I know a lot of guys had super reliable setups. It sounds like the way to go was replacing all of the boost-adjacent hoses with tear-proof ones (and that damned throttle body boot), upgrade to K04s, then a better exhaust from the turbos back. And obviously a nice ECU tune. Is this what you did? At that point you’ve…
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Oh, absolutely. The chastity belt and “watchdog” didn’t prevent the ECU from being modified. You could remove the belt with a Dremel, and whether a watchdog unit even existed was hotly debated. The bottom line was that Audi wanted some evidence through which they could void the warranty.
Can confirm. A final hilarious anecdote: on the final run that reached the USA (mid-late 2001), Audi started to weld a “chastity belt” over the ECU housing to prevent chipping/ECU swaps. There was also suspicion that they had hidden a secondary ECU “watchdog” somewhere to record the comings and goings. I never heard…
“Real Americans,” folks!
Honestly, it wouldn’t even surprise me if Mitch went into the hospice facility and killed her himself. This is exactly what I pictured happening.
100% this. I wonder if the guy came up with the price in a fever dream.
As much as I loved the B5 S4, the 2.7T should have never been crammed into that space. Knowing what I know about that specific model, I can only assume Audi lost a lot of money on it (esp in the States) when all was said and done. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that had something to do with them going for a…
Let’s not forget the time Trump hit the floor at one of his Nuremberg Rallies when somebody shouted “HE’S GOT A GUN!”
Wait, they’re adding a turbo and it’s only picking up an additional 6 hp? I get that it’s ~10% of the total output, but I’d be similarly skeptical about a 200hp NA engine that only gained 20 hp by adding a snail.
I just knew he was going to throw our good friend alcohol under the bus.
Same with the Viper.
The problem is that they don’t care. As long as the Republicans work harder against the other guy, it’s a win.
I’ll watch this special and probably enjoy it at least a little bit. But the schtick gets more and more tired with each passing special. Yes, we get it, Clarkson is a jingoistic xenophobe. And yes, May is a doddering fun-hater. Also, Hammond is a pea-brained petrol head. With each passing season/special, the shows…
I’m old enough that I played the “shareware” version of Test Drive 3 on MS-DOS. The renders looked so incredibly cool back then, but this was the era of heavily-pixelated side scrollers like the original Duke Nukem. It’s hilarious to me that they didn’t move toward a more appropriate render technique as technology…
Glad you captured “rural.” It’s as loaded as “urban,” but without the stigma.
As the old saying goes: “you really hate to see it!”
The same folks that voted for Trump projected all of these ugly outcomes onto Obama, IIRC.
I really want to believe this too, but I’m thinking there’s really a 50/50 chance. Jack Dorsey is a ratf—ker that happily puts his company’s stock price above the stability of his nation. But once Trump is no longer president, it becomes harder to ignore his myriad violations of terms of service. Especially because…
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