I just picked up some coolant from Overlake Oils, I knew that location sounded familiar...my buddies parents own Pacific Pride.

 

Thats a SWEET Audi. I was looking at an A4 and my buddy has an A4 but said its horrible for maintance. He said the price of parts and thigs are threw the roof. Is that true or was he not wanting me to buy one? Is the 1.8T the same in the VW?

Sorry off topic.

I didn't know about the different T stats. Good info.

 

They are exactly the same under the hood.
But you really need to drive one before you say you do not want one.
IMO there is no better car on the road than one that is german engineered.
Especially the all wheel drive.
You can be WOT accelorating and hit a diagonal ridge and the car will simply go over it straight ahead with zero bump steer.
Everything else just feels a little "spongy" to me.
Don't shoot me, but if VW/Audi made a truck as big as my Powerstroke, I would own it.

 

We ended up getting a Jeep AWD gas hog.

 

You make me wish I still had my A4. I had a 2002 1.8t I loved that car. I sold it to a co worker and he has had it for 2yrs now and I hate him.

 

That's funny, I try to sell my cars only to my friends. That way I can still work on them but yes I do hate them too as I see them drive away in my old car.

 

Except the S-4 has a twin turbo V6 with 3 intake valves and 2 exhaust valves PER CYLINDER.

 

 

What kind of ponys does that S-4 put down Dan?

 

With a chip and big turbos, cat delete, easily 500+.
And you don't have to do anything to the manual transmission for them to be able to handle that power. You would have to put in a stronger clutch.
The engineers knew it would need to be strong right out of the factory, so they made the gear carrier housing for the trannies out of cast iron.
My old Audi 5000 Turbo was good for 500 hp without mods. I never did them because for me the car was fast enough. It would do 90 in third gear.
120 mph and it wasn't even breathing hard.

 

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