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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
yup, makes sense for vw/audi to just vary stroke. The motors are pretty much all just bigger 3.2 V6s as far the rest of the design (the new v10 is a split crank pin now).
And it is unfortunate there are so many ‘experts’ and followers in the newer platforms. Now if I’m remembering this all correctly the longer stroke necessitates a shorter rod or piston to have everything contained in the same area (stroke being dependent on the length of the crank throw), which could cause stress due to more cylinder wall loading (shorter rod) or piston weakness (less mass, less ability to handle heat) but from the sounds of it due to his mention of the cylinder wall thickness I’m lead to believe thats not what he was talking about.