13.49 @ 100.5mph, 1.76 sixty foot.
With all the mods listed below. Street tires.
13.95 @ 98.5mph, 1.82 sixty foot.
With ONLY the catback exhaust, short shifter, and bypass valves (stock chip). Street tires.
It is $400 for the basic unit but it's well worth
it if you consider how much a speeding ticket is and the insurance that
goes up for you from that speeding ticket. For most people, that would
be more than $400.
GIAC X chip: The single modification that can increase your
horsepower really significantly. The X chip is the newest chip from
Garrett, and it runs about 17psi compared to the stock 10psi on the turbos. Horsepower
and torque numbers are claimed to be at 320HP (with a catback) and about
360ft/lbs of torque. I think those numbers are pretty inflated but I
don't have access to a 4 wheel dyno so I can't prove anything.
I have removed this chip because I blew my turbos and don't want that
to happen again. I can't blame it on the chip, but I figure it had something
to do with it.
Borla catback exhaust: Nothing special at all, just a way
overpriced catback because it's made for an Audi. At ~$600, it is
also the cheapest catback exhaust for the S4. This is what sucks about
owning one of these cars, mods are ALWAYS overpriced.
Bailey bypass valves: The stock BPV's are known to fail, especially
with a chip that puts out more boost. To be on the safe side, I put these
BPV's on and they've been working fine. No actual performance boost,
just peace of mind really.
UUC shortshifter: Audi cannot make a shifter for shit, period.
The shifters in these cars are sloppy and have tons of play in it. So
to try and help the problem, I put in a shortshifter to see if things
will firm up a bit and take out some slack from the shifter. I have my
shifter set at -40% throw reduction and things are a bit more solid and
less rubbery, but the shifter is still crap compared to BMW and S2000
shifters.
Intrax / Koni Motorola Cup kit: Fancy name for a shocks / springs
combo. Single adjustable Konis set on 75% stiff, and Intrax springs that
are supposedly matched to the shocks. A bit bouncy for my tastes, but
the ride is not bad. I would've gone Bilsteins or some adjustable
coilovers if I were to do it again.
Neuspeed 19mm rear sway bar: A pretty nice mod actually. The stock
S4 understeers pretty bad, and even with the shocks / springs combo
above, I still had a good amount of understeer. So I added just the
rear swaybar and it has helped a lot in making the car handle a bit
more neutrally. Not only that, but it does make the car turn
considerably flatter too. This swaybar comes with a "hard" and
"soft" setting. I would strongly advise people considering this mod
to set it to the soft setting. Check out my autocrossing video
above to see how the car can easily snap oversteer with this
swaybar set on hard. It is a situation that you could easily
encounter on the streets when avoiding an accident or object in the
road.
Fikse FM/5 wheels: The most expensive mod to my car ever! One set
of wheels! I love these wheels though, simple design, looks good, and
they are really strong. Specs are 18" x 8.5" ET 32 with spacer, 3-piece
forged aluminum, 19lbs a piece. They're wrapped with 235/40/18 Michelin
Pilot Sports.
Blacked out grille: I was really bored one day so I decided to paint
the audi rings and the trim around my grille flat black. Stock they come
chrome, and those were just a bit to bling bling for me so I blacked them
out so there wouldn't be too much chrome on it. I don't know if the paint
will last well through rock chips and stuff but it's something real easy to
do so I can just repaint them if they start looking really crappy after a
while.
Motorola V60 professional hands free integration: A nice mod for a
manual. It took me about 10 hours to install by myself with a lot of
work in trying not to wreck the interior. I have the cradle for the
phone mounted in an area where I can cover it up later, because I
drilled a 3/4" hole to accept the cradle. I used the stock cell
phone speaker in the door, and used the Motorola mic. I wired it
into the car's stock cell phone mic but I sounded like crap on the
other end, the motorola mic works much better. I did not hook up the
automute function of the cradle because my aftermarket stereo does
not have this function. This kit requires an external antenna, but I
mounted it on the rear deck of the interior, reception is fine.
Window tint: Not a mod, but it's another thing where once you
have it, you hate not having it. Again, it feels so naked driving around
without tint on the windows. I have 22% on every window except the
windshield so at least it's hard to see into the car. Just one of those
"can't live without" things. I got a ticket for the fronts a while
ago but it was signed off for me by one of my buddies. :)
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