After 3+ weeks with no car I finally recieved the good news yesterday that the body shop has finished painting my roof (to remove some scale looking marks on the clear coat) and my passenger rear quater panel (removing a nasty huge key mark). My USP spoiler is FINALLY in route, coming from Jersey I am hoping to have it by tues/wed. Monday morning Iām waking up at 7:30am to ride with the tow truck guy to the transmission shop and have my cross rod installed!
That will be a nice christmas prezzie having your car back
Yup it sure will be!
Update: The cross rod is installed and it feels much better! the side to side motion with the shifter feels much improved, the only way I can describe is that the shifter feels stronger and more tightly held in place.
Dropped her off at a new shop I found to diagnose my CEL that has come back haunting me with this lean code, some place called Sport Haus, seems like they mainly service porsches but it looks like a sick shop and they seem to really know what they are doing, unlike my previous shop which seemed to just want to throw parts at the car instead of properly diagnosing, and they actually had heard of JHM and had experience installing their products which is pretty cool. So they will be installing the JHM short shifter, solid linkage and with a fresh tune up and hopefully I should have her back tommorrow.
JHM āTrio Kitā Review:
I picked my car up from Sport Haus today, I had them install the trio kit, replaced quite a few broken vacuum lines, and had them do a fuel system flush with some stuff they reccomended. My car runs great with the codes cleared and in optimal running condition. And to add to that the shifter feels incredibly strong and solid, The shifts are very tight and the throw if I had to guess has been cut at least in half. So shifts are very fast and it the shifter feels much heavier. Before it felt flimsy and if it was about to break.
I highly reccomend this upgrade to anyone with a manual transmission, even if you just use your car as a daily driver or if your going for a built 3.0, especially the 01E transmissions, the solid linkage and cross rod upgrade has made the car feel how it should be. The short shifter gives it a VERY sporty, short and agressive shift.
Glad you have your car back.
Nice review. After driving my spare car for a while which is a manual, I wish my 3.0 was a manual as well (sometimes, thatās when I am not sitting in traffic)
Thanks Lout I am very happy with the way she handles now. The precise shifts are so smooth. It sounds to me like you maybe want to do the 01E swap 
I think itās highly flawed. Looks good in some pics, but in reality itās a bit of a big wheels jam-in job that just is one big compromise.
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camber just to fit the wheels? rice.
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27lb 9" wide wheels and 30 lb tires on an S4 is overkill, doesnāt fit, and is heavy as fuckā¦let alone on an A4. Rotational mass is your enemy.
p.s. a few months after making this car āflawlessā he sold it for a (slower) S5 4.2
After much debate I decided to stick with the USP 18" oem wheels, I want a sleeper so I need to look stock plus the USP package is very clean IMO. Only problem is Iām broke after coming back from the shop, but on the plus side my car has never felt this good, Iām really love it more and more everytime I drive it.
Finally!!! (USP SPOILER)
Before
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/A4QuattroV6/Rear.jpg
After
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/A4QuattroV6/USPSpoiler.jpg
Iām thinking those badges need to come off, the only problem is Iām proud to have a 3.0, i donāt want people thinking iām a 1.8t
I still canāt get over how that tiny little spoiler makes such a big difference. Looks great mang!
Nicely - great to hear all the bodywork is done.
I de-badged my car cause I like the clean look, but I know how you feel about being confused for something else. A friend of mine told me that their BF had the same car as I did, only problem is he had 2.0 4 cylinder with no turbo 
Thanks Guys. I really love how she turned out. I still canāt get over how the JHM SS and linkage kit feels! Definitly a must on any manual. I think another one of those little things (that always cost a lot for some reason) is going to be the USP door flares. Its either that or side skirts and I cant steer from OEM now since my goal is to have a sleeper. I think the badges need to stay, at least for now.
Exactly. Great addition. Its the little things that make such a large impact. Who would have thought that a small spoiler and a cross rod with some little bits would have made such an impact. Its funny but they do.
looks great love how it changes the angles. Great way to go.
Thanks Count.
Update- JUST ORDERED MY ECU!
Up next while Iām in the shop for a tune up I will be installing JHM tune, SAI delete, Zingo Mod, air silencer remover, intake manifold spacers, and hope to paint the intake manifold. Iām thinking either denim blue to match the car, or red.
Nicely - Canāt wait to hear a review of the tune on a manual.
I would paint the IM denim blue. Every one does red time for a different color in the bay
DAMNā¦ BW Dismantlers in Sac just called me and the ECU I ordered is not available cuz they canāt find it?LAMEā¦ if anyone knows of a place to order from let me know Iāll have to search for one after I get home from school.
Coming along very nice!
Amazing, like Count said, little stuff makes the biggest change.
Finally the day has come where my wheel search has ended. Thanks to Saki for posting up a link to this great deal on AZ which happened to be local so I met up with the guy and picked these wheels up as fast as I could get my hands on them. ;D
BBS CH 19"x 8.5" 35mm offset
http://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z457/A4QuattroV6/19BBSCH.jpg
Solid workā¦when are you going to get them mounted