Archives Excess Stuff – Reasonable Offer Sale Flow Testing Y-Pipe Prototypes S4 Avant Returns Home Apikol Differential Bushing Blowout Mamba Wastegate Bracket Update FT21v3 + Mamba Preload Check Frankenturbo + Mamba First Drive Frankenturbo F21v3 Swap Complete No particular place to go Next Project – Finish Engine Build Hi Ho Silver JAE Innovations Product Claims White Dog Racing SMIC Install Fuel Filter & Pump Swaps Accordion to Brake Booster Modification K03 Hybrids from GP Turbos XS-Power, Not Impressed Silly Rabbit Motorsport and White Dog Racing Intercooler Matchup More SRM SMIC Flow Testing Upgrade downhill White Dog vs Silly Rabbit Clean up and repo Front Driver Side Wheelwell Waiting on Turbos Survey Platform Experiment Taking care of the rear main seal Upgrade in progress XS-Power Bipipe Flow Test Get Healthy Engine Out Project Get Healthy Frankenturbo meet Mamba Mamba Billet Wastegates More FrankenTurbos – F21 v3 Engine Time Capsule Engine Retrieval Project engine hiding in an Audi A4 Audi B5 S4 Video Contest Survey Subaru Airbox MAF Flow testing TiAL 605’s Return Hot Air Intake Part 2 Hot Air Intake Test Inertial Dynamometer and Turbocharger Boost Onset Dynocom accuracy estimating Headlight Upgrade JAEInnovations – 500 HP or Bust Big Power + XS Power Audi B5 S4/RS4 Owner Poll – Intercoolers Refining Long Term Fuel Trims Stabila Street Front Swaybar EuroCustoms Tune vs Free Door Handle Repair New Turbo Project Wrapped Turbo Inlet Pipe – Part 2 Wrapped Y-Pipe Temperatures Cruising Turbo Outlet Temperatures Gold Wrapped MAF Sensor Housing Airbox Minus Darintake Mod Wrapped Airbox Summary Audi B5 S4 Stage Poll Airbox Reflective Foil First Drives Modification Expenditures First Drive with Temperature Sensor After Air Filter Temperature Sensor Relocated Initial Drive Temperatures Temperature Sensors Wired Up Looking to measure again Audi B5 S4 Owners Poll Stocking up on supplies RS4 Fuel Pump Swap SRM IC Temperatures Is it Real or is it DynoJet? Crank up the preload? Billet Turbochargers Turbo Concepts Hot Weather Boost Onset TC Stg1 2-11 at 85F Epilogue: Audi U.S. Production Numbers White Dog Racing FMIC Flow Testing Audi RS3 Predictions Behold… the Unicorn! Adios, transition complete Stock vs IPP Intercoolers Avant Finishing Touches Flashback Friday – Stock vs RS4 IC Brake Swap In Progress Creating Work Car Wash Rear CV Boot Replacement Start up 4 years and 4,000 miles Another engine in place Tangled in the web It is… alive! Differential Installed End Link Adjustment Organizing Putting Along Slow progress Hall of Fame Inductees Avant Engine In Silver S4 Engine Out Silver S4 in the garage Transmission Swap Transmission Prep Avant Engine Out Avant Engine Pull Checklist Complete RS6 Turbocharger Flowbench Test Busy S4 Day 2.7T Triple Play Coilover Swap Begins Winter Shoes U.S. Market Breakdown AGS4 retrograde begins More MAF Flow Testing Tuning Snafu Turbo Concepts Stage 1 vs BorgWarner K04 Turbo Concepts Exhaust Gas Temperatures Low Boost Turbo Concepts Test Temperature Rise Comparison Turbo Concepts Stg1 Temperature Rise Turbo Concepts Stg1 Backpressure ECS Jack Pad Kit A different look at boost onset Still tuning the Turbo Concepts More Turbo Concepts Data Survivor Projection Calling It Turbo Concepts Stage 1 First Logs Turbo Concepts First Drive Turbo Concepts Passenger Side Turbo Concepts Driver Side Swap in progress Turbo Concepts Passenger Side Torque Values Turbo Swap Prep Stasis Streetsport Height Adjusted Fixed Stasis Streetsports Turbo Concepts Stage 1 Bench Test What is the 2-11 time? Turbo Concepts Stage 1 Turbochargers AWE Manifold Dyno Session Thermal Imaging on the Dyno Timing Belt Completed Coolant O-Ring Replacement B5 S4 Survivor Results MFactory Helical LSD Today’s Project: 034 Rear Sway Bar End Links Avant Roadtrip Stasis Streetsport Suspension Work Changing the look Avant Compression Check Adios Nogaro S4 Survivors Poll Instructions S4 Survey – Slicing the Data More Survey Insights Survey Insights Audi B5 S4 Surviving Numbers Brake Check ‘After’ Results More Brake Checking Braking Distance Check Audi B5 S4 Avant Nogaro breaking AWE-Tuning Exhaust Manifold Backpressure K04 vs 770 Torque Curves Nogaro back in the garage AWE Tubular Exhaust Manifold