SRM - Twin Chargers - Teaser Pic - Thoughts?

B8 S4
#21

Lmao! Does it even have a turbo? ?

Also reminded me of this guy I worked with while stationed in AZ. In the early Fast & Furious days, he bought an Eclipse, riced it out to the max, I mean roof scoop and all. Then he was installing a turbo timer one day and I questioned him about not having a turbo and he replied, I’ll get one soon so I want to be ready. Lol!! I was speechless after that. He never did get a turbo installed and had issues with the battery draining all the time due to this tt… >:(

I guess if these guys ever get back to the track and put down some very low 11s or even 10s, then people might get more excited. I personally would wait another 2 or 3 years, buy a used 2010 for mid to low $20s, and possibly make it a project. But not on my daily driver. …

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#22

I have no idea if he does but seeing as how your buddy got a TT before an actual turbo I guess nothing is out of the realm of possibilities.

#23

There’s a video of this car going wot floating around and revving out to 7200-7500 rpm each gear… And it’s slow.

So that explains the lack of performance proof.

#24

Apparently it’s modified GTR fast :o

[QUOTE=Jacksonbeall;10243024]I had a chance to have my S4 in a feature spot at SEMA this year. The SRM guys had helped my with a water meth solution for my car and realizing that the were based in Las Vegas I got in contact with them so I could go see this thing first hand. First of all let me say that Sean and Kyle couldn’t have been more hospitable, I swung my on my way out of town and they gave me a full tour of the shop including all of the design work for the system, how my meth plates had been made and other various projects they were working on. Then they took me out side where a very stock looking S4 sat, that is until he opened the hood! Sweet jesus, right behind the blower was a very large looking turbo system pair yup with a very well fabricated custom cooling system. Sean took the time to go over every aspect of the different design approaches they took on this build and why their current system had produced the best and most reliable results. Honestly I was spectacle if the car would actually run since all we have seen on here is about a 12 second teaser, so he offered to take me for a ride. All I can say is HOLY SHIT TAKE MY MONEY NOW. We did multiple highway pulls and the power is down right scary, the last time I had been thrown back in the seat that hard was when I got to ride in one of our local Dallas tuners upgraded GTR. Then there was the highlight of this entire experience, he took us to a back street and launched this monster at 5.5k, all 4 tires lit up effortlessly and we hit 130 before I could blink. Sean stated that at that point they were only running about 24 pounds of boost but the system had the capability of going upwards of 30. I took a few pictures of the system and I have a few videos of the pulls, all of which I will upload when I get everything loaded from my SEMA trip. I looks like these guys have truly found a solution to create good power in this platform, he did say some of the internals would have to be upgraded to guarantee the reliability off the system, but I fee like thats is a small investment in regard to the amount of power have been able to produce. Seeing and feeling is definitely believing. If any of you have the chance to travel to Las Vegas anytime soon I would highly recommend stopping by and seeing for yourself, their shop was only about 5 miles from the strip! I’ll post pics and Videos up here in a few hours! ***Sorry for any spelling or grammatical errors I’ve been in the car since 2pm yesterday so I’m on the struggle bus.
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#25

wow

the video I saw it was moving about 400 RPM per second in 3rd gear, and went 0-100 MPH in about 10-11 seconds.

AKA stock B8 S4

#26

These ETG/Solomotorworks/Jfonz/Younameit guys seem to be the exact same thing as frankenturbo. Just a poorly assembled product that doesn’t deliver performance.

And if there is one thing I learned in dealing with Doug@FT its that people are gonna buy it, they are going to overspend and it will fail and they will defend him and love the crappy product. You can’t change those people. Its for the better though, those are the guys who end up not improving performance and out a lot of money, then you see a stock or stage 1 crush their stage 3 car.

I say good riddance, let the people who are dumb enough to buy that product do it, their cars will explode or underperform and in time ETG will disappear. until then, grab a beer and kick back.

#27

I got tired of trying to stop people from being morons. Let them be slow.

#28

Most sane people that have seriously modded cars know there is no hope for this science project.

For one thing, the latest iteration clearly has no intercooler between the TC and SC, so you get inlet air at a significant temp above ambient: the efficiency out of the twin-charged SC outlet is a product of SC Eff x TC eff = nuclear hot at the boost required to make 500WHP or more.

To that SRM said they cleverly figured out something about cooling the discharge air that no one else did and they are running no water/meth injection: http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/597150-Teaser-Twincharged-B8-S4?p=10212643&viewfull=1#post10212643.

Somehow I doubt it’s anything greater than running maybe 100% straight water for SC cooling loop which is unknown how much even that would help.

#29

If there is one thing all of us know. It’s that SRM and clever never go in the same sentence.

#30

Silly wabbit…