Sucks about the intake that is an expsnsive fix. Good that you got it all fixed. Then it sucks you didnt get a chance to run at the track last week. But its good that you have the intake spacers in and a good healthy running car.
Its crazy that your car ran so well even with the broken intake.
We are cheering for you to get back to the track. Interested in seeing you getting back to the track with a new intake and the JHM intake spacers.
We’re cheering for you Rocman. Finish off the season strong.
This is correct, The S8 guys are not left out. JHM has a tune for the S8 as well.
Can you request a throttle remap when you order a tune from JHM? I’ve always preferred a 1:1 throttle map, makes a big difference IMO, and it sounds like the map is more of a log scale? Or some kind of scale other than 1:1
From what I have seen they keep the OEM throttle map so none of that changes. But the change is they unlock the TQ restriction off idle. The response is all of the available tq and power the car can make at each stage of the RPM. So before when the car was dead and not responsive now the car is very responsive.
So before when the cams would be dead until 3k they now come in just off idle. Before when the ignition timing was dead until 3k it comes in just off idle. Before when you had the port flap shut until 4k its now open all the time other then cold start. I think one of the biggest things is the port flap now being open. That port flap makes a big restriction. JHM has been doing this on NA cars and really being the experts on this for years. They usualy make over double the hp the other tuners make on NA cars.
I finally made it to the track today, couldn’t get there fast enough.
First a quick recap. I had to have the intake replaced, and while the manifold was off, i added the intake spacers and heater bypass. With that came a carbon cleaning.
And the results- how about matching 13.280@105 runs, (http://audirevolution.net/addons/albums/images/141861512.jpg) Excuse the link, i could not get the pic in here or as an attachment.
I’m very impressed- breaking the tires loose in a car this heavy is an accomplishment, and tons of fun. Remember, no TCU tune, no lightweight parts, no exhaust, just the JHM tune. My prior best times were 12.5, so another 2 tenths from the intake, spacers, and carbon clean. i wanted to make more runs, mostly to try different shift points, no real reason, was curious if I could make better time short shifting. Anyone ever experiment with that?
I was approached by a few people at the track and they were all impressed with the performance, and the V10 badging. People rarely see these cars, and don’t know much about them, so it was a great conversation piece, and good thing, we waited a long time between runs- between guys hitting the guard rail and I don’t yet have the TCU tune, exhaust, or any lightweight parts! I have no doubt I will break the 12 second barrier in the spring with these mods.
So the unexpected maintenance set me back quite a bit, and the exhaust and TCU tune with the lightweight JHM parts will have to wait, but they are on the list. Not sure what’s first, just have to see what the winter brings me.
http://audirevolution.net/addons/albums/images/141861512.jpg
Great posts, great results! The car hasn’t even been delivered yet and I have a shopping list…
13.2 with just intake spacers, a carbon cleaning, and an ECU tune ??? That’s nuts! My car could very well be down in the 12’s already with all the other stuff I have in addition to that… hopefully we’ll find out soon!
Great results. I was going to get a JHM tune next week from NGP, but I won a charity auction at this Audi event this weekend and it included an APR ECU tune certificate for $600 (I think it was, it’s not in front of me at the moment) and I wanted to see if I could trade it in for a JHM tune, but I think they won’t allow it because the APR certificate was given to them by APR lol :’( :’( :’( :’( :’(
welp… i’ll be doing an intro post soon… elaborating upon the journey that is C6 S6 ownership lol…
I would strongly strongly suggest you sell off your certificate. There have been several guys that had the apr tune before the JHM tune came out and none of them were any faster in performance testing. Or real life driviing testing. If you use the cartificate to flash your S6 then its worth nothing.
Try seeing of you can sell the certificate. if you see it you can take the money you got from the sale and put it twords a JHM tune. As several people have mentioned the JHM tuner has helped APR in the past with there tunes. So it makes sense to go to the sorce and get a better tune.
The last reason I would strongly suggest you dont waste the money or even time on the APR tune is that in the end APR is not supporting the V10 market of the S6 or S8. An investment in JHM is an investment in your actual platform. The more money that goes into the V10 market best serves the platform if the company you buy parts from puts that money back into the platform.
