Related to the 3G+ BS on AZ, David was banned by the Mod Gestapo and Anthony spewed his regular crap…more of Rich going off 
hmmm…
[quote=anthony]So here are my final words on all of this…
I’m the same ol’ guy that started Audizine back in 2001. Sure it’s gotten much larger since then, and yes I do it full time now, but it’s just me. Same dude. Yes I’ve made mistakes over the years, and oh boy have I learned a lot about running an online community. But you know what, it’s still my baby. That’s one thing that hasn’t changed. I’m the last person that wants to see it go to shit, and that means from the ways it looks, to the members, to the advertisers. I’ve always wanted it to be the best Audi enthusiast community out there. Not the biggest, just the best. Here we are, 11 years later, and wouldn’t you know it we’ve become the biggest and most active one around. Crazy huh? Well, I guess we’re doing something right after all.
Over the years I’ve seen dozens of Audi tuners 'n shops come and go. I’ve witnessed the good and the bad, much less bad thankfully, but still more than I would have cared for. With that though, and with the massive growth the Audi scene has undergone over the past decade, it’s required me to be more cautious in who we bring aboard to market and advertise to the Audizine community. Where once I was happy to bring on any new small fledgling company or just a regular enthusiast slinging parts out of his garage on weekends, that unfortunately can no longer be. In order to get that red username or a banner on the top of the site, they need to not only have a business license but some serious skin in the game. They need fully liable and accountable for their work/products, with some experience under their belt. It also helps to have a clean record, and no previous “run ins” with myself or the Moderator Team.
Let me also remind you really quick, that all of this is for the most part a “B8 forum issue”. It’s extremely easy to get hyper-focused within the one (or maybe two) forums you spend most of your time in, but you have to remember that Audizine isn’t just the B8 A4 Forum, or the B8 A5/S5 Forum. It’s a whole big ass world out there and I have to look out for the greater good of the entire f’n thing!
Having said all of that, it’s still quite possible for a smaller newer company to rise up the ranks and eventually become an Official Advertiser here on Audizine. I know of plenty of success stories, and I have my eye on a number of other up and comers that are doing their own thing and yet not getting their accounts suspended or terminated. It simply takes skills, determination, and most importantly patience. When they’re ready, and the time is right, they can go from doing pretty well on the side to doing amazingly well as an Official Audizine Advertiser. David isn’t the first, and he most certainly won’t be the last. We also aren’t making him stop his modding, or stop helping all of you on the forums. It’s just that for right now, he cannot market and sell those products publicly on the forums, just like the 90K other Audizine members that aren’t official advertisers. I’m pretty sure we can all handle that.
If you have anything you’d like to discuss, or any additional feedback or suggestions to these recent events, I’m always here and available by PM or email. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Anthony
anthony@audizine.com
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so GSG was fully licensed with serious skin in the game? haha
Anthony cracks me up.
He’ll go on and on about people posting relevant things for a platform that will further advance it.
Then you get things like Unitronic coming into the B6/7 S4/RS4 Area and posting their mass spam post about their tunes.
They don’t include any relevant information for the platform, nor do they even post a relevant video (because 2.0T GTI’s are excessively relevant to 4.2L V8’s… : ) and that is perfectly fine, because they have “serious skin in the game”.
Rididuclous
I don’t understand…who are you replying to? I just explained the difference in symptoms between a slipping clutch and a fucked clutch.
It’s ok Saki
Pretty sure he is claiming it does it in 6th gear at WOT. He says nothing about rough idle, which would be most obvious with a vacuum leak.
Like I said, same guy that does burn outs at the strip, can’t delete his TPMS with vagcom, and had no clue what vband flanges were. He also has a $5000 gift card to JHM just in case he needs to bring up his $10k mod list.
yeah, 6th gear wot in low RPMs loading up the clutch is when you get that slip
Now…didn’t he JUST buy this clutch? I wonder how this will be JHM’s fault?
Sounds to me like homeboy can’t drive without glazing the fuck out of his clutch. I mentioned this to him on Audiworld a long time ago when he was posting some street racing videos in which he was slipping into gear on EVERY gear change, and was bouncing off the rev limiter lol.
The funniest thing is he has done a couple of track days with an instructor, so he has learned some of the track day nerd speak, and whenever he sees an opportunity, relevant or not, he spews it out.
The best example was the video of the pike’s peak run where the guy left braking too late, understeered, and flew off the cliff in his EVO race car in full race livery. Gibsonl’s contribution to the thread on Qfail?
track nerd-speak word of the day: APEX
“He must have been worried about oncoming traffic in the other lane because he missed the apex of that turn”
Yeah, lots of traffic on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb lol. Minivans full of kids all over the mountain 
I don’t think anyone was surprised at what happened to DavidB8. What a fucking Joke those guys are. A few of the guys at ATCO were discussing the pay schedule for advertisers on AZ and it seems Anthony rakes it in pretty well, as his only job.
Saki I’m surprised you haven’t had much to say about that since it seems DavidB8 is your neighbor…I actually think he might have been Saki hunting:
[QUOTE=DavidB8;8063731]Ok Kids, I took a new unit and got it working. So please stand by for coding and instructions. I don’t want people clicking and doing things they shouldn’t.
Some of it was guess work and generic but it will get the basic settings and features going then you can do your VAG Com mods after.
As an added treat, the new unit auto set itself for the APN settings for rogers and worked with no additional work required.
Oh and Street view worked!!! … Sorry didn’t wait for it to finish loading before grabbing a screen shot, was to excited.
http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy205/DavidB8/Screen_1_121009_1542_0022.png
I’ll probably make a PDF or something for those I helped get units. Not interested in giving away all the R&D just yet.
