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We have been talking about our race car for a long time. In our dreams, we would like to build a car that could handle like the A4 and without the front end heavyness of the S4 .We had built 3 One Lap of America Audi S4's with 350,380 and 450 horsepower. So we decided to build an A4 with a 1.8 turbo to race where? It costs alot of money to do any of the series in the U.S. Not a chance. First the SCCA Pro Rally came to mind, however only a few races could be run, because of time and money, so we decided to race the hill climb series in Colorado. No one else had done it in an Audi, and by the way, that's were Audis American heritage came from. No brainer... So here we are with an 1997 Audi A4 with a 5 cylinder 2.2 20 valve turbocharged powerplant, our Audis bitter sweet combination! At the first dyno run we had around 378 wheel horsepower and 450 hp at the crank with only 17 lbs. of boost and a stock ur S4 head. So off to Bandimere Raceway, our local dragstrip. We had never driven the A4 in the quarter mile. So our first run wasn't great but respectable, 14.5 seconds. We turned up the boost more and ran an 13.5 second run. Not bad! Then we turned the antilag on and scored a 12.5 second time. Now that's better. About a month later there was a VW fest at Bandimere, so we ran the quarter mile again with better results. With more tuning Brian ran a 11.25 and a 11.45 with street tires respectively. WOW, Much better!!!! We have had many improvements over the winter and hopefully we can achieve between 550-600 horsepower on the dyno and run the quarter mile in the 10's. Stay tuned!!! With the Pike's Peak International Hillclimb, there are many quarter miles to run up the mountain. With many speeds up the mountain between 20mph and 100mph it should be an interesting race. Check it out!!!!

We have been talking about our race car for a long time, with only idea thrown out to think about. We have built 3 One Lap of America Audi S4's. So should we build an A4 with a 1.8 turbo to race where? It cost alot of money to do any of the series in the U.S.
First the SCCA Pro Rally came to mind, however only a few races could be ran so we decides to race the hill climb series in Colorado. No one else does it in an Audi, and by the way, that's were Audis American heritage came from. No brainer...
So here we are with an 1997 Audi A4 with a 5 cylinder 2.3 20 valve turbocharged powerplant. Such a sweet combination! At the first dyno run we had around 378 wheel horsepower and 450 hp at the crank with only 17 lbs. of boost. Fortunately the turbo was capable of 30 lbs of boost. producing 30 lbs!!!

Last Updated: 03/10/2005