Can We Fix This "Lambo V10" Audi S8? One Bad Owner Away From The Junkyard... 

I have a intake manifold for that car one of the flaps aren’t good if you or anyone would be interested in it ?

@@James1231391 For the right price I would be. Need one to thinker with.

Please make more videos if you still have it.

I would do a double X pipe or an x-pipe with a very long merge collector like from Khaos. BTW what did you do to fix the throttle body Y piece at 4:00 ?

😂😂😂

Quitters never win!!!

@@dannyr3346 Can't win if you spend four years on jackstands.

@@BothFeetInPodcast dude doesn’t know how to work on a German car 😂😭

@@B58_Nick How many HPFPs are you on now?

2007 S6 here. Only had for few months but love it so far

here another one S8 2007 with full stainless Kreissieg exhaust with F1 sound all the way in New Zealand. Also the ceramic brake system and B&O audio system

​@@eco_logicdo you have a link to your exhsust. Thank you

@@franka506 I posted the link. Let me know if YT didn't allow it on here. Otherwise google for the Japanese Kreissieg for the S8.

I am glad you found us here and you make a sound prediction 😂. I am a full time RU-vidr and this channel is just our mess around channel www.youtube.com/@Stapleton42

Lol 50k? It's $11k for another engine from Audi ... I found a used one for $2500... Buy that spend $7500 on rebuild... And $5k on swap .. done.

Thanks man. My engine has been solid since I worked on it. The rest of the car now has gained new issues 🤣

thanks Joe!!

It had like 26 error codes when I bought it but it still drove me home!

Smart man. These cars are a pain because people don't usually do any of the things I did to this car

It has the TCU tune in the "after" video. It did make a huge difference

You can only make so many videos about the same car with the same problems before its redundant

thank you!

You're right. I drop the entire 4l60e because its melted and replace its with an 80e lol. Definitely not my first rodeo. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VPAd7bccfhc.html

Yeah they all need tons of work. Mine still leaks oil but it runs good!

we will!

People misidentified in assuming Kevin when I was referring to Kerry Earnhardt lol

thanks man. I just changed the other maf sensor and so far the new codes have gone away. time will tell

AND it has the exact same filter housing leak. Working on that as well haha.

Twenty-four minutes into the video now. Thinking; when you test drove this car, the horrible performance of the car should have been immediately evident. You should have been able to start with a reasonable offer of $1,000 for this car and end with a negotiated price of no more than $1,500.

I don’t beat people over the head like that. Sounds like you watch too much car guy tv 😂

Every one of these cars on the market has most of the same problems.

@@stapleton42extra I apologize for being harsh. It was directed at the car and Audi more specifically although it did not come across that way. To your credit, you have the patience , experience and ability to fix this car. As the car comes together, you also gain the satisfaction of knowing you reinvigorated its original performance and perhaps improved on it's reliability while also better understanding what future maintenance may be necessary and at what intervals. A big reason these cars depreciate so much, so fast, from the original MSRP is due to maintenance expenses. When a person as capable as you is able take a car like the S8 and breathe new life into it, you essentially end up with a premium luxury car for a fraction of the original cost. I commend you for having the determination to fix the car. Most people would not have the patience or knowhow. Audi dealership service center mechanics would likely not want to touch the car due to its age, but if asked to, they would end up charging so much in man-hours for troubleshooting that the cost of repairs could exceed the value of the car. I envy your knowhow. Within the next year, I plan on taking on a similar effort with a 2004 VW GTI, 2.8L VR6. The car runs well but due to its age, I would feel better refreshing most components under the hood, down to the timing chains. Since this will be a first for me, it's hard to say how this will go. For now I'm digging into the maintenance manuals and watching as many DIY videos on some of the more complicated aspects of the upcoming refresh. Good on you for having one of the rarest and coolest V10 sedans on the road today.

You have it backwards... The 2008+ odd fire 5.2 in the R8 and facelift Gallardo/Huracan is the deeper sound. The even fire 5.0 in the early Galladro has the high pitch sound. The S6 S8 engine is even fire but sounds lower because of the lower redline and the way the exhaust manifolds are made, among other internal things that make it have less power. With the proper headers and exhaust the S6 S8 5.2 makes the high pitch sound. See Joel Francisco's wagon before he did the turbos as an example.

“ I think it’s worth it”.. kinda says it all

Thank you!!

Nothing is impossible. It is just a bit more confusing and harder to reach things than an American car lol

​@@stapleton42extraI'm just finishing the ressurection of a 2008 Mini Cooper S I bought out of somebody's side yard where it has been sitting for years. Needed pretty much everything, but it's a hoot. However between it being all the BMW problems, compressed into a tiny space, and just being a little too small for me, I think I'm gonna sell it soon.

She is making a lot of progress!

Addendum from the first comment, really love the associate sponsor decals on the shirt, as for the decals, i usually (when by choice) use Pennzoil and probably won't be able to afford a Blueprint engine anytime soon but if i can i will.

We buy old cards from the NC auto racing HOF to put in packages!

It’s not far enough to have a video for it yet. The rusty panel replacing she’s doing is a big process

Nothing. I will just sop it out of there once I get a misfire. I have heard of people adding a silicone hose around the plug boot to seal it but I dont know what dimensions they are using for that to make it work. I have 2500 miles on the car and no misfires yet

Good question me too

I still have it. If that happened to me I’d just leave it because I don’t have time to drop the engine lol

@@stapleton42extra Haha Okay thank you!

I didn't have any hang ups doing it the way I did. Took me 2 minutes to cut a socket in half to turn the alternator

I’m not sure. This one chose me that’s for sure. I didn’t want a modern revival 😂

If its free I would lol

runs great now we use it every day!

Yes. He had it listed at 10k and it didn't sell. Knowing what know now I should have offered him 6... but I have had some clutch instances where people paid my asking price without haggling me so I pay it forward when I can. Nobody likes the guy who wants to play hardball over 200 bucks.

Drinking hotdog water in Texas I don’t know. Hood track days are long gone

Yes because "service position" can totally help you get a stuck injector out of the head. The engine could be pulled out of the dang car and it would still have the same problem you bonehead 😂

Audi V10 is the Lamborghini V10 once the 5.0 Gallardo went away

Tell you what. Re watch this video with your ears open and you'll learn a lot 😂