Lol! They want only “the best of the best”. . Ie this ships sinking fast time to get off, we’ll quit taking their money… Maybe?
The list of disastrous audizine vendors is pretty frigging long.
I would love to know what the vetting process is. Jconz has been bankrupt and like 3 companies in a year…and he keeps getting accepted. I think a pulse and first + last months is required to qualify.
What surprised me most was this:
[QUOTE=Stubek]Found the thread. OEMPlus deleted it, not Audizine.
Working to restore it.
[/quote]
I didn’t know vendors had moderating access…
Not sure how accurate that is…but if it is its retarded.
I know they can delete posts…because Apr deleted one of mine once .
Lol! They want only “the best of the best”. . Ie this ships sinking fast time to get off, we’ll quit taking their money… Maybe?
The list of disastrous audizine vendors is pretty frigging long.
I would love to know what the vetting process is. Jconz has been bankrupt and like 3 companies in a year…and he keeps getting accepted. I think a pulse and first + last months is required to qualify.
What surprised me most was this:
[QUOTE=Stubek]Found the thread. OEMPlus deleted it, not Audizine.
Working to restore it.
[/quote]
I didn’t know vendors had moderating access…
Not sure how accurate that is…but if it is its retarded.
I know they can delete posts…because Apr deleted one of mine once .
Turns out MRC in England have done some testing of APR 1740 kits and found the car was boosting so much that IATs were in their words unsafe and the cooling system was unable to keep up. This happened on multiple cars at MRC (3 someone said). They re-tuned a car for a customer to keep IATs in check, however they had to drop ignition timing dramatically and the car lost 150-200 hp when they did so. First, APR responded that they hadn’t even sold 3 kits in UK/Europe…which is pretty funny when their online henchmen are saying they’ve sold more kits than anyone.
Then to address the cooling issue, APR responded that they think their cooling system is great, and referenced that it did a great job at the dragstrip at night when they ‘hot lapped’ the car. The only problem with that statement is that the fastest slicks/stripped time was actually run at 5:22 pm as evidenced by the timeslip…and all of the following runs were slower, despite the density altitude improving steadily. Well there is one other problem…and that is that they blew the motor on that car shortly after. It’s still sitting under a tarp at APR without an engine. This was one of the owners of GRD’s car, which for some reason FlyingShitsauce@APR is referring to as an APR shop car? HAHAHAHA last time I checked, APR should probably own a car before their online employee starts calling it a shop car. It’s a customer car, not a shop car. APR doesn’t even own an RS4. Never has. They had to borrow a JHM customer’s car for their 1320 kit.
For some reason APR’s online employee flying tomatoes is denying the blown motors. I guess he forgot about the GRD car…meem’s car (meem himself said the injector was NOT the problem)…the other guy in SoCal spewing smoke and down on compression…not to mention these guys in Europe who have removed the kit from their cars.
Back to hot-lapping…everyone who has dragraced an RS4 knows it LOVES to be ‘hotlapped’ because hot is the wrong word…driving the car and having cool air moving through the system constantly will yield best results. This is true from stock, to modified to intercooled. The car hates to be parked.
I set the stock RS4 record this way going 12.75 @ 108.36 after a 12.77 and a 12.79 within 5 minutes, getting faster as I kept running the car. Mistro set the modified NA RS4 record this way, running a 12.21 @ 113.2 on his 16 pass of the day! That same day I ran a 12.51 @ 110.5 on my 14th pass, after a bunch in a row with my full JHM exhaust.
Back to APR’s cooling, here’s a pic they posted from the dragstrip night back when they launched the kit. Yes that’s a bag of ice and a big turbine fan hammering the engine bay. Guess the cooling isn’t so good at night OR during the day lol.
http://www.goapr.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/slicks.png
Hahahhaha that last part is epic! Owned! Another win for the truth.
