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Old Sep 13, 2006 | 03:14 PM
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I am a currently undergoing the ongoing illness of vette modification. I have tried self help programs and group sessions but much to my wife's dismay I continue to spend endless hours on my vette and spend money with reckless abandon. I now have installed cam/LTH/Cats/intake/black out ect ect ect. I have an A4 2002 Coupe and the cam I have installed Comp XER 110 lsa plus 2 degree advanced / 224/228/ 588/588 rear is 3.15. The tuning was done by PCMfor less and the car runs well. My concern is that with the A4 it pulls hard at the 800 rpm idle. Take my foot off the brakes and I am going 15 mph. I have been told a STALL conveter will help but I wonder if I spend more money get EFI live that I may be able to spend 100 more hours on learning about programming and get this thing to idle lower and stop the pull and really drive her over the edge Any feedback on my plan? How hard is it to learn to use EFI or should I just get the Yank 3200 and leave the programming to others ?

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Old Sep 15, 2006 | 03:47 PM
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With that cam, 800 rpm in drive is as low as you want it to idle. You need that convertor.

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Old Sep 16, 2006 | 01:04 AM
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A4 2002 FRC? What am I missing here?
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Old Sep 16, 2006 | 02:39 AM
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A4 2002 FRC? What am I missing here?

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Old Sep 16, 2006 | 11:38 AM
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A4 2002 FRC? What am I missing here?


They never made an A4 FRC!!!!
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Old Sep 16, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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They never made an A4 FRC!!!!
That would pretty much explain 15mph at idle.

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Old Sep 21, 2006 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Steve Theodore
A4 2002 FRC? What am I missing here?
I don't which to use... or or or or
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Old Sep 21, 2006 | 02:13 PM
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It's very rare or modded into one
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