Pic from Carlisle Import Show

[rxrep]

Didn't get a chance to take any pics of my own car at show (there had to be almost 100 Audis there, along with almost 200 Slaabs and Volvos and any other Euro you can think of), but someone else took these. Be sure to blow it up to full size to see details (at full size you can almost see the "Audizine.com" sticker in back quarter window):




On this one, the First Place Plaque from another show blew over from the wind.



And here is the engineering masterpiece of the weekend.... the "death bong" AKA "The quattro" and "the Quattronator", which was a 4 person, pressurized and fully automated refillable from the keg four-person beer bong.



And finally, since this a B6 post, I can tack on...

GO PENGUINS!

[espo4442]

hey man I saw your a4 at the show, and I was def impressed by how clean your car looked.

[RLB6]

I got a couple of questions:

1. Is your brake set up the stoptechs? what size and what calipers?
2. Did you powdercoat your intake mani red or is that high temp spray paint.

Car is definitely clean!

[Elliott]

That is beautiful!

[rxrep]

I got a couple of questions:
1. Is your brake set up the stoptechs? what size and what calipers?

Yes, Stoptech 332 monoblocks. Had 355, but couldn't get both street and track wheels that cleared. Sold the 355 for almost what I paid for them. 332 works great. Hawk HPS pads. Rears are 255 3.0 upgrade with HPS pads also.

2. Did you powdercoat your intake mani red or is that high temp spray paint.

1200 degree ceramic paint with high temp clear. It gets a little soft when I run it real hard, but has held up good so far. Oh, I did shave down the bumps on the top side of the entire intake maifold. It was smooth enough to polish before I hit it with paint.

Thanks to everyone else who gave props. There were some sick cars there as always. The Red URS4 next to me was off the hook. They had an S5, RS4 and an R8 in addition to some serious B5 S4's and older CQ's that were really sweet.

[auggy]

beautiful car .. what are your wheels?

[rxrep]

beautiful car .. what are your wheels?

Aww, man... I'm thinking "This guy must be new" and I looked at your join date and, well... you are, here, at least.
Anyhow, welcome to AZ. They are the most played-out, overhyped wheels on the forum, lol.
VMR 19" B7 RS4 replicas, for the muthafuggin' win.
People here either love them or hate them. They are very common, I'll say that. There was even an S8 with them at this show. But I still think they match the lines of the car the best.

[Maverick]

o yeah! rock it baby!

[A4natomical]

very well done car. i love spotless cars. the b5 splitter fits the lines of the usp better than the b6 splitter(which i have). i should have gone for the b5 one.

[manhertm]

WTF kind of beer is that! It looks like something a saw in a spittoon. LOL

[rxrep]

WTF kind of beer is that! It looks like something a saw in a spittoon. LOL

I think it was Miller Lite. That isn't what it really looks like; it was just the low light pic. It was light beer of some sort. 2 full kegs later it could've been piss for all we knew.
Seriously, if anyone on the north east coast (we had people from Ontario down to mid-Ohio as well) is around for this annual gathering, it is one of the best times you'll ever have. Without the fast 'n furious crowd. All Eruos, and very litle of the graphics and deck wing crowd.

very well done car. i love spotless cars. the b5 splitter fits the lines of the usp better than the b6 splitter(which i have). i should have gone for the b5 one.

Thanks. That splitter was doctored up heavily, though. I cut an inch out of the middle and an inch off each side and fuzed back together, then cut the front corners to match the USP curve a little better. That isn't how the splitter came out of the box, to say the least.

[quattro2003]

Wish I could have made it out, looked like a great time. I'll be at vw superjam on the 8th with my cousin. My car will be on coils by then. Btw Lee, I took your advice and went with Vogtlands.

[auggy]

Aww, man... I'm thinking "This guy must be new" and I looked at your join date and, well... you are, here, at least.
Anyhow, welcome to AZ. They are the most played-out, overhyped wheels on the forum, lol.
VMR 19" B7 RS4 replicas, for the muthafuggin' win.
People here either love them or hate them. They are very common, I'll say that. There was even an S8 with them at this show. But I still think they match the lines of the car the best.

Haha thanks for the kind answer. I am new .. just bought an a4 last monday. I'm a member at a similar site that is BMW oriented and the new guys always get ripped apart.

I think the wheels look great .. even if they are played out.

[NyteEscape]

man...ill see if i can come out to check one of these shows out.

or at least check out ur car.

[JBM]

you have any pictures of the mesh grill and mid bumper grill. looks good

[AudiA4Turbo22]

Dumb question: but what is that support looking thing on ur radiator?? is that an FMIC bracket?

[J-jizzle]

That beer bong looks like it would foam like a bitch once you released the beer from the 5 gallon water jug. It would look good in my barn though.

[n7plus1]

nice car...wish i was still in the show scene...

[Firefighter637]

Sweet ride! Love the wheels. Did you do the Joey mod on the lights?

[rxrep]

Wish I could have made it out, looked like a great time. I'll be at vw superjam on the 8th with my cousin. My car will be on coils by then. Btw Lee, I took your advice and went with Vogtlands.

You gotta plan for next year. It is that fun, and you'll rarely see so many different and nice Audi's in one spot, not to mention the other Euro brands there.
You'll like the Vogtlands. Don't forget that the rears kind of go in upside-down from what you may think.

you have any pictures of the mesh grill and mid bumper grill. looks good

Not yet. I will next weekend. It's supposed to be nice out and I'll shoot some pics then.

Dumb question: but what is that support looking thing on ur radiator?? is that an FMIC bracket?

Exactly what it is. With power steering cooler tube behind it. I'm gonna get a nice power steering cooler this year.

