Nice!
Showdowns are always fun! Glad that you’ve kept the top spot Ron! 
As always, awesome job and thanks for sharing. Threads like this make that needle get closer and closer to my arm… must fight urge to track car…
PrimeTime;
I am so glad that you had a great time at the track with imola monsterand and on the strip. Great time buddy! I am working on my car hard to find and iron out the problems so we can hang out soon and run some 1/4 miles out as well! Man I wish I was there, next time!
David, thanks bud! Car was very consistent except for the run where the tranny hung slightly… No issues with the tranny(knock on wood)… I did get some wheel spin on the first run which ironically was the best as I still managed a 1.65 60ft time… I can’t find a cause to the hangup but I am sure there is some limiter or something… I guess we could log some of the DSG fields and try to figure it out… What exactly is you tranny doing?
Wow I just realized that the vag file saved somehow before the PC died… The bad part is I am still an idiot and didn’t select turbomode or group by so the sampling rate is pathetic… The new tune is very nice… seeing about 23.5-24.5 timing values during runs with a peak of almost 27! Logged timing retard on 2 cylinders and one showed 0 retard on every run and the other pulled a few degrees at a couple points… didn’t dump any boost! Saw between 15-15.5psi…
Saki, What post?
Rich, Thanks! I thought about asking to make a pass in his car but decided against it…
Scott, Thanks man! yeah it was fun… All you PCNW guys need to go together one day!
Nighthawk, Welcome to the forum and thanks for the props!
Hunter, Yeah it was a good time and I am sure will get a chance to run some day… I am game for that track day/cottage party you mentiond when we talked so keep me posted!
i need you to go ahead and order the bigger blower asap so in the hot air your still running 11’s or better!
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That was for the Canadian guys who came to Cayuga. Was trying to get everyone’s times together so we can see what kind of day it was for various cars. At first I thought it was great density altitude, but when I ran my best times it had warmed up and DA was 200-300 (12.75 was at DA 281).
Looking forward to you guys posting the fact that a GIAC 91 tune B8 S4 was beaten by a bone stock RS4. Someone needs to call GIAC out on that…because GIAC is full of shit with that 402 WHP dyno.
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Gotcha… You know if I was on that other forum I would gladly post it for you… I’m sure someone from here will oblige though:)
I found the 1-2 hang up was worst to me stock, happened every run. Don’t think it was wheelspin, maybe hot tranny since it did it less cold. When I was tuned and with cold crappy tires I got wheelspin and it short shifted at 5000 rpm…now with some grip, everything is happy.
Bear, I guess if I had to try to run down Ron I’d consider something special like that…I do have a lot of weight to lose in this car and I’ll start with 50 lbs of wheel/tire combo, less gas (was 1/2 tank of 100 Friday so I could continue on the circuit), no washer fluid, and some ex-lax the night before lol.
Looking into the Strat, among other things today…
I’ll be back for sure this month, but likely a Wed or Friday night when the road course isn’t $150…you will try it Bear. Seinsmeld came for laps in my car and enjoyed it for sure, especially getting the wave-bys.
Simply amazing!
I am still waiting to see definitive proof that long tube headers make any sort of real difference considering the amount of stuff that was ripped out of the other car although who knows since Ron seems to have the skill of driving these things to their fullest down to a T!?
LW Rotors and wheels seem to be the ticket!
Congrats on another first and an amazing time.
So where are all those other tunes that claim to be running more power???!!!?? :-*
where are the other tunes indeed
I asked the question about GIAC, here
http://forums.audiworld.com/showthread.php?p=24285683#post24285683
the other thing I am considering is with Ron’s car he is always running 100+ octane.
I would think that the longer you can run a 100 file the better the car will perform. I am going to experiment with this and fill the tank the day before heading out to the track with 100 octane and put 100+km so the car is nicely adapted instead of just popping in the gas right before heading out. As others have experienced I was consistently getting a tenth of a second faster with each pass last season. Some of that can be attributed to falling temperatures but I can also expect it potentially was further adapting to the fuel!
If only 100 octane was easy to come by in these parts.
Like I said before^^^
This is worth a try more than anything else, it’ll cost me something like $60 more for the tank prior, plus another $60 of race gas that day.
I think I paid about 250 for enough to fill ~3/4 of a tank so I have no problem doing this. I keep hounding the shop I work with on my cars to become a VP fuel dealer so I don’t have to trek 150km round trip to pick up gas.
I’m going to see what I can do for this coming weekend. Have to reflash my damn ECU since audi cleared mine when they replaced the mechatronics unit although my rear diff is now leaking so who knows what to do.
kms? where are you located? We really need a ‘location’ thing on the site. Wonder if the guys could program that in.
nvmind…Vancouver. Guess you won’t be coming to our next meet lol.
a bit far unfortunately 
what were your times when you went stock?
if you are asking me… 13.4ish was the stock time on a hot day running 94 octane.
I was on the right. I also think that time had 1 passenger.
Best APR stage 2 time was 12.419 with MS 109 fuel an intake with no heat shield etc.
Launch control is definitely a detriment when flashed. This was also the last run of the night. There was more in that car if I could have got a few more runs in.
what’s your best pump gas time? Do you guys (BC) have 93 or 94? Or just 91?
Ron,
The tranny isn’t doing anything new… Its same 1-2 shift hang-up (needle travels beyond 7k rpm and cuts power)… But it seem to be getting worse with the additional power. I have typed out two 1/4 mile runs done within 45 minutes of each other and the only noticeable difference was the severity of the 1-2 hang-up.
Run 1
60’ 1.729
330 5.119
1/8 7.867
MPH 89.77
1000 10.233
1/4 12.229
MPH 113.35
Run 2
60’ 1.760
330 5.492
1/8 8.469
MPH 84.80
1000 10.937
1/4 12.989
MPH 110.66
Ron/Jay,
Just tell me what fields to log and I’ll do it as it seems that I am noticing the shift problem more than most.
Thanks guys!
That tells me there’s other problems 81.
The 1-2 shift happens at about 35 mph on most cars…which is just after the 60’. So if you have a big hang up there, it’s going to show in your 330 foot time, and that lag will be in each ET from here on in (1/8th, 1000, 1/4).
You were almost 4 tenths slower in run 2 at the 330 foot mark…but then were 6 tenths slower at the 1/8th…7 tenths slower at the 1000 and almost 8 tenths slower at the 1/4.
That seems like the car is being held back not just at the 1-2, but at all points down the track, as the 330 foot time gap doubled by the time you hit the traps. Sounds like the car is cutting power to a small degree or something. Maybe it pulls timing and just kind of runs at 90% till it can cool down or something.
Maybe log one of those runs?