Performance Modifications?
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Re: Performance Modifications and Dreams to keep dreaming. . .
There are springsets and anti-sway bars (and probably struts, too.)
I have not seen anything in the way of mod availability that will improve (or be worth the cost, better said) the HP and torque -- makes you long for the Audi A6 3.2T (now that could have been easily a 300HP engine with plenty mo torque -- and it coulda been chipped!)
Funny Audi eschews the Bi-turbo, meanwhile BMW ups the ante on their "255HP" 6 by ADDing a turbo.
Of course, as we may recall from the days of the 2.7T bi-turbo, it was quicker even in automatic trim than the 4.2 non turbo also in automatic trim.
I bought the 4.2, which I did love, in a 2000 and a 2001 A6. Then I got a 2.7T allroad with a stick shift in 2003.
Blew my mind to have this hot rod station wagon with but a mere V6 that seemed with only the addition of sport BPV's to pull so much stronger than the previous 4.2's.
Some one here once wrote that the A6 3.2 was never meant to replace the 2.7T, but the entry level 3.0 NA. Of course the price of the 3.2 seems dead on the outgoing Sline 2.7T in 2004.
Somewhere, some factory skunk works must've done the Audi bi-turbo treatment on the 3.2.
The damn thing probably showed the normally aspirated 4.2 its tail lights time and again, probably -- in FSI guise -- bettered the mileage of the then non-FSI 4.2, weighed less and sounded nearly as sweet.
The additional cost of the turbo plumbing would probably have made it able to be priced lower than the 4.2, too.
It wouldn't do, however, NOT to offer the A6 with a V8 even if a street superior V6T could have been brought to market for a few thousand dollars less.
Ahhhhhhhhh - marketing!
Wouldn't it play hell in the market if BMW takes the 3.0siT and puts it into a 530xi -- AND allows it to be had with a 6 speed stick?
And prices it south, pretty far south of the 5 series V8?
Dream a little dream for me.
Of course the best dream is to add the T to the 3.2. . . .
I have not seen anything in the way of mod availability that will improve (or be worth the cost, better said) the HP and torque -- makes you long for the Audi A6 3.2T (now that could have been easily a 300HP engine with plenty mo torque -- and it coulda been chipped!)
Funny Audi eschews the Bi-turbo, meanwhile BMW ups the ante on their "255HP" 6 by ADDing a turbo.
Of course, as we may recall from the days of the 2.7T bi-turbo, it was quicker even in automatic trim than the 4.2 non turbo also in automatic trim.
I bought the 4.2, which I did love, in a 2000 and a 2001 A6. Then I got a 2.7T allroad with a stick shift in 2003.
Blew my mind to have this hot rod station wagon with but a mere V6 that seemed with only the addition of sport BPV's to pull so much stronger than the previous 4.2's.
Some one here once wrote that the A6 3.2 was never meant to replace the 2.7T, but the entry level 3.0 NA. Of course the price of the 3.2 seems dead on the outgoing Sline 2.7T in 2004.
Somewhere, some factory skunk works must've done the Audi bi-turbo treatment on the 3.2.
The damn thing probably showed the normally aspirated 4.2 its tail lights time and again, probably -- in FSI guise -- bettered the mileage of the then non-FSI 4.2, weighed less and sounded nearly as sweet.
The additional cost of the turbo plumbing would probably have made it able to be priced lower than the 4.2, too.
It wouldn't do, however, NOT to offer the A6 with a V8 even if a street superior V6T could have been brought to market for a few thousand dollars less.
Ahhhhhhhhh - marketing!
Wouldn't it play hell in the market if BMW takes the 3.0siT and puts it into a 530xi -- AND allows it to be had with a 6 speed stick?
And prices it south, pretty far south of the 5 series V8?
Dream a little dream for me.
Of course the best dream is to add the T to the 3.2. . . .
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