Rebuilding A WORTHLESS Audi R8 That Every Mechanic Gave Up On | Part 1

How are you guys doing? My name is tvarish and I always wanted an Audi R8, unfortunately the only one I could afford was this one. Now I know what you're thinking: Audi doesn't look that bad, but looks can be deceiving with this car. It was a complete scam because it was originally advertised as a running car but when we found out that was a lie, come on it was there, it also needed a lot of work on the body wheels, tires and interior so it certainly looked like this one. quick project was going to be a major task, but there was a silver lining, so although this is the worst clean title example of an Audi R8 that I could find at the end of the build, I'll tell one of you, my viewers, because I'm giving this car to one of you, which means I have to turn this Audi, which is the worst ever, into the best Audi R8 you've ever seen and that's why I bought this 2014 Audi V10 plus and this is going to Well, it's going to be

part

of a really interesting build because underneath here, wow, that's a little heavy, there's a 550 horsepower V10 and what's more interesting is that behind this V10 is a transmission dual clutch, not the nasty single clutch that's in our v8 car, so you can probably tell what's about to happen, we're going to take

every

thing from this car, which is possibly the best gen 1 Audi R8 ever made, and do it.

We're putting in the worst gen one Audi R8 ever made before we start taking this. take the car a

part

and swap things we need to really see what's wrong with this car and there are a lot of things wrong with this car because after all it's a parts car and when I say we I mean my friend Jack Jack and I know

every

thing that you have to know about a crashed car and this is a crashed car, it doesn't look like it from the back, but I guess that's good because the engines in the back, we should, this is good, there are some that aren't so good in there, wait , wait. on I got it, I got it it's closed wait on hold wait on hold wait on hold there are some tolerances this is what we like to call an oopsie yes, this is where the wheel goes yes, this is where the wheel went there is no wheel there shot, in your expert opinion, it is repairable, it is repairable, but the cost of repair is the reason this came out because it would have to go on a jig, you would have to cut this entire structure, I can tell. just the way the door pad is sitting, uh, the door is sitting, the pillar is way back, you can see here where the wheel just got stuck, so it hit here and then it just went away, yeah, He ruined everything here.

He pushes the door back, but what's crazy is that the airbags didn't go off. This was a pretty serious accident. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't activate like they do. I mean, literally, it just went over your head. This is what people on eBay would do. call an easy fix, let's pull this out, okay, this is aluminum, right, mhm, and one thing you shouldn't do and this is something I know about Jack because he taught me this, uh, you don't pull aluminum, no , aluminum is not something. that you can just heat and pull a steel frame machine, you can, yeah, um, but with a reason too, like steel gives you certain tolerances and certain heats that you can go to before destroying the molecules, but with aluminum if you throw it a lot of times these cars are glued and riveted so what happens is you break that link underneath and you don't even know it and now you just weaken the chassis or break a weld something like that so those are the reasons why not Don't pull aluminum I think I can probably show you how this works, what happens in an accident.

You see this right here, if you try to straighten this clip, it becomes what's called hardened work and if you see, look, look how easy it was. super easy yeah if you try to heat this up and bend it back that's all that's going to happen so you just create a giant weak spot and now your car is useless but with steel it's much more forgivable with aluminum. have new panels and you have to trim them as much as you can and then put in new ones. The only reason I know this is because he did this in the Ferrari, that's the only reason I know this guys, so I don't know if you've noticed, but in the last year I put a lot more energy and a lot more fun in my videos and that's not a coincidence because long before that every time I went to my store I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders, frankly it was too much for me and thanks to today's sponsor Betterhelp I got the help I needed.

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It's worth it, you owe it to yourself, go see it right now so the seed has seen better days. Oh yeah, I think the airbag went off here, but that's okay because I think we got a new airbag right here we go. put that away so it doesn't explode right in my face and ooh, there's hand sanitizer, you can never be too clean, there's like electricity noises in here, it's so weird that everything is lit up, but I think we can probably try. turn it on here goes nothing oh look at the paint so it works says check the brake pads I'll tell you what now that I'm sitting here it's actually a really nice place to be the dash is in great shape we have a nice headliner everything here is I mean , it's dusty but it's all here and it has a sport button Jack, this thing has a sport button 3 2 1 here we go, oh look, everything seems to be very angry with me, but she's idling, good, the engine officially runs for a V10. it doesn't sound that loud, yeah, it's a stock exhaust, it doesn't actually make much noise, it seems a bit like you know, like restricted, sure, it definitely has that, like I want to make it louder, but I can.

It's not because you know they just told me not to do it, so I don't do it. You know I have. I'm a Lamborghini but I have neighbors. You know I get up very early, but you know I don't want to be a. idiot, I don't want to be an idiot, I'm not like that guy in front at the Evo, he knows that, so we have to get to work, uh, this will be the number one Audi R8 V8 to V10 swaero. We are going to take the v8 car apart which means we have to remove the bumpers Wheels fluid axles quarter side panels and then pull the engine and then we have to do all this backwards in reverse order and we will do it all in 24 weeks there you have it , come on, that's right, look, that's the realistic time frame that we're going to do this, okay, okay, we're not going to do it in weeks, we're going to do it, we're going to do it in 24.

