JHM Timing Gear . . .

B6/7 S4/RS4
#7

You will just have to wait and find out! It’s not timing related, if that helps.

Yes; all labor will be by me, with some supervision from a couple of my friends who are Audi certified technicians. If you are local, I would be happy to give you a hand after I do mine. If I were paying for the labor, I would be much more inclined to sell the car and buy something else. Not only that, but the only shop in the country I would trust to do the job correctly is in California (JHM). Dealerships and indy’s don’t get enough of these to be proficient, and it certainly is highly technical. (in my opinion)

I can’t wait for the electric adjuster guide, but I can always dive back in and do that, and its failure is very rare, I am told. Meanwhile, mechanical adjusters and chain tensioner(s) are already showing age. But I certainly appreciate the efforts of yourself and the crew over there to continue bringing us solutions.

#8

JHM looks to be revolutionizing the timing chain components in a couple of ways. Stronger and better pricing namely. Pretty cool.

I told them to charge more than stock, not less.

#9

The way I see it is the more savings they provide over oem will result more proactive maintenance and those customers splurging on their performance parts since they “saved” so much over oem.
Example. I would be paying 5K for timing service but since its only costing me 3K Ill pick up some headers, tune and IM.

#10

I think it might be better to make the psrts more expencive. More expencive parts keep the cheep kids from buying the csrs…when the cheep kids come in generally thats when all the advancement dies…

#11

I will seriously consider buying another one in a few years though as a project. Get a built motor with upgraded timing and slap a blower on it…supercar territory for $25-30k

I kinda agree with your outlook though Chris. Fucking kids have drove the last nail in the B5S4 coffin.

#12

Why not get an RS4 and slap our blower on it instead? ;D

#13

If it were an Avant, perhaps we could talk.

#14

I didn’t say that wasn’t going to happen first.

#15

Truth. I reckon most people would save time and money in the long run by just sending their car to JHM.

#16

Doesn’t stop people now. It just makes them put off maintenance and dump the car on someone else.

#17

+1. I would have saved around $3-$4k with my build.

#18

Aaaah but you probably saved $$$ by sending it when you did - look to the future!

#19

best of luck with the work. always a great idea doing maintenance in a planned/predictive way

#20

More money for smoke screens and bat mobile stuff

#21

lol.

Squiddy (or anyone else for that matter), are the guide/tensioner weaknesses only with the B5’s? I’ve read so much about them and even some B7’s but I’m curious if it applies to the RS4?
Bryan at Rodgers (indie in Ottawa) tells me it’s a $5k job and if needed, I would consider it as a preventative item too. I’m only at 36k miles but if it’s on the future agenda, might as well plan for it. I too want to keep my car for a long while and this, along with DRC, are the two things I think will be bigger ticket items (unless I go JHM SC - I wish).

#22

I’ve always said it should be part of regular maintinece on these cars. People that are running beyond 75k with original timing components are playing with fire.

#23

totally. The problem is that people buying $12,000 cars don’t do so in most cases anticipating that expense. It’s a ‘cheap’ way to get into a cool car.

I still haven’t heard much discussion on the RS4 timing components or failures. Does anyone have any information on that?

#24

B7 RS4s haven’t had any issues really. Audi must have more thought into those components, which makes sense considering how the motor spins 1k more RPMs.

#25

I haven’t heard many B7s in general have too many timing chain/guide issues. Seems the issues are mostly with the B6s and their first generation guides.

Anyone correct me if I’m wrong.

#26

For what it’s worth my B7 had a chip in one of the guides that is metal sleeved by plastic/composite, whatever it is. It wasn’t “broke” by any means, but it could have potentially turned into a problem.