FULL BUILD - REBUILDING A CRASH DAMAGED AUDI RS6

What is the best family or family car in the world? If you're American now, I'd say it's the Audi RS6, but what would make it even better if they were cheaper, of course, with lower mileage? 2014 RS6 you're now looking to spend over £40,000 I've always wanted an Audi RS6 since my BMX days so when this came up at auction I knew I had to buy it and as it was

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in an accident it was a chance to get an RS6 for cheap and this was a much cheaper one obviously this was like that when I bought it not because of the container incident but there could be a reason why this was so cheap but I guess we'll find out later in the video when we start taking this apart now that I'm.

It's literally so exciting to finally have an RS6 and let's face it I was never going to buy one that wasn't

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and I think we have an absolute bargain this is one of the best parts look at the space you have in the Oh when we even have which actually doesn't look that bad, oh okay, how quick is it to have so much boot space and five doors, what more could you ask for? My dog ​​will love this car, but judging by the damage I can see here and a little damage here and the photos I saw at the auction, it looks like a pretty simple repair and as a DIY, I think we could do this and do it quickly, and those were eagle eyes they would have realized that we already started, we have a broken windshield and our only theory as to why this windshield is broken because the passenger airbag has not activated in the dash, which that normally what breaks the windshield is this could have been someone's head, if you don't have a seatbelt you're going in that general direction so I called the screen protector guys to come and change the windshield even before before the reconstruction began, since this is one of them.

Jobs I have no idea how to do and don't feel like trying myself, but within an hour I had a new windshield in place. Okay, now, even though this car has been in an accident and the airbags have burst, it still does it. It starts but there are a good number of warning lights, including a coolant one, so we can't run it for long and it's very easy to see why the RS6 is so popular. It looks great, has aged well and comes standard with a 4L twin cylinder V8 turbo engine with 552 horsepower. For 4 years we have been re

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ing cars and I wanted to take that challenge to the next step and try to do it in 24 hours, but not without a little help, what do you think about the car?

Better if it were a BMW, what do you think of the car? Great, I like it, it's better than BMWs. We'll let the comments decide that, but we have to re

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this quickly and for a very good reason, which you already know. You'll see later in the video, but for now there's no time to waste. Well, first place. I think we're going to start, of course, where the damage is. Something that might make this ling a little more expensive to repair is if there is any suspension. Damage that I personally don't think there will be any, but there is only one way to know: remove all the wheels.

Yes, this tire no longer exists, but let's put it in the air, let's do it before we put the. car in the air we thought it was a better idea to remove the passenger side door first that way we can remove all the wing bolts without the door getting in the way. This is how it is done, there are two grub screws. holding the door to the body of the car and a bolt in the control strap hey, I need to keep the rear view mirror from being damaged, but then we found some damage that we weren't expecting, oh oh, that's really done, let's check it out a bit. damage, we don't have time and I will explain in a minute why we can't repair this right now as this is another thing you don't see when buying cars with accident damage, some unexpected damage, I don't think this will affect any integrity structural of the car, but it just doesn't look very pretty, so it will be a bit pathetic with some unexpected damage, but that will have to wait for now.

Next, we will remove the hood. I took out the washer jets and all the washer lines and then there are two bolts on each side that hold the hood to the hinges. Then Chris explained how we were going to rebuild this car in 24 hours, try not to break some things, keep your spirits up. and don't offend anyone it's out of line it's out thank you and I think Chris was right we have to keep a positive stance here let's hope we don't find any more hidden damage oh that little change but it doesn't really seem like anything crazy.

Very good Joel. At first he hated these tweezers, but now I've seen what color green they are. It's like your Lambo. Now this part doesn't like the logo here, it actually gives away a little bit of who the previous owner was. What I want. What I want to know is if there is any damage to this chassis leg here. I don't think there are any, but we'll find out once we have all this Arch skin and we can take a quick look and remove this wing because it's definitely damaged, next we're on to the bow skin and the spoiler, yeah, it looks good.

I think we got a bargain for once and my dad is at the front of the car removing all the trim panels in preparation for removing the front bumper because again it along with the grill will have to be replaced once the front bumper is removed. bumper, which revealed damage to the radiator portion of the

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ed car and to some of the lower radiators in front of the wheel and The last thing to come off was the wing while Christmas is removing the wing. I realize that this is all loose and, oh, it's stock. No, this is a K&N air filter, so the engine cover is missing.

I feel like this has an aftermarket exhaust on and with this air filter who knows this could have been fitted too so I think once the wings are off we'll put it up in the air and take a look at the exhaust because it's definitely noisier than standard, but that's Plus, Chris had to remove the bottle from the washing machine first. I managed to get it everywhere, after that we were finally able to get to all the bolts holding the front wing on, but as I mentioned I think this car could have had a tune up, it definitely had a lot of modifications done to it as it is suspected which has an MCH exhaust.

Oh, I can still see the catalytic converters there. He looks quite old, although Ian is going towards the back. It's more or less like a direct parking lot for two. big, it's got valves, oh, it's got on the top, on the top, ah yeah, so it's got valves, but I think it sounds pretty good for what's going on there. I don't think many look like the airbag is completely disabled, although oh yeah. the look doesn't look good AAG came off, oh the RS6 uses air suspension as standard and the rear bags don't seem to be placed properly, none of them are sitting in their seats, we have to see that when we lower it.

If they sit on the seat, watch their hand, if they leave, we don't think this is caused by the accident, we think maybe they just picked it up in the elevator, but they won't go back to their original seats, it's broken. We'll have to see when we leave it where it is. I think it might be a Jackie mode, yes you might have to put it in jacket mode like the bner. In fact, let's look up the

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history of this car, which I reviewed. I bought it before but now I am also going to show you which one has a little history that we are going to show you on the screen now also the brand that you can see here mental or better known as mental mono is owned by Aaron Lambo along with many other things, he modified cars and then gave them away through his raffle company.

I found this video on YouTube of my RS6 being given away to one of the lucky winners of it. Lu, congratulations, but it doesn't look like The winner

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ed the car. This video was posted on November 15, 20121 and when I go to the vertical check of the car I can see in the timeline that the ownership changed in November 2021, but later in February 2022, the ownership was changed again, so maybe the winner sold the car and the new owner crashed it in August and we can see in the vertical report of the car that it was classified as category structural damage that maybe we haven't found in the rest of the report yet.

I can see that the mileage all the lines are lined up and it has not been recorded as stolen and there are no outstanding finances there there is definitely something not right with this air suspension um I think we have to let the air out of the suspension and then be able to reprocess it and put it back. the arm because that doesn't look good, especially good, it looks like it's trying to come off the arm, but yeah, I wasn't expecting that, but that's all going to have to wait because we have to pay attention to the front of the car.

Now we are removing all the bottom pans to see if there is any damage to the engine or any leaks but everything looks good so now I am back to the radiator pack and the crash bar at the front we need to remove this broken. guard bar out of the way W and now I can access the radiator pack this is the airon condenser uh here behind there is a cooler for something else and behind there is a cooler for the engine what we're trying to do is remove this without removing the pipes to so we can move this out of the way of the other pipes, um, that's because it has airon gas in it and if we take out the airon gas we're going to have to pay to get it back in, so we're trying to preserve that to save money and also save ourselves time and the environment, so we have to remove it, but it's a challenge, it would be much easier to just waste the airon gas, but you're not supposed to let it out into the environment, you can get fined for that and it's pretty bad Yes, but we could do it in a minute.

