In the discussions about the tial car failures (bad 1/4 mile results) there has been one item that a few people have alluded to, but we haven’t explored it.
EPL TUNING
We couldn’t discuss this on any other site, because EPL is an advertiser on them all. 91GL got banned for posting in the ‘Tial results thread’ as his posts were construed as a call out on the EPL cars. Quattroworld is the same…with posts on this topic getting deleted and covered up very quickly. So, here on Audirevolution.net where there are no sponsors, there is no coverup…we can discuss this topic.
Do we really think EPL knows how to tune cars to be real world fast (track/street/strip)? Or do we get the impression they are great at tuning for a dyno sheet, but in the end the cars are a little lackluster where it counts. That’s my impression. I haven’t seen a compressor map for the Tial 605 or 770 (because I heard there isn’t one which is another story lol) but I get the impression they are indeed able to flow a bunch of air to make power. So if the supporting modifications are there (cooling, exhaust etc) and the turbos are there for the power…why are these cars not performing anywhere but single gear high speed, high rpm pulls???
It’s gotta be the tuning.
Here’s a great resource for B5 S4 quarter mile times. Anyone ever notice the absolute lack of EPL tuned cars on this list?
http://audirevolution.net/quartermile/
On that list, some interesting things pop up
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the fastest EPL car is NYCVR6 who ran 11.66 @ 123 with K04 hybrids and EPL tuning on C16 (and who wasn’t even EPL tuned really…the tune had to be tweaked quite a bit)
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the next EPL car is a 12+ second car
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the Tial cars that went to the strip as a group in WA never posted up their info, so we can’t see them or their timeslips (although they weren’t fantastic so who can blame them)
[b]There are 30 B5 S4s that ran 11.999 or better…and only ONE is an EPL tuned car.
There are only a handful of B5 S4s that dynod 600 whp or better…and a MAJORITY of them are EPL tuned.
That’s a gigantic disconnect.[/b]
Here’s something else that’s funny. We have about a dozen quarter mile times for Tial cars. They are just about all tuned by EPL…but one of them is not. Which one? The fastest one. Notorious VR self tuned his B5 on 605s and pump gas to a 11.9 @ 116 quarter mile. The other Tial cars? All well into the 12s, mostly in the teens mph with a couple of exceptions.
EDIT: We have now seen a Tial car get DEEP into the 11s. TonyAiello went 11.1 @ 129 in his Tial 770 car. Great news for EPL right? NOPE. Great news for JFONZ, who actually tuned the car. So 2 different Tial cars in the 11s…and another dozen in the 12s. EPL has 0 cars in the 11s and owns all of the ones running 12s. Wow.
Anyone else finding this super odd???