A 1994 Audi S2 Coupé being built like the RS2 Coupé that Audi forgot back in the 90's. With some bits and pieces from the new performance Audis. Click on "read more" to read the full specification of the Bathmobile and to see the full shocking list of all parts bought to the car and the total ammount of money spent on it.

I have been having some issues with the onboard computer and the cruise control so I decided to take a look if there were any stored fault codes. And yes, there were a few...

3 Faults Found:
00516 - Closed Throttle (Idle) Position Switch (F60), 30-00 - Open or Short to B+
00561 - Mixture Adaptation, 13-00 - Adaptation Limit (Mul) Not Reached
00281 - Vehicle Speed Sensor (G68), 03-10 - No Signal - Intermittent

00516 and 00561 was a bit unexpected and I hope that 00561 was a result of 00516 and nothing serious. 00516 was just like it says, the throttle position switch (F60) that needed an adjustment and it was a fairly easy fix. I just released its two screws and rotated it, with the throttle closed, until I heard the switch in it go "click" and at that position I fastened the screws.

00281 was the one I was after since it affects the onboard computer. It turned out that I had a spare G68 on my old gearbox so I studied that one and looked at how it was mounted but I never used it. Once I had it figured out I removed the G68 from my current gearbox and I cleaned it up and sanded the connectors to remove any corrosion and dirt that could cause an "intermittent error". I reassembled everything and made sure that there was no fault codes and I guess only time will tell if it works or not.

The whole ceramic brake disc deal made me lose the interest for the car for a while. So nothing have really happened with it during the winter. I have posted a few random pictures of it where the last ones display my newest problem. A red BMW was sanded down in our garage during the winter. Apparently there was still dust floating around in the garage and when I took it out for a spin a week ago I never noticed the thin layer of dust on my car. During the day when the car was parked the red particles burnt into my paint so now my roof and hood are red metallic. =( Don't really know what to do about it at the moment, it just sucks so hard. =(

In other news I have sold my 18" Cup 3 replicas and I have bought a rear wheel hub with assembly that I can use when working with the rear brakes, hopefully this year. =)

I have not posted about the ceramic brakes yet, actually I haven't posted much at all for a while. There's a good reason for it and that good reason is called district court. The brakes that I bought from someone that I considered to be a friend, at that time not any longer, had some serious damages and was not at all as the seller had described them. First of all both the calipers and the discs were really poorly packaged and the calipers had moved around freely in the box and leaked brake fluid all over the place. Also the discs had loads of space to freely move around in the box, not exactly how you ship stuffs like this! The discs were said to have small dents on the edges from stones and normal usage. But both discs had huge damages and were for sure not safe to mount on a car. The seller refused to take them back and give me my money back and first when I turned to the district court he agreed to buy the brakes back. Sadly I had left my RS4-b7 brake kit as part of the payment and he had already sold that on to someone. =/ But atleast I got a sum back that covered the total value of the deal but I still lost a lot on it since I had to pay the legal expert I'd hired. =( It's a sad story and I had to shorten it down here so I wouldn't bore you out. Now I will use my other ceramic calipers and the 380mm MTM steel discs instead.

Yeah I know... I'm a moron. But I couldn't resist to buy this set of brakes. Once again it's the 6 pot "ceramic" calipers but this time with ceramic discs and brake pads! The black RS4/RS6 8 pot caliper was traded in as a part of the deal and the 6 pot with the 380mm MTM steel discs is for sale.

I will post pictures once they arrive. So is this the first street S2 with ceramic brakes? =)))

This have been in the works on and off since 2005 or something. Thought I should dust it of and hand it over to a manufacturer I can finalize the damn car sometime. There's shitload of work left on the bumper though. =/

I have a really really crappy camera so sorry about the quality on these pictures. But I realised I don't really have many pictures of the car here on irry, there's mostly just close ups of various parts. So I snaped a few pics on the cars and uploaded. Once again, sorry for the poor quality of the pictures.

When I took the car out from the garage for the first ride with the new wheels I noticed that there was a nail in the left front tire. =( Just my luck.

Since my 18" wheels wouldn't fit over the new brakes I needed to buy myself a set of 19"s. I found these ones on a Passat over at www.garaget.org. I e-mailed the owner and asked where he bought them and a few e-mails later I bought them from him. =) I just love these wheels! They have this old design that I think works verry well with the S2 and in particular with my whole RS2 obsession.

A while ago I was over at Kroegarns place and tried my car with his ECU since I suspected that the reason of my cut outs could have something to do with my ECU. Kroegarns ECU has the same chips and same modifications as mine with the exception that his has an external MAP-sensor. Unfortunately it ran jut as bad with his ECU as with mine. But the trip was not all in vain. I got some good advices from Kroegarn and he lent me a spare coil pack he had lying around. The moment I removed my coil pack I spotted the problem. Both cables to the third cylinders coil had cracks in them. So at full load it has shortened out with the result of the car only running on four cylinders. With Kroegarns coil pack the car feels like a freakin’ rocket! =) Though it’s still running to hot on the exhausts. =/

I also happened to buy new brakes again. I stumbled across a set of the calipers used with the ceramic setup on newer performance Audis (RS4/RS6/R8). They were bundled with a set of 380 mm MTM steel discs. And it just happened to turn out that they fit perfectly with my adapters I had manufactured for the 8 pot calipers. So now I have to buy me a set of 19” wheels. =)

Today I did a leak test on the IC and crossmember. The biggest problem was that the custom hose I used leaked. I wasted three tape rolls and a shitload of plastic bags on it. Couldn't get it to keep the pressure. Manage to get 1.5 bar into it and couldn't see any leaks in the crossmember or the IC. Would have preferred to get 2 bar into it. I will see if I can get a better steel pipe manufactured for it because I'm still not convinced that it's leak free since there was such a huge difference with my IC and crossmember compared to Kroegarns.