David.
Dont take this the wrong way but, your posts are starting to depress me
.... so god knows you must be ready for swimming across the Mersey with some concrete pants on!!!!!
Ive followed your project car for years..... its a minter.....and your advice and magazine articles you sent to me when we put the 3b in my 85 was invaluble. .....its so close to being finished........That car.... defines you..... and if you think you are down now...wait till its in someone elses hands and you have to stand and watch its performance envelope well and truly licked!!!!....Believe me I know....Ive done it twice with my old ur and S2 Avant. Pleeeeeese..... dont get rid.
Jump on the M6, get off at A50 and go and see Ben at AVP. He is rebuilding another one of my 20vts, my AAN for the project car and what he doesnt know about those engines would have been information that Audi chucked the factory guard dog to shred and bury under the bronze statue of Roland Gumpert doing a moony to the president of the FIA back in 1981 when the quattro was launched into the world of rallying!!!!! ....... because its of no use.
Honestly it will be worth every drop of V Power. If you dont make it before Coombe, I will introduce you to him after Ive bought you a coffee and got you to donate to a Police Charity!!!!......
Steve