Top 5 B6/B7 mods

[MaLicE]

With inlet mani work it should be possible, also with the cold air feed and the inlet mani spacers it should be close to 400 at least. Reading on American forums and over the web that seems to be achievable with the work I said....

After that its cams and supercharger but both are stupid money...

[Axel]

Seeing as I have nearly every possible mod on my B7 S4 (aside from headers, CF hood and a taller 6th gear), if I had to start from scratch all over again, my top 5 mods (in terms of priority) would be:

JHM Tune
Catless 2.5" DPs (or Piggies depending on your regional emission restrictions/personal budget)
2.5" X-Pipe catback (any brand will do as long as it's 2.5" and an X pipe. Personal preference on sound output plays a large role here).
JHM Short Shifter Trio Package
KW v3 coilovers or Rear Sway Bar (those are kinda tied for 5th, although one is way cheaper than the other and if you can afford the coilovers, just get the RSB at the same time)

[Ponyboy]

Is there a mod for my 2005 B7 S4 that would replicate, OEM preferably, the electronic speedo that my B8 A4 2.0TDi Technik has which sits in the middle of the speedo and rev counter? I have got so used to using that over the last 2 years it feels strange looking at the actual speedo itself now...

Thanks

[sakimano]

£150 dollars for a cable and £550 dollars for an e-mail ?

I thought I could make easy money until I saw that

Yes easy money. They only spent about $25,000 on tuning tools, $XX,000 on the server/flashing network access, as well as untold hours and five b6 s4s they have gone through in testing tunes and parts. I haven't even mentioned the guy who writes the tunes who has a decade of working with the performance division of one of the largest automakers on earth.

So by all means, if that sounds like easy money, become a tuner!

[sakimano]

I don't think it's 91 and 93 RON. According to folks on Audizine, they have a different measurement system. I think 93 is like our super unleaded; maybe not V-Power though.

I spoke to my garage about gutting the pre-cats and he said it was a massive pain to get them off in some cases. He also said they do a tune so that might be easier.

Yes we use ron+mon/2

So our 93 is like your 98

[sakimano]

Why would you map your car to inferior fuel ? Even the colonials best fuel is tops 95 octane by our measuring system, I can get my car mapped at a local specialist for £500 and I get to actually watch someone do it, you dont have any labour costs yet you want more money ?

That is nonsense. Our 93 (and 94 in canada) is in no way inferior. It is like your 98. See above. We use ron+mon/2. You use ron. You can look up the specs on our fuel. It is nowhere near your 95.

NOBODY has anywhere near the success with the b6/7 as jhm has. Their tune would absolutely drum that of a random specialist. No offense. This isn't a subaru. It's not a matter of jacking up boost and making easy gains. Or running a bit more timing.
Jhm's tuner makes adjustments to approximately 130 parameters in the ecu. He has developed the tune and revised it dozens of times over the past 6-7 years. The guys at jhm have owned half a dozen b6 s4s and have put tens of thousands of miles while developing what is hands down the best suite of parts for this platform.

If you think five minutes with a specialist will match that, you're kidding yourself.

[sakimano]

Is the cold air feed mod worth it, what wound the gains be? Good luck with the 400bhp I'd love to see it done.

The stock airbox is excellent, is pressurised, is sealed (from our insanely hot engine bay and the auxiliary radiator right below it) .

You will LOSE power with a cold air intake, and will make your car slower. I guarantee it. It might make your car a bit louder and if it's made of carbon fibre it will look pretty when you park your car and pop the hood, so if those are more important than going fast, by all means, get one. If not, say stock airbox.. We have been through this so many times over here.

It's not a Honda which can make a nice gain from a CAI. It's a very different performance formula.

[sakimano]

Surely it's a no-brained!!! MRC every time.....YOUR engine mapped with the fuel YOU use with whatever mods you have already done. Not some yanky notion of what your car should perform like on the fuel they run in the US of A!!

Hey look, a xenophobic moron who wants to be slow. I say let him be slow. Carry on slowffie

[Sharkfan]

We have an '04 S4 Tiptronic cab in sprint blue and having had it for about 5 years and seeing it's value drop we're decided we're going to keep it until it dies.

The one thing that frustrates me about it is the back-to-front gearlever direction. It's currently forwards to change up, and backwards to change down, defying virtually all other modern systems/conventions. BMW's Steptronic also started this way but in 2002 or thereabouts they changed it to 'forward-down' and 'backwards-up'.

For the owner's of earlier BMW's wishing to change the direction it was discovered that simply swapping the positions of two wires in a connection block would allow them to correct the earlier direction to the later, more conventional and now universally accepted style.

Is there anyway of changing the B6's Tiptronic to do this?

[Ian_C]

Yeah you can do that on the Audis - mate of mine did that on his D2 A8

[Sharkfan]

After countless searches this is the only thread that mentions the wiring for a B6/B7 tiptronic - I'll have a look the next time I have an hour with the car.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthrea ... MkI-TT-DSG

[ASC]

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthrea ... l-Tutorial

[Ian_C]

Good find ASC!

[Sharkfan]

Brilliant - thank you

[ASC]

No worries..
I actually glanced over the Audizine thread last week and didn't think anything of it until I saw your post here for the 3rd time and then it clicked! Sorry bit slow this week!!