I don’t think they are shipping it out yet. 1fastS4 has had the pulley for a long time, that is just a teaser pic. I can’t wait to see how this thing performs.
GIAC/AWE see that people are getting restless and a lot are probably saying “fuck it,ill just go apr especially with the ability to go stage 3 later”. So they send turkey neck tyson as always to put up this teaser since most people do not know who he is in order to keep the last few from jumping ship.
Yeah that’s really weird marketing. Kinda disappointing.
Did anyone ever pm merlonsmagic on here to chime in in this? He works at giac.
P. S. Here’s the next guy to find out the hard way that most of the tuners can’t deal with the cat delete yet…
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Tyson posted that on his own without prompting or intervention from us. He’s had our pulley kit and puller for a while and was part of GIAC’s local beta testing.
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Does he put all of those stickers advertising AWE and GIAC on his car before he makes passes on his own or is he being paid to advertise the product(s)? Just wondering…
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No one is paying him. In exchange for the beta testing data access to his car, he was given discounted and free parts.
but if he has had the pulley on his car for many months now, why does he have a brand new pulley in a box that you guys probably just came out with since your getting close to launching the pulley.
I assume those are pics he took of the original kit we sent him? I dunno, like I said, he posted those pics on his own.
makes sense, thank you. So when are you guys releasing this to the public or at least to pete?
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Appreciate being up front about his remuneration. Look forward to the results.
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… And he is a giac and awe dealer, yes?
You should make a request to audizine to change his account to vendor status because it’s a bit disingenuous for him to be acting like ‘just another happy customer’. Yes, that is weird marketing.
This is what vf engineering did with ngng and their supercharger kit. Had him pimping the kit on the forums and touting dyno numbers and saying how great it is. Pathetic. Meanwhile the kit was just a terrible fit. You guys should know all about the vf kit.
Vf did the same thing with their rs4 m90 supercharger kit. Gave a guy a super discounted kit in exchange for acting like a happy customer. He posted lies about beating various exotics including a c6 z06. A colossal joke that saw vf laughed out of the B6/7 S4/RS4 forum PERMANENTLY.
That jokers name?
Tyson/1fastS4
So you’ll forgive the informed among us who aren’t as enthusiastic about him.
No one here or at GIAC is asking him to do public endorsements in exchange for the discounted or free parts. The only thing was expected in exchange was data access to his car. Whatever he does after that is up to him.
I understand where you are coming from, though. Ultimately, we are quite confident that once the kit is in the hands of the public, there will be undisputed objective positive feedback.
^^ Oops forgot that Tyson is 1fasts4. I guess AWE’s flagship customer screening process is about as good as mine. Auditude would have been a better choice. Oh well!
FWIW it looks like they want him to shut up about it, but he can’t.
Well… Both guys have checkered histories lol. Auditude has grown up quite a bit though it should be said. Tyson on the other hand is regression personified.
No customer would be my choice. An awe s4 would. Or s5 as they’ve done. Test it stock, then load the parts on there, and test it modded. Dyno, pbox, timeslip. Screw the customer marketing…Looks amateurish. Looks like ‘we can’t afford to ante up so we will experiment t and learn on customer cars’.
Awe should cut Tyson out entirely since they had an s4 and have an s5
AWE still has my number and I told Jesse to text me whenever that pulley is ready and I’ll be there the next day. Need some good old fashion testing. And like Saki and others have said before, it’s time for a 6MT to hit the 1/4 and put down a respectable time slip. I would love to be that guy.
+1
I definitely intend to go the 1/4 with our northern neighbors when the weather clears.
Like I said, the 6MT crown is pretty much wide open at this point. Salmon, be ready for the first week of April…Pete and Tsivas may get first crack though, their tracks likely open in a couple weeks…
Atco opens this Sat. Those chickens won’t go 
I might go on Sunday just waiting on a new revision from GIAC