Thanks mate yeah I’m really pleased with it, the guy who done it is a good friend of mine his an ace welder he use to work of shore on the oil rigs doing it for a living and like i said it cost me a couple of hundred pounds to do it including materials so a hell of a price difference !!
I can’t believe you have no one out there if that’s the case you should defo learn to weld you would make a mint doing it ! I’d love to learn how to weld I’ve done a little but i have a long way to go lol
I am very much looking forward to hearing this! I plan to do the same with my build. I will also be deleting the cats from the headers. Trying to squeeze the torque out of this beast! Any suggestions in terms of fab work would be welcomed! Nice job @SteveRS4
Hi all. New to this site… lot’s of good information! So on to todays mod. At this very moment these are being mounted to my car. check it out
Nice, those should look fantastic. Post up a photo when they’re on and list the specs for wheels and tires.
Edit: The Tires are Michelin SS 285/30/20.
Previous wheels: HRE P43SC Brushed Alu Tint - 20x10.5 et 25
Newly mounted wheels: Signature SV302S 2 Piece Matt Black Disk Gloss Black Rim 20x10.5 et 27
That’s the car originally from Louisiana, isn’t it? I think you and I had a discussion about it some time back, LOL. I really like those wheels, very similar to my Klassen ID M10’s in design with one more spoke and not black.
I bought the Signature rims over the winter off a local Audi enthusiast. After seeing them on my car today I’m thinking he must of had spacers. I emailed him to ask him. Reason being is I notice more fender gap with these (the adjustable springs were removed before I bought the car). It may be the color that forces my eye to the gap.
plus the obvious offset difference
I remember seeing that car for sale when I was looking for a used RS5. I’ve not seen another Daytona Gray with those wheels. Great looking car!
Thanks. I’m changing. the look though. Over the weekend I installed carbon fiber mirror caps (off with the alu). Today I mounted the wheels. Next: black out the alu window trim (with wrap), paint calipers and possibly black out the front alu lower lip. Then I need to start thinking about a slight drop.
btw…your car is off the charts. Love what you’re doing with it. What made you pass on the Daytona? Did you find that gorgeous red car of yours at the same time?
Washed, claybar’ed, compound polish, paste waxed her! Will eventually get a full ppf wrap and ceramic coating. Going to cost $7k~ (CAD)
Mythos? Looks exactly like mine. Love it
Yes sir! 2015 Mythos black metallic. So classy.
I just clay bared and polished mine. that color is amazing.
Slapped on some custom black chrome HRE FF01s, new Michelin PS4S and replaced a vibrating B&O speaker. Looks mean. I’ll post pics later.
I love the rotor look on the RS5, but the damn weight!
Today I drove the RS5 for the first time in two weeks. I think she was really happy to actually hit the road. Didn’t have a battery tender on her and cranking was sloooow but she fired right up. Ran like a champ despite the 95 degree Fahrenheit temps. Way too early for that sort of sh*t.
I went and picked up five new cross bars and brackets for the new Evo RMR transmission cooler kit and after things cooled down a bit, I took the bumper off to verify bracket dimensions (spot on!). I left her on front jacks as I may start to tackle the upper control arm mounts tomorrow. It’ll take me 30 minutes to get the upper arms out and old bearings removed and five hours to get the new ones back in, LOL.
ECS rotors are lighter and cheaper. Look much better against my black rims
Rebuilt my Stern adjustable upper control arms over the past few days. After getting them off, I realized two of the outer bushings which insert into the suspension upright were no longer in the best shape. Not horrible but I wasn’t going to put them back on like that. So I ordered a rebuild kit.
I’d already replaced the inner bushings with poly bushings so I now have four new bonded rubber OEM style if anyone wants them, LOL.
Got them on, wasn’t too difficult overall but I took my time due to work duties and just left her up on “blocks”. A bit over a week was enough to kill the battery. My charger/tender died and I’d only driven her once in the past month. Trying to resuscitate the battery with a new charger now. If it doesn’t work, I’ll likely grab the Antigravity LifeP04 battery and save 30 pounds.
Fully rebuilt!
Here’s one of the Aurora end link bearings. The goop on the top of the ball and bottom of the control arm is grease. Someone put a dab of grease down there. Not sure why…they’re internally “lubed” with a teflon liner. The grease can actually cause the teflon to deteriorate. All four had it and I cleaned the crap out of them before pressing the new ones back in. I’ll post a full writeup and video soon.