Fortunately we didn't have to because we managed to move the air conditioning condenser and pipes away. the car and now we can work on removing the entire radiator and everything else on it alone, we're just trying to disconnect everything that's connected to this front panel so we can remove it from the car, intercooler pipes, cold water pipes, cables . all fast, just like the M5, there are many radiators and many hoses in the front of this car, there is the radiator that contains coolant for the engine, in fact I think there might be two of those, there is also a radiator for the charge cooling system. and it's all compacted in the front of the car, but once all those hoses were disconnected, we were now able to look at the front of the engine to see if there was any damage there as well.

Oh there you go, great job Chris, we did it as a team. That's how we work best, isn't it, Matt? Yes, Matt does the work, he just takes the g. Go on, he's already unplugged, no, so there are two outlets and one is not plugged in, that's strange, but it doesn't plug into anything, just unplug it from here please. oh, oh, okay, oh, disconnect, it's much easier to disconnect one connector than several, as you see in this, you know what? That's what I like about being with you. I am always learning to work as a team.

Woo, you know, that reminds me of Remember how probably in 2010 it was a big deal for TVs to be at the end of your bed? Well, I think we've done well here. We actually got a good deal and there actually wasn't one. Hidden surprises the more we disassembled, obviously we just found the dent in the door with the pillar which I don't think is that bad. We also found out that the door cards are missing the door speakers, so they did have aftermarket speakers and they put them out before it went up for auction, so that's going to be delayed a little bit because they're both speakers, but Other than that, I think we're all good to rebuild this for the Audi RS6 to cost.

It cost me 20,000 and the car is a 2014 model with 36,000M on the clock and I think if we can fix this car and it costs less than £10,000 we will definitely get a bargain but there is a time limit. It is arguably the largest car show in the world. world which is located in Las Vegas, on the other side of the world from where I am, my plan was to turn the RS6 into a show car and ship it around the world in time for SEMA, but there is a problem with this whole SEMA thing. October to the end of October, this car will be shipped to the US on September 5th within 1 month, so not only will we have to restart this car as quickly as possible, but we also need to modify it and make it a model definitive.

Well, a show car you can get in 30 days, so there's literally no time to waste. We have to rebuild this at the very least. In this video I managed to get a complete front end for £52,000 now. It includes literally everything, headlights, bumpers, radiator packages and a lot of things I didn't really need. I probably could have saved a little more by buying things individually, but because of the time frame, we have everything in one, so with no time for waste, we go back to repair the car, my dad repaired some broken wires in the front of the car first and I then started installing the new radiators that are in front of the left front wheel.

LaterI discovered that the plastic cover had to be removed. Because it's going to interfere with the rad package we're about to install now and we actually managed to save the old Airon condenser. It looks like it was damage free with a new second hand rad pack in place, now we can fit the crash bar and this protects the entire front of the car. There are two bolts on each side that hold it on. I noticed on the side there were some Riv nuts that were taken off the frame of the car, but with a riv nut.

The tool and some new Riv nuts were able to replace them pretty easily. I'm pretty sure they were used to attach the bracket that holds the front spoiler or fender if you're American to the frame of the car and now Chris is trying out the new rivnut that isn't going anywhere. What did you say they don't fit? Why don't they fit? They are different plugs, different plug oh no, everything was going so well until my Dad decided to break the news to us that the new headlights with the front end we got were not going to fit, the spark plugs were completely different.

The new front end is an Al RS6 facelift and I have the pre-facelift one, but I thought. It's just a case of coding the headlights to work, not the fact that the sockets are different. Look, look, the fat one looks a little more, it's like it's smoked inside, it looks a little more evil than that one, it has LEDs, but the plug is different, I just found something from another YouTube, uh, you must need new modules to power the front as they have to be original Audi parts so maybe Audi will sell something that almost likes the conversion, now we had to decide if it was worth the bother.

Trying to get the ones from the facelift to work or go back to the originals and buy a new one, but first we wanted to see if they would actually fit the bumper. Oh it does fit, so all they changed in the facelift is literally the headlight, so I changed the grill, they changed this. It now says Quattro so the preface facelift lights fit into the facelift bumper and worst case scenario I found a pre-facelift headlight for £395 on eBay but how much better does it get? Did you see the lights of the facelift? It looks better, but does it look much better on the head?

Yeah, it's not much better. I don't think it's a big enough difference for me to care. No, you can't put one in, so it's a shame it looks like 395, so we're another one. £395 off but we could potentially sell the refurbished headlights as they were all in good condition, but that didn't stop us from starting to fit the new body panels, starting with the front spoiler which we are going to fit the refurbished lights to. just for looks uh and then obviously replace it when we get the other one. It's a shame we have to get rid of the renovation lights because I think they look pretty cool, but unless one of you knows how to get them.

To work, then it looks like we're resorting to the preface headlights again, but the 395 wasn't that bad, yeah, yeah. Next is the hood and you may have noticed that it is a slightly different shade of black like the rest of the front. and I'm not going to worry too much about all the panel spots yet because you'll see in future episodes that there's still a lot more to do. In the meantime, I sent videographer Matt M to go replace the damaged tire that We're back at Wheel Mania and once again they're here to save the day.

We ordered a tire yesterday and they managed to get it the next day, so let's put it on and get back to Matt so we can hope

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y get this car running. and driving now, obviously, we're not going to keep these wheels. This left front wheel is pretty damaged, but just to get us going for now, Real Mania came and managed to get us a replacement tire in a day, so once again. thanks wheel Mania I'm sure we'll be back to pick up some crazy wheels for this before SEMA, the wheel will be done, time to give it back to Matt so we can finish this car and get back on the road, and hopefully everything else from So far it's going well, oh yeah, let's get it going again.

The alloy isn't that pretty, but with a new tire that should get us rolling in the meantime, it's not an F1 pit stop, it's the budget, so this is the door and I think a good body shop could probably fix that , but the nice thing about

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something like an RS6 is that a lot of things from the A6, just standard diesel, should fit on it, so instead of repairing the door, which would probably cost a couple of hundred quid I just bought one new A6 diesel door for £29 which I think is pretty good as long as both doors are the same, ok maybe they aren't, maybe they aren't the same, it's the same, but it's just different, it's like this was just rubber, yeah, while that's like plas, first, first, before we take something off, should we put it in there and see if it opens or closes and looks good?

I think so and then we can start deciding. Now this was a bit of a gamble because the A6 diesel doors were a lot cheaper than the RS6 doors, which is pretty cool, but it looks like it fits exactly the same, the only difference is the chrome trim on the back. bottom and the black border at the bottom. the top of the door, which was now going to have to be removed and replaced from the old door to the new one, which was a lot trickier than we first thought, oh Torx Torx Torx, there were so many little things holding these trims together .

We had to undo all the Torx bolts on the side to remove the trim which allowed us to remove the seal around the door and then the door was left completely bare, we had to do the same on the inside too since then Chris and I tackled the job extremely complicated to refit all the new seals on the outside of the door and also the inside. I also had to change the wiring harnesses to get it to work and there is a door that has a slightly different shade of black than that door and a slightly different shade of black on the wing is on the rear view mirror is on and all the cards on the door are on it definitely took a lot longer than we originally thought because we had to change absolutely everything about it we are missing a door speaker so I will have to order that and the last thing I have to do on the interior is the airbag and The airbag cost me £295, which I think is quite expensive, but it's an airbag, yes, yes, that's it. actually, yes, yes, I think so, it's nice, look now it doesn't really make much sense to put this on because you haven't put the washing machine bottle on yet because CU we need to align the arch, but there was one thing that was missing and it was the engine cover and this thing was surprisingly expensive but I wanted to install it because it seemed incomplete without a cover 164 98p for that 95p sometimes you have to call a professional to do these jobs now let's introduce some coolant to see if there are any leaks and also to run this car until it gets up to temperature, then we'll hear exactly what the exhaust sounds like and we can run it. down to the temperature, here we go, it's really nice, we still have a good amount of warning lights on the dashboard.

