I did some reading on this topic and saw people talking about replacing the whole pan. Could i take off the bottom half and put on a new/used bottom half, or is that hard to find?

you could start off by calling junkyard. be cheaper but take far longer.

If its a 1.8T engine there is only the one oil pan and yes you can just replace that by itself and be fine, if its a 2.8L and you damaged just the lower oil pan you can purchase just the lower oil pan for about $160 from audi or try and find it in a junk yard as Cincy TT said. You will need the liquid oil pan gasket tube from audi though.

thanks for the info, will mounting it require anything more than what it looks like? Do i have to lift the engine?

just get under your car, you will have to remove over a dozen small hex bolts. Take the bottom half off, make sure you get all the old gasket off, put a new gasket on and bolt on the new bottom. Check out www.autohausaz.com for it. I paid less than $150 for pan and gasket.

I was about to start crankin the hex's off, but what do i do about the sway bar that goes underneathe the back side of the oil pan? I can't access the back bolts with this in the way. I started to loosen this bar up where its mounted to the motor mounts but realized that putting the bolts back on would be difficult without a torque wrench. What do i do about this bar?

I think you have to lift the engine. Not a simple job.

what about removing the sway bar, I started to loosen one of it's bolts, how should i tighten it back up? would a torque wrench be able to tighten it up?

Find the torque specs for it..and i doubt you have to lift the engine, that would be so annoying..

Def. low torque on those bolts, came off real easy. So if i could just remove the sway bar i would be golden. onepoint8tee: I'm trying to remove just the bottom half of the pan. Does that make a difference on lifting the engine?