where to start this… ok so after i bought the car i had only planned on a few mods. (oh how wrong i was lol)
ok so after 6 months of owning the car. i was starting to get used to the power it had over my wolfsburg jetta. I started to plan some near future mods ie. down pipes, tune cause it had a catback and coilovers on it. when i started to hear a slight knock coming from the motor!! so i had to figure out what was causing this knock. so i searched far and wide about build date issues and timingchain guides breaking. so after i had a few people look at the cars issues they all thought it was lifter related. so after many long nights searching what the fourms had to say about it. i made the decission to replace the timing chain guides!! so about a week after i found out what the labor would be due to me leaving the state for work for a month.
i decided since there going to be in there working on the guides i might as well do some mods. so i went with the jhm IM/IM spacers/and the heat sheild under the IM ,93 octane tune w/ LA, LWFW Stage 4 clutch, LWCP, apikol snub mount, 034 snub mount bracket, jhm trio package shifter, and trex turk 2.5 catless DP. and the timing chain kit. i chose all of those mods A. to fit in my budget and B.its the key componets almost everyone ran minus the IM cause well its not cheap lol. so im in yuma AZ. for work. the shop Euro Enginuity did the work and said before the new year the car would be done. so i was super happy looking forward to a faster S4. so the day before new years i get a text message saing the car should be ready that night. so super excited i got the remaing funds togther to get the car and boom. i get a phone call saying it still ticks like a time bomb and my heart sank my wife screaming just sell the car. (lol never!!!) so i said dig in to it and find out what the issue is. and i got a phone call about 20 min. later saying they discovered my passenger side exhaust cam had a shot lobe two rocker arms were broke and a LIFTER failed!!! third cylinder back. so i scoured the forums far and wide to find a head, parts anything i can to try to fix this and a audizine forum member came through and posted he had one. so new years day i drove to maryland to pick up a head to fix my car with. so about three weeks later i get my car back.
so now im breaking the car in properly. 1000miles of no beating on it was killer. but i got through it. after the break in period i decided i wanted to chage the stock air box out and try some diffrent things. cone filters, sheilding no sheilding, velocity stack filters. not the proven k&n drop in. so afterr about two weeks of diffrent ideas and tests sheilding and a cone filter felt ok. it honestly felt like i was gaining more low end but nothing more up top.so by this time i was heading to the dyno @ national speed in wilmignton, nc. and a certin unitronic car was meeting me there as he was going to aslo dyno his after the tune and compare to the previous owners stock dyno pulls. these are the two videos of m-dubs dyno runs . http://youtu.be/ntw0XYPhGGs and after http://youtu.be/tK9KZWT_L84 . sadly mine didnt show up and honestly i dont care lol. but i made 299awhp/298awtq. and i was a little bummed that was all it made. im not going to lie cause after 7k of mods i was exppecting a little bit more. so then m-dub goes out of his way to make my car look bad!! so count vohngot in touch with me and well i then realized that it really didnt matter what the dyno says it what the time slip says. he made alot of very valid points along with everyone on this forum that guided me into going this far into the build.
ok so after all this i realized my catback is my weak point damn you previous owner!!! lol sry i had too. so i now know i need a proper 2.5 inch catback and to ditch my HOT AIR intake and put the stock box and drop in that famous K&N filter now to touch more on that. with the hot air intake to the stock box with a paper filter i could barely notice a diffrence except in the mid to high range rpm band the car kinda choked a bit so i was curious cause the cone filter did a similar thing but down low. so ok maybe it was cause the stock filter was bad or mybe cause i pay close attention to random things ohwell so after i put the k&n in i notice the exhaust note got louder more crisp and defined and on top of that it felt so much more powerfull till about 6k when the well catback just cant handle the flow. so now that you have seen all this crappy news ive heard and the dumb mods ive done on my own. we move on.
so now that the back story is done on this quest!! about a one moth diffrence between the dyno and the track. so me and euroswagr went out to our local track and had some fun. so i set my eyes on the infamous 12’s mark but to be excat it was a time of 12.89 due to that being the fastest down piped all motor b6/b7 s4. and well i did it with a 12.83 yay!!! heres a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6TivDFip2Q so well now that im there my quest has changed a bit i want the title of the fastest all motor b6/b7 s4 in the world and hopfully a stupid low 12 second pass would be sweet. over all what ive learned is there is a primer or a staple for instense to get in the 12’s tune 2.5 catback and DP’s and the all important jhm im IMOP!! i would also like to thank the as i would say pioneers in this platform. JHM!!!,91gl,sakimano,justincredible,count vohn,b6joes4 and trexturk for the DP’s.