Audi A4 BAT - Quattro Project by Tom's Garage

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Things have been happening quite fast these days . . .





Aint no stopping now . . .



Then tackled the installation of the quick-release bumper fasteners

Some pics I took...

Bumper off..



And onto the installation...









24 less bolts...less weight...next is the front end...

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Got back from a long road run where we were testing files that Tom made.

Various ones to both test the new Throttle body at various load numbers, and also make it work as it should with the huge plenum of the new intake manifold, which is like 4 times larger than the oem one.

That is not so easy to do with just a lamda sensor to help you, but hey, Tom managed to do it.

Many thanks of course, but mostly many props to him for that.

Some pics of the hood after the pulls. It was polished and cleaned before, but look at what does the fire out of the dump tube do . . . . hehe . . . loving it

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I hit him in the heart . . .





LoL

Removed some hardware . . .

And the installed it . . .







Cheers

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Didnt manage to capture the proper ones, but here are some flames out of the hood- but for a good reason

Hit HD Quality

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjP5Py82VbM"]Dump Tube_1 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSIoDvNGr2k"]Dump_Tube 2 - YouTube[/ame]

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And now for something that most people in here will love - a lot. Some detailing love for the car, once again.

Some teaser photos of a complete detailing session the lucky Audi had



And then out got the cameras . . .

























All the work was carried by DAZZLE Show Car Promotions Ltd. which is owned by two very close friends of mine. A special thanks to Andy Kyrgios.

Full articles to follow - I hope Andy will make one sooner or later. Wont you now, Andy ::: : : :

Cheers. :thumb::driver:

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Decided it was time to move my ass and install the Apikol Rear Diff Mount which was sitting in my boxes for quite some time now . . .

So . . . Up went the car . . .



And down I went, having to remove this . . .



Removed . . .



Here it is . . .



And now the shiny parts..



Installed !



And while I was there, some maintenance to make it look fresh . . .

Before . . .



After . . .



Impressions :

The difference is very obvious even in moving in traffic, and just when the car starts to move, and while changing gears. In hard pulls and quick shifting the difference is even more obvious. A nice feeling of the car being more stiff and not cluttering when changing gear, or when starting from still.
Much quicker to move its once you hit wot after a quick gear change.

All in all a very nice product.

Cheers.

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So meet my temporary wheels and a new little project







Off they went



Along with the lug nuts





And mine are moved....somewhere...with the help of some french power



More to come

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Here is a small set of the pics from them wheels going in, thought I'd share

Wheels when they arrived at the shop





Nuts sandblasted, back to raw metal - I will see how this goes over time



Started mounting tires



Weights painted so as to not stand out when on the wheel





Then before mounting them on the car, I had to do something special to them . . . seal them properly . . .





Here they are in line, ready



Bye bye temporary wheels, thank you very much



Wheels were on with an addition by me as always







And getting it out on the road . . .





There we have it . . .



I so effin love it

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So, then, we heard of a drag event that was to take place near Athens.

I myself had never been in a drag race, not even as a spectator. However Tom convinced me to give it a shot, and he would come too with his car , even though not ready at that time.

Prepared the car . . .









So we did some testing with Tom, two nights before the race, road pulls to fine tune it, car was pulling great. I mean really nice. However and since I am not into street racing, I dont launch the car that well, mostly choking it, because of me being kind to it and not revving it to death before letting of the clutch - you see this is my daily as well, and I dont want to take the geabox destroyed in my hands.
I did a couple of starts the night before the race, not at all happy with how I did, but, I guess I could always try at the race, we had 3 runs per day.

The race was not an official championship race, however ALL big garage shops were there, both to show their cars, and for glory issues among them. 200cars participated, and I entered the 11sec category - mostly evos, gtrs, imprezas, 4wd audis and some hard core fwd hondas, peugeots and citroens there.

I was really anxious and stressed since this was my first ever attempt. I decided to always leave the opponent leave the line first and then go for time by myself with no stress- after all the time was to count, not who won the strip.

The bad thing was that the pits were in mud, dust and tires - let alone cars, were dirty. Not bad for me - but mostly for fwd cars.

So I set for my first run - bad start as expected - then 1st - 2nd - and when started to boost 3rd I see a metal pipe in my rear view mirror, losing boost seemed like a clamp had gone off, leaving me N/a - then I found out I had no brake power on the servo - pretty dangerous at the speed I had by then.

Here is the video of the run against a Rwd conversion opel astra turbo

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99cCECcLm0"]Drag Battle - 06-07 / 10 - Day 1 - YouTube[/ame]

The funny thing is, that I managed to have an exit speed of 175km/h (109mph) with more than half of the 3rd gear in N/a function. (15.051 if anyone cares for that matter)


And here is the pic of what happened on my Intake Manifold - the result of a pretty POOR welding it seems -





so frustrated my weekend was destroyed - not a lot of shops at the place the race was held at, decided to let go of the first day and maybe do something on second day . What is more i didnt want to ruin it for the others, so sat and helped others on their efforts - just duct taped it so as to have vacuum and for the car to work properly to go to the hotel.

So day two, and I had this idea of putting a whole duct tape and give it a go - i managed to pull two times a2nd gear this way - so I said why not what do I have to lose
So I tried it - but it only held on 1st gear on the race

here is the video of it

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNssM1nrqE"]Drag Battle Thiva - 06-07 / 10 / 12 - Day 2 - YouTube[/ame]

Unfortunately I had a damage on my CF hood as well from the cap going upwards



But nothing a doctor cant fix





Photo of cap that couldnt stay on the IM



Racing License



Sunday crowd - part of them



Dusty pits





And finally -this to sum it up



I Loved it, and will try to attend the next drag event , both to have fun once again , and what is more see this car's capabilities on the line.

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Some more photos I found from photographers that covered Drag Race we participated in













With Tom





And my favorite of all I guess

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So today I sat to wire the boost gauge to have it seen at night, old school-a red led since two of them wouldnt fit inside - I think I pulled it off, here are some pics









And the AVCR at night -a pic from the custom pod made in the past.



I then went for a ride to see how it is at night - temperature is now low here - car felt very strong

Cheers

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A full video review of the Drag Battle that took place in Thiva @ 6-7/10/12 - where I participated, by WOT.gr

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPzHrGdH0Y0&feature=plcp"]Full review of Drag Battle 2012 - ΘΗΒΑ - YouTube[/ame]

And some screenshots I captured - car is seen at 1.03min and at 2.15min







Cheers

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Grabbed some photos with Kostas Sant and his Canon - thought I'd share



It is all in the details I guess



More pics to come as he processes them - Cheers

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So some first photos Kostas gave me -


We started in the morning by giving the cars some love











Dont forget to put the cap on the external dump tube - LoL











Drying time - and some polishing of those Seibons





Changed some bolts I wanted for a long time


Out with the oem crap





And in with some stainless love








Time to visit Piraeus Port - for the photoshoot










More pics to come .

Cheers

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