I would imagine there are a number of people that could not afford to buy a New A4 that constantly read the forum, however they might be able to afford to buy a used one in 3 or 4 years time.<br>And then they could slowly chip and Hack at the car to up the performance.<br>It would be great to know what you can do to the car.<br>Already there is a bit of knowledge about what to do to a 5cyl 20V turbo motor.<br>If I had some spare cash I would rather buy a used 5Cyl 20V and race that car than<br>what i am doing now with my A4.<br>Once you race your every day car, there are a lot of things and mods you do not do because it makes the car rough or hard to drive in traffic etc.<br>Its great to see there are some "pioneers" still around and willing to take some risks.<br>How many people shouted down Columbus or Dalamatian born Marco Polo.....<br>about the same percentage that are on this forum. No disrespect intended.<p>Gee if the A4 was a Chev. Ford or Honda someone would already have already made a Top Fueler out of it. Hmmm...Quattro Funny car, now thats a thought!<p>In years to come some one out there will say "You should have seen this Audi, it screamed, mate it made all 4 wheels do a burnout, some guy called Ron built it."<p>A4, its more than a car, its a obsession! I do not know how my wife will that statement.<p>Some one please try a 2.8Q with NOS. <br>

You can race the 5v 4cyl and still drive it on the street into the 400bhp range, I'd guess... most people, when they think of modified cars, think of big Chevy V8 hotrods with lots of grunts and screams in the engine vocabulary but one missing word... idle. Today's high-performance engines have much better full-curve characteristics (there has to be a non-racing term for full-curve by now, I just don't know it)... and aren't nearly as torquey on the whole. The dangerous drop in torque in the middle of the range caused understeer in the old V8 hotrods... the opposite condition caused turbo kick under-over-under-steer in 911 Turbos historically, but these phenomena are fading fast as engine management becomes viewed as a systems engineering problem as opposed to a combustion engineering and metallurgy problem. Once handling is less mechanical, less analog in effect, streetable racing cars will be far more practical... digital interpretation of steering inputs and intelligent interpretation of shift linkage will further this movement away from mechanical tuning (except basic mechanical tuning tools, like increasing displacement and working on valve and throttle efficiency).<p>Cameron

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It was a reply from the recently archived forum.<br>If you were reading the last forum, you would know what this is in reply to.<br>The original message thread was headed do 2.7 biturbo pistons fit a 2.8.

Sounds incoherent and babbling.

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