[s-cars] Upgrading B5 A4 suspension (Cody Forbes)

[Manuel Sanchez]

Threadjack.

Cody, I was at VIR on Monday and Tuesday as well (in a black urS6  
Avant).

Saw your A5 and what was that coupe with the sharks mouth painted on  
it, an  A3? What's under the hood of that thing?
I was always fiddling with something on the pig or trying to catch a  
catnap here and there so I never stopped over.

Regards,

Manny
urS6 Avant (RS2'd with a refurbished head)

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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:47:28 -0400
> From: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
> To: "Lee Levitt" <lee at wheelman.com>, "S-car List"
> 	<s-car-list at audifans.com>,	"Quattro List" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Upgrading B5 A4 suspension
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> I've been doing tire testing for BFG recently. They are going to be  
> coming
> out with a new R1 compound called the R1S. It's supposed to compete  
> with the
> Hoosier A6, the autocross compound. They sent me a couple sets to  
> put on the
> A5 track car because they wanted to see just how much punishment  
> they can
> take. I finally killed the two fronts of the first set after  
> **FIVE** track
> days running an average of (5) 25 minute sessions every day, and in  
> one day
> double-stinting them over two 20 minute sessions with a pit lane  
> driver
> change about about 3 times (that?s 2 back to back sessions, 20  
> minute break,
> two sessions, break, two sessions).
>
> Understand that this is on a car that I weighed at 3967lbs with a  
> 180lb
> person in the drivers seat and the low fuel warning light on and  
> running an
> autocross tire **HARD** on Road Atlanta, Carolina Motorsports Park,  
> and VIR.
> Full list of mods:
> http://www.gmpperformance.com/index.cfm? 
> pg=carGallery&makerID=2&vGroupID=287&mode=displayVehicle&VID=3268
>
> I actually just got back from VIR, ran a monday-tuesday Audi Club  
> event.
> With these tires on this car was one of the fastest in the corners,  
> I was
> easily running with Porsche GT3's on Hoosier R6's and similar  
> tires. Even
> had the chief instructor come to me and state that the A5 was one  
> of the
> best handling and best driven cars at the event (and he was in a  
> GT2 on
> slicks). I cooked the brakes early on so I was braking early, WAY  
> early, and
> still ran under 2:20.00 laps. Uphill esses were completely flat  
> out, 120mph
> no problem in a car that would only do about 125mph top speed on  
> the big
> straights. In my last session I got some data from an AiM  
> datalogger, I'll
> get that posted somewhere ASAP.
>
>
> So give it another month or so and the R1S will be out. Should be a  
> huge
> improvement over the R1 in an auto-x. BTW, I saw a Hoosier comment  
> - the BFG
> R1 is a better tire than the Hoosier R6. Times are close, but the  
> R1 seems
> to last longer and be more predictable.
>
> -Cody
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Levitt
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:44 AM
> To: S-car List ; Quattro List
> Subject: Upgrading B5 A4 suspension
>
> Folks,
>
> I've been running a Bilstein, Eibach, Hsport suspension on my '01  
> A4 1.8t
> for 3 years now, and am wondering if I can improve the handling by  
> going to
> a different setup. For the street it's fine, for autocross it's not as
> precise as I'd like. Or maybe it's me. :)
>
> I did an autocross school on Sunday, got 10 runs in on my street tires
> (Dunlops) and another 10 on BFG R1s. The car was a lot more  
> controllable
> with the latter and I was putting down times equal to/better than  
> many of
> the BMWs ( admittedly I have more autocross seat time than many of  
> the other
> attendees...and the timed course was not power friendly.)
>
> Anyway, I'd like to improve my results, and would appreciate all  
> inputs. :)
>
>
> Best,
>
> Lee
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