I'm guessing the airbag light is only on because we still need to cancel the codes hopefully there's quite a bit of noise yeah it's got a bit of a bang I think it needs a remapping I feel like it needs some kind of remapping like it just no no it's like no, okay, okay, it was an absolutely solid effort in 24 hours, obviously it's still a long way from SEMA and being a SEMA build we have a lot to do with that, but the total cost and in 24 hours, including the car, £26.5 64 to get to this point here now I realized I missed the windscreen which was £225 which now brings the total build cost to £26.7 189 but actually I think it's still pretty good, we now have a nearly running Audi RS6 and if that doesn't motivate you go rebuild or acquire an accident damaged car and try it for yourself.

I don't know what will be good. We need to address some things that some of you said in the previous video. We replaced this door in the last video and it was off a diesel Audi A6. It was only £29. and that's because the RS6 door has damage here now someone mentioned that the RS6 doors are aluminum and the A6 doors are steel with the reliable magnet yes it's aluminum it's not magnetic at all and the A6 door It's also aluminum so maybe they lied but one thing What's different is the door window glass on the Audi A6, the glass is made up of two pieces of glass glued together and on the RS6 window it looks like one piece large thick glass, so to keep it consistent throughout the process. car I am going to remove the A6 door glass and replace it with the RS6 glass and to do this we have to remove the door card once again to access the glass.

I have to undo the speaker casing. and then once it's removed I can see the plastic clips that hold the window and attach it to the window regulator to disconnect it from the regulator. You have to push a screwdriver through a hole to release a clip and then the window should come loose. Outside of the regulator, you have to do this on both sides and then the glass should lift up. RS 61 is much heavier. I have no idea why the glasses are different, maybe someone could tell me in the comments section, but anyway let's Reattach the RO Glass to reattach the RS6 glass, slide it back into the seals of the door and back into the original plastic clamps that came loose, making sure everything works again as it should, here we go, oh, it'll work, right? fits fits fits well I don't know what the difference was, but it works.

The next door speakers, for some reason we were missing the door speakers when we bought the RS6 so I had to buy a second one and another one on eBay for £80 I think they are a bit expensive because they are both speakers, But I hope they are pretty good. I suspect the former owner had non-original speakers and removed them from the doors before the car went up for auction, but then when I checked on the driver's side the speaker was still there so it didn't make sense so I did it. The next thing we had was the use of the racing SP.

When we put the car in the air in the last video, we noticed that the air suspension was not sitting. properly on the rear arms and no matter what we tried to do, we couldn't get it back into place because there was too much pressure on the rear bags, but thanks to you I think we found our proper Serv on the controls, maybe the steering wheel. air suspension. change it, okay that should work, maybe send the car up and we will find that you have to select this setting when putting the RS6 in the air and by doing this I think it will release the pressure from the airbags and allow us to push.

Put it back in place right now, let's see if yes, they're soft, now you think we could put them back now, they feel a lot softer, let's see if we can put this back where it should go, hey, yeah, that's in , so look. and now there's literally no air in the bag so we need the clips to go in there to hold it down okay yeah we're on suspensions we look good. Next thing we need to fix is ​​this small dent on the hood, we think this just happened. In transport, my dad sanded down the damaged part, applied some putty to it and once it had hardened, he sanded it down to make it nice and smooth and flat again and then my attention turned to the headlights, if you remember when we picked up the car.

The left headlight was damaged in the accident and we tried to upgrade them to LED, but the sockets were completely different. I later found out that you can buy the plugs to make them work, but you need to rewire the electrical systems and code them, yes. These headlights look great but I don't think they look good enough to try and get the separate sockets and do the coding too so we managed to buy another headlight for £395 and no. I think they are fine. I think resorting to standard headlights will be our best option here, especially since we can also sell the upgraded headlights to get some of our money back and I think buying electric vehicles and then trying to code the headlights to make them work is not going to be as simple as it seems so comes the upgraded LED headlights that don't work right now because they're not plugged in and Ingo the headlights that should work on the car okay let's try them out. that's low beam, yeah, yeah, yeah, cue everyone's comments saying, dude, LEDs look better.

I know they look better, but I don't think they look much better, but whatever, now we're about to do what we haven't done. done in a long time but we are going to do this again because of the time period that normally on a damaged car like this we paint it but since we don't have time for it I'm about to wrap it so we have I opted for a nosch slate gray , but this is just a base color and I wish I could explain what we are doing, but IIt would take years to explain it, so I better do it.

This is what is happening first. like a gray Nardo a bit boring but it will be more exciting than this, believe me the vinyl wrap is not supposed to last the life of the car but with today's wrap I don't see why if you don't take care of it it would. It won't last the life of the car for now. I'm going to wrap the car just for the time we have to get to SEMA and then maybe we can paint it after and I still think with this wrap we can do it. a really nice finish, that's if my rapping skills are up to the test, of course, I'm not a rapper.

I just learned how to do this on my own so it's as good as I can be okay that's the front bumper my dad made he's going to rebuild it because he took it apart again now that we're on to the easier stuff the hood and the wings or fenders if you're American or side panels if you're Australian, rapping is a game of patience if you're in a hurry, anything is going to look rubbish, you really have to learn how to work the wrap and when to heat it up and when not to heat it back up.

I'm no expert, but I think the front wings are the easiest part of the car. do it, if you're going to try it yourself, start there with both wings out of the way. I'm on one of the biggest parts of the car, the hood or hood, if you're American Wings wrapped. The hood now wraps around the The headlights are coming back on and my dad is building the front bumper. The vibrating ribs are turning off in the unit. Look at the difference all the trim on the front bumper has made. I've even wrapped all the silver parts in black.

No. I have idea what I'm doing there and with pretty much the front wrapped up I'm excited to see what it's going to look like, one look at that actually already looks sick there it looks perfect just a bunch of panels lined up and all. What we have to do now, once we've got the wheels on right, what we have to do now is put it on this ramp so we can do the side of the car, but we have to cross our fingers that there are no failures and there is a way that we are going to verify. that will become clear in a minute, so in the last video, even though we replaced the airbag that had burst, yeah, and we replaced the sensors in the front with the new sensors that we have, we still had a bag light of air on the board, but I wait.

This little thing will not only solve that but will also tell us more faults the car has. I'm going to move it forward and then we can play with this a little bit. There is no longer an airbag light. Now that I have one. whole side to complete and I'm sure you don't want to see me keep rapping so that's well done, it's not really done but it's almost done. I've already finished most of one side, there's still one bumper left to do. the back part to be done and there is still the other side. I haven't decided what I'm going to do with the door handles yet, but I'm sure everyone agrees that gray isn't really the most popular color it can be. and the sea is about being different, making crazy cars, making something that's a little unique and that's exactly what this RS6 will be.

I'm dying to show you this. Now we have a blank canvas of an AUD RS6, but we need to create. something unique, something special, something that catches your eye, this was John Olsen's Audi RS6 DTM, it was built especially for John to participate in the Gumball Rally years ago, a unique carbon DTM kit on a thousand horsepower RS6 which was then stolen and set on fire. end of an epic car, now it's our turn, this is a complete widebody GT3 DTM race car kit for the RS6 and it is completely carbon fiber. Yeah, I'm about to ruin the RS6 here like this.

