02 SS A4....large wet shot?
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02 SS A4....large wet shot? What kind of a NX wet shot can a stock 02 SS A4 with 3.23's handle with an average tune? Car has a lid, 160 stat, slp y-pipe, slp dual/dual, scanmaster and thats it! I figured a 150-175 shot would be max. Will that big of a shot take its toll on the A4? Thanks
bye bye a4.....so go and some blow......make sure you get a window switch, my buddy sprayed his through the shifts on a TNT 100wet shot and it didnt last long....verter locked he made 388rwhp cam only.....100shot stock pump went to 505rwhp 541rwtq.....if it craps it craps....good reason to upgrade
I've run a TNT 150rwhp shot with no problems not spraying through the shifts. I started spraying through the shifts and the tranny started acting up. I started playing with a 200rwhp shot not long after and things got even worse, no big surprise. 2-3 shift is slipping pretty bad but it's still making the shift. The car has been sprayed hard for the past two and half years so it lasted longer than I though it would.
holy taleto batman!
2.5 years spraying a 150-200 shot on the A4 with stock 2.72 gears????
I FEEL SOO MUCH BETTER NOW!
I just installed this NX Maf Plate Kit 150 shot on an A4 with shift kit and 3600 Yank SS with 3.23 10 bolt..
I thought BUUUUUU-BYE! But maybe not
2.5 years spraying a 150-200 shot on the A4 with stock 2.72 gears????
I FEEL SOO MUCH BETTER NOW!
I just installed this NX Maf Plate Kit 150 shot on an A4 with shift kit and 3600 Yank SS with 3.23 10 bolt..
I thought BUUUUUU-BYE! But maybe not
I run a shift kit and a 3500 stall too. Actually the 2.73 carrier and gears are a touch stronger than the 3.23s. I think the 2.73s are helping save the motor too. The car doesn't rev real fast just nice and steady, I imagine if I went with 3.73s and started spinning the motor fast it would want to throw a rod with the 200rwhp shot. I'm hoping the tranny isn't completly shot, I lost the seal on the tail shaft and it dropped some fluid so I'm hoping it's a fluid problem since it gets worse when the fluid is hotter.
I think that sticking with drag radials, and not spraying through the shifts you should have a perfectly reliable set up.
I think that sticking with drag radials, and not spraying through the shifts you should have a perfectly reliable set up.
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How do you not spray through the shifts? I have only run nitrous on manual cars...never an auto. Do you just have a window switch turn it off about 3 hundred RPM's before your shift points?
Yep, just a regular window switch. Turning it off at about 200 rpm before the shift seems to be about perfect. I've tried 100rpm before the shift and you can feel the car spray into the shift.
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If you dont spray through the shift...can you feel the nitrous shut down and kick back in or is it a smooth transition? Also, can i expect for the tranny to hold up for awhile if i dont spray through the shifts? Or am i still messin with disaster? Looking at a 100-125 shot. Thanks for your help.
I got 120-135rwhp with all my bolt on`s and H/C-441rwhp. This is with a A4. So you will be okay with it. I do recommend a good shift kit and maybe a cooler! I think you will be okay for awhile!
Don`t spray threw shifts. You will feel the drop in power for just a second! Then it will be right back in! I don`t spray threw shifts at all!
Don`t spray threw shifts. You will feel the drop in power for just a second! Then it will be right back in! I don`t spray threw shifts at all!
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Got another question? I got on the car today and noticed that it makes the 1-2 shift at 5500 and the 2-3 and the 3-4 at 6100 RPMs. If i dont want to spray through the shifts then im gonna have to set the nitrous cutoff at 5400 to accomodate the 1-2 shift. BUT.....if i do that, then its gonna cutoff at 5400 in the other shifts as well, causing me to lose 600-700RPMs of useful powerband in 2nd and 3rd gear. Am i gonna just have to shift it manually? I hate trying to shift the stock shifter manually....you never know how many RPMs are gonna slip by before it shifts. Is there anything else i can do?
Yeah, I agree. On the bottle first gear comes up fast and the tach lags. You will be able to feel if the nitrous is shutting down before the shift. So, asuming that your car is programed to shift at 6,000rpm I would put in the 5,800 OFF pill and see if the nitrous shuts down before the shift. Shutting off 6-700rpm is absolutly going to kill your times, and manually shifting is absolutly going to kill your tranny. 