[s-cars] V8 vs A8

[Theodore Chen]

I have a B5 S4 Avant with K04s, APR stage 1 chip for K03s, and nothing else.  The stock K03s went bad and I wasn't about to replace with the same failure-prone K03s.  Even without doing any other mods, the K04s produced noticeable improvement over the K03s, with the APR chip installed.


On Fri Feb 19th, 2010 6:02 AM PST JC wrote:

>Fully agree there's nothing wrong with the mods, and in fact of course I'd
>want to do some of that myself in a B5S4, it's just the flave you get from
>the folks who do them and the previous owners vibe and I'm skeptical about
>most of the cars I've looked at.  But to illustrate by contrast I wouldn't
>blink at the thought of buying an RS2'd UrS from a lister here.  And if I
>found a Stage I-II-III B5S4 with good history and a respectable owner I
>could certainly consider it. Just seems that's a real rarity...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
>> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Taka Mizutani
>> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 8:08 AM
>> To: JC
>> Cc: dconner at gmail.com; s-car-list at audifans.com; Tom Winter
>> Subject: Re: [s-cars] V8 vs A8
>>
>> True that a lot of B5 S4s are beat on, but if they're done
>> right, they're actually better modified than stock- I'd
>> rather have an AWE Stage III with K04s, manifolds, downpipes
>> and exhaust than a stock 2.7T. But I'd want one that was done
>> by a known shop with all receipts.
>>
>> Excess bling and stupid suspension setups are bad, I agree.
>>
>> But I do hear you on the mods- I got decent money for my STi
>> because it was basically stock.
>>
>> Taka
>>
>>
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