V10 in my ultima

[donkeasy]

Hi Guys,

Was talking about a BMW V10 or Audi/Lambo V10 in my Ultima a while ago.
Bought the Audi S8 /Lambo engine and bolted it to the gearbox.
So tonight I am going to put it in, one way or another.

Will try to make pictures.

Joop

[donkeasy]

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[stone]

Looks interesting

[donkeasy]

Iam happy


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Edited by donkeasy on Friday 16th June 22:11

[peterpsg]

Nice, but while you at the fitting stages, try and do yourself a big favour by making sure the gearbox filler point is not directly under the chassis rail, I spent 2 days filling mine via the bleed return hole !!!

[donkeasy]

How many centimeters do you think is allowed?

[peterpsg]

donkeasy said:

How many centimeters do you think is allowed?

Sorry, I didn't take the filler plug (ex sump plug) out when I had the box out to measure it, but I couldn't even get the hex key in under the chassis member, if you're not able to move it forward or back a bit, just pop the gearbox off backwards a bit when you're needing to do a gear-oil change.

I'd recommend that you get an LSD fitted if you don't have one though, and it only cost me ~£1k from Quaife, and the car is much more stable when under full throttle.

Make sure you make us a sound track of the V10 when it's running...

[canam-phil]

I remove the plate that the air bleed take-off to the tank comes from on the off-side of the inverted gearbox when I need to refill the gearbox. Job done in minutes!

[brdee]

Blimey Donkeasy,

Thats looks tight! - but Cool!

Whats the spec of the unit?...and are there any major mods needed to he chassis to get it to fit?

cheers

Brdee

[donkeasy]

Hello guys

It is an audi S8 5.2l v10.
I will take the FSI (direct injection) and inlet off
and make it with 10 throttlebodies (lambo gallardo (=4.8l)like).
Injection will be KMS (like Motec).
Handmade exhaust, etc.
The gearbox came standard with limited slip diff.

Because there is lots of space in front of the engine (15 cm),
I am thinking about putting the gearbox and engine 3-4 cm forward.
will there be big problems like with the driveshaft or something else.
The uprights are not delivered yet so I cannot measure.


Just taken the standard enginemounts out
and a bit of the section under the engine.

I am going on holliday next month, wanted to put it in before that.
If you ANY thoughts or suggestions please let me know.

[v-corse]

Hello,

i see we are almost neighbours...
so if you need info/parts just let me know and i'm sure i can help you. About positioning your engine gearbox, make sure your driveshafts run as straight as possible and dont use the small "ultima" driveshafts because they get too hot especially when they are not running straight. We made adapters to bigger driveshafts and its virtually indistructable right now.
I you want to i can give you the centerposition of your upright compared to a fixed point so you can proceed with your work...
And as i said before i have a huge amount of parts for ultima...

[donkeasy]

Hallo Vcorse,

Mail eens wat:

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Groet Joop

Edited by donkeasy on Tuesday 20th June 18:54

[infinity]

He Joop,

I see you now have turned really mad!! I am a lot in Eindhoven, so i will visit you in the near future, PM me your mobile if you like.

regards,

Dries

[hostyle]

donkeasy said:

Injection will be KMS (like Motec).
Handmade exhaust, etc.
The gearbox came standard with limited slip diff.

Hi Joop,

I was just catching up on my reading. Interesting to see that you have made so much progress. I'm not a builder myself, but I take it that with KMS you mean Kronenburg Motorsport? Will they also be building your exhaust or other components?

Grtz

Erik

[donkeasy]

Hi Dries,

Welcome, welcome.

I will give you call.

Will be on holliday from 28 juni to 28 juli.


Joop

[striker 20v]

hey tete du fromage's

So there are some ultima's in holland after all!
I know of a few being put together a couple of years ago running renault V6tubro gordini engines and UN1's, but no v8's let alone a V10.....
being a member of the dutch kitcar club I allways wondered where they where. I havent had the pleasure yet of building an ultima, but as my Sylva Striker 4age 20v vvt is almost perfect (after 5 years of fiddling) it will need a new home in the next year so, let me just decide on what to build next.

Might be interesting to know that together with some friends/formulea superlights members we're putting together a Dutch Kitcar Trackday club, we attend various events on Zolder Zandvoort and Spa mostly the events are put up together with the seven mania and formulea ford boys.

So if you want to do some serious testing or just being able to drive your car the way it was desinged for..... come allong sometime.

regards Thomas Rouw uit apeldoorn!

also feel free to strawl around the KCC website and forum sometime, maybe you'll like it
if you want to know more about the trackdays just mail me [e-mail]

Edited by striker 20v on Saturday 24th June 04:29

[donkeasy]

The pictures are from last week.

So....Testing on the circuit?

effe wachten...

Joop

PS: Nice KCC site.