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Recently purchased a Performance Box (for obvious reasons.... and was just wondering if anyone else has had the chance to have a go with one...?
Tried a 0-60 but it was absolutely Pissing down with rain but still got 4.5 0-60 just by flooring it in dynamic...... Launch control and rain didn't go well..... all fours spun for about a metre and got 5.2.....?

RSDave wrote:Recently purchased a Performance Box (for obvious reasons.... and was just wondering if anyone else has had the chance to have a go with one...?
Tried a 0-60 but it was absolutely Pissing down with rain but still got 4.5 0-60 just by flooring it in dynamic...... Launch control and rain didn't go well..... all fours spun for about a metre and got 5.2.....?

What type of performance box ????

'launch control'?

It's a B8 RS5. Confusing huh?

Ah, made me wonder being in the RS4 section!

Have had a go with a Racelogic box and IIRC at 24 degree heat still managed best 4.6 0-60 in my lardy RS4 avant with no mods and manual shift. And I'm crap at lanuching a car.

RSDave wrote:Recently purchased a Performance Box (for obvious reasons.... and was just wondering if anyone else has had the chance to have a go with one...?
Tried a 0-60 but it was absolutely Pissing down with rain but still got 4.5 0-60 just by flooring it in dynamic...... Launch control and rain didn't go well..... all fours spun for about a metre and got 5.2.....?

one thing to check on 'setup' is that you have 1 foot of rollout selected if you want to compare your numbers to the popular US based car magazines, or compare to quarter mile times at dragstrips all around the world. That rollout means the clock won't start counting time until you have moved 1 foot...this is to match the dragstrip timing systems, and for whatever reasons the larger magazines use this procedure. Edmunds Insideline shows the times with and without rollout to give you an idea of the impact. Usually about 0.2 seconds faster with the 1 foot rollout.

Pbox is great...good suction cups on the mount, good system of constantly gathering data etc. I found mine was very accurate all the way to quarter mile times, after comparing it to results at a proper dragstrip. I also found that I used it for a week, then shoved it in a box and left it for 12 months lol.

Yeh, I tried that feature didn't seem to make much of a difference but i was varying with techniques on launching it

What kind of quarter mile times were you getting?

Haven't tried any yet but read in a few magazines times without a 'foot rollout' are around 12.7......

do you know how to open the .dbn file to produce a chart etc? Shows the data from the run (i.e. time, distance, MPH, height (elevation)).

Would be cool to see a good rip on dry pavement. The RS5 launch control is apparently very effective. Video would be nice too...I'm really looking forward to the arrival of the RS5 over here this summer.

P_G wrote:Have had a go with a Racelogic box and IIRC at 24 degree heat still managed best 4.6 0-60 in my lardy RS4 avant with no mods and manual shift. And I'm crap at lanuching a car.

That's spot on figures no?

sakimano wrote:do you know how to open the .dbn file to produce a chart etc? Shows the data from the run (i.e. time, distance, MPH, height (elevation)).

Would be cool to see a good rip on dry pavement. The RS5 launch control is apparently very effective. Video would be nice too...I'm really looking forward to the arrival of the RS5 over here this summer.

Yes, I know how to access the data on a computer, on dry day will make full HD video along with data, are you based in the States then? Aren't Audi taking 500 over there?