Mod your....automatic
Le Mans Master
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From: Jacksonville Florida
Originally Posted by 3RD-INF
Hey Jim, I have an extra cane if you want it. I just got a new one with a big tennis ball on it for extra traction. Us old geezzers have to stick together. 
You wouldn't be going golfing today would you? It's 7 above here. 
You wouldn't be going golfing today would you? It's 7 above here. The way I'm eating up Kumhos - I think I'll just pad my floor with 'em.
Golf? Me? Have a 1:00 tee time? Naaawwwwwwwwwwww. It's 80 something here so I gotta find my shorts.
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From: Houston, Tx Got traction?
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St. Jude Donor '07-'08
Originally Posted by sweetcharity
Not dead at all! Get some 3:42's or 3:90's, a Yank TC, an intake, some LG headers , a good cat back and a LS1 dyno tune and you can eat all the rice you want Actually you can do that the way she sits but the more the merrier 
Oh and save the racing for the track (official disclaimer 
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Actually you can do that the way she sits but the more the merrier Oh and save the racing for the track (official disclaimer )
Lepus-temperamentalus
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From: Roswell Ga
Originally Posted by freemanj
I understand what your saying guy! I live in the real world too! I don't race that much, but I will punch it for 2 to 3 seconds to show what I got and back off! Most people in this forum are older and some are cool about your subject but soem are sarcastic and square! They forgot when they were young and spinning the tires, and now all of a sudden they want to jump on you! We all know there are raods in every city that are the runs spots that everyone gathers around 12:00 and 4:30AM.
Keep it real and be safe though!
Keep it real and be safe though!
I remember racing some guy when I was 16 and crested the top of a hill going over 100 only to find a pick-up baseball game going on in the middle of the street. I remember flying home from my girlfriend's house at 2:00 a.m. and coming over a hill to see a railroad track that I thought was abandoned filled with a huge freight train and swapping ends on my car trying to stop before I ran into it. I remember my best friend running into a bridge embutment because an early morning garbage truck pulled out in front of him on a "deserted" street at 3:00 a.m.
We remember all too well. The problem here is not our memory, but your youth and belief that "nothing can happen". The cemetaries are filled with young people who thought nothing could happen along with their innocent victims.
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From: HOW FAST WAS I GOING OFFICER? Los Angeles Hating GM Dealership Service Dept.'s Since Sept. 2004
St. Jude Donor '04-'05-'06-'07
My A4 has eaten so much d@mn rice she's starting to look like a Sumo wrestler! But I've always loved her low-n-wide rear.
She has a Maggy in her future, so I guess I'll have rice and expand her diet to see what else I she can eat ... safely, of course.
If you read car related articles, you'll know that Vettes can consume 90% of the vehicles on the road at any given time ...
If you look around while you're out driving, you'll see that it's true ... and you don't have to prove anything to anyone but yourself. Just drive a look
Signed,
One Proud A4 owner.
She has a Maggy in her future, so I guess I'll have rice and expand her diet to see what else I she can eat ... safely, of course.
If you read car related articles, you'll know that Vettes can consume 90% of the vehicles on the road at any given time ...
If you look around while you're out driving, you'll see that it's true ... and you don't have to prove anything to anyone but yourself. Just drive a look
Signed,
One Proud A4 owner.
Last edited by MyVetteDream; Jan 6, 2005 at 11:39 AM.
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From: Palmdale CA
St. Jude Donor '06
Originally Posted by JACKAL0PE
No, we haven't forgotten. You're making a false assumption. This is more a case of "been there, done that" and I absolutely remember.
I remember racing some guy when I was 16 and crested the top of a hill going over 100 only to find a pick-up baseball game going on in the middle of the street. I remember flying home from my girlfriend's house at 2:00 a.m. and coming over a hill to see a railroad track that I thought was abandoned filled with a huge freight train and swapping ends on my car trying to stop before I ran into it. I remember my best friend running into a bridge embutment because an early morning garbage truck pulled out in front of him on a "deserted" street at 3:00 a.m.
