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Today I went down to Home Depot and bought a sheet of 3/4" melamine coated press board to use on my lift as an adjustable height work platform....I routed out some holes on the bottom to accept the stop lugs welded on top of the lift arms, that will hold the board in place as I slide things around on it.

It's so much easier on my back being able to raise and lower the work surface as needed.....

 

Thanks!

It also gives me a clean large area to lay out parts as I do the assembly. We all have to do with what we have......

 

Right now I'm rebuilding a few Sprite transmissions for a guy, once done with those it's back to the Mini stuff....still haven't found an auto trans Ecoboost to buy, still looking. Seems like there were a bunch in the winter time, this may have to wait a few more months.

I bought a roll of butcher paper to use on the lift table, keeps things cleaner and easier to find the odd bit I've dropped.

 

I spent some time yesterday at our local Ford training center talking to an engineer......

Running into serious roadblocks with using the Ecoboost, just as some on here predicted. Turns out the ECU polls 8 different functions on three separate can-busses - not the least of which is the anti-theft system. Without those it will not run.....

It looks like the only way to do this reasonably is with an aftermarket ECU, but no one makes one that works with an automatic, and the stick shift ones start at about $2K!

Gonna hafta give this some more thought.

 

Why, yes it is! 2004 2.7TT Tiptronic with 75K on it, supposed to be the worst car Audi ever built, and we've had absolutely no problems with it!

 

Yeah, that's actually what I was thinking about doing with the Ecoboost - instruments and all, but as Jeff10049 said the alarm system (PATS) needs to be in the circuit too, and that means door switches and probably the dome lights.....it still might be doable, but integrating 3 can-busses and making them all talk to each other in the new car is going to be "interesting"......

 

I have no idea!!!!