Getting ahead of the game, I’ve got plans to put some different turbochargers in the car but at the moment haven’t established exactly what they’ll look like. The motor is coming out so I can work on a few accessories and swap exhaust manifolds then hopefully within a couple of weeks will have a different set of turbochargers to evaluate.
6th time the motor has come out of my S4
A lesson learned from this time around, figure out how you are going to plug the braided stainless slave cylinder line BEFORE you install the product. I wanted to leave the metal slave cylinder in place since I had put some RTV around the housing to keep dust from getting into the bell housing around the slave cylinder. This meant disconnecting the AN fitting that goes to the metal slave cylinder. With the stock unit I had a small tube that would slide over the end to plug it when disconnected, not so with this AN fitting. After disconnecting the fitting and not having any luck holding the line up to keep the fluid in, or being able to find a suitable plug, I let the end of the line drain into a waste container. Next time around I’ll have a proper plug to put on the end of the line.
This chart shows a comparison of the 7th iteration of the Nefmoto community 2.7 tune with the stock B5 S4 tune and also a log I have from a different APR chipped car. The APR car is not mine, nor is it as extensively modified along the intake and exhaust airflow paths, the point of putting the data on the chart is to give a sense of about where the Nef7 tune falls in comparison to two other tunes that have widespread use.
This investigation was done to get some insight into the amount of obstruction the screening at the entrance to the MAF housing causes.
I had the ends from a stock MAF housing which I attached directly to the flowbench to measure the airflow through.
Results:
Running the test depression up to 10″ of H2O the results were:
The setup for the test was not ideal, just having the ends of the MAF housings and mounting them directly to the bench which meant the sharp edges were present for air to flow around as the air was drawn through the housing ends. But, as a check to see approximately how much obstruction the screen causes I believe this setup was adequate.
The removal of the screen under the conditions that I tested showed roughly a 5% increase in airflow at the same test depression.
