I’m pretty sure they will move forward either way… If I can’t have one by early/mid spring then I give the car to my wife and buy a new toy, just not sure what yet…
Normally if someone sells a kit, the buyer needs to pay $1500 for the software. We’re now allowing the person selling the kit to include software in the bundle to increase the value of their kit.
Switching through the cruise control stalk didn’t work with the dual ECU cars. It’s possible with more time spent on it, engineering could figure it out.
The plan was to offer switching with APR Mobile. However, even though I’m told it’s coming soon (and have been for years), I’m have no desire to let people actually think it is.
626 is what we’re estimating it’s making at the crank. Here’s what it spit out on our dyno:
Investment was already made. We’re not going to delay release if the RS4 kit doesn’t sell well. Also, let’s not kid ourselves, it’s 2014, we don’t expect the same volume as our previous kit at all. However, our first day sales were pretty darn good. It would be great to keep up the same momentum worldwide as we did with the last kit, but if not, it doesn’t really change anything. : )
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I meant the opposite. If this is selling well, why rudh to sell a B8 kit until most of your work is done on the RS4 market?
Not sure if you guys manufacture it yourself but if you don’t (and from the looks of the product I’d say you don’t, it comes to you primarily made and you assemble various parts) I’m not sure but I would assume making one type of product at a time is most economical for your manufacturer unless they have the ability to be tooled up to make any of 3 or 4 kits (RS4, RS5, B8 S4, R8)
so…what’s the next toy 
Arin, how many hours on average do you think it will take an APR authorized shop to install this kit?
Honestly, not sure… Depends on a few things, really hoping to keep going with the S4 and TTRS next year but… Off the top of my head the short list is…
RS5
R8
GTR
911 TT
New Mustang GT or GT500
Probably a few others I am missing… Really hoping to get the wife into a Q5 or something ditch her A4, give my degenerate brother the VW and start daily driving the S4 and then getting one of the above but again if I can’t get a blower upgrade soon that will change… Time will tell…
I’m not following… Why would we wait? We’re not in this game to make a buck and go home. Inventory needs to be sold rather than sitting on the shelf so we can make more money. The money we make then goes directly back into the company and pays for other projects on the horizon, new equipment, and hiring more employees. It’s a constant process of reinvesting in the company. : )
Eaton will not sell the rotating groupes to anyone but Magnuson, Roush, Edbelbrock and Harrop, so everyone has to partner with one of them to make a supercharger. Also, we don’t own a foundry on site or anything like that. So Magnuson handles casting, assembling, and testing the units before they are shipped to us.
Tough question. Every shop will be different. Basically it’s just like the last kit. It’s probably around 12-16 hours based on experience and everything else going on. If someone is new, they’ll likely go slowly through the directions to make sure it’s right. If someone’s going fast, they can get it done quicker (is that what you want though?). Most shops will likely work with you on the price and install time based on their own schedule, and more importantly, if you actually purchased the unit from them. Just dropping a unit off at someone elses door would likely mean a more expensive install.
If you came here, we would spend time looking the car over before doing the install. That would include doing and charging for a carbon cleaning, compression test, etc. We’ll then install the kit and after drive the car, log it, make sure everythings running right. Doing so would take a couple days.
I guess they are being tested, but not on shop cars.
Price for that install/clean/test service Arin? Sounds like a good way to do it. I mean even if it’s $2000, for someone spending $20,000 already, why not.
haha got it
or not tested…i.e. the 93 tune etc. Kryptonik was the test car. He thought he was a customer though lol.
I loved how AMD had this kit in development for a year on a customer’s car that didn’t move. Then they finally got it up and running, threw the customer’s car on the dyno and hit the dragstrip in his car and ran a VERY disappointing low 12 @ 120. They were talking about 12-13 PSI.
They then fired EPL and brought in United Motorsports and within 2 weeks, , talked about 15 PSI of boost, put the new UM tune on the customer’s car, took his car to the strip, ran 11.3 @ 125 and declared the kit READY FOR SALE! Further now that RS4per was kind enough to show us his boost gauge, they’re over 16 PSI of boost (16.3 we saw on his car), and frankly if we saw a full pull to redline I bet we’d see 17.
Anyone know when they tested the entirely new tune within that mess? Or how many miles they tested it? Still, this ‘thorough testing’ (lol) was enough for Kryptonk to lose his mind, and agree to buy the kit site unseen, and with ZERO testing done on a 93 octane east coast calibration. He was in fact, the test car.
Fucking hilarious. But we are haters. Actually no, shit-for-brains Jason@addictedtosucking. We are just consumers with our eyes wide open…and are watching a train wreck at AMviva.
I’m not exactly sure what the shop charges. If someone’s interested, they can call in and chat with them to get the full rundown.
Little to no driver skill? Sorry have you drove one? My gtr which is at the same sort of power levels I had my rs4 at is way harder to drive on the limit. Gtr is twitchier, feels a little nervous and if you push to hard it will bite back and put you in a hedge. I could drive my rs4 much faster than I can drive my gtr on the same roads in the same conditions. Go drive a gtr hard in slightly damp conditions and then drive a b7 tell me what car requires more skill from the driver.
Sakimano I tried to pm you had no luck
user problem?
I browse on tapatalk wouldn’t let me pm you?
Check now mate
I’ll clarify, I was truly speaking in straight line scenarios and street racing…the only things that the character above competes in. In fact he wouldn’t even need LC or anything because he has never raced anything from a dig yet.
I know this thread is getting derailed, but can you give us a good comparison considering you have owned one of the fastest RS4s and a GT-R. What is your opinion on the comment “Or for the same money get a bolt on gtr which is leagues nicer of a car and run into the 9s lol” ? I know they are different beasts entirely, but the way you make it sound is that the RS4 is truly a better all around car.
Pffftt very difficult. I think NOW that there’s tried and tested options for the rs4 it’s going to be cheaper and a better place to be in a charged rs4 over a gtr. My rs4 only cost me so much to mod because I tried three supercharger kits etc. my gtr runs 640ish hp so is at stock turbo limit give or take. I’ve done brake and suspension mods as well as the power ones and I’m about 12.5k down plus the 40k purchase price so 52.5k our money. Rs4 over here say 20-22k nets a good one then add your mods at about 15-20k. So that would mean the rs4 is leaving you 10k+ better off and for me is a better car as an all rounder. It can’t compete with my gtr performance wise not a chance my gtr is is deep in the 10’s all day. Stick me in my old rs4 around a track and I bet I’ll be just as quick if not quicker than myself in the gtr. I honestly don’t feel that confident in the gtr and I’ve had it nearly a year now, tracked it plenty of times also
Just to add, getting a 9 second gtr isn’t cheap. The gearbox is an extreme weak point, I blew my front casing into a million bits at a track event
…which was uttered by a retarded kid (3Litre-dickbeater) with a $5,000 car who has owned neither of the RS4 or GTR (and who will likely now show us his 4 modest stacks again lol)