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[mrmomo313]

Thanks for the entertaining thread :)

+1

awesome ride, tastefully modded

[well_armed]

Mirror mount for the Escort


And another pic of the whole car on my epic bucket list drive up PCH...



People keep asking me how much I have put into the car, why didn't I just buy a corvette, or GTR, or Porsche or whatever. What they don't understand is I picked this car for two reasons:
1) I always wanted an S4 when I was in high school. But alas my 93 Astro Van was all I could afford.
2) I wanted a fast daily driver, handles well in the rain (Seattle), holds a couple car seats, and doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I want you to think I make a lot a lot of money!"

The GTR (which I almost bought) would have been too flashy. The S4 slides in nicely in my realm of speed and refinement. And most people just think I drive an A4 with nice wheels. :)

[aaronz]

Mirror mount for the Escort


And another pic of the whole car on my epic bucket list drive up PCH...



People keep asking me how much I have put into the car, why didn't I just buy a corvette, or GTR, or Porsche or whatever. What they don't understand is I picked this car for two reasons:
1) I always wanted an S4 when I was in high school. But alas my 93 Astro Van was all I could afford.
2) I wanted a fast daily driver, handles well in the rain (Seattle), holds a couple car seats, and doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I want you to think I make a lot a lot of money!"

The GTR (which I almost bought) would have been too flashy.

Nice so that mount ended up working?

[motionneon]

Mirror mount for the Escort


And another pic of the whole car on my epic bucket list drive up PCH...



People keep asking me how much I have put into the car, why didn't I just buy a corvette, or GTR, or Porsche or whatever. What they don't understand is I picked this car for two reasons:
1) I always wanted an S4 when I was in high school. But alas my 93 Astro Van was all I could afford.
2) I wanted a fast daily driver, handles well in the rain (Seattle), holds a couple car seats, and doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I want you to think I make a lot a lot of money!"

The GTR (which I almost bought) would have been too flashy. The S4 slides in nicely in my realm of speed and refinement. And most people just think I drive an A4 with nice wheels. :)

Love your car. Wheels look AWESOME with your exterior color. Which color is is?

[well_armed]

Monsoon Grey.

I ended up with the 23mm mount to work. The mirror mount is tapered, so I used some electrical tape to make it level and then clamped down hard. Bam.

Also, its a lot easier to do this with the mirror off! (just pop it off...)

[DATZ]

How are you liking the ride quality on the OE's?

[well_armed]

The escort mount sucks though, I need to fabricate a way to make it bounce less.

There is also this one as an option: http://www.rogueradarmount.com/index.html

[dewey527]

Unbelievable car! I love how you have maintained the classy aspect but added a whole lot of fun!

[thedollardoctor]

Just getting caught up on your thread. Great stuff man!! Loved the video of you driving around. I'm blown away by how civil the miltek exhaust sounds with the headers! Great paring with the roc euro too.

Also super impressed with the dyno results with his stage I on pump and headers, intake, and exhaust! Those are VERY impressive!

You must be incredibly happy with the progress thus far! Though I know you crave more TORQUE! And I have a feeling you will have that soon......

[well_armed]

Did somebody say more torque? :-D

[DLAB]

I'm curious, what is your favorite mod thus far?

[well_armed]

Getting head (ers).

[well_armed]

Changed the oil today.




Snapped a pic of the O2 sensor relocation/spacer

[well_armed]

[brocken]

Wow! Nice setup. Looks like you've been having fun. :)

If you don't mind losing the use of your visor there's a $5 Escort mount that clips on. I almost never use my visor and it keeps the detector out of sight.

[NWS4Guy]

Loks good, got them all bedded in now? How's stopping feel, and pedal modulation? Take it you put in some high temp fluid?

[well_armed]

Loks good, got them all bedded in now? How's stopping feel, and pedal modulation? Take it you put in some high temp fluid?

They are second hand and I am sure they owner bedded them in...but I am going to re-bed them tonight. Some 3am I-90 runs are necessary, as they tell you to do (10) 60-10mph hard braking (80%) intervals, followed up by a cooling lap (then do it again after they completely cool).

[Tomasz@Startup]

Loks good, got them all bedded in now? How's stopping feel, and pedal modulation? Take it you put in some high temp fluid?

My modulation and pedal feel is better than on my old Cayman! But I think Emergency Brake Assist exaggerates how strong these are, and I will try to disable it over the weekend and test. This only matters when you jump on / mash the brake to enable EBA.

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[NWS4Guy]

Wonder if you got them from our local guy here who went RS5 recently...

[well_armed]

Well the rain put a damper on my plan to bed them in tonight. Maybe tomorrow evening.

So far so good, the pedal feel is rock solid. Doesn't have the same 'bite' the stock pads have, but is much more linear from beginning to 'oh fuck'

Track day here I come!

Wonder if you got them from our local guy here who went RS5 recently...

Bought them off a guy on the East Coast (he had a part out thread). The shitty thing was he had them removed/shipped from Excelerate performance (same shop I was going to buy from), and they showed up in the worst pack job I have EVER seen.

Basically all the parts were loosely thrown into some smaller boxes with no padding, and the rotors were actually stacked on top of each other (grinding their way here). Laziest tuner shop pack job I have ever witnessed. I was fuming when they showed up, but now I am calmed down after inspecting and installing (and everything is okay).



I mean who packs over 80 lbs of stuff into one box with absolutely no padding or reinforcement?

