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Looks like a lot of people want to do this and there are no good answers out there regarding this swap…I’m lucky to have a B4 FWD and a B4 quattro cars in my garage so it’s very easy to compare…There’s some information out there saying that the mounting locations for the quattro are already there for the FWD system and everything will swap directly – it doesn’t look like it from what I can see…at least 2/4 mounting holes will need to be drilled/tapped…Here are some initial observations…

1. the shocks mounting is identical between the FWD and quattro chassis
2. looks like the shocks themselves are identical as well – the quattro version has them slightly twisted but the setup looks the same – this makes things very easy because it looks like when it comes to shocks and springs a FWD and quattro cars have identical setups…this also means I can now use springs off a quattro car…the “FWD” version is not available in NA
3. there are 4 attachment points to the ‘quattro’ part of the equation – you all knew that already…the question was whether everything quattro will swap directly over…after a good hour of staring at the four bolts it looks to me that 2/4 bolts match…the back two holes need to be drilled/tapped into the frame…everything else looks identical
4. can’t see much with the fuel tank in but looking from the top the floor plans look the same so i`ll assume attaching the back end of the quattro should be rather trivial

here are some pictures to help show some of the differences…

FWD – passenger side – looking from the back towards the front – this is where the back quattro bolt should be..I was hoping the bolt holding the exhaust hanger will match up but no dice…the diff mount sits forwards of this bolt…

couple of shots of the front subframe mount on the FWD…there are 3 bolts holding it to the chassis…the bolt on the left matches the front diff mount bolt…looks like this one will be plug and pay…

the quattro front bolt:

same bracket on the passenger side:

and the quattro version:

the quattro setup is very ‘busy’ making it hard to take good shots and measurements…it will be easier to just drop everything down and mount it up on the FWD to see how things look…I will do that very soon and post more information…

got some spare parts today

it’s a twin engine

business in the front:

party in the back:

interior’s not too shabby…

and what’s a good parts deal if it doesn’t come with a 7A head and 7A cams of course…

now I just gotta find a shop to do the machining…don’t feel like shipping it off across the continent to 034…

let’s see if somebody can answer this skill testing question:

Audi 80 FWD 2.0 + Audi 90 quattro V6 + audi B5 quattro 1.8T + Audi UrS4 =?

my head is flooding with ‘swap the quattro’ thoughts of sin…

well…this was a very long and tiring process and I wasn’t even the one that did the work

after receiving a number of great submissions to our Audi Design Competition we had to narrow it down to one…well that was a hard decision…

A design created by Shawn Magee was definitely at the top of the list. We were all very excited.

We contacted Shawn and he modified the design slightly to reflect the car a little better (he used an Audi A3 template, which is different than our 80). The design was then submitted to the wrap shop for more processing on their end. They sent us a version of Shawn’s design done on an 80 template (they had to create it for this specific car as they also didn’t have one in their database).

But something was just not working….We had an issue with the design around the bumper…it was retrofit from a VW R32 and didn’t quite match with the rest of the car and we really wanted to avoid drawing much attention to that…also we wanted something a little more flashy to attract people’s attention…we needed a new idea…

Of course! The inspiration came from a design submitted from Europe…

We were onto something…the red really worked well and we knew this design would draw attention…

Putting the two together was the best of both worlds….

Thumbs up to 53 Colours for their great and very timely work….

Here is the final result:

We would like to thank Shawn Magee for his great work, Lesley Musker at 53 Colours and everybody else who submitted a design through our competition. As we used 2 designs we will donate 100$ to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontarion on behalf of both authors….