WOW incredible results.
here is your slip posted
http://audirevolution.net/addons/albums/images/141861512.jpg
Great job, this is showing that there really are performance options out now for the S6 and with just a (JHM) tune and a few simple supporting mods the car is performing well outside of what anyone has seen over the past almost 10 years.
SIX6SIX To back up what Justincredible said. I too would strongly suggest selling the APR ECU certificate. The JHM tune is more than performance. It’s Performance, Protection and Preventive all this while offering up a solid future and an improved MPG
I will post more about this in my thread but, this is a good place to leave a few comments.
Performance-
The Performance of the JHM tune is never been seen before. We’re seeing that now. This isn’t the first time people have gone to the track with other “tuned” S6 cars. The results were the same as stock. There are a few threads on here with other “tuned” cars going to the track.
Protection -
The Protection side of the JHM tune works to drop over all cylinder temperatures along with the coolant and oil temps. You can tell in cooler overall EGT, oil and coolant temps when you monitor them Vs stock.
Also cylinder disable. The OEM tune won’t quickly disable a cylinder if a missfire happens. With the JHM tune if you have issues like rocman had with misfires the JHM tune will disable a cylinder to prevent any damage to your cats and your motor. You’ll get a CEL sooner if something is wrong.
This and better fuel mileage. You don’t and can’t get that with any-other tune. That and more but, that is good for just a quick heads up.
What’s the total cost for self install? $695 +$150 for the cable?
Yeah I’m pretty solid I’m just going to do the JHM tune off top anyway because I don’t really want to go with the APR option lol. It apparently may already be unitronic tuned (see stickers that came on car in intro thread lol). but yeah, we’ll see. I finally passed inspection today after uhhh a month and a half I think it was… something like that… sooo one thing down, next to pay for the exhaust from JHM and play the waiting game on the intake manifold replacement. car runs fine for now, but not really going to push it anymore. it seems whatever was wrong with the manifold was like that from the time i left the shop all the way until the time i got back lol… guardian angels… gracias…
anyway… yeah, it’s hard to go against the cointless reviews and results posted… i haven’t done the LW pulley or LW rotors or any of that yet… buuut we’ll see how it goes… i kinda wanted to get a track car, but all of this is making me re think everything and be patient lol…
Yes the results are just not something most people understand.
Not that I would ever recomend anyone get or take anything on AZ serious just look at this pole. We had the same situation when the B6 and B7 S4 4.2 was just comming up. Most people just thought chips were chips and tunes were tunes.
Nope the JHM tune is leaps and bounds better and better performing. What ended up happening is whats going on here. People started to see real results from the JHM tunes and nothing from the other tunes. Obviously we have had a few guys with the APR tune go to the track and they were really no faster than stock. So to save you time and money you know where my suggestion comes from but these poll results show just how much better the JHM tune is
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/402306-Chips-Poll-with-customer-review
wow… look at those poll results lol
Just by reading the fanboi hate threads, the mudslinging et al, I honestly would’ve thought that poll would’ve shown FAR more GIAC and APR numbers.
REVO…oh REVO. I had a good friend recently take a marketing position with them; turns out they’re extremely unrealistic. He’s back with Porsche now I think lol.
Honestly, even if it was apples to apples difference, I’d probably still go JHM since they’re the only ones still actively developing this platform. Anything I can do to support that will only help me out…
I know.It helps let people see that there really is a leader and someone really dedicated to the NA platform. There is a huge difference between the other so called big box tuner and JHM. It is something some people dont get at first thought. You can see over time so many guys pay twice on tunes getting something other than the JHM tune and then they get the JHM tune and say it was night and day. I just hate to see people spend the money or time twice.
It was kinda the same thing here a few years ago. But in the S4 nobody got tunes back in the day because they just gave you a hot throttle more rpm. Companys like APR and GIAC and a few others made all these claims only to be shown on a dyno to make no more than stock. JHM showed up there tune blew the rest of the tunes out of water. In part because JHMs tuner used to tune for ford SVT when that was a thing before ford reduced that part of the company.
But super great point. JHM is active in the S6 market and they are really just starting to get involved. From what I understand they have not even started main production on parts like exhaust and the other small parts. They make them one off but it sounds like they are moving into that direction and that is good for the comunity
Seriously this is an exciting time
