The Project Pad

Seems fine to me. Its the variance between cylinders that you are looking for. One is a little low, but nothing wrong with it from those results.

Wait, what? You are doing all this on a stock SMIC?
HAHAHA! That's awesome! I guess I am seeing more reason to just stick with my stock SMIC and just plug in a water/meth system.
That new kit from AEM looks quite nice and more affordable than the SnowPerf Stage 3, even with the flow monitor.

Even just running straight demin water and no other tuning would benefit me. High IATs is something that I have to deal with everyday in Bangkok.

Best run of the day (with a slipping clutch):


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wow.

Car is running solid! Nice run.

sweeet man, I was going to text you back but figured it would be too early in the morning. Why is the clutch slipping though? I thought you had a nice southbend. Guess its not a good enough one for all the launches you like to do

loxxrider wrote:sweeet man, I was going to text you back but figured it would be too early in the morning. Why is the clutch slipping though? I thought you had a nice southbend. Guess its not a good enough one for all the launches you like to do

Thanks dood! Not sure why the clutch slipped. Maybe it was too hot? Maybe it just can't hold the power when it was that hot out? Npt really sure. It didn't seem to slip any more after that run or it wasn't noticable anyway. I don't have a Southbend in the 200, it's a Clutchnet Red 2X PP and 6 puck sprung disk.

In all honesty, I don't launch the car that much. I think I've launched it three time (all on video, lol) until the track yesterday. Never once had the clutch slip before either.

Oh OK that explains it then. I spose you'd have a few more MPH if it wasn't slipping too.

loxxrider wrote:Oh OK that explains it then. I spose you'd have a few more MPH if it wasn't slipping too.

Def. That run had 11s in it! 1.74 60ft too! Still have to beat my S4's 1.62 though. I can't wait to fix my S4 and race the two. Lol

I also want to mention that I got a chance to finally weight the car. No one in there car it weighs in at 3510 with full interior, spare tire, A/C and a half tank of fuel. Much lighter then I thought it'd be.

Couple more videos for fun:

WATCH THE SQUAT RUN IN EPIC HI QUALITY HD:


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You'll notice the "bunny hop" action which was caused by a trigger error misfire (blah!). I also hit the rev limiter in 3rd and it misfires again in 4th. Not the best run yet yielded my best MPH of 110.76.

Against a GTO:


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i hate trigger errors... I get them every once in a while too. Gotta figure those buggers out.

I know, they suck ballz.

i done spotted you!! saw you heading south on rt 7 in Vermont just across from autohaus (have a bunch of newer audis for sale and a dark red urq with urs4 fuchs on it) in shelburn today at about 830 pm. I beeped waved and made funny faces at you from my dark red f250 diesel, but apparently your radar does not pick up trucks with loud turbo noise! The 200 looks great in person, I picked you out of traffic about a mile away from your euro lights and general t44 uniqueness. Must be you have your trigger issues sorted out!

That was certainly me on my way back home. My girlfriend and I had the day off and said "Let's go to Burlington". Random trips are fun. I was going to visit the guy I bought the car from but he was out of town. I did end up visiting Casey though. I vaguely recall seeing all the Audi's for sale but I missed all of your attempts to draw in my attention, haha. Although now that I'm thinking about it I do recall hearing a loud diesel truck at some point in that area.

Thanks for the comments though! The trigger issues only happen at high rpms (6,500rpm) almost every time but the car runs great other then that. And even when it does get a trigger error it just pops almost like a misfire. Still very drivable.

Nick, that describes my trigger errors exactly. Right around 6500 and it will just go "POW!!!" and keep going lol. There must be a common denominator.

Hey, sweet project! I have an identical car with a CRAPtastic previous owner paint job. Peeling off and you can scrape paint off with a fingernail. Thanks, PO!

Anyway, I have bad news about your clutch. Those clutchnet 6 puck ceramic clutches are a bad choice. They literally EAT both the pressure plate and the flywheel face in a matter of months. Just 3 or 4 hard launches and it's effectively worn out.

It is slipping because it is already an apocalyptic amalgam of lying Russian bastard "ceramic" (play sand held together with JB weld) and what is left of your pressure plate and flywheel.

In 20,000 highway miles, I did a total of 3 hard launches. I now need new "everything."

Best to go with a reputable semi-metallic disk and uprated PP (not a Russian one).

Clutchnet is a front for Russian mafia money laundering and their crap is made only for light little hondas that get crashed to death before the clutch is even broken in.

Good to see you Nick! Thanks for stopping by and BSing for a while and for letting me take the car for a drive. That 200 just loves life at 30psi and E85! Car feels solid and well sorted. I'll make sure to let you take my car for a drive when it gets put together!

Man, i wanna see some dyno numbers on this thing. It really sounds like you have pushed the limits of stock internals. If you were over 400whp it would be awesome!

WOMBAT wrote:Good to see you Nick! Thanks for stopping by and BSing for a while and for letting me take the car for a drive. That 200 just loves life at 30psi and E85! Car feels solid and well sorted. I'll make sure to let you take my car for a drive when it gets put together!

Good seeing you too man and thanks for waiting around for me to stop by. It's only around 22psi...maybe you are confusing out fuel pressure conversation. Either way I am happy with how it's running and I'm glad you enjoyed it too!

Can't wait to see yours all together. Looks like it's coming alone nicely! I'm sure I'll be back up that way soon. My girlfriend and I had a great time.

jcarrick wrote:Man, i wanna see some dyno numbers on this thing. It really sounds like you have pushed the limits of stock internals. If you were over 400whp it would be awesome!

It's a 110mph 3500lbs (3680lbs with me in it) car. That would put it somewhere in the 375ish awhp if I would to make a guess. I could bring it to the dyno right now but I've been holding off until I get an intercooler in the thing. I should do it just for the hell of it.

crappyoldaudis wrote:Hey, sweet project! I have an identical car with a CRAPtastic previous owner paint job. Peeling off and you can scrape paint off with a fingernail. Thanks, PO!

Anyway, I have bad news about your clutch. Those clutchnet 6 puck ceramic clutches are a bad choice. They literally EAT both the pressure plate and the flywheel face in a matter of months. Just 3 or 4 hard launches and it's effectively worn out.

It is slipping because it is already an apocalyptic amalgam of lying Russian bastard "ceramic" (play sand held together with JB weld) and what is left of your pressure plate and flywheel.

In 20,000 highway miles, I did a total of 3 hard launches. I now need new "everything."

Best to go with a reputable semi-metallic disk and uprated PP (not a Russian one).

Clutchnet is a front for Russian mafia money laundering and their crap is made only for light little hondas that get crashed to death before the clutch is even broken in.

thats strange, ive run a couple of these clutches in my old VW, tons of 2nd gear launches, lots of time on slicks and stop and go traffic, when i pulled it apart it looks fine. maybe you had some contaimination or something.

Another dead alternator...

Damn dude, you really go through those things

Lol, no idea why. Warranty FTW!

are they 'autozone' or similar brand rebuilds? Those seem to go every 6-8 months...

Yes and no. I replaced the dead original one with one from Pep Boys (all that was in stock). It was still good but only 90amps when the 200 should have had the 120 so I went to a local alternator repair shop where they can custom build them and had a 140amp one built.