Bah! Tell that to Dragtimes!
Not only that, Trexturk just registered… God was wrong!
My world… She is shattered.
tell what to dragtimes? Here…let me help you. As I said, the conditions were not drastically different, and when I went 12.9 it was great conditions, DA of like 400 and no wind. When I went 13.21 on piggies it was only 9 degrees fahrenheit cooler, but it was into a 15mph headwind.
12.99 run = 54 degrees (NOT 64)
http://audirevolution.net/addons/albums/images/592175412.jpg
13.21 run = 45 degrees
http://audirevolution.net/addons/albums/images/112186893.jpg
Technically speaking he was registered he was just not activated. So feel safe your life is still in balance. Hehehe lol
Thanks for trexturk for stepping in and looking to help a fellow member
Screw it, I’m taking all the DA calculations and throwing them out. Your track’s record keeping blows 
Jan 18, 2010 is a wee bit off from the actual day of Nov 20, 2010.
I was trying to base it off the timeslips, (which most people do) and I was assuming that they only got the year wrong. I wasn’t expecting them to be completely off… and still wrong months after.
Derp… meant to say 60ft times, 60ft ftw…
Solid runs none the less. Im assuming one was with piggies and one was with full cats
13.21 was with OEM downpipes minus precats (piggies) and 12.99 was with 2.5" fully catless JHM downpipes
So I guess this is your unique way of saying ‘sorry, I was wrong’. 
Funny enough if you look a little closer, the timeslip says 2020.
http://www.dragtimes.com/images_timeslip/22069-2007-Audi-S4-Timeslip.jpg
p.s. next time trust the guy who ran the times and was actually there!
Good to be here and ill help out if i can
LOL, I never said I didn’t trust you. In drag racing it’s important to have a baseline for when you race on tracks in different states, or tracking mods between spring and fall. When calculating the DA, altitude, humidity and temps are huge as on any given day temps can swing anywhere up to 15-20 degrees throughout a day.
I didn’t know you had already posted on drag times. I was looking at your slips and used those as the basic calculations to get the weather info, then use that for the calculations. Timeslips are useful that way so you can look back at a particular track, and get a rough idea of the weather at that time. This really helps when going between tracks during a season as you will have a reference point that you can keep for your records.
Most tracks at least try and keep the date right with the occasional screw up here and there. Looking at the slips I assumed they just input it wrong as 2020 instead of 2010 since both sets of timeslips were of 2020. Usually they will pick up on the corrections pretty fast and update them, but apparently they do it different up there in the north because they are still way the hell off. ;D
I’m rarely wrong, and when it comes to drag racing even less so. I just don’t speak up as often about racing as a large german AWD auto is a whole new world to me and I’ve never tried it at the track, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t spent a large amount of time there in the past.
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yeah, the timeslip dates were annoying. I only noticed them when I got home. After making about 100 passes in my car, it was brutal trying to figure out which run was when. That’s why I pulled that PM up, because I remembered sending it from the ‘paddock’ one day…and it gave me a good timeline. They fixed the date this summer fortunately.
You should totally take your car to the strip. It’s a lot of fun being the only German car there. Not sure what cars you took in the past, but I’m sure you’ll recall it’s about 90% domestic most of the time, and a little rice mixed in. Being in an AWD Audi sedan is fun. The announcers are often caught off guard. Once I heard the announcer saying ‘says here it’s a 4.2 V8…in that little sedan? wow.’
I know exactly what you mean. When I was growing up it we always had some form of big block hemi in tow, or later with a lot of turbo buicks and mustangs. It wasn’t until I started going with some friends and we were running supras and rx-7s where you started to feel like the oddball.
Out of all the cars I have taken, or gone in my favorite response was when we took a friend’s subaru wrx. When we took the RX7 people thought it was a ferrari or a lotus, but with the wrx literally noone knew what it was and this was already a 3 year old car at the time.
