has anyone installed a discreet shift light in their RS4? If so, what was your setup? Any help would be awesome possum. Please don’t post about learn the shift points blah blah blah…Got it…Honestly I would rather just be lazy 
Louis CK
Too lazy to look at an RPM needle right in front of you?
hahaha says the guy who bounces off the rev limiter and blows runs, then curses everything under the sun 
maybe Duud40, iirc he had one on his car
Shots fired!
I only hit the rev limiter when I botch the shift and can’t get into the next gear. Pretty standard stuff.
standard only if you can’t drive for shit
I see. I guess you must be the one and only existing perfect driver that has never, ever, botched a single shift during a WOT run. Yeah…sure…whatever…
Then again, maybe you take a full second to shift so that would explain it.
More shots fired! Take cover.
Yeah, anyone who claims to have never missed a shift has never put more than 7 passes in at the strip. When you’re pushing the car and trying to make as fast a change as possible, you are bound to miss shifts.
I missed one on Saturday, and I reckon I could match or beat pretty much any 4.2 driver’s time in the same car. But I guess I can’t drive for shit.
Anything I can do to negate the possibility of me bouncing off the rev limiter.
I still wouldn’t get a shift light. Feels a bit too wannabe-racecar to me.
Ferrari puts them on the wheel now and everyone wants it for their 2 day a year HPDE in their family sedan lol.
I am actually looking at the P3 that replaces the vent and has different variables. Luckily, it has a shift light integrated.
If you need a gauge for boost sure. You’re going to be running 6 psi on a supercharger with boost determined by a pulley so I don’t see the need for a boost gauge.
I didn’t plan on using the boost gauge. The original intent was for a discreet shift light, and this fits the bill. Even better is the fact that I can check out other variables. I see it as a win win.
I wouldn’t completely disregard a boost gauge, even with a static pulley. It helps with diagnosis when minor problems occur.
I made more than 7 passes my very first time at the strip - over 30 years ago, Mister suit-wearing “can i please sweep floors and watch the techs work so i can learn about cars” - I’ve seen your older posts on other sites before you got banned for being such a tool.
Since you’re still missing shifts at this point you should be in an automatic, so yeah, i’d say you can’t drive for shit too, ego-boi.
To the OP - real racers, which obviously include none of these eurodorks, use a shift light for completely legitimate reasons, and you’ll find it’s both very helpful and safer not to have to eyeball the tach while banging through gears.
Don’t let guys who spend their day online tell you what to do.
^^ are you here to troll AR members? if so, you can gtfo.
So let’s recap
- I have a job that requires me to dress in office attire, and that’s somehow bad
- I know less about working on cars than my friends (the guys from JHM) so I just helped out doing whatever while learning, and that’s also bad
- I missed 1 gear change out of 19 passes (1 out of 57) on Saturday and that means I can’t drive
- I don’t know how to drive even though I’ve consistently had some of the fastest, if not the fastest times, for my cars’ configurations
- S4mikey knows me, but nobody knows him.
- ‘real racers’ have shift lights. As noted above in 1., I already have a job so I’m not worried about being a real racer
OK, all good now!
Thanks for the update Mikey. Good to hear you’ve never missed a gear shift ever. That’s just awesome. We’ll have to tell jason@jhm he is a shit driver too since he missed a shift in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XIrAxQbNc
Now, enjoy your 2004 S4 and your great life being 50+ years old and trolling random internet boards about what agreat mechanic you were 30 years ago. Everyone’s very impressed!