I'm already waiting for the comments. What the hell is going on, but that's going to sound absolutely crazy, but this is what the sea is all about. I think this is the dramatic piece, don't you? M, that's ridiculous. Look at this front splitter, so I feel like it. it just slides into place but generally speaking look how big this is it's like a racing car it's like a DTM racing car it's meant to be absolutely over the top we're going crazy with it and I still think it's I'll be able to do it daily potentially I think it's 65 mil wider front and rear like everything each side 65 C 65 M front and rear wider like it's a complete car absolutely huge like the carbon quality is really mental yeah like that Oh my goodness, so this has to be absolutely perfect, otherwise you won't be able to open the door.

Yes, literally, we have to put this place on this thing. We unpack it wondering what the hell this is and we find out what it is. Is this Wing? Oh, my days look like a table. If One Wing wasn't enough, then there's another one that says so, so all the drops you'll need in an RS6. I can already see that people will be like that. If you do, people will hate you. The English will comment saying that this is terrible. Any American will behave like this. That's awesome, okay yeah, let me know in the comments section what part of the world you're from. and two, whether you like it or not, let's see if we can get some correlation: whether UK kids hate it, whether UK kids love it, and whether US kids like it or not, but I think this it's going to look absolutely negative and We're on a time scale, so we'd better go and put it back in the unit, with no time to waste.

We go back to the unit and start installing the kit, starting with that crazy front splitter, we have all the OEM mounting holes. It lines up with a gift, which is weird, it says it's a racing kit, so it may be, it may be rope, yes, because you said about seeing these things, yes, you can see them if you are a ctm racing car, That's just fine because the racing car. the splitter needs to be attached to the bumper with a bunch of bolts and we have also ordered some splitter struts to attach it to the bumper, oh my god that's a mental looking carage, oh my god that's not like that.

The splitter is on and it already looks crazy. This isn't going to work if you lift it any higher. I could have dinner, oh my god, that's crazy. This is what it's all about, even though everyone is going to cry now. You've ruined my dream car. The next thing I'm going to put on is the side skirt, because the splitter and the side skirt are only fixed at one point, while the arches can move a little bit, so I. I'm just going to put the points that are fixed first and then build that this side skirt is not halfhearted, well, let's have dinner later, oh wa S.

I have my rice here, my chicken here, salad here and I have I also have space for the dessert. I mean, right now it seems stupid. I'm going to be honest, so at one point we've done some stupid things, but this is definitely the best. Next I'm going to secure the front arch to the side skirt and front splitter, this entire kit is all attached from the front to the back. I actually think there's some kind of purpose with the downward force, but for now we're just putting it in place, there's more, there's more stuff, there's more canards. hoaxes this one we just glued it back together it's all stuck this has to be screwed in yet uh they're stuck it's actually growing on me the front splitter will take a while to grow on me you could literally grow things that but yeah we're looking at a photo here where the canards go on the front.

Oh, I'm going to rinse completely in this video and if I don't rinse, then I respect everyone who doesn't rinse me, you can see. the finished product, but at this point it's getting very difficult to see that obviously with the kit we're also going to need wider wheels, so we placed an order hoping they'll arrive before we go to SEMA and now we have the front arch, we're trying to figure out how the back is going too and there's a lot more drafts there, what does it look like? In fact, I think it's growing there, it's growing, can you see it properly there?

We also have a decoration on the car. I want to show you that, but wrapping is taking time. Adjusting the body kit is taking time. This decoration is going to be absolutely mental. In the last video we aligned the body kit to the car but this time we had to really fit it and what I noticed when I aligned the arch in the last video is that it fit pretty flush in every way except near the front bumper , where there was a gap between the arch and the bumper and if wind got into that gap at high speeds, it wouldn't be good news for the body kit, so I'm going to drill some holes in the front arch of the body kit and then a few more holes in the bumper to match it that way.

You should be able to run a nut and bolt through the body kit and bumper to attach them to the back of the wing. I'm going to add a nut this way I can screw a bolt directly into the wing and so far the adjustment seems to have worked much better at this point, now it's about to go crazy, the actual front bow is holding up pretty well apart from the top, which is what we're going to get to. the new wheel will come in about here and sit nice and flush with the new Arch. The problem is the original Arch under here, when the wheel seats, if it goes up and down, it will hit the original Arch, which means that we are going to have to start cutting so that it cuts again with the front arch.

I've marked a line with my pen on the wrapper where I need to cut and it's pretty, there's no turning back. Now some of you may be wondering why I did that. I do this before wrapping the car well because I'm an idiot, the front wing has really been sacrificed. I'm just sanding where I cut now to make sure there are no sharp edges and then spraying some edge primer over the bare metal to prevent corrosion and once that's done I can put the right front bow back on. I was going to glue this on and do whatever I think is what you're supposed to do, but I did it.

Nuts and bolts all the way inside here and get to the other side and that's solid. I can almost get the car off the ramp with it and that means I can unbolt it to remove the bumpers if needed or something with a livery to go on, but the nut and bolt work definitely seems to keep it nice and secure, so that's it The plan for the rest of the kit, I think on the rear arch or the front, yes. let's go to the back, let's do the back before we do the back arch. I'm going to put this part here, which is actually part of the diffuser and it also goes in, oh no, it's pretty cool, just like the front arch.

I'm going to add Riv nuts because I won't be able to get to the nut on the other side of the bolt on the rear bumper. Now my bolt can literally thread into the rear bumper and hold this part of the kit in place. I've gone a little overboard with the bolts just to make sure this body kit stays on when we're going at high speeds and with that part of the kit in place I can now line up the rear arch with these bolts on that piece. at the rear and it also bolts to the side skirt, but like the front arch, we need to make room for the new wheels by cutting out part of the rear quarter.

I've already marked where I need to reduce the time to mask it and just get everything ready, yeah yeah this felt so bad but you have to break some eggs to make omelettes right yeah I don't know if you remember how big the puck was when began, oh, my days, this. It's its worst look, it's all-terrain, yeah, ready for America, right, I'm going to soften the edges from time to time, look, you can see this space here, you can see this space here between the outer skin and the inner skin, Now what people normally do. What I do is I just pinch it and solder it, but obviously we don't have time, we don't have a soldering iron and that gap is literally small, so I'm going to fill it with some tiger seal and stuff.

We'll keep the water out and everyone will say, "Oh, that's bad, but it'll still do the same job and as long as we apply an edge primer to it, it'll be fine. I'm going to smooth out the edges now. I'm glad to know that I now bought a soldering iron, so I could potentially go back and solder this piece, but since the gap is so small between the outer panel and the inner panel, I really think the target seal should hold up here, but I'm definitely prepared to get roasted in the comments section. the gap was sealed with that.

Now I can loosely screw on the rear arch and see how it fits before moving on to the rear wing. I see two bolts in the middle, there must be other ones on the corners, what's on the new one, let's take a look. to the new one the rear spoiler is held on by two 10 mil bolts in the middle under this molding yeah see what I mean and then it just comes loose from the roof yeah okay Now we have to figure out how we turn off the light. OEM brake light and we put it on that and it was pretty easy, there were just three Torx bolts holding the OEM brake light on the spoiler and we're just going to swap it out to the new carbon fiber spoiler that we got with the body kit and then Hopefully the new spoiler just slides into place just like the OEM did.

Let's see how it looks because I'm not going to remove it after doing all that.it's just happening to us, it's just happening to us one more time, thank you so much to the guys at DDE for allowing us to use the Workshop for now it's crazy to even be here so we can enjoy it while we can. The RS6 showed up, but to make matters worse, it looks like we had more damage. The strap used to hold the car has rubbed off some of the paint. on the outside of the steering wheel oh no, but that's the least of allies right now, for now we wanted to take the RS6 inside DD's Place, get it up the ramp and find out exactly what happened to this engine.