After 24 minutes, we start the Disassembly by carefully removing the huge carbon fiber spoiler and then we removed the rear hatch which appeared to be made of depleted uranium. Oh, why is it so heavy? This is like the heaviest part of the car. Actually Fortunately the rest of the car was a little easier, the rear bumper came off along with the tail lights and then the gigantic muffler section could be removed and as we were experts this step was easy. Well, sometimes the nut gets stuck here. is what Matt says when he tries to do it, tries to do it, goes Ferrari Ferrari Ferrari Aude Audy Aude here we go, okay, this is going to be very heavy, look at your feet, do you want to lower this a little, oh, that's heavy.

Fing look, I've got my fingers, we're good, yeah, wait until we have to put it back. We're not putting this back up. Wow, what a hole. The Audi R8 is quite unique because the rear quarter panel is not welded, it is bolted on, which makes taking the car apart much easier, however, since this car was driven by some shade tree

mechanic

s, we found some modifications . I don't think this is factory. I mean, there's little chance it could be, but the rusty washer and the ton of RTV silicone. here, so look at that, I don't think that's how it's supposed to go now that we have this off.

I do not know what it is. We're going to try removing the quarter panels once the quarter panels are off. then we can go underneath, remove a bunch of stuff and then the motor comes out the top. I swear I've done this at least once before 3 two 1 pull oh there we go oh it's so heavy look at that look at that look at that friend this looks like, look, we should leave it like this, you should just look, if it had any damage by accident or something like that , it looks like it got hit here, but nothing major, okay, let's lift it up a little bit so we can bend it back. down if it doesn't break, hopefully, then we have an oil cooler there, we have intake, um, we have this is the gas tank, right, that plastic thing, cool, so that's the gas tank, hopefully , it will be the same throughout the car, oh no, the gas tanks are probably going to break.

They will be different, won't they? Yeah, so the air filter in the cabin is the same, so that's good. I think someone is going to get a really, really good car. Absolutely yes, this is going to be amazing. All we do is urinate with excellence and we. You're practically the best thing since sliced ​​bread, yeah, um, so you're welcome, you're welcome, can you see this is perfection right here, look, that's perfection, right, what am I doing with my hands? I hate to say it this is starting to look like this the P1 project that's what we do here so we take cars that look like cars and then we turn them into shells and then we leave them alone thanks for watching.

Taking apart the passenger side was almost exactly the same as the driver's side, aside from the addition. from the fuel filler door, once the carbon side sheet was removed, we removed the side skirt which was held on with about 30 bolts, which is about three times more than you would actually need, we put the car in the air, we remove the wheels and swing. and I jacked the car all the way up to drain the fluids, but then we noticed a little more work from the previous owner. I wanted to admire the work here, because they not only painted the parking brake caliper, but also the caliper here and also. the line and also some of the rotor here and they also left some tape so at least they taped things up, it's covered, okay, yeah, okay, okay, I can guarantee you it only took 30 minutes to spray them, did you?

OK? uh, so there's a little inside joke because, on my McLaren, we wanted to paint the brake calipers in time for SEMA and Jack said, hey, it'll only take 30 minutes to paint them and he was right, it only took 30 minutes to paint the caliper, he it took 6 hours to mask everything. I had to prepare everything. I didn't want the pretty shiny paint to get stained. Yeah, so you didn't want anything like this. Thank you very much, Jack, because this is it. This is a terrible, terrible, terrible job, so look how that lip feels, although pretty bad, that lip is really good, oh wow, the pad has sunk in good, the pad of this has sunk so far into the rotor that has created a lip and no There's no more really usable surface here and it's probably the same everywhere yeah so we're going to have to get new brake discs we're definitely going to have to repaint them because they're painted like absolute crap.

Yeah maybe in a different color we will definitely have them Powder Co um but that's good we have the side panels removed now we have to lift the car and the good thing is this car has BC racing shocks so check that out . They're all adjustable, you've got adjustable damping right here and you've got adjustable ride height here so we can adjust this to whatever we want and it looks like it's in pretty good shape so there haven't been any other things like big issues with this car so far. Now nothing obvious no, uh, it's just superficial external things mhm and uh, you know, South Florida stuff, yeah, yeah, it's been very, very poorly cared for, so let's just put the car up in the air and take it off. all the fluids, whatever's left of them because a lot of it just leaked into the floor anyway and then, then we can pull the engine out, yeah, that's it, we're making good progress, don't say, oh my god, no you say. thatso bad, but I was looking at it and I thought, I wonder if this will come off right away and it does come off right away, so I thought I'd better take it off.

I'm going to get it ready later anyway, so man, this car is starting to come out and it looks good. I'm very excited that the front end is not bad, it's just You know, they're a little damaged, the good thing is that all the parts that we need that can be used on the front end of this are good, so this car should be ready 24 hours a day, such a dirty car needed an intense cleaning and Rex used G Technic Citrus. all-purpose cleaner and a 2000 psi pressure washer to remove grime quickly, but no wash would be complete without the free use of Cannon Rex foam.

I don't know why you're making this so hard, it's really all you have to do is clean the seat and then blame them. No, you have to clean the seat. What are you trying to do another P1? Okay, now we have another P1. Is it clean. Look at it, don't look at it. what makes you say it's clean is your problem now here you go Jesus happy birthday and the results speak for themselves so Rex is done. the Audi R8 is a clean slate and I think it's time we put this on gear so we can put a V10 in place of the V8.

I think we're the only people who've done that and I'm really excited, but that's in the next episode because I'm really tired, so I'll see you guys next time.