[BiturboS4] New S4 owner

[john sonty]

I'm running APR v3 with no problems so far.  Is there noticeable
difference in power deliver with v5??

--- Al Adler <adlere at sourcecodecorp.com> wrote:
> I'm sure Audi had the California's  91 octane  in mind when
> they detuned
> so they didn't have to have a CA specific version since CA
> gets the
> worst gas in the US. If I want to pay through the nose I think
> I can
> even still get 95 octane at Sunoco here in VA, but even so its
> 93
> everywhere else.  As for the slushbox(which I'll sheepishly
> admit I have
> because of the traffic around here) its rated for 300 ft/lb
> according to
> AMS - they detune their chips for the tiptronic version so as
> to not
> exceed that value.
>
> As for you APR chip owners that don't have the CEL problems -
> are you
> running the new V5 software or the older V3 software? Mine is
> the V3 and
> I'm wondering if upgrading it will help with my CEL situation.
>
> Thanks
> Al
>
> Quincy Chiang wrote:
>
> >Ti,
> >
> >I know the fuel quality here in North America isn't as good
> as those found in Europe, but we pay a lot less than them, so
> I can't really complain.  As for the detuning of the S4 from
> 265 to 250hp, I thought the main reason was so that Audi could
> equip this car with a slushbox for the North American market,
> as the euro-S4 are manual transmission only.  The main
> reduction is torque from 295(?) to 258(?) ft-lb, my numbers
> maybe wrong.
> >
> >Quincy
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ti Kan [mailto:ti at amb.org]
> >Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:51 AM
> >To: Robin Gibson
> >Cc: Ti Kan; John M. Harrison; biturbos4 at audifans.com
> >Subject: Re: [BiturboS4] New S4 owner
> >
> >
> >Robin Gibson writes:
> >
> >
> >>I chipped my S4tt at 15k with the abt 310hp chip.  I am now
> at 44k miles
> >>without any problems.  Best purchase I ever made; I'd
> probably have sold my
> >>kids for an RS4 by now, but with the abt S4 there is little
> point.  I use
> >>the car for everyday driving and find that I very rarely
> have to use full
> >>power.  Driven with (some) restraint and respect, the rest
> of the
> >>mechanicals seem to be up to it.  In the UK at least, the
> Audi warranty is
> >>unaffected if they install the abt chip.  Worth checking up
> on - you're
> >>missing out otherwise
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yeah, but you probably have much better fuel quality in the
> UK than what
> >we have here that's pisswater pretending to be fuel.  Audi
> had to detune
> >the S4's power/torque output for the US market cars because
> of that,
> >in order to put some safety margin in.  By chipping up to
> above the
> >Euro standard, we would remove all the safety margin and then
> some...
> >
> >-Ti
> >2003 A4 1.8T multitronic
> >2001 S4 biturbo 6-sp
> >1984 5000S turbo
> >1980 4000 2.0 5-sp
> >--
> >    ///  Ti Kan                Vorsprung durch Technik
> >   ///   AMB Laboratories, Sunnyvale, CA. USA
> >  ///    ti at amb.org
> > //////  http://www.amb.org/ti/
> >///
> >
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