Sweet ride! Love the wheels. Did you do the Joey mod on the lights?

Yep. Was fun. /sarcasm

Thanks for the proprs, all. Some may not like what I did with the intake manifold, but hey... to each his own and I wanted it to be different.

[CyberPMG]

Great pics, Lee. Uber clean as always. You should get a coil cover to match the intake manifold.

[JerseyShoreA4]

So nice. I need to get on the damn ball already. I feel like such a mod virgin with this car.

[JBM]

rxrep-I mean't what mesh is that for the lower bumper? just expanded steel? also are you running the caractre grill?

[A4 ABT]

totally off-topic but: GO Penguins, Crosby's first Stanley cup this year ;) !!!!

[Capt. Obvious]

And here is the engineering masterpiece of the weekend.... the "death bong" AKA "The quattro" and "the Quattronator", which was a 4 person, pressurized and fully automated refillable from the keg four-person beer bong.

It's, it's... BEAUTIFUL!!! [O_O]

[rxrep]

rxrep-I mean't what mesh is that for the lower bumper? just expanded steel? also are you running the caractre grill?

Yes, expanded metal. There is a place here in Pittsburgh that makes it, so I got a 4'X8' piece of it in the mesh pattern that most closely resembled stock USP fog grilles.
Both the upper and lower grilles were then custom formed from that. Neither are store-bought grilles. The fogs are standard USP, however I shaved out the backside on both to provide more openings than stock, and also so the FMIC piping would fit without rubbing.
The expanded metal pieces that you can buy at Home Depot aren't long enough to do a one-piece section.

It's, it's... BEAUTIFUL!!! [O_O]

It was incredible. Tapped right to keg. Well thought-out. Had bleeder valves so foam on the four hose refill would recycle back to the main tank up top, and then also a relief valve to keep a vacuum from occuring when the four tubes were opened for consumption. And with the CO2 setup, the top tank would just keep refilling itself. Only labor involved was turning the valve. It was heaven.

[Firefighter637]

Hey, what splitter do you have? Where did you get it?

[RLB6]

Hey rxrep, do you have more photos of your brake setup??

[rxrep]

Hey rxrep, do you have more photos of your brake setup??

I don't have any of rear, but it is nothing but a 3.0 255mm upgrade with Hawk HPS pads. Doesn't look much different than stock, other than having Zimmerman Cross-Drilled rotors.
For front, all I have are:





Cardomain is kinda ghey, I know... but I never really check it.

Hey, what splitter do you have? Where did you get it?

It is a Reiger made for a B5 Reiger kit. It was cut and shortened and reformed and fuzed back together. It wasn't plug and play, but it matched contours of USP lower easier than the B6 one did. Mainly becuase it's made for a Reiger kit, not a stock bumper. I got it from namotorsports. Something like namotorsports.com.net.something.

[Firefighter637]

Thanks!

[plug1]

The work you did on the lower and upper grills is sexy. Just about the only thing I hate about ultrasports from the factory is the mismatched grills up front.

Did you write up a DIY for the work you did? I'm trying to picture how exactly you'd get mesh like that to attach to the OEM grills and be nice and secure. Any info you have would be appreciated...or a link to another post containing any info about the process.

[pondside36]

rxrep... I don't know if you have seen this yet but your car is featured on the opening page of Fourtitude.com from the Carlise Import and Kit show... I was pleasantly surprised to recognize it from this thread. So big props to a fellow AZer. If any one would like to check out the article or and cool website, here it is: http://www.fourtitude.com/

[JJPA4SE]

RE: ^^^

NICE LEE!!! Too bad they didn't take the shot the other way and it coulda been a two-fer. Well deserved, congrats!

[rxrep]

No shit.... I didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out. Now the wifey isn't as mad about all the money I put in to the damn thing.
Cool!

For those anywhere within a day's drive of Carlisle, it has to be the single most cool Euro and Audi event I've ever been to. I think almost 100 Audis from old skool to the R8. And don't forget the beer bong of death, "The Quattro" four-person beer bong. You can't go wrong!

Yeah, and Jim, your car is still the sweetness in my book, but I'd think the urs4 to the right of me in that pic is off the hook. I forget his dyno numbers but they are nuts.

[budfox]

Im sure you lowered your car after the 19" installation.

I have sport suspension. how do you think that will look w/ those 19's?

Also have you seen these wheels on blk a4's w/out usp?


i realllllllllllllllllllllllllly like your upper&lower grill. I've been waiting for someone to come up w/ a decent looking setup. Finally!

If you could do any type of write up it would be huge for me!!!! ha

Nice ride, very clean. The only way to mod a car IF your going to mod it. CLEAN.
Great example.
Maybe other ^^%$&^% modders will see how stupid they make themselves look w/ some of their hiddeous modding. (wheels that don't go together at all, usually looking like their riding on a set of ninja stars, ugly black out this black out that combo bullshit, sorry for the rant........point is don't waste your time and money modding your car so it looks worse than it did before.

Thanks for having a clue. Nice work.

[auggy]

No shit.... I didn't know. Thanks for pointing that out. Now the wifey isn't as mad about all the money I put in to the damn thing.
Cool!

For those anywhere within a day's drive of Carlisle, it has to be the single most cool Euro and Audi event I've ever been to. I think almost 100 Audis from old skool to the R8. And don't forget the beer bong of death, "The Quattro" four-person beer bong. You can't go wrong!

Yeah, and Jim, your car is still the sweetness in my book, but I'd think the urs4 to the right of me in that pic is off the hook. I forget his dyno numbers but they are nuts.

When does the event take place? I go to school about an hour north of Carlisle in Lewisburg (Bucknell) and I'd love to make the drive next year.