First Look AWE Exhaust Manifold Test Preparations K04 Summer Boost Data SRM Shroud Fitting 605 vs K04 Engine Installed Injectors Swapped Passenger Side Swap Complete Driver Side Swap Complete AGS4 engine out Just about ready Taking a Nogaro break Nogaro roughly up and running Nogaro Starter Check Nogaro stoppage WMI Checkvalve More Nogaro Progress LDP Install Engine Installed – Finally Nogaro DP’s Installed Nogaro WG Setting Swaybar Day Boost Rise Trend 4mm Nozzle Check Downsizing WMI Nozzles Turbo Concepts – Another option? More Nogaro Silliness Hot weather data Nogaro Project Competition BMW MAF Part 2 Nogaro Engine Pull Project Nogaro – The Good BMW MAF + K&N Filter Project Nogaro Begins Stage 3 post turbo backpressure S4 vs RS4 Y-Pipe Pressure Drop Stage 3 Pre-Turbo Pressure Drop Boost Logging Gear Thermal Coated FrankenTurbo White Dog Racing RS4 TB/Bipipe FrankenTurbo F4H data More TTE550 Boost Onset Data Revised Water Shock Accumulator Water Shock Results Charge Air Temperature Rise with Boost Increases Aquamist Anti-Surge Accumulator WG Refinement More TTE550 data Claim: TTE550 has RS4 K04 response Dirty Airbox White Dog Racing IC Inlets Solo shakedown drive White Dog Racing Intake Parts TTE550’s Installed One TTE550 Installed (Almost) FT21 Removal Underway Next candidate – TTE550 BW K04 vs FT 21 vs SRM RS6/K24 Gauges layout FrankenTurbo F21 Mixed Flow Dyno Results Whoa! Enough boost Pushing the F21’s More BMW Turbocharger Inlet Flow Testing F21 Mixed Flow Boost Onset Data TorqByte Tuning Path Temperatures Along Intake Tract Fluidampr crankshaft pulley F21 First Logs First Impression of FrankenTurbo F21 FrankenTurbo F21 First Run Running with FrankenTurbos Engine installed with F21’s Turbo Collection Moving onto FrankenTurbo F21’s Compressor Housing Pressure K04 Dyno Baseline Wheel well pressure IC Shroud Test – Cleaned Up Data TTE550 Day 2 TTE550 First Look IC shroud testing – a different approach K04 Stg3 Pre-Turbo Pressure 034 Motorsport Exhaust Fix EGT Model Accuracy Ugh. Step backward. SRM on car IC Pressure Drop Need to tune it down Checking K04 Wastegate Preload Exhaust Manifold Coatings K04’s setting the bar high Is the K03 like a hair dryer? K04 swap complete Reducing Coolant Spillage Fuel Injectors Swapped Garage Winterization Paragon Oil Lines Second K04 installed Driver side K04 on Turbo swap underway Onto K04’s End of the K03 Journey TTE 550 vs TTE 600 Big power FT21’s Wacky Turbo Comparisons TTE 550 Getting More Interesting What’s up with the poll? TorqTune Setup Weighing In and Straightening Out K03 Modifying Boost Results K03 High Boost Measurements Pre-Turbine Exhaust Pressure on Stock Boost Pre-Turbo Exhaust Pressure Flow testing the old style intake manifold 3 bar MAP sensor Swaintech Coated Exhaust Manifolds Old vs New MAP Sensor Pre-Turbo Pressure Drop MAP sensor check Intake and Exhaust Pressures Exhaust Manifold Surface Temperature Part 2 Initial exhaust back pressure results More equipment for exhaust pressure measuring Gauge Test Run Turbo Temp Gauges Wired LC-2 Wired Up Trim Swap Gauge Panel TTE550 Getting Interesting Pre-Turbo Injection Baseline Pre-Turbo Injection Installed Pre-Turbo Injection 2 Pre-Turbo Water Injection N75 Valve Tuning Investigation More Flowbench MAF Work RS4 MAF Tuning Silly Rabbit Motorsport SMIC Boost Manager Profile Analysis Exhaust Manifold Velocity Project: B5 PB550 BoostManager Flow Calibration Aquamist Flow Sensor 806-428H SRM SMIC Install Gaining ground K03’s with Stock Intercooler Results F21 1.8T Turbine Housing Compressor Signal Line Monitoring Exhaust Manifold with Turbine Housing AWE Exhaust Manifold Flow Testing – Coming Soon K03 Boosted BMW Inlet Debacle EPL MAF Flow Test MM Performance Engineering Inlet Pipes MAF Airflow Test #3 Oil Lines, Finally BMW 335i N54 Inlet Pipe Test K03 Turbine Flow Rebuilt BorgWarner K03 Turbochargers Paragon Wastegate Lines FrankenTurbo F21 Mixed Flow MSM WP and Timing Belt Wastegate vs Exhaust Manifold WG Nut Effects Turbine Airflow Varying Wastegate AN line collection More K04 Flowbench results AWE S-Flo Testing K04 to the bench FrankenTurbo F4H Boost Data Even more perplexed Still digging for answers That’s not good Logging Exhaust Gas Pressure Nef Tune Stage 2 Turbo blanket