First trip to the track....

B6/7 S4/RS4
#4

Took a while but here they are… in all their non-glory.


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I’d like to get some advice/input on how much more I can expect to squeeze out of this car in it’s current state. Based upon the drag times DA calculator…

14.77 @ 95.3

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Stock and Mildly Modified Naturally Aspirated Engines
13.894 @ 101.324 MPH

How much faster could/should I be running with my current mods?

#5

Yup, it’s very frustrating. But the DA calculator makes me feel much better. ;D

#6


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If this doesn’t make the pics vertical, then mods please delete this post.

#7

I know you can’t hear it, but I’m giving you a hand clap just as I would give it to my 4 year old daughter when she does something great. You said you wanted advice, so here is what I would like to contribute. Your times will get better with practice and I hope you had fun. You only live once, so enjoy your car and your life. Good night!

#8

Kind of a dick line but ok…

Go home dad, you’re drunk.

#9

I will never understand this guy.

#10

I’m not sure how to comment on your times in relation to your horrible altitude, but lets use the corrected time for comparison.

I ran a 13.7 bone stock, with your mods you should have about a half a second or more on that time (13.8 corrected)

I think you should be shooting for 14.2 or better. Just a guess though…not many guys run at your altitude because its so discouraging!

#11

If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have a problem

#12

Let me put it this way… I don’t understand your dick comments towards G. Horrible altitude and a weird borderline condescending post directed to him. End of story, don’t go back to your old ways.

#13

I never made a dick comment towards G. The both of you probably took it the wrong way because the both of you believed his time slip to be unsatisfactory. I, on the other hand felt that he did what he did and he took his car to the track for the first time. That alone to me was something respectable, especially when there are hundreds of Audi owners who never take their cars to the track.

I can never go back to my old ways. I’ve always been who I am, You just think I changed. If anyone has changed, it is you. Ivliie you better this way.

#14

Fair enough, maybe the correlation between an adult and your four year old daughter is why the direction of your post is questioned. I don’t have children so maybe I’m completely off base.

#15

Not terrible by any means. 60ft is a little rough, what rpm were you launching at? I ran 14.3 I think at close to 8500 DA here in Colorado had to hold revs around 4200 for the launch and that got me a 1.9 60ft. I had a full cat less exhaust and an intake Mani with the Jhm tune

#16

Yeah launching needs to happen from a higher rpm out in the clouds. Great point dwith

We have a couple of times from other cars at elevation in the list.

G rat you can try looking at sear as well who went 14.something with a pes supercharged car at elevation. As a benchmark those usually run high 12s @ 110ish on b6/7 s4 at sea level

#17

I was using the launch assist with the tune, so launching around 5300 RPM. Didn’t get a chance to try any other RPM points but I’m planning to go back soon.

Will try 4200 as was mentioned, and the torque peak that I mentioned in my dyno thread. Really want to get below a 2.0 60 ft.

Isn’t there some general rule like a hundredth in the 60 ft gets you a tenth in the 1/4 mile?

#18

Haha, I am gonna make fun of you here…because that would be fucking awesome if a hundredth got you a tenth in ET!

It’s a pretty good rule of thumb with our AWD Audi’s that the ratio is 1:1, so a tenth in your 60’ will be about a tenth off your ET. Sakimano has disussed this a lot…it especially comes up when guys try and say that if they ran 11.3, but had a 1.7 60 instead of a 1.8…that they would go 10s.

#19

http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=1809.0

Launch assist does not launch from 5300

Its engages at 5300, and actually launches at like 3200-3400. It is optimal for cars at sea level but at elevation you will bog badly so you need more RPMs. Just drop the clutch from 4000 or so and try from there, adjusting by 200 RPMs each time

As for the one tenth equals xxx go check my thread in the dragstrip and quartermile main scussion discussion forum at the top of the mainboard

#20

http://audirevolution.net/forum/index.php?topic=1809.0

#21

Hey G-Rat let me know if you’re going to hit up the rocky mtn raceways again or want to do some pulls. I have a little break before MBA courses begin so I am curious to see what my car can actually do (with me driving)

#22

The altitude is such a killer…bigserve134 I bet you woild do well. It would be interesting to see howuch the blower helps. If you thunk about it the s4 and the s5 are close in hp. It wouldn’t be an apples ro apples compair when you add it all up it would be good refrence

#23

Awesome idea bigserve… I’ve wanted to see/ride in your car anyways. Not sure if I will bring my car back to the track though, unless I have something else to try (eg. adding exhaust). Just don’t have anything to prove and don’t want to break anything unnecessarily.

But I do plan to take my wife’s 335XI to the track in the next couple weeks. I’ll let you know once I know when.

Totally agree Chris… although my car isn’t a record setter by any means, we could sure compare the two to see the potential that the SC has to compensate for the thin air.