Bad news is, my clutch is slipping now…. Time to all Southbend and see whats up.
Video of the above time slip… B8 S4 vs B5 S4… young vs old =)
Ordered a new set of wheels yesterday.. should be in on the first week of April… I’ll post updates/a teaser then!
Today I finally got around to installing my ER’s… after a few people posting that they’re such a pain in the ass to install I was expecting more, but they went in without a hitch.. little to no mods needed and got it the old FMIC out and the ER’s in, in under 3 hours.
I’ll be honest.. I was expecting more… people talking about pressure drop and all that jazz, but I noticed no increase in boost at all after switching to ER’s…. I’ll have to wait until the weather gets warmer to take some logs that I can compare to but from what I can tell there is no difference between my FMIC setup and now the ER’s except that the car is even more stealth now with no pipes showing through the grills.
Would I do it again, go from FMIC to ER’s? Probably not unless I see a huge difference in temps which I also doubt I will see.
Anyway on to some pics…
Getting started….
The ER’s…
Buddy stopped by with his 996 TT…
How I mounted the dryer…
ER’s are in…
Driver side…
Pass. side…
Clearance between dryer and IC… lots of room there…
no scrubbing with the brush of course… just a gentle wash with some tri-foam and pressure washer at the local wash bays….
another day or two and I should have it back… the car looks brand new.
I can’t thank the guys @ Superior Auto Collision enough for their amazing work.
Should be getting the car back from the bodyshop this week!
Oh HAI!
Thanks to Max…
ER Sidemount IC’s to replace my FMIC
Alright boys and girls… time to start collecting parts for future upgrades.
The shopping list:
- ATQ/AHA heads
- Rods
- 3L Pistons
- ER or AMD SMICs
- RS4 Airbox (top)
- RS4 Y-pipe (maybe, might just have one made out of aluminum instead)
- Extra IM for modding (porting and increased plenum volume) or RS4 IM
- 3″ DPs to new exhaust system (either dual 3″ or single 3.5″, still undecided)
- 2.0T coil conversion
- 710N DV’s
- V8 rear brake upgrade parts
- HPX MAF and housing
sooo… got to my work last night around 9:00 completely unrelated to my car to look for some stuff, about 30 min after I pulled my car in and ended up being there till 4:00 in the morning working on it…
started by trying to open up the stock airbox opening for my 85mm. MAF, that didn’t work out (routed right through part of the neck), so moved on to trying to dissect my dead TB that was informative but after taking it apart it was clear it was going to stay in pieces lol….
then the real work began:
- swapping out my inner floppy door handle that came from blittle/audis4parts.com.
- then I fixed my OBD port in my bolster (I had hit it with my leg while logging and it cracked the tabs off of the bolster) by plastic welding on new tabs to keep it in place.
- then I decided to pull my ashtray for a few reasons… last time I pulled it to do something in that area when I put it back it wouldn’t latch closed anymore, the wires going in the ashtry for the meth controller and red switch (to turn on and off my carpc without the key) were causing the ashtry not to open/close properly, and the red switch for the carpc id a BAD idea because I can easily forget it in the on position and wake up to a dead battery.
- completely removed the meth controller and red switch, rewired the carpc to proper accessory wire coming from ign switch, made red switch turn on/off meth controller.
- while I was in the ashtray I always wanted a plexiglass surround, so I made one
- while I had to take the wheel off to get at the ignition switch I test fitted the 2nd gen TT wheel
- since the shifter was off I retrofitted my new shiftkob from a 2010 Audi S5
by the time I put everything back together it was around 3:45-4:00 and by the time I got home it was like 4:30… long night but feels great to fix all the little things in the car that has been bugging the hell out of me for the entire summer lol.
a few pics I snapped during the night…