results Engine installed Aftermarket part pains Engine Pull Déjà vu Running out of breath Intake pressure check Turbo Blanket Clearance SRM IM Progress Apikol Transmission Mounts Installed Punting on SRM’s Modified Intake Manifold Stoptech Rotor Swap Hitachi MAF Round 2 Hitachi MAF Sensor Values MAF Sensor on Flowbench SRM RS4 SMIC Piping Effects Tool Progress 034 front swaybar end link installed Wiseco Pistons Refurbished Stern Control Arms Wrapped up 2.8 Camshafts Big Power Parts Stock Fuel Injectors swapped Possible Frankenturbo Future Offering Fuel Rail Upgrade Downpipe wrap Exhaust Manifolds Swapped Swaintech ceramic coated downpipes Flow test of SRM SMIC’s BorgWarner K04 Turbochargers on hand 034 Swaybar End Links TTE 550 Another Contender PTP Turbo Blanket SRM RS4 SMIC New option from SRM 6th engine pull Nef7 Acceleration MAF Screen Flow Test Nef4 Relogged Turbocharger Selection Big Picture Nef4 Timing Adjustment Exhaust Manifold Temperature Fluctuation Nef Stage1 Modified Boost Nefmoto Revised AFR Nefmoto Tune Rev1 S4 Stock Tune Baseline Logs Exhaust Manifold IR Temp2 Downside of the Darintake Intake swap Airbox Filter Drive Temperatures Stock Airbox or CAI? Day 2 EGT Monitoring Exhaust Manifold Thermal Coating BoostManager RPM Signal Ramp Jack Stand Safety Water-Methanol Bog Low End Performance Eurodyne Boost Manager RS4 TBB Adapters RS6 EGT Logs J-Mod Revealed ECS Power Gasket First Look Reinstalling AMD IC’s F21 on E85 PreTurbo Air Temperature IAT Followup IAT Problems IC Temperature Efficiency Stock FATS Exhaust Pressure Measurement RS4 Airbox More Thermal Spacers Silicone RS4 MAF Hose Narrowband AFR Comparison Timing drop Compressor Outlet Temperature Auber Air Temperature Sensor Siliconeintakes Triple Grip Design Innovate LMA-3 (Aux Box) Contender Dyno Comparison Aquamist Nozzles A-Pillar Boost Gauge F21 vs K04 Turbo Selection – E85 Turbo Selection Turbo Selection Path Consideration Turbo Selection Easy Cuts Turbo Size Decision Turbocharger Selection Audi B5 RS4 Cylinder Heads Interior Swap Project: Big pipes Water-Methanol Injection vs High Octane What to do with B5 RS4 Cylinder Heads? Eurodyne Boostmanager Plus+ More progress F’ing Single Piece Driveshaft Alignment troubles Composite Pressure Loss 2 Loba Motorsport Audi B5 Intake Manifold SRM Modified Stock IM On Hand AGS4 DMV Inspection Project:B5 Modified Intake Manifold Driveshaft Heat Shield Making progress again SRM Modified Intake Manifold Problems? What problems. Coolant Leak Extrude Honed Intake Manifold Driveshaft install Low pressure check Motor mount test fit Wiring Tool Manual Transmission Radiator Clutch installed POR-15 Subframe Intercooler Scatter Plot Valve cover fun Reversion: Fact or Myth? Motor mount bracket Transmission swap Data logging gear First accomodation Tiptronic Torque Converter Removal Dollies are cool Engine out More new stuff Continued progress Into position Santorin S4 moving out Nitty Gritty Audi B5 RS4 pump swap Subframe swap complete Subframe final phase Sub-Frame Two Out Now in DMOZ Driveshaft fun Exhaust removed Audi B5 S4 Pedal Assembly Removal Backing the subframe out Lowering the subframe Moving rearward Corner 3/8 done Corner 1 almost done First corner removed Santorin Suspension Dis-Assembly Engine Removal Checklist Taking care of the mirrors Ignition lock success More cleaning Getting to work Picking up the new S4 Purchasing an insurance auction car Composite pressure drop IC Info Summary Y-Pipe Prototype Testing 80mm TB Bolt Test 80mm Throttle Body Modified RS4 Intake Manifold Test RS4 Intake Manifold Flow Test Raining intake manifolds Exhaust velocity probe Intake manifold volume Adapter setup Stock Y-pipe and Tial inlets Stock Y-pipe with Inlets Insurance Claim Epilogue Lessons Learned Re-engaging Stepping Away Documenting Incompetence Insurance phone call Round 1 Challenging Market Value Intake Manifold Runner Market Valuation Report Concerns Intake Manifold Test with Fuel Injectors Aftermarket parts Intake Manifold Testing CCC Market Valuation Report Loss determination Search for a replacement S4 Prognosis Insurance claim first decision Collision damage insurance claim AMD Shroud Comparison AMD vs Stock Intercoolers FrankenTurbo F4H-BT Boost Investigation
