T44 Avant Headliner Options

[Peter Golledge]

A decent Auto upholstery shop is the way to go.  Due to the Avant you have
the easy option to get the headliner out with glass intact!  I did this on
my 89 SAAB ~ 8 years ago and it still looks great.

Depending on where you are recertification on a motor is not too bad.  BTDT
in Colorado with the LT1Q.  Turns out the head guy at the certification
place is a bit of an german car fan.  He (and the crew) were genuinely
interested in the insanity of putting an LT1 into a 5KTQ body.  They ignored
that the LT1 computer complained about no speed sensor.

Cheers

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On
Behalf Of urq
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:04 PM
To: qlist
Subject: T44 Avant Headliner Options

I'm gathering the final bits for the reanimation of the old 5kCSQA . 

 

The original plan was to turn the car into a V8Q Avant . but hearing the
difficulties of recertifying a car with a new engine these days, I'm just
going to see if I can fit an MC-2 and be done with it.  I go back and forth
between installing the brand new 5-speed transmission I have in a box and
the used 6-speed I had slated to go in the V8 Avant . it sounds as though
the used 6-gang is worth more than a brand new 5-speed, so I may stick with
5 gears.  

 

The unfortunate thing is that even with sitting in the garage all these
years the headliner has detached.  I wanted to find out what options I might
have for a replacement.  I'd really like to get something solid like the
headliner on the urq, but I don't know if anything like that was available
for the T44 Avant.  I'll appreciate hearing what sort of options folks have
found out there.

 

TIA!
Steve Buchholz

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