We were pushing him towards both of us. ramp, but it looked like the lift might damage the kit, so we decided to lift it up and go old school. I could probably do it with c27, yeah once I removed the bottom pan there were no really obvious signs of holes in the motor. although there was oil on the bottom but it didn't charge, it was really difficult to see anything. Then I checked the inlet pipes that go to both turbos to see if I can see any fluid or anything that shouldn't be there, but again everyone look.

Well, you have signs that he's going to go, he can't just hit himself, the only thing he likes, what would happen if he got up? Could he have lifted his head? Because like if you were running too much power, could it have raised its head? But then some people. run these engines much faster than that it's 11:00 in the afternoon 12:00 at night 12:00 yes, it's 12:00 now it's 12:00 in the afternoon and we're taking the engines apart our next point of attack was the spark plugs we were going to start by removing them to see if we could see any damage on any of them or see if we could see any damage inside the cylinder, starting with the right side of the car, the first one really doesn't look that bad, but the second one, oh no, oh dear engine, very bad, looks like something hit it or it's burned, just parts were missing, looks like it was hit, one is very wet and the next one was soaked in cooling. it's not ideal and the next one is also soaked and it could be a coolant mixture oh no it's just coolant this is coolant and this one is very bad I still have no idea what coolant is about and that's Absolut perish, the top of that spark plug has burned into a million pieces, good thing is it has nothing to do with the blowback because the turbos would be gone and the turbo seems fine but this has something to do with the timing.

The truth is we didn't know what you were ready for, we are going to try to crank the engine now without the spark plugs on so there is no compression and it should trigger things if it cranks that is the very bad engine yes very very bad engine what happened to it still a mystery SEMA is tomorrow how are we going to finish this and fix it with SEMA? We have a reverb wheel a motor to fix and that's it. we close what I want to say more with the question what happened to you what happened to that what happened there is something very wrong with the RS6 in case you haven't realized yet and we did all this to get to SEMA and I haven't made it, I know feels a little disappointing, we have actually flown about 5,000 Mi.

I don't know what we're going to do. The RS6 arrived at SEMA, but not without a seized engine. Oh no, now we're pushing it. outside of SEMA and we have to figure out how we are going to fix this. I have no idea, we had no choice but to tow the car the rest of the way to the show, where it was and people admired it, but I didn't know the engine was seized doing so, so this looks uhThis looks very sketchy, right? It is not like this? It's too tight, yeah, right, look straight, right there, oh, I'm going to go ahead and say it was a mistake to build this car, I'm just going to lay that out, well, Freddy's car had to be taken back to his workshop, so we might as well join him, yeah, looks like we're headed to Florida and my car arrived at Freddy's unit, let's get it fixed now.

It may seem strange that we took the car to Florida instead of taking it home to fix it but it will all make sense for now I'm dying to know what's wrong with the engine and if we can fix it so far we know we removed the spark plugs on that side and one of them, well, it should look like this, so it should have a point and one has completely died. One is missing so it looks like it's broken for some reason or potentially that cylinder on that side or one of them is extremely hot and burned it out which will probably explain why it happens later but one thing that's a little inexplicable is verify that there is no coolant inside the coolant reservoir, so let's find out exactly where that coolant went and how the heck.

It's there, my first step will be to remove all the spark plugs from the other side of the engine and after taking those plugs out we will see if the engine starts, yeah, that's not good, that's soaked. The reason it's wet we don't know, but it could have something to do with the charge cooler. The charge cooler is leaking or damaged, so it could be leaking water into the engine, but we're just fixing the problems one by one. We'll talk about that later no oh that one looks good yeah that's it that one just doesn't look good that way yeah wet yeah it's even blowing bubbles now if there was coolant in the cylinders that potentially could stop the engine. keep it from rotating because the piston is trying to compress the hydraulic fluid, but now that we have removed all the spark plugs, the piston should be able to expel all the fluid from the cylinder when we turn the car over, that if it rotates, okay, let's go. in two options now it spins and sprays a lot of water out of the cylinders and looks good and we find out how the water got into the cylinders and why the spark plug burned out or it doesn't spin at all and something is bent and broken let's hope it's the option one, yeah, done, yeah, yeah, oh no we'll be here for a while, that noise is a motor starting trying to turn the motor and the fact that it doesn't turn without plugs is not good. it means something is seized broken bent broken did you say that or seized yes I have an idea the chamber comes out let's put this chamber in the PL spark hole in the engine cylinder very bad that's not good oh my god what's it all that? but all it showed us was that it was just wet, not that bad, hey look, yeah the piston looks good, the pistons looked good, but there were huge water pulls on them, it's strange that there is cooling in each cylinder, which makes me think more. and more than that is the charge cooler, oh now you can see here, the air goes into these two tubes goes through the turbo where it creates boost, the air comes out of each turbo and then to this charge cooler, here now inside the charge cooler.

It will look almost like a radiator with coolant circulating through it and with air blowing through it it should keep the air cold before entering the engine on each side, but if the cold charge is leaking then it could be sucking water into the manifold. of admission. both sides of the engine, which explains all the coolant in there, so I was going to take out the charge cooler and test it to see if it had a leak, oh oh, but the water stayed in it, so okay, if we pressurize this with water, it shouldn't. water leaks out of this because water travels through this and goes through the veins like this and then air goes through this to keep the air fresh if we pressurize some water over there somehow put a hose in it should just come back to get out of that hole and if it's not like that, that's where the waterers came from, oh God, no, I think it's good, it's not like that, no, it's okay, the hunt continues and the only way we'll find out.

What happened is we just started taking the engine apart, so I think we have to start taking the engine apart. I'm looking forward to it. I'm going to start by trying to access the front of the engine, which means I have to remove the front bumper, which is a little more difficult now that you have this ridiculous GT3 kit, but once I have the front bumper removed, we can work on disassembling the crash bar and once we remove the crash bar, we can work. First of all, on the radiators, we're going to dump all the AC gas out of the system that way, when we remove the air condenser, it's not going to dump all the AC gas out and now with all the pipes disconnected and the bolts unscrewed.

We can remove the entire front of the car. The front part is off. There are no clues yet. We can't see any holes in the engine. We can't see anything yet. I think we're going to drain the oil that should give us something. clues as to what's going on I just think it's going to be full of water, but if it's full of metal and water, it would be very funny for you, not for me, oh, this, where's the oil?, there's the oil. . I can't believe that I To be honest I have never seen that engine in very bad condition, it looks like this engine is toast but we still can't be sure why it happened so now we have no choice but to try to take the engine out . the car so we can solve this mystery comes the exhaust and the driveshaft and then we're going to remove the hood the plan is to remove the heads so we'll just drop the engine into the subframe to do that and well there are wires and things everywhere, the Audi is actually quite difficult to work on and everything looks plastic.

The intake manifolds are plastic, everything is plastic, so it's cool, the work continues on the Audi and the more we work on this car, the more I realize that it wasn't supposed to be worked on at all it's so tight and compact that makes it impossible for mechanics to have the correct fuel line disconnected and fuel could be a big part of this, although many people jumped right to the remapping we did. What I have done to the car, it is unlikely to be the remapping but more likely to be the fuel the car is remapped to only use 99 ROM fuel which we can get in the UK.

