Ask me anything about my AMD LP/HP kit.

330’ to 1320’ is technically ~70-120 roll race.

I complete the 330-1320 in 6.94s
He completes the 330-1320 in 6.81s

From 660-1320 I’m gaining 24.06MPH
From 660-1320 he’s gaining 24.69MPH

Basically same gearing and both manuals in similar conditions at same track and same lane. Both on pump 93 full steet trim.

Are you going to run out gas? Because if you are, you’re going to lose. Unless he misses gear changes.

What do you mean?

Who cares…fuck. GO race him on pump and get it over with.

That’s what I want to do, lol…

I just hate the fact that appatently based on those two time slips he will pull on me 6 cars.

yes, pretty close point to point from 0-115. Truth is though his car is faster at every point on the track. Point to point is an ET race. But a roll race from 50 MPH to the top of 4th gear is very different.

Your car does well on ET vs. his…but again that’s not what a 50-125 race is about. Here’s why your car does so well on ET with 50 whp less power…

  1. you’re a better shifter. In the video you can hear that he makes what he thinks are quick shifts…but they are not what you and I might consider quick shifts. SO you’ll pick up some ET and MPH there for sure. Getting more out of your car than he is, so to speak. When you have 3 shifts in the 1/4 mile including the crucial momentum maintaining 1-2 shift, that’s going to really show up on the timeslip. I would submit that you’d be able to crack off an 11.75 @ 120 in his car.

  2. you’re a better launcher. You ahve more experience. Dave has, I think, 10 dragstrip passes under his belt (that I know of). You have…well, more than 10 lol

Those three things are pretty signficant…and make the apparent difference between your cars seem smaller than it is.

Now let’s look at a roll race. He will have to shift maybe once if he starts in 3rd…and 2x if he starts in 2nd. HE will be in 3rd for about 3 seconds if that’s where you start, and then he will be in 4th for about 5-7 seconds. All the damage a slow 1-2 shift does is gone because he’s not even going to be in 1st. All the momentum your better shifting gets you from the 1-2 is gone. Same goes for 2-3.

You’re comparing your best pass out of what…30 on pump gas? To his best out of 2. Let’s compare your 10th or 15th best pass…bet you have a couple where you trapped 114 and ran 12.15. That’s a couple of buslengths…and that’s just the 1/4 mile. A highway pull of a 119-120 mph car vs. a 114 mph car is a big gap. In fact, watch this video if you want to see what 113 vs. 119 looks like…ugly.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIzA5oHBY1Q

If his car traps 119 on pump gas when he’s shifting that slow, and your car traps 115-116 on pump gas with you shifting that fast, that 3 mph difference that doesn’t seem so signficant will widen out considerably on the highway.

I’m just guessing though. No need to cry about it…you seem really bent out of shape. It’s just fucking phsyics. If his car is making 400-420 whp (conservative) and you’re making 360, guess what…you’re going to lose on the dyno, and if you do a long 1 or 2 gear pull, you’re going to lose there too. What’s the big deal?

p.s. even on ET, from the 330, which is right around the start of 3rd gear, to the 1320, which is half way through fourth gear (with 10 mph to go till redline) you lost 0.12 seconds to his car…which is around 1.5 car lengths alone. Remember where I said a short roll race you’d lose by around Let’s eliminate a gear change, and let’s extend the race another 300 feet…that gap will get wider.

Honestly there’s no argument for that. You are the master. Serious like a 1/4 mile scientist.

Every time Saki makes a post I think of Marshall on “How I met your mother”

…and I think “Boom… lawyered” in my head

http://youtu.be/4GcgS79_TR0

Axel,

Thanks for this post and giving me some insight on things going around here. I understand there is history between people here and companies that aren’t looked highly upon here although I’ve never looked past the RS4 realm to know where past angst comes from. With that said I always keep an open mind and try to stay neutral because I know there are always 2 sides to stories and things aren’t the way they are for no reason at all.

Appreciate the encouragement to keep posting data and I will continue to do so, good or bad. I know there is nothing I can do or say to change people’s minds about me, it saddens me that people have me figured out wrong on here because I truly am an honest down to earth guy that just wants to simply share this passion with other enthusiasts. With that said I’m not going to argue or try to change anyone’s mind about me, you said it best… trust has to be earned… only time will tell. Hopefully you guys will see me for who I really am and it’s not a liar (although possible to forget things I’ve said in the past, not intentional), not a person with an agenda or hidden goal to prove a point to favor a company I’ve spent money with, not a person to put someone down for whatever mod choices or performance status they’re at.

I do try to stay away from debates unless I know I can be factual with neutral data… probably why I don’t post much lately since debates turn south no matter what forum you go to and who posts. I’ll keep you guys updated!

