What Next?
What Next? Just wondering if this was your car what would you do next to it as far as performance goes. Mods are in my sig and its basically a full boltons car besides MAF (which is descreened and thats all I'm doing with it) TB and intake manifold. I have yet to get it over to the track to see what it will run but it should be a nice improvement over factory minus a lid and weld in muffler. You think I should keep going with the boltons or start on the suspension or drivetrain or what??? This is my daily driver so I have to keep it realiable since I'm in college and this is my only means of transportation...
What are your goals for the car? Do you want a reliable weekend warior at the dragstrip, or do you want to carve corners? Or do you just want a nice looking car that drives well and has some power to boot?
First thing I'd do is scrap the 16's and put some 17's and some meats under it.
I also think a stall, shift kit, and tranny cooler will really wake it up for you. LS6, TB, UD pulley etc. are good too. Bolt ons aren't going to make the car less reliable. A small cam and tune would be very nice ontop of the boltons. I put 12k miles on my car with the Futral F14 under the hood as my daily driver from December to June. Cam went in at 110k miles and still have no problems.
I also think a stall, shift kit, and tranny cooler will really wake it up for you. LS6, TB, UD pulley etc. are good too. Bolt ons aren't going to make the car less reliable. A small cam and tune would be very nice ontop of the boltons. I put 12k miles on my car with the Futral F14 under the hood as my daily driver from December to June. Cam went in at 110k miles and still have no problems.
I don't care so much about handling as I do straight line power but it won't see the track but a couple times a year. I just like the have the power there so when the time comes I can hold my own against most anything else on the street. Now around here the most exotic cars I'll ever line up against besides the few exceptions are some 'vettes and maybe a cobra or two. And as for the 16's I like the way they look and I just bought new tires for them a couple months ago so selling them is out of the question (besides they hold about as well as any other true street tire will IMHO cause at WOT from a stand still I'll only get a little chirp before they hook). I don't want to spend a lot so I don't know if theres really anything right now worth my money but the problem with a stall is then I would need better tires and/or suspension to hold it and that would also just cause more stress on the ol' 10 bolt and I can't afford it blowing up on me anytime soon....
the 10 bolt should last you quite a while running around on street tires modded or not.i'd say in this order=stall,shift kit,cooler at the same time, then cam and u/d pulley with a tune and you'll be good to go.
Yea I'm not too worried about my rear with my tires I have now cause they hold fine now but if I stalled it up I'd probably lose time cause theyd just break lose and I'd spin. Also can a stall benefit me anywhere besides from a stop?? I have the pcmforless tune and they have firmed my shifts up pretty nicely so I think I could hold off on that and maybe look at a tranny cooler instead. What about a pair of SFC's do you think I'd benefit any from them or not, I figured it would be a good mod to help me hook up a little better...
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Verdad Gallardo Yea a cam will be in my future sometime just not anytime soon and as for the nitrous I don't think I'm wanting to go that route since it is my daily driver and i have no way to get around if my cars ever broke down. Right now I'd like to be able to hit 350+ rwhp, I haven't dyno'd after the headers/ory and tune but I figure I should be close hopefully but it would be nice if I could hit it since it will be the only time I dyno for a while. Maybe a ported tb would do it?
My cars ride quality improved quite a bit with some SFC's under it. Felt like it floated over the bumps and stayed tight instead of trying to conform to them. Kinda felt like it put the suspension to work more.
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Originally Posted by TheBlurLS1
My cars ride quality improved quite a bit with some SFC's under it. Felt like it floated over the bumps and stayed tight instead of trying to conform to them. Kinda felt like it put the suspension to work more.
I had some input in the mods but everyone pretty much covered everything. What do you guys think would be a good tune for this guy. Like a hand held tuner or an actual dyno tune? Personally I'd like to see how much power I'm actually making so I'd say Dyno.
Originally Posted by mccollum_007
Just wondering if this was your car what would you do next to it as far as performance goes. Mods are in my sig and its basically a full boltons car besides MAF (which is descreened and thats all I'm doing with it) TB and intake manifold. I have yet to get it over to the track to see what it will run but it should be a nice improvement over factory minus a lid and weld in muffler. You think I should keep going with the boltons or start on the suspension or drivetrain or what??? This is my daily driver so I have to keep it realiable since I'm in college and this is my only means of transportation...
im in the same boat as u are kinda.
but i have a 9" being shipped out tomorrow.
im geting a set of 15X3.5 prostars for the front and a set of D/R's for the back
ls6 im
ud pulley
ported TB
im going with a dyno TUNE
and then sfc, lca, phr, ta.
should put me around a 12.3 and still very very DD friendley
then some better shocks like koni sa (how are they at the track?)
i would have had that stuf done by now but i had to rebulid the trans and replace the clutch and rear
but i have a 9" being shipped out tomorrow.
im geting a set of 15X3.5 prostars for the front and a set of D/R's for the back
ls6 im
ud pulley
ported TB
im going with a dyno TUNE
and then sfc, lca, phr, ta.
should put me around a 12.3 and still very very DD friendley
then some better shocks like koni sa (how are they at the track?)
i would have had that stuf done by now but i had to rebulid the trans and replace the clutch and rear
Yea I wish I could afford a 9" or 12bolt but its just not in the budget right now...if that was the case I'd slap some DR's on the back and a stall. I'm thinking suspension/chassis mods will do me some good maybe that way I can atleast utilize the stock torque converter.
If your looking for performance gain you won't find a better mod for the A4 than a stall, don't worry about the 10 bolt...I was cutting 1.6 60's with my 10 bolt and it still running strong. Besides that I doubt you'll ever be able to get enough traction on the street to break a 10 bolt, they're stronger than you think. Next on my list would be a cam. I went 11.9 with a G5x2, tci 4000 stall and an ls6 intake and 4.10 gears...but the gears didn't help me that much so I've since swapped back to the 3.42's
I think a ported tb and ls6 intake would help a lot. If you dont want to spend the money on the ls6 intake then you can do ported tb and pulleys for around 300. This setup would also show good hp gains.
A stall will be in my future but I really don't have the time to be dropping the tranny and all that good stuff so I was looking for some stuff that would have good results for not a lot and that would yield me some good gains either at the track or on the dyno. Which would yield more power out of the two combinations of boltons mentoned do you think a ported tb/ls6 or the tb/underdrive pulley?? I know each car is different but judging by what I already have about what kind of numbers do you think I would be putting down if I added one of these combinations, could I be at the 350+ rwhp mark?? Also on average about how long does it take to install an underdrive pulley and a ls6 manifold??? Thanks alot guys you've really got me thinking about a lot of good ways to go on my setup 