Also clearly some people chose to ignore APR tune issues multiple cars experienced. Ie intermittent idle and stalling. Which is supposedly has been fixed with an updated APR tune that has very recently been released. Only time will show…
Turns out MRC in England have done some testing of APR 1740 kits and found the car was boosting so much that IATs were in their words unsafe and the cooling system was unable to keep up. This happened on multiple cars at MRC (3 someone said). They re-tuned a car for a customer to keep IATs in check, however they had to drop ignition timing dramatically and the car lost 150-200 hp when they did so. First, APR responded that they hadn’t even sold 3 kits in UK/Europe…which is pretty funny when their online henchmen are saying they’ve sold more kits than anyone.
Then to address the cooling issue, APR responded that they think their cooling system is great, and referenced that it did a great job at the dragstrip at night when they ‘hot lapped’ the car. The only problem with that statement is that the fastest slicks/stripped time was actually run at 5:22 pm as evidenced by the timeslip…and all of the following runs were slower, despite the density altitude improving steadily. Well there is one other problem…and that is that they blew the motor on that car shortly after. It’s still sitting under a tarp at APR without an engine. This was one of the owners of GRD’s car, which for some reason FlyingShitsauce@APR is referring to as an APR shop car? HAHAHAHA last time I checked, APR should probably own a car before their online employee starts calling it a shop car. It’s a customer car, not a shop car. APR doesn’t even own an RS4. Never has. They had to borrow a JHM customer’s car for their 1320 kit.
For some reason APR’s online employee flying tomatoes is denying the blown motors. I guess he forgot about the GRD car…meem’s car (meem himself said the injector was NOT the problem)…the other guy in SoCal spewing smoke and down on compression…not to mention these guys in Europe who have removed the kit from their cars.
Back to hot-lapping…everyone who has dragraced an RS4 knows it LOVES to be ‘hotlapped’ because hot is the wrong word…driving the car and having cool air moving through the system constantly will yield best results. This is true from stock, to modified to intercooled. The car hates to be parked.
I set the stock RS4 record this way going 12.75 @ 108.36 after a 12.77 and a 12.79 within 5 minutes, getting faster as I kept running the car. Mistro set the modified NA RS4 record this way, running a 12.21 @ 113.2 on his 16 pass of the day! That same day I ran a 12.51 @ 110.5 on my 14th pass, after a bunch in a row with my full JHM exhaust.
Back to APR’s cooling, here’s a pic they posted from the dragstrip night back when they launched the kit. Yes that’s a bag of ice and a big turbine fan hammering the engine bay. Guess the cooling isn’t so good at night OR during the day lol.
http://www.goapr.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/slicks.png
Where were you guys in the great debate on the AZ B5/S4 forum???
You were arguing with 18yr olds that wouldn’t last 2 days on AR. Most can barely check their tire pressure and would add nothing to this site besides ignorance. Let them think whatever they want about AR, the guys who don’t post here and are afraid to join are missing out. At the end of the day this site doesn’t revolve around any certain company, it revolves around a group of knowledgeable members that have great technical discussion, a ton of information and first hand experience, people that will bend over backwards to help complete strangers from all over the world work out their issues, it’s controlled by the members almost completely, and vendors have no authority to have threads or posts deleted to hide evidence. If you can sit and say you hate this site or the members, then you aren’t interested in being a true enthusiasts and you don’t like being told the truth…that is what scares people about AR. B5 guys especially, because we call them out on their hack tunes, shitty China parts and their never ending stage whatever MINUS setups. They try to build monsters, while neglecting maintenance and simple upgrades…we tell them that and they hate us. That platform has gone backwards but they still want to discuss how great it is and easy to make fast.
I think some of that is starting to rub off on B6/7s :
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/630919-Regula-Tuning-body-kit-came-in!
The dope sticker in the window is telling…
WTF happened to that?
Thank Rings I didn’t click on that link :-X
Oh wow…I’m glad I didn’t look in that thread.
Who does shit like that?
Its super painful.
I’m not sure if I wanted to laugh or cry when I first saw the contents of that thread, but then all of the sudden this new feeling came on to me:
http://media20.giphy.com/media/RrBJGeWRbS7Be/giphy.gif?w=320
The worst part is when these guys start justifying it by saying “it’s different than the norm” “thinking outside of the box” “pushing the limits”
No it looks fucking ridiculous and ruins a great looking car.