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He’s gonna need a bigger boat
I actually thought he lived in nunavut or something mental. I did meet him at one of the meets out here but only briefly. Nice guy. Seemed very angry back then about audizoo and Anthony.
I reckon he is crossing a line between guy selling on classifieds and unauthorized vendor but Anthony is too dumb to see the bigger picture. When someone creates content like he does, they create traffic and page views…and traffic and page views create premium pricing you can charge vendors who advertise.
If one of those vendors who overcharges the fuck out of everyone is unhappy, maybe let then leave of they choose to …there are dozens who will take their place.
Who is selling euro steering wheels on there…europrice? Great name by the way…a RIP OFF on everything I’ve seen. My MTM 10mm spacers are $296 from the authorized MTM dealer in Montreal. Euroripoff ran a group buy…for $400 lol.
And of course sheep lined up to pay it because it was on AZ so it must be ‘legit’
P.S. Do you have a copy if the AZ advertising price list? Because I do. I don’t think you would be as impressed if you did. You guys were basing your calculations on speculation oh what vendors pay.
I don’t have a price list but I’d like to guess ;D
I think it ranges from $100-$350/month depending on which platform(s) you choose and the traffic that area(s) sees. It might vary if you choose to “sponsor” a forum vs. being allowed to simply post sales for products etc. Banners & suck? Who knows, an extra $30-$75 per month. Probably get hit with a click through fee too.
How many advertisers does AZ have? 100? 200? 1,000? Let’s assume 150 at an average cost of $100/ea/month. $15,000 to AZ per month, minus costs to run the site. He’s not killing it by any means but he isn’t hurting either. I could also be way off so take my assumptions for they are, assumptions.
pretty good guess right there
if he had 100 advertisers, all paying $350 a month, and the website was free to run/host, He’d have $35,000 a month in income, or $410,000 a year, which is great.
He doesn’t, they don’t, and it’s not.
^^^ one of my favorites,
If you think their retail pricing is nuts you should see the discount they offer dealers, I am surprised he does any business at all. But hey if he can actually get those prices more power to him although he seems to be the one guilty of going after those users that seem to contribute. (primetime and the paddles and I would suspect that this guy was also in someway complaining about this davidb8 thread… although that is just a guess). I am surprised ECS hasn’t stomped him out yet. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was possibly buying through OEMplus or someone of that nature.
Alex at Europrice and David had partnered up (in a way) recently. Alex was sourcing and creating the custom harnesses for tail lights and David was doing the required coding. As far as ECS is concerned, they have been stealing off of David’s research for sometime. David would figure out a retrofit and ECS would then mysteriously start peddling a part or kit at a giant mark-up.
David lives in Oakville …for now. He still has his cool Nunavut polar bear license plate on his car though
oh snap never made that primetime connection.
…and the bar has been lowered yet again.
Not timeslips
Not even 60-130 pbox verified runs.
Nope.
Now they’re using a vid of the speedo and making a list to see who is “fastest”.
lol
wow
what are those people and their shit boxes trying to proove?
I wouldn’t call them shit boxes
Anyway I just think they are trying to prove that if you want to find a marketplace that has a really low barrier to entry and very modest proof of performance required, there is no better market than AZ B5 S4. It is a scanner tuner’s paradise.
cylinder wall thicknes question: Is this guy not dead wrong?
[quote=MonzaA5]To me, the biggest question would be, how well do the engine and transmission hold up to all the extra power, especially given that the car would be driven hard on the track? The 4.2L engine was not designed for forced induction; there’s a reason why Audi reduced displacement to 4.0 on the new twin turbo V8 (the cylinder walls on the 4.2FSI are extremely thin). The 6-speed tiptronic is also not meant for handling huge amounts of torque. Someone on a5oc complained about it overheating on the track…and that’s with stock hp.
The bottom line is, if you want a supercharged car, buy one that was designed that way by the factory.
It’s a fact. Audi has been doing this with it’s turbo/supercharged engines forever (i.e. 2.7T being a beefed up version of the 2.8, 3.0T a beefed up version of the 3.2 and the original 1.8T being based on a reinforced 2.0L ea827 block).
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I am pretty sure the wall thickness and spacing is the same on the 3.0T as the 4.2 FSI and even 4.2 MPI
Anyone care to remind me if I’m wrong? And if he’s wrong, please remind him lol.
every vw/audi VEE motor since the mpi chain 4.2 is a 90mm bore spacing with a 84.5mm bore (not counting the legacy motors)
4.2, 3.2fsi, 4.2fsi, 4.2fsi high rev, 5.2fsi, 5.0tfsi, 3.0tfsi, 4.0tfsi
looks like some 2005 3.2fsi’s were an 85.5mm bore for a 3.197L vs 3.123L but thats an anomaly
they are also all linerless aluminum castings with forged steel cranks. Rods/pistons are a mix of forged/non forged with varying metallurgy.
Stroke/Bore/Cylinder Spacing
3.0T: 89.1/84.5/90
4.2 : 92.8/84.5/90
4.0T: 89.0/84.5/90
Cool, so stroke is the differentiating factor creating the displacement reduction, not bore. Thanks.
See, that MonzaA5 guy posts as if he is right, and those guys will all believe him lol. Just watch…APR S5 kit sales will slow down while guys sit back and go ‘damn…I didn’t realise my cylinder walls were so thin that I can’t handle a supercharger’
It’s good comedy watching misinformation spouted as if bellowed by the gods from the top of the highest mountain.