So I went to visit the body shop where "East Coast Billy" is hard at work installing the RS6 sound enhanced exhaust for "bac2h." Of course, this was a mere social call, which I had hoped to turn into a brake install (the Alcon/STaSIS setup I acquired last month), but I could not source new pads in time for installing today. In addition, I had Jr. Driver with me, so I settled on just getting the RS6 fender liners installed. These liners were leftover from the 2.7T. I just never got around to cutting them to fit the narrow-body 2.7T, so I figure I'd throw 'em on the 4.2, in theory to give the brakes some more airflow for cooling, but I can also say that it might help relieve the engine compartment of some heat, which is counter to the previous brake-cooling theory...whatever...

Part numbers are:
4B3-821-171-B
4B3-821-172-B
Cost was about $75 for the pair.

So here is Billy working away at bac2h's exhaust...with bac2h in the background using the bench grinder to clean up my rusty lug bolts (thanks for that!)...

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Here is a sample of Billy's workmanship...the pipe adaptor welded to the RS6 exhaust pipe, nicely finished with some zinc primer to avoid rusting in the future, and the OEM pipe clamps ready to bolt onto the centerpipe...

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So Billy was nice enough to lend me some floor space in the shop for my project while he worked on the exhaust...

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...and the finished product...

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After some lunch with bach2h as well as A4AdMan (I think he is a closet C5 guy, but drives a very sweet B6 A4 3.0), we come back to the shop to find MURPH (another one of Billy's customers) waiting at the shop to deliver a pair of smoked Hella tails to bac2h, and to demonstrate his new audio system. Let me just say, I hope he puts a package together for the A6 market...it really rocks!

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So we hung for a bit, but eventually it was time to cut loose and head home. Here are a couple of shots of A4AdMan on the highway. FYI - he snagged a set of OEM wheels from a 25th anniversay S4, and let me say those are sweet wheels! Too bad the offset is ET43. Oh, and they are 18" wheels, but they look like 19s because of the thin lip design...very elegant wheel.

Peek-a-boo...I see you...
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Rolling..those look so good!
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So, now I just have the front bumper to fix (still not sure if I am going to try to repair the existing or replace with new), the RS6 sides, and the Alcon brakes, and I should be done...for now...

 

It's my understanding that the vented fender liners are there primarily to add cooling flow to intercoolers. To effectively cool brakes, you'd need to duct air to the center of the of the rotor, where centrifugal force would conduct it outward. Simply venting air at the front of the wheel wouldn't, I'd think, make any difference to cooling brakes.

 

Shame you couldn't get the brakes done, though. Would have liked to see what they looked like all set up.

Billy told me if he didn't have such a good thing going working in his brother's shop he would probably open a specialty Audi shop.
I think the constant parade of AudiWorld folks could pay the overhead.

 

fender liners are really for 2.7s to increase airflow across the intercoolers. B5 S4's have nice ducting for the intercoolers. I was suprised the A6 didn't at least have some vents in the wheel wells.

Anyway, I'm jealous as my baby has sat in the garage for over a week now. Time to get the oil cooler on for summer DE's.

Looks great...congrats!

 

Looking good as usual. I still have to get a set of the RS6 liners to go with my rs6 IC's

 

BD, you're "out of control!"

 

thing about my RS6 for some time now. In an effort to cool the brakes, I think the design of the vented fender liners actually performs the opposite - especially in the case of the RS6. That engine throws off sooooo much more heat than yours does, and all those vents serve to do is dump all that heat into the wheel well. Based on where the passenger side turbo is located, all that heat just gets channeled right into the wheel well. I thought about picking up a set of solid wheel liners to see if it might help any since I've completely overheated my brakes at the track. Of course there has to be some other design element involved in keeping the brakes cool, but this is a start.

 

The odd thing about those pics is that it looks like the butt end of my car is sitting really high..... hmmmm. Might be that oversized replica spoiler that places to much visual emphasis up high. If all goes as planned we'll take care of that soon enough.

 

Cool mod. I want some. For my 'loaner' 3.0!

 

CRAZY! what's the next mod (after brakes?)