Good fuel in California, we can't get it. fuel and if you remember in the last video the car was running fine until I stupidly decided to put 91 octane fuel in it which is the equivalent of 95 Ron fuel in the UK, unfortunately I didn't realize because in California you can only get. 91 has something to do with your emissions there and let me explain what that would do the higher the octane of the fuel the higher the pressure it can withstand before it self ignites in the cylinder the air fuel mixture in the cylinder should only light. when the spark plug sparks, which is when the piston is right at the top of the stroke, that way you can get maximum power now because I have the Rema car, we are effectively adding more air to the cylinder to get a bigger explosion, which is More power but more compressed air also causes more heat so after remapping the piston is approaching its compression stroke and it is compressing more air and if we had low octane fuel here it could cause self ignition here it is where part of the air-fuel mixture.

It already ignites before the piston reaches the top of the cylinder and if this continues to happen it will cause a lot of heat in that cylinder which might explain why the tip of my spark plug just burned out. This is the exact reason why cars aren't remapped from the factory to deal with all the different types of fuel and altitude around the world there's another knot somewhere this is a big angle of yours why do you have me there? You can see well, oh, you can see my brain from That angle, now let's start disconnecting everything that connects the engine to the chassis of the car.

Now we're unscrewing these two bolts instead of this long bolt which would actually be easier to undo than we can get down, but this bolt, if you know. anything about Audis is the devil it has a steel bolt for an aluminum house which causes it to corrode and that bolt is more than likely to get stuck and we don't want to deal with SE bolts that's why I'm putting these in bolts on the back and that should lower it. My dad is loosening the upper mounting bolt, so he should lower the frame a little more so he can get these upper suspension arms out and once the suspension arms are out. the way I'm going to remove the brake caliper and tie it to the frame of the car then I don't have to drain the brake fluid, everything is disconnected, it's time to loosen the bolts that hold the gearbox and hold the subframe. the chassis of the car and then we'll get it all down in one piece and we can finally figure out what the heck went wrong with this engine.

Let's do it. The last thing that is connected other than the subframe is a steering rack to the steering column right here steering column connected disconnected from the steering rack it's time for the engine to come out we're going to disconnect the last thru bolts from the subframe and I'm going to use this to leave out the engine and gearbox as one, hopefully this works but that engine is an eyesore, here we go, I'm going to slide this pallet truck down and then remove the last bolts from the subframe so the engine rests on the pallet jack oh so let's get to the big moment guys he's watching. positive looks good here yeah yeah well hey it's the engine and this monstrosity of a gearbox is out of the RS6 this thing is huge okay now we have to find out what exactly went wrong with this engineTaking it apart, the turbos are good. there is no play in the turbo shaft, this is a 4L twin turbo V8 engine, a monstrosity and it has so many parts it's unreal, all we want to do is take the head off one side to find out what exactly went wrong .

I think the damage has been mostly on this side, so I'll attack this side first, remove the cylinder head and see if the pistons are okay. I really want to know why there is water there, if it can be fixed, great if not. Great, we're on a mission to remove the cylinder head and there are so many things to unplug. Look inside, come out. Miss Swamp, oh God, you see, yeah, and the thing is you see there, the thing is if it was the head gasket, usually the head. gasket maybe if something is broken it's just one side but these are both sides the only thing connecting both sides up is the charge cooler that was here we continued taking the engine apart this time to check the part Audi said it needed Remember now this car is known to have had no recoil but it was missing a bolt which makes us think it could have had recoil because there is no other reason you would leave a bolt out unless you had all of this. off and the removal had to do with an oil gauze down here, you should be able to get it out, it hasn't had any blowback, so this is the G here, it's a little microscopic G to let the oil and any debris through, not a through, but Audi.

I made them too small and it was actually causing blockages if you didn't change the oil, like if you didn't keep up with your service then you would blow your turbos, but that one looks pretty clear, there's no junk in it. but two haven't had the recall uh because it would have been bigger if not a lot of people just take them out so they haven't had the blowback the turbos are fine our search continues our mission still remains unanswered but maybe once we have Yes If we remove this cylinder head, we'll probably get the answer we've all been waiting for.

Why did this engine stall? There were an incredible amount of bolts, cables and hoses that we needed to disconnect, but we finally got there, yes, it looks like the ocean there. the head gasket hasn't blown, that's positive, but then why is there water in the head? This one definitely burned, yeah, oh, bad, oh, I found it, I found the problem, oh, okay, sure, I found the problem, let me take a look underneath and look under my head. oh, that cylinder doesn't look good, that doesn't look good, let's take a look at that, oh oh, something's splattered, yeah, yeah, let me show you the problem, you know cylinder liners have to be nice and round So, what happened? to that one, oh, no engine, very, very bad, that's the biggest hole in that sleeve because of predetonation, it's gotten too hot in there and all we have to thank for that is California fuel because we put 90 , not really California, yes, California. fuel, but also for me, being an idiot, there's no way I'm slowing down, oh, oh, oh, oh, my God, that's it, that's it, Stu, so these holes here are like water jackets which shoot the coolant through which the cylinder is kept cool. so it's not too hot, but this has gotten too hot and has actually torn a hole in the actual water jacket, which probably explains why the sprues are leveling out.

Would you believe it's just a blow, it's just come back? I don't know why, I don't know how they got through the inlet valve and then went into all the other cylinders and everywhere, yeah, that's the source of the water. We found the source of the nle river, also known as the river. of the RS6, the moral of the story is that if you tune your car, you put good fuel in it, yes, otherwise that happens, yes, the engine is very bad, this is going to be very expensive, oh, this hole in this cylinder.block here means that well, this can't be saved, we're going to need a new block and finding a new block is almost impossible, so we effectively need a new engine.

This RS6 model is not available in the US, making this impossible. To find an engine for one here, the thing is that I know that this engine is not only used in the RS6, it is used in the S6, the RS7, the Lamborghini Urus and the Bentley Continental GT, the cheapest option, although I think They are all. I found the same thing for an RS7, so I bought the engine second-hand and then sent it to Freddy's unit. Say hello to my new second-hand Audi RS7 engine that supposedly only had 28,000 miles on the clock and, at first glance, looks exactly the same.

Same thing, but I guess we'll find out when we put this engine in the car and if it doesn't work, we have to get it running before we start putting the new engine in the car. There are some things we have. to change first starting with the alternator from the old engine this is the first alternator I have seen called oh that has to be the heaviest alternator in the world now that I have the alternator off I can start mounting it on the new RS7 engine. I really hope this engine works in the RS6. I just have to lower the tensioner to be able to put the strap on.

If you had to do that with the engine, God help you. Next we will try to remove the engine and gearbox from the subframe. I'm going to undo this bolt here, which is the engine support bolt, which is the only thing that connects the subframe to the engine once I've removed this bolt. on both sides we should be able to lift the engine and gearbox away from the subframe and that is exactly what we have done, so now we have the old engine and gearbox on the crane, the subframe on the floor which I am preparing to go to the RS7 engine and the RS6 looks sorry for itself there, a magic gearbox has a torque converter, well you have to disconnect the torque converter from the steering wheel, otherwise you just throw oil all over the floor , there is usually a little bit of access. hole under the gearbox where you can access the torque converter bolts, one bolt, then you need to keep turning the gearbox to get to each torque converter bolt and once all those bolts are removed you can start to remove the bell housing bolts than to connect the gearbox to the engine, there are many of these bolts and doing so on the car would have been almost impossible, we have to remove the starter motor, but to remove the starter motor you have to remove a bracket Engine This engine was definitely not 100% made to be worked on.

