The S4 twin turbo is Slow

[Larry C Leung]

I've been told a similar technique for Q's especially the turbo ones. I
won't do it my car.....

LL - NY

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:07:24 -0400 Achint Sandhu <sandhu at kilo.dyndns.org>
writes:
>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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