I probably shouldn't have poked them when it was up on the ramp! Ah well after this that's most of the age/wear related bits done - all in the last year - ouch.
Suspension replaced, carbon clean, manifold deflap, all discs and pads, now oil cooler & pipes, then clutch I expect .....
But when I've done a 1500 mile trip driving it hard it all gets forgotten as it's such an epic car and fun to drive.
Hope yours gets sorted and looking forward to hearing the exhaust![/quote]
ahh <beep> mate not good news, hope you manage to get away with just replacing pipes....
yeah i have had an expensive time of it too, worth the grin everytime you push that start button...
i'm in a similar place as yourself, replaced all brakes, suspension, control arms, fluids, manif clean, deflap, tyres, wheel refurb...
anti roll bars, exhaust, remap and interior fix then im hopefully done for a bit.
). Anyway I also recently had the car dynod at Ecotune out of curiosity because although the car is fast I didn't feel like it was rapier fast at overtaking compared to my old scooby. According to Ecotune the car has 350-360bhp and they reckoned the loss is due to carbon as well (see chart below). They noted that it improved on each run whereas usually the first run is the best out of the three. Sounded amaaazing though. Suggested I go back to Audi with the curve to see what they would do with it... no prizes for guessing Audi's response! Would be very interested to see the results if you decide to have your car re-tested.