I would have expected this at some of the tracks in the southeast or in the outskirts of Florida, but an hour outside Chicago? I really do want to go to the track but it’s been pretty hard to find time. I don’t know how well it will do being an auto, but if I had a… (cough) TCU TUNE (cough) then it would probably turn out a lot better.
well there’s a Chicago area tip car that had headers and used to trap 110mph like it was nothing. You never know. Also, who gives a shit what you run. Nobody really cares to be honest. If you run a nice time, everyone in S4 world will think it’s awesome. If you don’t, again nobody really cares but you so go have some fun. I think of it like a dyno…I want to know what the car is doing with certain stuff done to it.
I’m going to take my 29,000 mile never carbon cleaned bone stock RS4 to the strip in the next few weeks…and I don’t care if I run 13.4. I want to see a baseline for the car. Then I’ll do my big suite of maintenance items like changing just about all filters (fuel, air, oil) and fluids as well as a carbon cleaning, and go back. Then I’ll go when I get piggies and JHM 93+ flash done.
Hopefully I can run 12.5x. That’s my goal. It’ll be fun trying though. I love going fast!
What is your modlist?
But… but I care. ;D
I’m not expecting anything crazy, and for Justin’s run I think he had a TCU tune for his 110 run but I really do want to make it down to the track to see where I’m at. I’ll be happy once I can get it into the 12s, or until I get bored again but so far it’s been my favorite DD so far.
As far as mods go it is just the standard JHM affair minus FI, intake, or headers. Before anyone asks… obviously catless 2.5 all the way… mama didn’t raise no fool.
My 2c. I too was a 1/4 mile skeptic but it’s seriously fun - full on balls out driving at 100+ mph and no one to stop you. Everyone should do it at least once if only (and I don’t think this applies to anyone on this forum) so when someone breaks into the 12’s or 11’s one can appreciate what hard work it was getting their 3800 lb S4 from a stock time of 13.85 down to the 11’s. You find people who shit all over milestone threads (cf AZ) often have never laid their car on the line.
how true. Ill be the first to admit The 1/4 mile is harder then one would think. I will make you very humble. Seemingly enough its not that easy to accelerate as fast as you can while shifting through all 5 gears.
The AZ refrence to the loosing steem B5 guys is clasic. Most of them never made a trip down the track and have no aprechation for what it takes to run a strong time.
GameBreaker it would be great to see you go before and after the TCU modifcation. It seems the 3.0 guys are seeing a big difference in acceleration times from just the shifting. that would be great to see.
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^^This. For a long time the tip S4 were regarded as the poor cousin. The before and after would be great to see to dispel that long held myth. I know justincredible has run some epic times with his tip. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a year’s time we’ll be talking about the tips as the more consistently fast car with consistent launches etc…
The humble comment is spot on too. My first ever run was about 17 secs with the ESP going nuts - I thought I’d broken the car. Or when I couldn’t get below 13.9x on a hot day. Real world science fucking with my car.
The most fun run was lining up next to saki’s old B7 S4 and seeing the visual gap of stock vs mods. His before and after mods and even before/after carbon cleaning with the RS4 will be interesting too.
You sure about that? I don’t even think a TCU tune existed 2 years ago…which is when he started trapping 110+.
That was cool to have ‘lots of bolt ons’ vs. bone stock.
Wish we had better video of that. The one I did film I accidentally gave you a 2 second head start so it didn’t help. We should have put the camera in your car looking forward to show the gap that tune + full 2.5 exhaust gives. It’s pretty amazing to see those 8 car lengths pile up!
From what I could gather he was one of the initial test subjects. At the time it was more of a one off then anything and he wanted more aggresive shifting. Hell, from what I understand the trans was slipping a little bit when he made that run and needed to change out the fluid. Justin would know more.
The 3.0 guys are lucky in the fact that they can ship their TCU’s out, with the S4 it is inside the transmission so to tune it my car would physically need to be there. It’s the only reason I don’t have one yet.
but 2 years ago? That doesn’t sound right…I think the TCU stuff has only been getting rocking in the last 6-12 months. Hopefully justin updates us.