We remember all too well. The problem here is not our memory, but your youth and belief that "nothing can happen". The cemetaries are filled with young people who thought nothing could happen along with their innocent victims.
I remember racing some guy when I was 16 and crested the top of a hill going over 100 only to find a pick-up baseball game going on in the middle of the street. I remember flying home from my girlfriend's house at 2:00 a.m. and coming over a hill to see a railroad track that I thought was abandoned filled with a huge freight train and swapping ends on my car trying to stop before I ran into it. I remember my best friend running into a bridge embutment because an early morning garbage truck pulled out in front of him on a "deserted" street at 3:00 a.m.
We remember all too well. The problem here is not our memory, but your youth and belief that "nothing can happen". The cemetaries are filled with young people who thought nothing could happen along with their innocent victims.
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From: You want HOW much for that Corvette part??? Atlanta GA
Originally Posted by CHEEZILA
Hey drdoug75
No you didn't kill yourself with the automatic. As for mod suggestions, It never hurts to get blown.
No you didn't kill yourself with the automatic. As for mod suggestions, It never hurts to get blown.
Instructor
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From: Portsmouth Va
Wanting to beat a rice burner? Its a no win situation. If you win what have you accomplished? And if you break something or worse have them break something for you , what have you won? Just a thought.
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From: Body by Zaino! Near St Louis!
Originally Posted by MyVetteDream
My A4 has eaten so much d@mn rice she's starting to look like a Sumo wrestler! But I've always loved her low-n-wide rear.
She has a Maggy in her future, so I guess I'll have rice and expand her diet to see what else I she can eat ... safely, of course.
If you read car related articles, you'll know that Vettes can consume 90% of the vehicles on the road at any given time ...
If you look around while you're out driving, you'll see that it's true ... and you don't have to prove anything to anyone but yourself. Just drive a look
Signed,
One Proud A4 owner.
She has a Maggy in her future, so I guess I'll have rice and expand her diet to see what else I she can eat ... safely, of course.
If you read car related articles, you'll know that Vettes can consume 90% of the vehicles on the road at any given time ...
If you look around while you're out driving, you'll see that it's true ... and you don't have to prove anything to anyone but yourself. Just drive a look
Signed,
One Proud A4 owner.
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From: The Beautiful Pacific Northwest
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09, '14-'15-'16-'17-'18
Originally Posted by JACKAL0PE
No, we haven't forgotten. You're making a false assumption. This is more a case of "been there, done that" and I absolutely remember.
I remember racing some guy when I was 16 and crested the top of a hill going over 100 only to find a pick-up baseball game going on in the middle of the street. I remember flying home from my girlfriend's house at 2:00 a.m. and coming over a hill to see a railroad track that I thought was abandoned filled with a huge freight train and swapping ends on my car trying to stop before I ran into it. I remember my best friend running into a bridge embutment because an early morning garbage truck pulled out in front of him on a "deserted" street at 3:00 a.m.
We remember all too well. The problem here is not our memory, but your youth and belief that "nothing can happen". The cemetaries are filled with young people who thought nothing could happen along with their innocent victims.
I remember racing some guy when I was 16 and crested the top of a hill going over 100 only to find a pick-up baseball game going on in the middle of the street. I remember flying home from my girlfriend's house at 2:00 a.m. and coming over a hill to see a railroad track that I thought was abandoned filled with a huge freight train and swapping ends on my car trying to stop before I ran into it. I remember my best friend running into a bridge embutment because an early morning garbage truck pulled out in front of him on a "deserted" street at 3:00 a.m.
We remember all too well. The problem here is not our memory, but your youth and belief that "nothing can happen". The cemetaries are filled with young people who thought nothing could happen along with their innocent victims.
