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I'd love to hear more about your thoughts once you have some miles in. Pure is 30 min from my house, I have AWE touring, AWE airgate, and APR intercooler so a good start. But since in CA no race cat or JB4 for me at this point. I have the ABT piggy but wouldn't be able to really use that to optimize the setup like I would with a JB4 so that might need to change.
Very curious to hear how the torque band and turboblag shake out. And to hear an honest "worth it / not worth it" take from you.
Ultimately not sure I want to deal with possible warranty denial issues in case something goes south since only at 24k miles on the clock and warranty extended to 80k. Tempted, very tempted though...
I'd love to hear more about your thoughts once you have some miles in. Pure is 30 min from my house, I have AWE touring, AWE airgate, and APR intercooler so a good start. But since in CA no race cat or JB4 for me at this point. I have the ABT piggy but wouldn't be able to really use that to optimize the setup like I would with a JB4 so that might need to change.
Very curious to hear how the torque band and turboblag shake out. And to hear an honest "worth it / not worth it" take from you.
Ultimately not sure I want to deal with possible warranty denial issues in case something goes south since only at 24k miles on the clock and warranty extended to 80k. Tempted, very tempted though...
You can't buy directly from JB4. But you can still order from other websites that will ship to California. Planning on ordering one very soon even though my S5 SB is barely at 1k miles LOL.
You can't buy directly from JB4. But you can still order from other websites that will ship to California. Planning on ordering one very soon even though my S5 SB is barely at 1k miles LOL.
Oh, getting my paws in a JB4 is no problem...more curious about the turbo upgrade and the results. Honest results. I'm curious how it is in a daily driver scenario, not at the drag strip where you have 1/4 mile to wait for it all to come together. I hammer my S5 around town pretty damn good (gets floored several times a day), but the turbo lag is a bit of bummer at times and it could be quicker. Going bigger I would expect the lag to increase a bit, but I'd like a bit more power in tap.
Of course I have thought a used RS5 SB in a year or so when people might start selling them, but I'd end up modifying that too and I have a fully loaded and somewhat modified S5 I know and love and have had since 8 miles on odo. End of the day probably no way to get that quicker low end than RS5 with it's engine.
06-09-2019, 07:21 PM
