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#6

Well, I never went by TMoss but I was somewhat known for porting the stock iron E7TE heads. They needed some pretty serious bowl work. I probably have some old print photos somewhere of what I used to do and some of my recorded flow numbers are prob still floating in cyberspace somewhere.

I did a lot of 5.0 heads… Lots of E7TE, GT40, GT40 alum, TFS, TFS TW, Canfield, Edelbrock small and big port. All sorts of intakes manifolds. I ported headers and even turbo manifolds- It was fun!

This is DEFINITELY the forum to talk about mechanical aspects of our cars vs something like AZ, QW etc. I just wish we had a more user-accessible tuning solution like cobb AP. Then we’d be rocking.

#7

Thanks for the welcome! I’m in SW CT.

DSG all the way. I had to get one after suffering both a shitty 6MT and a meh 6AT in my 335XIs. I wanted to like the 6MT but there were too many issues like weak clutch, poor shift quality etc. I said never again on a German 6MT unless it’s a p-car but even those seem like the PDK is going to force them out. I hope not.

I like the DSG so far. It’s not perfect and really needs a mode in between D and S or at least remapping the D mode for a little more throttle response and boost before it downshifts to get moving. Otherwise its nice. I kinda like the farting on shifts. lol.

Mustangs were fun but too one-dimensional for me. I really appreciate AWD and Audi’s is awesome. RS4/5 look awesome. If I hit up an Audi meet maybe someone will give me a spin in an RS. The sound has got to be incredible!

Re Mr White’s drawing: maybe what qualifies for an artist in Mexico isn’t exactly the same as up here. More like the 6 million peso man… 'we need a face for this guy, we have artists…but I don’t want to spend a lot of money!

#8

^^^ haha! Welcome to AR. It’s nice to welcome somebody that knows what they’re talking about. IIRC, the guys at JHM were mustang guys too before they made the switch to Audis. You’ll find there are more people here dedicated to the advancement of our cars than audizoo and quattrofail. Enjoy the S5 while it’s stock, it won’t be long before you get the modding bug.

#9

Thanks!

Audizoo and Quattrofail lol. That’s interesting the JHM were mustang guys.

I’m looking forward to some mods, 1/4mi and hopefully HPDE next year.

#10

Welcome! The 2014 S5 is a great looking car!

I was very much into the small displacement euro/moar boost scene until I got a V8 Audi. When I heard JHM were ex-Mustang guys, I browsed around svtperformance and the such - so much in common!

#11

Welcome to AR!

#12

What a minute, does JHM stand for John Highland Motorsports? If so, that IS interesting. They used to be big on the 4.6L mustang stuff. One of the first to really take the first version of that engine to serious hp, like 4 digit and on. They were awesome!

Unfortunately, the 4L engine in say the S5 doesn’t exactly seem to have been graced with much in the way of hp mods.

#13

Thank you!

#14

Only until JHM releases their s/c kit for the S5.

#15

the S5 4.2 I raced against in California last week was pretty fucking fast…and will be making 600+ hp and threatening the 10s before long.

p.s. JHM = Jason Harbinson Motorsports

jhmotorsports.com

#16

Need info on that!

#17

uh huh. Different jhm. hmmm.

Do tell about the other S5 b8. I thought jhm just got a NA one barely into the 12s or about as fast as a stock b8.5 s5 3.0T.

I hope they get a decent sc kit. They really seem to be left out in the HP dept vs the 3.0T to date.

#18

I thought 2014 S5 is 3.0 supercharged a la B8 S4?

#19

Correct

#20

Yeah that’s my bad, I didn’t realize they got rid of the V8 after 2012.

#21

JHM owns a 4.2 S5, and that’s the car I’m talking about.

It is much quicker than a stock 3.0T S5.

Further, the 4.2 B8 S5 was in the 11s before the 3.0T B8 S4. APR went 11.9 @ 116 like 2-3 years ago.

In fact, no 3.0T S5 has come anywhere near that…so it’s the 3.0T that has the catching up to do.

There is also the 480+ WHP TTS centrifugal supercharger from England that went 11.8 @ 120

And of course the JHM kit, which should obliterate all of these other offerings, comfortably, for nearly half the price.

The 4.2 S5 is looking up. Far better than the 3.0T S5 dare I say it.

#22

Lots of ford blood on AR myself included. I had lots of fox body cars I still have a terminator but I love my B6 S4 4.2 The calabrator for JHM works at SVT doing the same. They were deep into the fords.

Audi JHM did the same thing for the 4.2 as ford JHM did for the 4.6. As much as you can for the 4.2 All ground breaking stuff. The JHM S5 is going in stages just like most JHM stuff goes. So you can expect to see it go much faster as they add mods and then release them. Same as JHM did in the Fords.

The 4L S5 has lots of potential and I know JHM is deep into it. Looking at how JHM has been with the 4.2 from 2000-2008. The S5 is getting the same help. I just don’t think too many S5 guys are ready to mod like the RS4 or S4 guys.

So with all the ford v8 stuff you have a audi 6 banger with a supercharger. We are going to start calling you thunderbird super coupe

#23

Welcome !

#24

I knew some of this and to be clear I’m talking about the 4.2L B8 S5 vs 3.0T and stage 1 and 2 type, easily reversible mods for each. Unfortunately not so many S5s go to the track but I’m thinking that the S5 3.0T should run about as fast a 3.0T S4. Maybe not, but that’s my math ATM. We’ll see in March or April when Island Dragway opens up as I’ll prob hit it right after opening day.

I knew that JHM owned a 2008 B8 S5 but the last thread I recall on their stock motor B8 S5 4.2L was that JHM announced they had a record run of 12.83@105mph on AZ: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/562528-World-s-Fastest-All-Motor-B8-S5-V8-VIDEO-inside?highlight=jhm+time

Considering the 3.0T S4 stock tune results show them in the same range with I believe the record a little faster (12.69?), I’d say the 3.0T, in at least the S4, is doing just fine vs a bolt-on 4.2L in the B8 S5. Not hating, just my logic given what I know which may not be accurate.

Throwing in something like the APR SC as a probably another $15k (installed) mod for the 4.2L kinda changes the landscape for me. Yes I’m sure it’ll be fast but for that kind of $, if I owned a B8 S5, it would certainly get me thinking about what I really wanted. What public knowledge is there of a JHM SC for the 4.2? Is it supposed to be the same as their B6/B7 S4 offerings- vortech centrifugal for $8-9k?

#25

That’s good to know about JHM. I really don’t have any knowledge of the 4.2L engine (or almost all of the pre B8 Audi stuff). Is it roughly or almost exactly the same engine from the 2000-2008 cars?

I totally agree about the S5 guys too. Even on AZ where I spend a bit of time, the B8 S4 guys have a 1/4 sticky and dragtimes has some good records. But The B8 S5 section doesn’t even have the 1/4 mi sticky, same with dragtimes (3 or 4 cars posted). S5 guys are a lot more interested in photo shoots and wheels.

Lol @ Tbird SC. My brother actually had one, I never did.

I’ll have to see if I can dig up some old photos of the v8 Ford stuff I did. Some were pretty cool. Here’s a pick I had framed of my old race car at what I recall was the first year the NMRA. They liked my car so much they actually made it the image on the NMRA membership card for the first two seasons.

http://imageshack.com/a/img508/3864/tpvc8.gif