[1MORLAP]

Well the rain put a damper on my plan to bed them in tonight. Maybe tomorrow evening.

So far so good, the pedal feel is rock solid. Doesn't have the same 'bite' the stock pads have, but is much more linear from beginning to 'oh fuck'

Track day here I come!

Bite should be there after bedding. I am driving a loaner A6 S-Line (that thing is FAST and SMOOOOTH and BIIIG) and brakes scare me. I have much more bite, feel, etc.

[well_armed]

My codes with spacers removed:

Friday,29,March,2013,10:34:16:29926
VCDS Version: Beta 12.10.3

Address 01: Engine Labels: 06E-907-551-CGW.clb
Control Module Part Number: 8K5 907 551 E HW: 4G0 907 551 A
Component and/or Version: 3.0l V6 TFSIH07 0002
Software Coding: 0A250034052600060000
Work Shop Code: WSC 06208 000 00000
ASAM Dataset: EV_ECM30TFS0218K5907551E 001002 (AU48)
VCID: 387FEC2983276DDE775
2 Faults Found:

13272 - Catalyst System; Bank 1
P0420 00 [101] - Efficiency Below Threshold
Not Confirmed - Tested Since Memory Clear
Freeze Frame:
Fault Status: 00000001
Fault Priority: 2
Fault Frequency: 1
Mileage: 8354 km
Date: 2013.03.29
Time: 06:51:19

13273 - Catalyst System; Bank 2
P0430 00 [101] - Efficiency Below Threshold
Not Confirmed - Tested Since Memory Clear
Freeze Frame:
Fault Status: 00000001
Fault Priority: 2
Fault Frequency: 1
Mileage: 8354 km
Date: 2013.03.29
Time: 06:51:20


Readiness: 0000 0000

[PCHS4]

Where did you locate the O2 sensor? What section of the exhaust?

[well_armed]

just after the downpipe resonater.

[PCHS4]

Did EuroCode do this as part of the install or did you need to do it later?

just after the downpipe resonater.

[well_armed]

Already done, as I took David's exhaust right off his car.

[PCHS4]

So, you still get error codes or did the spacers fix that. What about any CEL issues?

[well_armed]

Yes. Mil every 4-8 days.

I only have to deal with it until giac releases their stage 2 test pipe file.

[Tekk]

People keep asking me how much I have put into the car, why didn't I just buy a corvette, or GTR, or Porsche or whatever. What they don't understand is I picked this car for two reasons:
1) I always wanted an S4 when I was in high school. But alas my 93 Astro Van was all I could afford.
2) I wanted a fast daily driver, handles well in the rain (Seattle), holds a couple car seats, and doesn't scream "Hey look at me, I want you to think I make a lot a lot of money!"[/B]

The GTR (which I almost bought) would have been too flashy. The S4 slides in nicely in my realm of speed and refinement. And most people just think I drive an A4 with nice wheels. :)

Couldn't agree with you more. Coming from a modified RS4 I was ready to get into something that could be civil when I want it to be (e.g. driving with the family) but a great sports sedan when it doesn't need to be 'quiet' (e.g. during a beautiful SoCal sunny day and driving up Hwy 2 or PCH, etc, etc). I will definitely miss the RS as it was the best car I have owned thus far in my life but Im loving the S4 and am happy with my choice. Now its a matter of holding off on modifying it for a bit despite my desire to buy buy buy :) "Enjoy the car as it stands" I keep telling myself....we'll see how long that lasts!

[well_armed]

[well_armed]

[well_armed]

Track day yesterday. Stoptech's did great. After lunch it started pouring, everyone left, and it went to open lapping -- dorifto style. Our S4 was made for wet tracks. Went thru 1.5 tanks of gas and the car did great.

[well_armed]

Shot of the rain:

[well_armed]

[handruin]

Looks like a good time. Are the fog lights taped blue? Is that to protect them from road debri?

[well_armed]

my buddy did that as a joke...but yes

[kcrunch]

Laser Interceptor Install this afternoon.

Mounted

Beautiful car. Love the mods. I have the same B8.5 S4 in Monsoon but bone stock, except the LI. I mounted the LI heads in the same place you did - I'm curious if you've had yours tested with a lidar gun?

[well_armed]

Beautiful car. Love the mods. I have the same B8.5 S4 in Monsoon but bone stock, except the LI. I mounted the LI heads in the same place you did - I'm curious if you've had yours tested with a lidar gun?

Tested in the wild, four times, no punch thrus (CHP, OSP, WSP). I also bought the handheld tester that they sell, wanted to make sure it was on! LOL

[well_armed]

Update:

Bought a rebuilt set of Ohlins SL (Stasis Challenge) coil overs from Jeff @SPM. Super easy to install, and so far so good. Low speed bump compliance is night and day better, less bounce, etc. -- over H&R Lowering springs.

[PCHS4]

That's right! Coilovers combined with front and rear sway bars, drop links, DTS, and control arms are the deal. I have KW V3s (at 1.5" drop) and every time I drive a car without coilovers that's the first thing I notice. I have the front/rear camber at 2.00/1.75 degrees. 2.25/2.00 is the recommended, but I was concerned about tire wear.

Update:

Bought a rebuilt set of Ohlins SL (Stasis Challenge) coil overs from Jeff @SPM. Super easy to install, and so far so good. Low speed bump compliance is night and day better, less bounce, etc. -- over H&R Lowering springs.