The last thing holding it together is, of course, the starter motor. This engine mounting bracket needs to be removed and then we can get to the two bolts that hold the starter on. the engine on will give out, yes you back off, yes look at this absolute weapon, such a huge gearbox torque converter, no clutch, do you ever wonder why RS sixes are so heavy, look at this big elephant of a gearbox changes and that should be all now. What I have to do is build the old gearbox for the new RS7 engine and then bolt it all to the subframe, then we find a big problem.

We've completely ruined it and it's a good job we've noticed now, so you know how. this is a left hand drive Audi RS7 engine and oh this is a right hand drive engine, you wouldn't think it would be different but we've already noticed something that is different and it's not good, this wire here on the left hand drive, if you come in a right hand drive car, the entire fuse box is here, the ECU is here and the air box and everything you need for the blowers, they are all on the right side of the car, here, now in the left-hand drive car. all of this is here, so the ECU and the entire fuse box are here, which means that on the left-hand drive car all of this wiring is shorter because it only has to go to that side of the car, whereas on the right hand drive car, look how This is much longer, it's incredibly longer, so it can reach all the way to the back of the engine and get there all night.

We've been thinking about what we're going to do with this because it sounds easy to just unplug it. all these plugs, every single plug here and remove them and it's not easy. It's going to be a very long job to disconnect the entire wiring harness and then install it. I can't believe I haven't thought of this. before you start disconnecting each wire from that and removing it and then disconnecting each wire from this turn it off this is not good at this point. I'm starting to think it would have been a better idea to ship the car. home to repair it, but I spent a lot of time and effort

rebuilding

this car and then shipping it to the US for its first ride.

I can't give up now, I'm determined to fix this, I finally got out of the complete RHD engine wiring and then it was time to move to the left and drive the RS7 engine and remove all the cables. Now remember when we start installing all the cables back into this one if we lose one. Removing a single plug, it could be a case of taking the entire engine out again to plug it back in, if you notice in this clip, I actually removed the intake manifold just so I could disconnect the injectors. Great time so we can't get dirty.

This is still going on, no no no no the shorter wiring harness is technically off, a left hand drive RS6 and a right hand drive RS6 is lighter than a right hand drive RS6 although not even you can get into this one oh yeah you can go left and drive RS six I think look. Right now all we have to do now is get this whole monstrosity in there, apparently the stock spark plugs are prone, especially on tuned engines, to breaking off that tip, which is what happened to mine, so we're not assuming no risk. upgraded NGK spark plugs and we're going to put them in place because if you think we've learned a lesson about not tuning the car then you'd be wrong because immediately after this it could potentially be tuning up, yes that's right.

We'll need to tune the car again, but this time in Florida just so it can handle US fuel or we'll end up repeating last time and these new aridium plugs should be available for the future. test now it's time to wire. I'm scared to think how long this is going to take. There are sensors everywhere on this engine and we can't afford to miss a single plug. I started plugging things in from the top and then went down to the inlet manifold, the wiring is routed in such a way that if you do it wrong a plug won't go where it needs to go so you have to do it perfect and once most of the cables are connected, I can start placing them.

You have to put a lot of stuff in the air lines at this point because it's very hard to get to them once it's in the car, once that's all sorted we're going to go find the front subframe and then slide it under the engine so that we could We could lower the engine into the subframe. We are trying to align this bolt on the engine mount with the engine mounting bracket on the side of the engine. That way we can put the bolt in and the motor will be secured in the front. The subframe, then the elephant of a gearbox, the torque converter, the little knar, has to slide into this hole in the Flor wheel and this gearbox is very heavy to get back up, another vital step that we have to align perfectly. and once we have done that, we can remove all the bellhousing bolts to bring the gearbox closer to the engine.

Next, my dad will attach the front driveshafts to the side of the gearbox while I'm on the back of the engine installing the downpipes. and there is one last thing I wanted to check before putting this engine and gearbox in the car and to do that I will have to call Audi. Your call is being recorded for quality purposes. Thank you for calling Audi North Orlando. where we are celebrating the Audi sales event season, how many are you today? Hi, I have an Audi RS7 here and I think the RS7 had a recall at some point and I'm wondering if, if I give you the VIN number and you'll be able to see if the Audi had the recall on this filter.

If that's possible, I'm trying to find out if the oil in the turbo oil feed was changed. This was a recall. on all RS6 engines, something we couldn't do on ours and the last thing I want to do is put this engine in without doing the work because it would be a lot easier to do it with the engine out. I just could do it. see if there is an active withdrawal that would be perfect, that would be perfect, I couldn't see it, okay, yeah, give me a moment, there are no withdrawals currently open on this RS7, um, it seems like in the past it seems that all withdrawals are currently closed on this vehicle, so no open recalls oh, perfect, thank you, okay, thanks for that, that's awesome, you're welcome.

I know it's a lot of work to get it out, but it most likely had the recall because it was so long ago. I think we took a risk. They all said. I know everyone says not to take risks, but I think we took risks. if it had recoil I would have said exceptional recoil I would have said exceptional recoil as long as you keep the oil fresh yeah yeah I think so so we're just going to send it in and start putting the engine back into Big. The moment it comes in it means pushing the engine and gearbox on a pallet jack under the car and then lowering the car onto the subframe and you can see how tightthere be a problem?

Look at it, the RS6 looks unreal but there are still a few finishing touches left before we can call it done and the guys at Audi were clearly surprised by the car because you can't get this model in the US, I mean, since you bought this car, I've been like wow, I wish because This was the best chassis, the C7 and the C7.5, they were mine. They can't get it here either. No? This is the new RS6, the C8, and this is the only one you can get in the United States. I don't know how well.

They are selling here, but you can't get the C7. The C8 looks pretty good, although I can see why they have this one and not mine. It looks very thin compared to your wide body car, although yes, it shows. well skinny even from the B it looks W America has always had the RS7 and the S6 but since my R S6 was never available in the country because they did not see a market for it now it is only allowed to be here for a certain amount of time and we are only allowed to allowed you to be here for a year with that, oh they really let you here for a year when you lifted your tag, I was like and $800 $800 for 4 days Sure, really yeah, so I mean, I do it, man, everything .

Here in Florida, the guys are straight, they are made to break this, so first job after drag racing and lots of miles. I don't know if you can see it, but there are many hot spots on these brake discs. and the pads are a good deal so we figured while we're here better safe than sorry, replace the brake, this and the pads which are quite expensive to say the least but let's see how far it goes. The first thing we remove are the wheels, but as PJ started. While working on the car he noticed something a little strange about the US spec cars, although we don't have the RS6, we have the RS7, we have the A6 and we have the six, the start button is on the other side, so all the technicians realized it. that we were right there because they only wanted to make a center console now it turns out that you also have it on the opposite side.

Sorry Audi, it's stupid because we have to get to the other side of the console. car, if you're in a situation like this to start it, it's quite reassuring to hear that even Audi Tech questions some of the decisions Audi makes when building these cars, but now that both wheels are off, we can now inspect how much wear these brakes actually wear. I have so you can see here look at all the hot spots on the disk. I don't know how we did it. I don't know how we achieved it. This is the last time the car is in r to brake.

PJ pushes them against the pistons in the caliper and then pulls out the pins. What's it like to have someone else do the work while you sit back and look at this car? Much better once the pins and retaining clip are removed you can pull the pads out. and you can see how hot they are. I'm going to hit him with my bag. Well, now PJ bet one of the other technicians that he could remove the disc without removing the caliper and he was right. I was right, oh I was going crazy, camera right, I did it on camera dude, so if BJ had to take the caliper off, he'd have to pay for bolts, new bolts because they're spring bolts, but since he didn't did, we are good, it is not.

