brian@avalonmotorsports

After weeks of preparation, our 2002 Audi S4 bested a dozen other highly
prepared European street and race cars in the course of events held over
June 1-3,2004. The first event was the dyno, held at K&N Engineering in
Riverside,CA. Our car's dyno result was 406 whp/402 ft/lbs tq with less than
ideal ,96 degree ambient temps ! Evosport's awesome C32 AMG bested our
result with over 411 whp. Coming in third was TJM (Dahlback) motorsports A4
with 396 hp (approx).

The second event, held on Wednesday, was the drag strip at California
Speedway in Fontana,CA at an elevation of approximately 1200 feet above sea
level. Once again, all the participants faced wilting heat with temps
hovering around 100 degrees for most of the day ! We were pitted against
Bahn Brenner's built Corrado, Stasis Engineering's A4 Touring Car ,TJM
Motorsport's awesome A4T ( 2.0 liter ?....over 400 ft/lbs of tq. at the
dyno), Achtuning's modified Rs4(with an overnight software change), ABD
Racing's beautiful supercharged 2004 Golf R32 , the EvosportC32 AMG and
several others. The battle for the best time was waged all afternoon
between the C32, RS4 and our S4. We all watched the drama as the Bahn
Brenner Corrado repeatedly tried to break the13 second barrier and then we
attempted to break into the 11's by removing seats and cooling the
intercoolers. A strong headwind of 100 degree desert-like wind foiled all
our attempts. In the end, the S4 prevailed with a time of 12.1 seconds (91
mph 1/8th !!). The RS4 was a close second at 12.3 and the C32 was third at
12.8 ( approx).

Yesterday, the third and final,deciding event was held at Willow Springs
Raceway on the 'Streets of Willow' road course. The morning was devoted to
testing and tuning if necessary. In our case, we used several minutes to
make quick adjustments to the Stasis Motorsports Ohlin suspension. On the
dragstrip we had softened the front setting on the shock bodies and the high
speed rebound in the remote reservoirs to make the car stiffer in the rear.
Before lapping at Willow, we simply stiffened the fronts and rears to get
back to our 'road course' setup. Each car was given a four lap trial, with
the first lap as a warm up, the second and third laps timed, and the last
lap used as a cool down run. The road course offered up a chance to pit
drivers skill and tuning skill head to head.......several teams
TJM,evosport,Achtuning,Stasis and ours used professional drivers in their
car. Ultimately the afternnon boiled down to a battle between Paul Lambert
of Stasis Engineering who did double duty driving their own A4 touring car
and our S4 fully equipped with Stasis' full lineup of high performance
suspension and brake products versus Gary Sheehan (Grand Am/USTCC racer) in
Achtuning's quick RS4.

The professionally prepared Stasis A4 Touring Car with 200ish whp and weight
below 2500 lbs prevailed with Paul Lambert's excellent racing skill and a
time of 1:29xx, the RS4 from Achtuning/AMS finished second with a 1:30xx.
Our S4 finished a close third with a time of 1:31xx. ABD Racing's excellent
supercharged R32 finished in fourth with a time of 1:33xx. Evosport made a
heroic effort to win, but the C32 AMG could not put all it's power down in
the tight road course, and finished with a 1:38xx. TJM's fast A4 was
withdrawn after practicing due to technical problems. Eurosport Accessories
race prepared super light Rabbit driven by their excellent driver
threatened, but could not overcome the high hosepower cars from Audi.

Unlike many, if not all of the other cars that were trailered to and from
all of the events, the S4 was street driven from Colorado to participate in
the Eurotuner GP and driven on race wheels from event to event. On the dyno
and drag strip, the car was run on VP103 race fuel with a "race program",
however we did use a 91 octane "street program" at Streets of Willow
because of the heat .


We cannot express our thanks enough for the countless hours spent preparing
the S4 for the event. First we thank all those people who put their hands on
the car:

Dax Raub and Don 3R Racing
Jeff Moss Torque
Factory
Paul Lambert and Nick Stasis Engineering
Gary Sheehan Sheehan
Motorsport
Steve Ruiz Stoptech
Trevor Spear, Emery Geiger,Evan Stinson Avalon Motorsports
Jack McGee

We also wish to thank those sponsors and others that contributed with parts
that were necessary to make our S4 the all around champion performer that it
is:

Dunlop Tires (Dunlop SuperSport Race tires)

STASIS......Ryan, Nick and Paul (Alcon brakes, Stasis Motorsport
suspension)

GIAC.....Garrett and Andrew (software)

Awe Tuning.....(fueling kit)

Evolution Motorsports.....Jordan,Todd (intake)

UUC.......Sunny, Rob ( VM3 exhaust)

Tomasz@Startup

Congratulations! Very nicely done!

QCRAZY

Fantastic Zev!! What's the 411 on the cars mods anyway?

'Nova more S4

grats Zev!

A400

I thought TJM finished 2nd in drag w/12.4?? I got this from owner/