Hey, I’d like to find a benchmark for my RS4. It’s my daily driver, fundamentally stock, and I don’t want to beat on it (no 4K clutch dumps on my stock clutch, please), nor travel to and spend on variable dynos (and get into the whole “my dyno run - on a different brand of dyno - is better than yours”).
I’d like some sort of a repeatable benchmark I can use to gauge performance and health of my car, and not judge my manhood by the resulting times. Objective, repeatable, so I can have a civil discussion with myself about the health of my car, and an equally civil and objective discussion with other enthusiasts about the health of our cars.
I’ve used 3k to redline 3rd gear highway pulls previously, in my C4 S6 and B5 S4. This would put me supersonic in my RS4, and likely admit me to the Crossbar Hotel if a REO happened to be spectating.
Is there a common non-dyno, non-¼ mi baseline used by the denizens of this forum? Has anyone gathered data from a variety of drivers?