bought them from audi anymore (only middle part)

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plastic-gumi trims under doors

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you mean the marked pices in the attachment?