You shouldn’t believe everything Mick tells you (about fast intentions). That is incorrect
Doing it fast has never been Jhms claim to fame.
Ebwerks hasn’t beaten them to a thing. They fucked up and had to delay their one exhaust for their first customer by two months plus already. On top of that, Ben promised a particular exhaust…right on this site, dynod the prototype…showed sound cthelast minswitched major components and changed the design of the exhaust. Their one customer has no idea how it will sound, out how it will flow. Ghetto fabulous business model. That is called bait and switch 101.
They are just lucky Mick is clueless about performance and is willing to LIE to support their business. If any other company pulled this they would be a laughing stock. Mick would have started the threads About them on every Audi forum on earth. Of course he is their marketing manager online so he will let it slide and lie about their competitors instead.
Why do you think fi is making the jhm rs4 exhaust? You and Mick are the only ones I hear saying that
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Frankly I don’t care if jhm is selling the exhaust first or not. No rush for stockimano. Clearly jhm Is interested in other stuff or I’m sure they could have had it out by now. They probably just want to do it right, and as I said there are very modest margins in that business so it would make sense that its not worth rushing it out
P.S…I just heard back from the guy who bought micks jhm exhaust. i have been speaking to someone who needs to sell their jhm exhaust ai will likely buy it and so i asked sar what condition his was in when he received it used from mick. As expected Mick got a cannonball blown through his bullshit story. The exhaust was/is in excellent condition from the downpipe flanges to the exhaust tips.
OK…Wait actually I know it is FI because they told me in an email and this was in response to me asking specifically about an RS4 exhaust on May 25th…like I said slow slow slow.
Steven,
Thank you for taking an interest in our products. Our rs4 systems are
private labeled and are built for JH Motorsports. Please feel free to
contact them at sales@jhmotorsports.com for further inquires.
Do not hesitate to call me directly for any further questions.
Thank you,
Nic Santaella
Sales and Support Manager
Fast Intentions Inc.
8725 Canby Ave.
Northridge, Ca. 91325
T: (818) 882-2788
F: (818) 882-2834 www.fastintentions.com Nic@fastintentions.com
Also, here is what JHM put on audizine on 06/14 about needing some dies to do the mandrel bends…wait I see mandrel bent 2.75" on the two man shops exhaust…just does not make sense how long it is taking for them to get it out. that is all i am saying.
"We do not have an exact ETA for our exhaust at this time. The 2.75” dies have been ordered from Europe and should be in sometime this month. As soon as they are in, we will build the Cat-back and Downpipes on our in house RS4 and then proceed with the pre-sale. That is the extent of the timeline right now. Basically, as soon as we have the 2.75” dies in our hands we will be ready to start producing the JHM RS4 Exhaust and Downpipes and shortly after that, releasing them!
We build our exhaust systems on a CNC Mandrel bender. More importantly, each size diameter of piping requires a specifically sized die to be built. We don’t want to build anything with our new fabricator until we have the specific die for this system. The dies are custom built in Europe specifically for our fabricator’s machine and made to order. Hopefully, they come in this month like specified.
We have an extensive list of those already interested in purchasing our exhaust when pre-sale is available. We will contact all customers on the list at that time. If you would like to be added to the list please email sales@jhmotorsports.com and we will gladly add you to the list! "
It’s actually just a clamp like you said… The whole install was extremely easy. I think once the DPs were installed the CB went in in a little under 30 minutes.
That’s the more money than sense option (unless you got it for free or included on a car or something)…or the ‘I want to make a bad choice just so I can be different’ option.
There are plenty of excellent sounding exhausts out there, before someone argues that it is a sound purchase.
since it’s slower than stock, I guess I have when I used to own an S4. As for sound, no I’m sure it sounds epic. If someone came to me and said ‘Hi. I have an exhaust for you that will make your car slightly slower and will choke the exhaust stream with a smaller diameter than stock, and worse bends…but it comes with a remote control and sounds great’ I would have to ask the person how much they were going to pay me.
That’s me though…I bought an RS4 for a number of reasons but performance is chief among them. I haven’t heard a bad sounding RS4 yet…so I’m not sure whatever capristo does could be worth it.
I guess that is you and i respect that & have no issues w/ that. However, I stopped living my life a 1/4 mile at a time a few years ago. I purchased the RS4 for the complete package; performance, handling, looks, the V8 sound, and the ability to use it in all 4 seasons.
Few questions though…How do you know it’s slower than stock? Do you have any data points that show that? The notion that it’s slower than stock is correct when you compare the exhaust in cruise mode (valves closed) to a stock rs4 in S mode (open valves). However, the capristo in open mode (valves open) pushes out more tq via vag-com than a stock rs4 in S mode (valves open).
Additionally, i think ( i have no data for my next statement) that this would be true with any valved exhaust. ie, when the valves are closed it would be slower than a stock rs4 in S mode (valves open).
Also, the bends showed in this post are not an actual representation of the bends. Here is the engineering document of the exhaust as well as better pictures of the bend:
