Fwd: I5 rebuild kits?

[Fuzzzydog]

Ayayay!  I'm in turmoil again.....

what you guys are saying was my original plan, but I allowed myself to be
convinced to rebuild the whole thing.
here's more details.  A couple years ago I was driving an 86 5ktq sedan that
I had put a LOT of work into - not mods, just keeping up on stuff and
replacing as needed but suffice it to say that it was running great at
300,000 kms.
On a fateful holiday (in the 5ktq) I saw for sale an 88 5ktq avant (Calgary
Olympics Commemorative issue) and well, you know how it goes - I ended up
with 2 - 4 door Audis and how many family cars does a family of 4 with only
1 driver need?
So I dismantled the sedan and kept all the goodies - lots of them went into
the avant.
fast forward and I started having some issues with the avant and
systematically was swapping over engine management and fuel system parts
from the sedan engine.  whilst doing the injectors, one of the tips fell
into a cylinder and I didn't notice (I know, what a dolt!) shortly after
starting it up it made a terrible racket and I had a long trip to go on so
long story short I just yanked the engine out of the sedan and put it into
the avant (FWIW it fixed my issues) Out of curiousity I popped the head off
the other engine and 1 piston has an injector tip hammered into it with a
corresponding dimple in the head. Its not big or ugly but its there...
So I was going to just do as you say and don't touch the bottom end and just
do the head, etc. but was talked into doing the whole thing.  The beauty of
it is that I have a whole spare engine and even access to another one from a
friend so I could rebuild the whole thing, and then down time on the car
would only be a weekend while I do the swap.  I have another vehicle so
downtime really isn't an issue.
So thanks for the input, I'm going to think this through some more.  I do
know that my current engine really needs some valve guides as it burns blue
terribly under compression braking.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eric Huppert <dragracer at netstep.net>
Date: Feb 15, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: I5 rebuild kits?
To: quattro at audifans.com

Fuzzy dog,

Agree with Peter.... These engines are fairly bulletproof, my 87 had over
400k on it and no problems. (Son destroyed everything else besides the
engine, and it still ran)

Add to Peters list: valve cover gasket, and the biggie, exhaust manifold
studs (may have to remove head if studs broken), agree with replacing
lifters, and seeing as how you're that close may as well do valve seals. I'd

also do clutch, slave and TO bearing while in there. Run a compression check
prior to doing any work!

Had a discussion with my parts supplier recently. They are friends with and
partially sponsor a type 44 rally car. Rally Owner makes big power and uses
stock, USED, shortblocks. Unless there was a oil pressure issue install the
normal maintenance type stuff, clean it up, and run it!

Eric

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