New member here… Not sure if this is the best place for intros but here goes:
I Just picked up a 2014 S5 end of October 2013. Nice ride, better than either of my 335XIs in the ways that matter to me and the new F30 335XIs design language were not for me.
My 335XIs both had JB on them, the 2011 had JB4 w/meth and it ran pretty decent though I never bothered to make the 2hr ride to the track or local dyno to see what exactly what is had. Prob ~330-350WHP on a dynojet and maybe ~12.7-12.8 based on what similar setups ran.
This S5 I’m telling myself I’ll be more active with and at least get it to the track stock and probably do a tune and bring it back to the track to see what it does. The car only has 1300mi on it so no tune until spring, at least.
I’m 40 now and owned and built a lot of 5.0 Mustangs in the 90s, the fastest one of my own went mid 10s and fastest one I did headwork on went mid 8s. I used to do a bit of head/intake porting for a number of different platforms but mostly 5.0s. I stripped down and built up a number of engines, o-rings blocks, cams, lots of head work, custom intakes, some tuning on ancient SEFI. It was fun, and a great way to spend a lot of $ and go slow before I learned how to go fast.
I’ve been out the real speed work game since maybe 1999 and got slowly back into things with my first 335XI in 2008. I learned a lot from the BMW forums but have no real experience with Audi, so bear with me on that.
Thanks for reading!