Well put. As anybody over 30 knows, experience is the best teacher of all. Learn from the mistakes of others and save yourself a boatload of grief.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok everyone thanks for the great response! I didn't know I was going to get so much fire going.... Really 9/10 I probably drive my vette like a grandma as my dd.... But I'll be damned if it doesn't happen once a week where yes some kid in his whatever pulls up next to me at that stop light.....and I know I should be happy 
that I now have the best sports car in the world etc....And, I really don't want to kill little children or puppies 
but I do want to make that friggen guy next to me go WTF..... SO that is why I want to mod some. And really I want to keep it my DD, but hey have some fun to 
You have some great suggestions! Keep them comingThanks
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From: Jacksonville Florida
If you want to start out modding moderately, start with intake and exhaust and dyno-tuning by a competent turner.
I don't know what rear-end your car has but certainly going up from a 2.73 would be a help. But that isn't too cheap as your car has to be retuned and shift points changed if you do that.
I think what we're all trying to say is the best mod you can ever have is between your ears and how you use what you have on your car.
I don't know what rear-end your car has but certainly going up from a 2.73 would be a help. But that isn't too cheap as your car has to be retuned and shift points changed if you do that.
I think what we're all trying to say is the best mod you can ever have is between your ears and how you use what you have on your car.
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From: Iowa
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Ok, in between all the rhetoric, I didn't see anything being mentioned in regards to the tranny itself.
Will the installation of a shift kit, do anything to increase the acceleration? How any other adjustments to the tranny, such as pressure adjustments, raising shift points, etc etc.
I don't race on the streets either, but I do like to "take off fast every now and then", if for no other reason than to blow some of the carbon out of the motor. There is not a hint of a "chirp" from my rear tires with the stock motor, runflats and a "predator tune up".
Will the installation of a shift kit, do anything to increase the acceleration? How any other adjustments to the tranny, such as pressure adjustments, raising shift points, etc etc.
I don't race on the streets either, but I do like to "take off fast every now and then", if for no other reason than to blow some of the carbon out of the motor. There is not a hint of a "chirp" from my rear tires with the stock motor, runflats and a "predator tune up".
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From: Machine Silver Z06 The Golden State......... Bay Area
St. Jude Donor '05
Originally Posted by bh6793
You can have your cake and eat it too, so to speak..Having an automatic (A4) idoes not place you at a disadvantage anymore. With the parts available today it is pretty much a level playing field. I have a 2001 Coupe A4 with some simple mods, bolt on stuff ie...LG Long tube headers, Blackwing intake, minor tuning air to fuel ratio check, B&B PRT's. My 1320 stats went from 13.25's to 12.79 @ 114 mph, thats with stock 2.73 gears and street tires not Drag Radials. This winter, installed 3.42 gears and Yank 3500 Conveter and Drag Radials, 11's should be within easy reach now, can't wait for the (rice)season to open here in Texas. This is my everyday driver and I figure a mid 11's car ought to surprise alot of kids w/ricers. My car looks completely stock on the outside. It's kinda like having a sawed off shotgun inside of your Tuxcedo jacket. Damn I love this stuff. When the mod bug bites gears and let it breath, ie.... headers and intake and free flowing cat back's biggest bang for the buck and this is only the begining. Then it gets real serious
Just keep the racin stuff on the track, its more fun and there are people to verify the killls.
Just keep the racin stuff on the track, its more fun and there are people to verify the killls.
I've got an A4 and love it. Eventually I will get gears/TC and possibly a SC. Long tube headers are out here in Cali unless you know how to beat the system. I don't so I am
over the thought of a SC.
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From: Bergerac Dordogne
At the risk of starting the MN6 and A4 wars again . . .
You can do what you like to anything with an auto box and it is still going to loose - except on a standing start and short run. Speaking as an over the ponder I can't really understand your colonial obsession with quarter mile runs. Ahem. The first quarter mile just determines who gets to the beginning of the course first.
