1/8 mill dragstrip results for V10 S6

A6 All/ S6 All
#7

Nice. Right inline with my stock car 14.6, when you consider SSicks mods.

SSicks, you are going through exactly what I went through when I got my results:

The 5 Stages of Audi S6 v10 ownership follwing a trip to the dragstrip

1. Denial and Isolation

This can’t be right. They must have lied to me about the APR tune.

2. Anger

How can those Audi Marketing bastards deceive me like this. My car has a friggin Lambo engine, God damnit! I should be in the 12s!

3. Bargaining

I promise to always use 93 octane from here on in, and Ill do a carbon clean at least once a year, if I can just get my car to the low 13s.

4. Depression

How am I supposed to go on with life, when a stock 3L v6 is faster than my v10? Isn’t the ‘S’ in ‘S6’ supposed to mean something?

5. Acceptance

My v10 is slow and the current aftermarket products don’t help much either. It sure has comfy seats though :wink:

Hopefully 2015 will be the year when we see some real performance products for the S6 v10 that finally unleash the beast!

#8

haha great post. karma bump

#9

LOL! Love it.

Another fan of the Kubler-Ross model for the 5 stages of grief. :slight_smile:

(I did a similar play on it with RS4 carbon buildup… http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=2845.0)

#10

Hahaha… so funny.

This model could actually be applied to all kinds of situations in Audi ownership…

The 5 stages of grief when your A6 4.2 loses reverse

The 5 stages of grief when your chain driven 4.2 breaks a guide

The 5 stages of grief when you pretty much do anything with a 2.7t

#11

ssicks, where did you run this, and what was the date/time so we can see DA?

#12

happy to see the RS4 escape that list

You could probably add carbon buildup to that…but most notably for a vacuum leak being mistaken for carbon buildup.

#13

Good Idea was yesterday around 5-6pm at Texas Raceway in Kennedale TX.

Let me know!

#14

Density Altitude: 847 feet
Relative Density: 97.55 %

No help There~

My Steps are shorter than 5! I knew it wasnt a fast car when I bought it. I’ll do the carbon cleaning, change plugs then put the Nitrous on and see if I can get a 12.XX run. If not oh well!

Custom intake for V10
#15

I was keeping these private until the video was posted, but it seems that the cat is more or less, out of the bag now anyway.

This is from my stock 07 S6.

http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb11847770/p4pb11847770.jpg

Saki, let me know if you need anything else to add it to the database. (Nevermind, I added it in the correct section)

So, as you can see from mine, your time was actually pretty good, and you currently hold the record for the fastest C6 S6 to the 1/8th on AudiRevolution!

NOS would be awesome. I hope you can make it happen. My guess is that gutting the cats with a catback, combined with a proper ECU/TCU tune, will get you some solid gains.

The path to performance success on the S6 is going to look very similar to the path that was established by the B6/B7 S4 guys. No need to reinvent the wheel for the S6.

#16

Awesome Ill add that to my Signature lol!

The DA on your runs was 1732 quite a bit higher! That corrects to a 14.394 @ 99.229 MPH

#17

Fantastic! I just got faster and I didnt even have to do anything. LOL

#18

Actual data is great. I wouldn’t get too excited about the da difference the bigger the na motor the less effected it is by da. Not to say it’s not effected but I think you guys are fighting many other things outside of the da.

The good part about all this is that these times do reflect each other properly. SSckis the only thing I would suggest is maybe put the stock tires and rims back on it for some more solid data. Obviously it’s your car but getting an idea on what your mods did before you drop the weight would really help start putting the data in place.

#19

I scoped the car and It needs the intake cleaned pretty bad so that is good. Anyone have a good DIY intake cleaning thread for these cars? Also are the plugs a PITA? Any threads on those two would be great! Our 1/4 mile track doesn’t open till FEB 28th. I think 1/4 mile would be a better test.

#20

I heard of some places cleaning it out with peanut shells. I’d wait to see what the other guys on here say.

I would be more concerned about carbon buildup on the back of the valves and in the intake track to the heads. Is that what you were talking about or the intake manifold?

#21

I’ve read (and even saw a youtube video) of people using Seafoam to clear out the carbon buildup. I’m not sure if that’s really a good idea or not though, that stuff is pretty aggressive.

#22

Walnut shells and media blast kit

Audi used to use that method and then abruptly stopped.

BMW uses that still.

#23

Taking the IM off so I can get to the valves. Saw where a guy used zip ties and a drill I wonder what keeps the crap falling in the cylinders.

#24

Saki, interesting info

Ssicks, there are different ways to do it, so hopefully youll get some more suggestions.

Here is a pretty good writeup for an S8 that was cleaned (valves and intake)
http://www.fluidmotorunion.com/archives/18041

#25

Heat soak in this car is killer. Too much hot aluminum in a confined space. Spark plugs are straight forward if I remember right.

#26

Agreed on the heat. I took my car to the dealer and it sat in the lot for 15min. I started it up and let it idle. Opened the hood for the service manager to check something, and the heat coming off the engine was noticeable and extreme.

I asked him if that was normal, thinking he would say no, but he just kinda sighed and said yes, it was normal.

That is why I think it is so important to do something with the cats. They are restrictive and up close to the engine (two of them are very close). We have to do everything we can to cool these engines down, and let them flow better. Gutting the cats and replacing with high flow units downstream (or test pipe if your car is track only), or even better, headers and high flow cat relocation. Add in intake spacers too for lower temps in the intake manifold.

The other huge plus with this plan is that it is no longer an engine drop to replace the upper cats and o2 sensors after you relocate them. So, if you have to go in there once for that job, then you should do this to avoid it again in the future. And even if you do it ahead of time, well, you can guess that you would have had to go in there at some point anyway, if you plan to keep the car for any significant amount of time.

Better flow and lower temps may also help with carbon build up and cylinder wall scoring. It is realy WIN WIN WIN all around. Costs some money up front to do it right, but saves in the long run IMHO (will test with my car).

A tune will be needed to account for the changes.