First the bad,

While driving spiritedly on a nice road, a problem occurred with the car. The red battery light came on and I lost my power steering (you need one on this car, believe me). Open the hood, and hold and behold the serpentine belt that drive the AC compressor, power steering and the alternator is just sitting there, not even thorn or worn out, just sitting there, popped right out, WTF? As anyone heard of such a thing? Anyway since I'm far from home I decide to call Audi's road side assistance, no problem, the platform truck is there in about 45 minutes. Trip home with the car went find although at a much slower pace. I'll most likely drive it to the dealer's tomorrow morning. I should have enough juice in the battery to get me there.

Now the good news.

Prior to to the mishap, I did some more testing, but this time I used my Hoosiers instead on my S03s. Before I go on and give you some times, I will explain to you that I think my results were not because the Hoosiers are stickier, which they were not, they are dead and my rear end went easily into snap oversteer under hard launches, I did get rear wheel spin up. I did lower my air pressure in an attempt to lower my times by getting more grip but ultimately I still got some, I ran out of time to continue the experiment with the tire pressure. Needless to say I will have to work on that one of these days. I think the reason I got better times is the fact that my S03s are in the following size, 235/40/17 and my Hoosiers are in the following size, 225/45/17. There is a big difference in rolling diameter between the two and although the S03s should accelerate faster (smaller diameter) the Hoosiers permit me to easily reach 60 MPH in second gear, not so easy with the S03s. Also there might be a rotational mass thing in there too the Hoosiers on the SSRs are a lot lighter. One more thing I did these test with the G-Tech Pro and maybe sometime soon I might go back to the track to reconfirm these numbers, however from my past testing I'm very confident in the G-Tech Pro numbers. Actually I forgot to tell you I did a very high speed run to test out the top and the darn car is so fast that it exceeded the speedometer range, I will have to borrow a portage GPS to get an accurate reading.

Test # 1. High speed run.

The needle settle beyond the 260 KPH (162 MPH) indication and stayed there with the RPM still increasing in 6th gear. I gave up at 5800 RPM, still far from the red line. This was done with the S03s, so some speedometer error due to the smaller diameter tires as to be present. I need a portable GPS!


Test # 2. 0 to 60 mph runs.

After lowering the Hoosiers pressure, the best I got was 5.03 seconds. All other runs were below the 5.40 second mark.


Test # 3. Quarter mile runs.

Best run was a 13.72 seconds at 104 MPH. All others were below the 14 second mark.

Well I guess tomorrow morning the Audi will take a trip to the dealers.

 

Mine goes in this week to fix the cooling fan. Good numbers bud. I cant wait til you post a sub 14 second timeslip. I need to find a track around here. cheers! mike

 

thanks for always sharing all of your crazy modding stories- AND i get to live vicariously!

 

This "mod list: too long to post" is becoming unacceptable to me. I hereby request that you take a 1/2 hour, get on your word processor, type out the mod list, copy it onto your sig, and post it up here.

It gives the rest of us a goal! Something to shoot for!

 

jet, whereabouts are you located?

 

Space for the preferences. Maybe you can try for me.

Here is my list:

ENGINE AND DRIVE TRAIN:

# 01. MTM Stage 3, which includes the ECU upgrade, bigger injectors, down pipe/sport cat converter, cat back exhaust and a
K 04 turbo.
# 02. Ported and polished exhaust manifold.
# 03. MTM's sport clutch assembly, which includes a new disk, pressure plate and flywheel.
# 04. STaSIS 4 to 1 Torsen mod.
# 05. AMS short shifter.
# 06. Dual intercooler assembly from Audi.
# 07. L-Sport custom made stainless steel turbo inlet pipe.
# 08. Forge BPV.
# 09. AFE high performance air filter.
# 10. eLabtronics electronic intercooler water misting system.
# 11. Motul 300V double ester racing motor oil (new formula).
# 12. Bosch F5DPOr platin spark plugs.
# 13. APR snub mount.
# 14. V6 motor mounts (L + R).

BRAKES AND WHEELS:

# 15. BIRA system 2 big brake kit, using Porsche monoblock 911/996 4 piston aluminium callipers.
# 16. STaSIS/Alcon XDR free floating front rotors (321 x 30mm).
# 17. Audi 3.0l rear brake rotors, X-drilled (255 x 12mm).
# 18. Pagid high performance BLUE pads in the front for street and light track use.
# 19. Pagid race compound pads, the RS 14 (black) in the front for high speed track applications.
# 20. Pagid race compound pads, the RS 44 (orange) in the back for all driving applications.
# 21. Goodridge stainless steel lines.
# 22. Motul RBF 600 brake fluid.
# 23. One set of BBS RCs (17 x 8) shod with Bridgestone S03s (235/40/17) for street use.
# 24. One set of BBS RCs (17 x 8) shod with Kumho V 700s (225/45/17) for race use.
# 25. One set of SSR Comps (17 x 8.5) shod with Hoosiers A3S03s (225/45/17) for race use.
# 26. BBS wheel studs.
# 27. Audi 16 inch wheels with winter tires.

SUSPENSION:

# 28. Bilstein PSS 9 coilover kit (modified).
# 29. C.P.P. front, upper adjustable control arms.
# 30. C.P.P. custom modified front lower control arms with concentric spherical bearings.
# 31. C.P.P. custom modified rear lower swing arms with concentric spherical bearings (in progress).
# 32. Audi's front upper strut stress bar.

AERODYNAMICS:

# 33. Caractere front bumper/spoiler.
# 34. Caractere side rocker panels.
# 35. Caractere front grill.
# 36. Reiger rear valence.
# 37. Audi rear spoiler.
# 38. Audi S4 door blades.
# 39. Zender front lips, blended into the Caractere front bumper/spoiler assembly.

SAFETY:

# 40. Sparco PRO 2000 race seat with new red and black inserts (cushions).
# 41. TopSpin 6 point red harness system.

COSMETIC:

# 42. Window tint.
# 43. 3M clear bra.
# 44. Rear Audi rings (logo), blacked out.
# 45. De-badged.
# 46. Cigarette lighter mod.
# 47. Firewall battery cover.
# 48. Audi cargoliner for the trunk (winter use).
# 49. Audi 4 season floor mats.
# 50. Audi winter mats

ON ORDER:

# 51. Carbonio carbon fibre cold air intake system. UPDATE, arrived but won't fit.

 

Montreal.

 

We gonna get a phone number soon?

Did you have to make any changes to the pipe with the DSMIC's ditching the resonator?

 

I'll work on it. Just don't do anything else!!!

 

I've got 5 people on a list right now, that I will turning in on Monday (tomorrow) or Tuesday.
The shop will be making a production run for those on the list. E mail me if you are interested.