$2000 Challenge: A turbo Audi 4000 built and bought for under $1000

• Entrant: Craig Le Moyne
• Event year: 2004
• Budget spent: $997.87

Remember the year that the $2000 Challenge included a rallycross? Okay, that’s not really what’s going on here. Craig Le Moyne brought this 1986 Audi 4000 CS down from Dearborn and went a little wide at one point.

Total budget for the build was less than a grand, and that included an engine swap, since his car’s 2.3-liter turbo came from a 1988 Audi 5000. A previous owner had reprogrammed the ECU, too, bumping boost to 14 psi. Well-worn Hoosiers were installed at all four corners, while the interior was gutted.

Make your own low-buck memories at the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge Presented by Tire Rack, held March 29-30, 2025.

The Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge is Presented by Tire Rack, in Association with HPX Show, BendPak, CRC Industries and Miller Electric.

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