It's the only job you don't have to remove the engine for, so we should be fine, then the new one comes out and it looks a lot better than the one that was on the car, yeah, yeah, that's going to continue, it's a lot thicker. You know, the craziest thing about these things is that they're not directional, so as you can see, they can go left or right, although you would think with the way the fans go it would be like directional, but like Gas in or gas out, depending on which side they are on, you need directional.

You may notice that these discs look a little unusual for the normal brake disc, like a glove, instead of being round, they have this completely fanned edge. Audi apparently did this to reduce weight and potentially help with cooling and these types of discs are found on many other Audis and also KTM leaf spring wheels. Now we're about to find out if it actually starts too, but if it doesn't start, then we have something else to try and get it fixed because we don't want to fix it, no it doesn't start, no, then the solenoid you can hear the solenoid running, but then it will. say like flushing the coolant from the battery or something like that, we just got an update.

I don't know what it allows, but you could probably quickly look at the measured values ​​block, as soon as you put a jumper on it, it will start. Now this confused us both as one junction box is the battery, the battery cable runs to that junction box and then transfers from that junction box and goes to the starter motor, we don't know if there is a problem. there, but that's why it would be interesting to see if we can get a power reading on that there and that's exactly what we did and you can see the results 9 10 oh it's coming, is it really that low?

Yes Yes, it's going up, but I bet the battery will be 12, just 9 volts on the front and on the battery, of course, 12.4, so it was losing power somewhere. I had no idea what we were stuck on. I assume they are European spec cars so it is scanning it, but I had to enter all the information manually. I had no idea that's a pretty good amount of drainage. PJ plugged in his diagnostic tool and can see the battery is getting low. something we still don't know what drain a car of this generation usually has with the engine off, at least the US spec cars, uh, I don't see those numbers that high, I usually see somewhere in the single digits with the ignition lights. on everything off, you know, just sitting here far away, PJ, then read the codes on the car to see if there's any faults, there's a lot going on here, um, this would need it, well, you guys would say a cup of tea, but I would say.

You know, I need a cup of coffee and sit with this for a while because I don't know. I mean, obviously, I would clarify. Let's clear up the fault today and see what we can do if you only get 9 volts, although there is some kind of problem with the wiring in this car because there is a voltage drop along that wire or whatever, so this wire which goes to the starter motor and this ground is attached in a box in the middle and we think the problem will be from that box in the middle to there because as soon as we get some power to this wire, I think we should start, but saying that if we give it power and it doesn't start, there could be a problem further down the wire, perhaps the connection at the starter motor.

I really don't know, but let's see what comes of this, give it a try. Did he just kick? Yeah, yeah, and it starts, so I have no idea. Audi, let's get back to that later, but for now we need to get off the two-post ramp and onto the big four-wheel alignment ramp where PJ is starting to join. the equipment you have to provide because you normally never put cars with extended arches in there and this is a job I've been putting off for a while even though when I bought the car it didn't have any suspension damage.

After rebuilding it, I probably should have had all four wheels aligned. These are the mirrors that work with the lasers that you see right there and that's basically how you're going to get your alignment specs. See the angle we are going to make. a quick calibration and then the system will be able to tell us how far away these wheels are but because it's so wide I think it's confusing on the machine and look it has no idea who you can't determine Vin, well banned this means PJ you had to manually tell the system what the car was, then do the calibration and after that it will tell us how far away it is.

Oh, we have a nice green on the front, although there is a lot of red on the front. Oh yes, yes, yes. yes yes ok red means it's out of tolerance and green means it's in tolerance and because we've turned this front subframe on and off many times it will affect the wheel alignment and that shows clearly in our readings. I don't know how we've driven straight now, we'll never get the tune up to factory spec, that's because the car is so much wider than usual and the suspension is lowered, but PJ will do everything he can to get it done. in tolerance, but what I wanted to know is that while PJ was under the car, did he notice anything unusual.

I don't see anything here that would put me in danger with the car. I mean, if someone was looking at this used thing, I'd say, hello. Man, it's a 10 year old car, what do you expect? This isn't bad at all, believe it or not, you're not terrible, your thrust angle is just off a little while for the health check, no, no, so there we are. I'm dying to fix this and it has to be a connection issue so maybe we'll trim TS in the future where you and M could figure this out. This is us from the future, so it has an intermittent startup problem.

Sometimes it starts, sometimes it doesn't show. If my dad can figure it out, I'm an AI tech. I went to training yesterday, didn't I start ACH? So At DET Tech we have to fix this, yes, we think it has something to do with that junction box as I mentioned and to get. You have to remove all this. There are some important electrical connections. You think Matt may have put the wire in the wrong place. No no. Normally I'd say it's your fault, but Matt isn't here to defend himself, so we'll blame him. Matt, oh look, that needs cleaning.

What was that? That was evidence of another problem that we didn't have now in our defense of this problem. On the particular day we put the engine in, we took one engine out and put it back in three times, we think. the fault is there and we end up finishing the job around 4 or 3 in the morning, which maybe explains the little mistakes like not tightening the ground wire on the starter oh oh, I'm going to look for it, I'm going to look for it. search, is it my? fail, yeah, look, this was a test, right, this was, you know?

I was saying that all the faults in this car are self-inflicted. Oh my god, would you have let that loose? Freddy. I know what I can't. Can't. say wait wait wait wait we need V on this v v who did that what's going on I don't think it was Matt's fault Freddy can you tell me listen man? You know you come to my house and use my facilities and that's how you maybe I don't know, that's just a lot like you, you could have been a joy, I feel, I feel like every time I touch a car you have to check my work , okay, yeah, yeah, uh, what does it say? hwbt, hard work beats tarish.

It's fixed now, it was months of hard work to rebuild and modify the Audi RS6 of my dreams, which traveled to the United States. What history does this car have? Finally, now Audi has evaluated it in Miami and we are about to find it. Find out what they think of it as a car in general. PJ. You have been incredible on camera and also around the car. Now you've seen under the car. You've looked around the car. What we wanted to know is something general. Do you think the panel lines are okay? Overall everything is good with the car and just give us a score out of 10 for the type of rebuild and overall build of the car.

You know what you honestly know. I've seen the car before. In person it is something really special and I love it, it is unique. I have to say I looked over it, I looked under it, I looked at it and, you know, I notice just by being as long as I've been in the field with these cars, I can tell things have happened and things have been worked on, But underneath it looks great, it looks better than most 10 year old cars I've seen and I mean, it's a clean bill of health. p the panel spaces look good.

I told them there are some brands, some brands of EVs, I won't mention names, and the panel spaces are much better than cars. I see new ones below, it looks fantastic. I told them all the hardware is there. I mean, it looks like it did an off-road season and some things looked a little dirty, but everything is there and everything is intact and I give it a clean bill of health on a scale of 1 to 10. I'd probably say that's it. a solid seven, maybe a solid eight, I'll take it, I'll tell you that you said it was going to be a 10, nothing is a 10 in my book, but I mean, there are some things that if I didn't see the hood up or There are some things which I probably would have given it like an 8.5, but I think it's a solid car, it's a solid Runner, and like I said, if you ever want to take me up on my offer and put it back on a boat, I'd appreciate it. willing to buy it, we'll see, so you heard it here.

PJ has been amazing. Audi has been incredible. Hopefully now this is the last time Audi will hit the ramp until it needs service. Thank you very much for watching this video. I enjoyed it, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button. I'll see you in the next video. Leave aside the absolute nightmare of an Audi RS6 engine. Well, this is an RS7 engine, right? Yes, it's not a nightmare. Which is not a nightmare. I love them, yes, they are great.