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/621239-B7-RS4-serpentine-belt-wear-APR-SC?p=10203267&viewfull=1#post10203267

This was 2 days before the dragstrip visit.

Now Kryptonik still thinks there are issues and I think everyone here on AR would agree.

I think you have two things to do, possibly 3

  1. Drop KMD, because they aren’t ever going to help you out…they are obviously fucking CLUELESS
  2. Call AMD and demand that they resolve your issue…if not
  3. Order the JHM kit…lol
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    I can’t speak for KMD regarding that, but I will say that if there is a company I will defend, it is KMD. They’ve been amazing to me through out all the work I’ve done when I had my B7 S4 and now RS4 and through that have developed personal friendships with them. They’re great people and am sure they didn’t mean to offend your credibility. I think they were just misunderstanding a few details regarding my progress with the supercharger and didn’t realize it.

KMD installed the kit and did not develop it.

As stated throughout this thread AMD is aware of the issue and they’re actively working on it.

  1. Dude I don’t get it either… my mouth dropped when I saw the scale.

I know these weight savings for sure:

  • Sport seats -50 lbs
  • HRE’s - 3 lbs (re-11 +3 lbs) = 0 change
  • LWFW -13 lbs

Unsure weight savings:

  • Cat-less DPs (I’m sure I saved quite a bit here with the removal of 4 cats)
  • Cat back non res (maybe no savings?)
  • Stasis MS (maybe no savings?)
  • Stoptech trophy BBK (maybe no savings?) (although advertised as one of the lightest setups, I think they mean comparable to other brands same size etc. They are bigger rotors than stock in front, especially in the rear… plus the rear 4 pot caliper and single piston hand brake caliper vs the stock smaller diameter rotor and all in one single piston caliper)

Unsure weight additions:

  • AMD HP (definitely added weight with the addition of the tvs 1900, FMHE (front mount heat exchanger), water pump, tubing, coolant, coolant filler reservoir)

I have no other weight adders like a sound system etc. Whatever weight I saved must have been reversed with the addition of the AMD HP kit. I remember when I weighed my PES kit (M90 w/ FMHE, water pump, tubing, coolant) was something like 50 lbs added. Makes sense.

  1. Gotcha, didn’t know it could be deciphered like that, interesting to know!

  2. Surprised me too.

I’m sorry I don’t mean to repeat that JHM offered me a deal as well. You are right it was Prime Motoring offering free installation, I still have the message saved. Now you have me second guessing myself regarding a discount, I’ll dig deeper into my message history and double check.

The point was that I was getting some sort of deal to go with JHM as well, weather the deal was direct from JHM or not, still a deal to push me to them. So I did not decide on the AMD kit simply because of a deal.

I hope that’s not the case, we shall see soon enough.

I won’t be pulling any interior out that’s for sure. I’m just interested in knowing how my car is performing as I would drive it regularly.

Thanks Saki,

That was very well said, I think that is a very accurate analysis on my past positions and current.

Just hopeful for the best.

Pete I’m almost always up for some friendly pulls. I just want to make sure we both know that’s exactly what they are, friendly. I really never cared to race anyone to prove I might be faster (I guess because I’ve never been faster than anyone lol), I just enjoy the thrill and not to prove any points. If you’re faster or I’m faster it doesn’t matter to me.

Afterwards grab something to eat and drink and talk about our cars and how fast we were going lol.

Sounds like a plan brotha! Yeah beleive me totally friendly… That’s the only way I run, for 100% fun and the thrill :slight_smile:

Yessss posts #134 and #135 are what we like to see. Bring GoPros to the race, it will be awesome to see. Just make sure you tell us what part of Mexico mmmkay

Meant pump gas. Autocorrect

If you guys race meet up where you’re both on empty and fill your tanks with 93 together so there’s no second guessing anyone.

I’m sure your stoptechs are lighter than stock. The 355mm ST-60 kit is 31 lbs vs stock at 41 lbs: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/422799-StopTech-ST-60-BBK-the-results

The RS5 OEM Front BBK weighs around 42lbs: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/409236-Deal-on-RS5-BBK?p=6256192&viewfull=1#post6256192

You have the trophy kit, which I assume will be a lighter monoblock forged caliper (as compared to the ST-60). Only difference is your front rotors are probably 380mm? Not sure how much that adds relative to the 355mm 2-piece rotors, probably not a ton because I bet the inner part of the iron ring (annulus) starts further out.

The rears should still be lighter even though the caliper is larger (mostly based on rotors), but that’s a guess. The 2 piece rotors with the Al inner hat are a great upgrade in terms of weight savings, love both my ST aeros in front and JHM rears.