slappy_dunbar

I'm considering the opportunity to buy am '01 TTC Quattro 180 which has a suspect motor. The seller describes a lower engine knock. Assuming major engine damage I look at this as having potential for a souped-up engine rebuild. I'm not sure I'd want to invest in a K04 in addition to the broken/worn parts, purely because of the expense. However, I've looked around the internet enough to see that a 180 engine can be modified without messing with the boost levels but by up-speccing the engine internals. So here's the big question: assuming final value of around $10,000 what kind of costs should I expect for a pretty thorough overhaul? I'm not looking for guesses on costs for an undiagnosed fault. I just want an idea of how much it'd cost to do a standard soup-to-nuts overhaul. Thanks!

AudiMick

Are you trying to make it stronger or increase performance?

The four cylinders are generally pretty strong, you could invest a lot of money in stronger stuff (pistons, crank, rods)etc but I doubt you would see much performance increase without adding boost.