The S4 twin turbo is Slow

[Achint Sandhu]

Not a huge drag racing fan myself, so I'm not familier with the 
technicalities etc. of the launch.

For whatever it's worth, I've seen Skylines launched by winding them up 
to 7000 RPM and side stepping the clutch. This does indeed create 
wheelspin. It seems like an exercise in car abuse, but it is the most 
effective way to launch a Skyline, or so I'm told....

I don't have any technical information on the Skyline AWD setup, so I 
can't really make any claims as to how this would map to a quattro....

Cheers,
Achint

Beatty, Robert wrote:

>Javad is correct.... 4wd cars DONT do well at the dragstrip or you would see
>the top fuel cars in 4wd... if you dont do it just perfectly they bog down
>or smoke the clutch... watching the top rally cars leave the line at mt
>washington one can see this as well... the RWD cars with loads of HP leave
>just as fast if not faster in most cases than the quattro cars....
>
>Rob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Identiles at aol.com [mailto:Identiles at aol.com]
>Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:26 AM
>To: JShadzi at aol.com; quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: The S4 twin turbo is Slow
>
>
>all wheel drive cars are hard to launch???? WHAT. The whole point of quattro
>
>is no wheel spin????? That is the big advantage. It is like a cheat.  I am a
>
>Audi person to the fullest, but I was very dissapointed last night.  I have 
>never had a problem launching my quattro.  I would take everyone out in the 
>rain so your making excuses for quattro on dry pavement ?
>
>My friend has a WRX and he would have destroyed anyone of those S4s for half
>
>the price.  All I know is they make a million "S" cars now and they are not 
>representing in my opinion. I only respect the real "S" cars you know the 
>ones that only came in stick and were actually rare and limited cars. Audi
>is 
>sold out on the the "S" cars. DId you notice that they made the badges 
>different for 2001. They are bigger now so that people can read them. The 
>original badges were small and unable to be read unless you were right on 
>them. That was for the sleeper factor.
>
>You can disagree all you want but come on there is a Speed and Horsepower
>war 
>out there. Audi better bring some RS cars over here to kick ass. Cause the 
>250 HP is not cutting it. Toyota camarys and Honda accords have 200 HP now.
>
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