The A4 in the 'vette is practically prehistoric. It was because of a 'rice' experience with my A4 that I bought my MN6.
Only the car wasn't 'rice', it looked just like any other Octavia hatchback. It was only when I tracked the guy down that I found out he was a road rally enthusiast - he was making over 290bhp with a stage 4 kit and much shorter gearing than I had. And he was a good driver. But the reason he creamed me on the road was because he had a manual gearbox. We were rolling at about 40 mph when acceleration became an issue. When we started to fly he chucked it into 2nd but I had to wait for the box of antiques in the A4 to register that YES I had manually shifted it into 2nd and YES I bloody well would like it go sometime NOW. Of course, by the time that the obscure alchemy of the agricultural gearbox had decided to actually change some of my power to weight ratio advantage (small though it was in this case) into forward motion he was long gone.
Not to mention that actually balancing a car properly with an auto box is nigh on impossible, and you can see I had no choice. MN6 it is. And I love it. A proper sports car, not only the world's best GT car (all 'vettes), but also a complete effing nuttermobile. Fantastic.
Best mod for an A4 if you wanna play seriously is a 'for sale' sign. Then get an MN6.
But a 'vette is a 'vette, they're all brilliant in their own way.
Be careful out there. Especially watch out for the feds.
Love you all.
You can do what you like to anything with an auto box and it is still going to loose - except on a standing start and short run. Speaking as an over the ponder I can't really understand your colonial obsession with quarter mile runs. Ahem. The first quarter mile just determines who gets to the beginning of the course first.
The A4 in the 'vette is practically prehistoric. It was because of a 'rice' experience with my A4 that I bought my MN6.
Only the car wasn't 'rice', it looked just like any other Octavia hatchback. It was only when I tracked the guy down that I found out he was a road rally enthusiast - he was making over 290bhp with a stage 4 kit and much shorter gearing than I had. And he was a good driver. But the reason he creamed me on the road was because he had a manual gearbox. We were rolling at about 40 mph when acceleration became an issue. When we started to fly he chucked it into 2nd but I had to wait for the box of antiques in the A4 to register that YES I had manually shifted it into 2nd and YES I bloody well would like it go sometime NOW. Of course, by the time that the obscure alchemy of the agricultural gearbox had decided to actually change some of my power to weight ratio advantage (small though it was in this case) into forward motion he was long gone.
Not to mention that actually balancing a car properly with an auto box is nigh on impossible, and you can see I had no choice. MN6 it is. And I love it. A proper sports car, not only the world's best GT car (all 'vettes), but also a complete effing nuttermobile. Fantastic.
Best mod for an A4 if you wanna play seriously is a 'for sale' sign. Then get an MN6.
But a 'vette is a 'vette, they're all brilliant in their own way.
Be careful out there. Especially watch out for the feds.
Love you all.
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Originally Posted by CHEEZILA
Hey drdoug75
No you didn't kill yourself with the automatic. As for mod suggestions, It never hurts to get blown.
No you didn't kill yourself with the automatic. As for mod suggestions, It never hurts to get blown.
Melting Slicks
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From: Florida Gulf Coast
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'10-'11
Originally Posted by Cochemarman
Best mod for an A4 if you wanna play seriously is a 'for sale' sign. Then get an MN6.
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The dumbest sentence I have ever read here on the forum.
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From: Greer SC
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It all depends on how much $$$ you want to spend.
We use to get bugged by local ricers; it was really annoying. Then one day we popped the hood, so the president of the local 'import' club could see. After looking at the engine, he said that he would tell club members not to bother challenging us any more. Funny thing, it actually worked; we are hardly bothered by them now. Anyway, this is what we showed him...
We use to get bugged by local ricers; it was really annoying. Then one day we popped the hood, so the president of the local 'import' club could see. After looking at the engine, he said that he would tell club members not to bother challenging us any more. Funny thing, it actually worked; we are hardly bothered by them now. Anyway, this is what we showed him...