Confusing thread is confusing.
Here’s the formula…run a stock s4 2.7t…run an appropriately sized turbo… get a good tune…keep your er smics or sell them and get a new or used jhm fmic if that can save you a fee bucks to soend on tuning…make 450 whp and as much wtq…run 11.6 @ 120 and be faster than 90 percent of cars on the road. Be happy that you have a nicely modded car that runs but isn’t too complicated.
The b5 world seems to always want to get stuck on doing everything possible and waiting 3 years for it to happen. By that time you reach a condition called modification exhaustion and you hate the car and sell it. Fuck it.
Its the 80/20 rule in a b5. You will get 80 percent of the performance out of 20 percent of the modifications. Turbos tuning fuelling cooling clutch and downpipes will get you 80% of the way to being the fastest b5.
The remaining 20% of performance requires the other 80% of mods… the built motor and revised valvetrain with new heads and cams and blah blah blah. You will also spend a fortune on this stuff and introduce a million new things to go wrong.
Stock b5 s4
Decent exhaust
Nicely sized turbo like an k04 or etter yet rs6 or rs6r
Great tuning
Fuelling
Cooling
Clutch
Some lightweight parts.
You’re looking at an 11.6-11.8 @ 120-125 car depending on octane. It should run too. An example of this is Hunter from Detroit. S6atron. Great performer and a simple modlist. Car has run well for a couple of years now following this formula.
His brother tweets4estate is the other option…the ambitious b5 build. He went full b5 retard. built a monster…the whole 100%. It ran awesome for about two weeks in the last 5 years. He must have $75,000 to 100,000 in it and if he sold it today he MIGHT get $15,000 for it. It has done more miles criss crossing the country on the back of a transport carier to his super tuner in washington from Detroit, than it has actually been driven at 100% . He ran 10.7 @ 130 during the most recent stretch if a couple of weeks running great, which is awesome…but his car is broken again.
Two choices
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Moderate build as outlined, spend 10 grand, run awesome, be happy, whip everyone but late model supercars’ asses
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Monster build, spend tens of thousands, run shit, be miserable, whip nobodys asses because your build isn’t done, and when it is, it keeps breaking, sell it and leave the b5 platform a broken man. Or start a thread wanting 600 whp with no more money invested (#pipedream).