I know Sean (Serpent) very well, he ran at Cecil yesterday and went 10.34 @ 133.55 on 104. He’d prob let you tinker- he’s all about going faster. The S version 4.0TT I’d say may have heat soak issues but the cooling on the RS is much improved vs the S cars, far be it from me to assume I know more than you as a tech but I think the lower static compression and cooling improvements (including external oil cooler) seem to help quite a bit. The 2.61 0-60 i turned was after driving in town for 30 minutes and with an oil temp of 212 deg. I want to go to track on a hot day just to see how much different the car runs at 3000+ DA, my theory, based on the few runs I’ve made so far, is that the DA will have a much lower impact on this car vs TVSR cars.
Sean and I don’t get along very well so I would never help him. That is cool that he ran a 10.34 though.
One day I will get to tinker with a 4.0TT but until then it is fine watching from a far.
Made a record Stage 1 pass yesterday, same mods but using a few tricks to improve launch
Mason Dixon Dragway
GT260+
APR 104 File
DA +1698
Left Lane
Very nice!
unless its a trade secret. I would love to hear what you did to help knock a few tenths off your 60 foot.
uploaded GoPro Dash Cam view.
Nice time. I’m Interested in the improved launch method as well.
I can’t divulge the launch changes just yet but as soon as I can I’ll post, I’ll keep posting any updates in time slips though. That pass did get APR’s attention and they used it on their IG and FB which was cool. They may be releasing something soon to assist the RS7 crowd further, fingers crossed but not sure about the time frame since the market is pretty small. Carl
that’s outrageously fast.
your car hits 60 miles an hr in 2.5 seconds
Great thanks. As a fellow auto guy I would love to hear what your doing. I also have a buddy with the 8 speed A8 4.0T and he wants me to take his car to the track for him in the next few months. I would like to have this under my belt so I can help get him some good times.
It would be great to hear about what APR has in the pipe line for the RS7
Lastly thanks for keeping us updated. Iknow myself and others dont care for the drama of other forums so its nice to read and enjoy threads like this here and have you continue to update us
I’ve added another little “tweak” to the car and will be heading out the to the track tomorrow to see what it does. I apologized for being tight lipped on some of the things I’m working on but I have a collaboration with 3 other RS owners and we’re working hard on pushing the platform as far as we can. In due time I’ll reveal some of these things, most will seem silly and trivial but to date they’ve not really been done and we are having pretty decent results. I’m hoping after a good showing last time out this additional mod will push me in the 10.3X range and my Stage 2 buddies are hoping to get in the 10.1X’s-I’ll report back, good or bad, what the results are asap
Its great your sharing and keeping us up to date. I fully understand the little tweaks. many have laughed at me in the past for the little things I do to my car for better performance but in the end 10 little mods or tricks can add up to one big difference.
How did it go?
Not as well as I hoped, ambient temps were about 8 deg higher than last time so maybe that was it. I did however get some cool data from my Gtech Meter- it gets a lot of slack for being second class citizen but it was pretty accurate for the pass:
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Ok, interesting Gtech Meter.
I’ll just leave this here, would love for anyone in the area to come out like Jimmy is 
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I would highly recommend that you start a thread in the Audi 1/4 mile, List & discussion forum section. Some of the New York and New Jersey guys maybe tempted to come down.
One of the comments it looks like a guy with a RS7 said when using launch control his car … There is not launch control out side of a hard foot brake as the car has a standard TQ converter…right
that is correct, what most call “launch control” on our car is really just increasing the stall speed on the convertor- also, it’s very important to hard brake not allowing any lurch at all, otherwise you will not engage what APR calls AMAX shifting mode (I’m not aware if Audi has a diff name for it). I’ve felt the difference in my car and when it does not engage the shifting is perceptibly slower and my times will be in the 10.80/90 range vs low 10.4X’s. I’ll message you what I do so you can try it on the S8, I do use the Cete suspension control module as part of my launch technique- don’t know if that crosses over to the D4 platform cars or not. I will say APR is in shock that we are pulling 1.55 and better 60’ times in these cars, me especially since my car is Stage 1 only.