Last winter I spent a few days working in my frigid garage and the cold weather put a big damper on my progress.  Now with intentions of doing another turbo swap, or two, over the winter I decided that I needed to make the workspace a more pleasant place to be if I wanted to do non-critical work.  When you have to get your car running that can be a strong motivator to get work done.  When you have a DD and the S4 is just for projects, working on the car in frigid conditions becomes hard to justify.

I took a break from the K04 turbo swap to fully insulate my garage and put on order an insulated door.

I’m hopeful that even when the temperatures outside drop down to the freezing level the conditions inside the garage will be mild enough to make working on the car seem like a normal activity.

One of the important elements to calculating accurate information from a FATS pull is to know the vehicle weight.  For my baseline weight I fill the gas tank and ensure the typical items I carry around in the car are onboard.  My S4 weighed in at 3600 lbs.

Another thing I took care of today was having an alignment performed.  Since having the Stern adjustable upper control arms returned from being rebuilt I have not had the car properly aligned.

And lastly, a photo of the current state of wiring partially occupying the passenger footwell area.

Some readings from a K03 tune that generates high boost levels.

The intake air temperatures shown below are with the addition of w/m injection.