A6 4.2 Transformation

Damn. Ok Ill put up some more.

I work for ford SVT so it always starts with the cars there and works out from that spot. So I guess this post will get a little more in depth.

lightnings. yahha Ive had a few. Ran them all at the track. Im all about getting and building DD cars. No dyno queens that show well on the rollers but show up short on the street. The black one was wicked. I would just paint the street with tire marks. The truck had too much Tq. It never hooked up under say 35mph I could just free spin the tires till I peddled out the power.

I worked close with a friend that started diablo tuning to write some of the first tunes for the lightnings. Both the black and white one were 11/12 sec cars respectively. I tried to push the white one as far as I could without spending the same money over again that I spend on the black one. All was going well till the transmission went on strike after 6000rpm on big power hard shifts. At that point I just enjoyed the truck and let her Finnish out her life as a DD work horse that could still take down most of the competition.

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It was in part of the lightning projects I worked on that helped lead the way for some of the NA stuff I later worked on.

I had the black one for quite a while. When the B5 game was talking off you would see me keep all our Audi friends in check when they would say how fast the B5 S4 was. When anyone would get too cocky about the B5 S4 and how fast it was. I would just go pull out the old lightning commence a proper old school chalk board lesson on hp and TQ.

Ill see If I can get more information up later.

PS. I could care less about punctuation. Im not at work and don’t feel like posting like I am. So excuse the loose grammer and lack of proper marks.

Who cares about grammar when the content is this good. Any videos of above drag runs?

Great story Count, you don’t waste any time! Nice update about the Lightnings!

Lightnings are awesome. One of my high school autos teachers had one with a ported blower and probably some other stuff

Were you involved in development with the new SVT Raptor?

What charger is on there?

stock was an Eaton M112 wasn’t it?

its a autorotor iirc, like a 2.2L I think… enough air to bend the rods which is pretty impressive considering the S8 has forged rods.

on the lightning, yes, but I think he meant the A6

ah

whatever happened to that A6 setup. Nothing? Still sitting there?

I hope its not still sitiing in port huron, that’d be too bad

Nice. He bent the rods? Any dyno or 1/4 before that happened? This is pretty sweet

hopefully he can chime in, that blower kit is very hard to get info about. I don’t know if he ever got to run it hard because the stock belt was having issues.

needs an update!

ok Ill get back to this later this week.

Yes it would be too bad then. After making the headers for your car I never got back to it. So I gave you my headers and break lines coolant hose and then took the crank pulley off for the other V8 guys who want a LW crank pulley. I will be back with a fresh set of updates. Soonish.

Can we have an update or an interesting story

CountVohn whats is going on with the 4.2l belt driven development.

some of the guys at JHM said your working on some goodies

yes update update…chant