covertw12
January 2nd, 2011, 22:33
Luckily the day before I left South Florida I was able to get the car in to my Audi tech for a quick once over and rotation / alignment and code check.... he agreed it seemed a bit dow non what it shoudl have for power and suspects a vac leak..... after extensive checking he reset the throttle body and that seemed to make a large diference..... USP had updated my APR 100 Octane code the day before and Brian and BND snet me a fresh gallon of Aces.....
so at 8pm I left for Houston - roughly 1180 miles according to mapquest and showing a trip time of 19 hours... 20 minutes into the drive the road finally cleared up and I was able to get on it and it was instantly apaprent that the " vaccum leak" was cured by the adjustment of the throttle body.... holy heck it would pull...... with a speed limit of 70 I set an agressive cruise speed and sliced through trafffic as needed. I have to again thank all those that steered me to the KW/ H-sports...... it truly transforms the car both visually but most importantly it's just aircraft carrier stable at silly speeds.
I got to Tallahasee and grabbed 5 hours of sleep and woke early to get a good start before the traffic..... had a nice wide deserted section of road on a downhill with clear line of site that allowed for a good top end run, I'll save the number but it was darn fast and the car was still pulling when I decided it was time to back off.... as well as stable and quiet.... returning to my cruising speed seemed like I was in a golfcart....
amazingly on both ways I encountered only 2 cars that wanted to "run" .... one a damn riced out Corolla, the other a sporty little new GTI that did really well at covering ground.... and other then in the Houston Metro I saw under a dozen Audi's on the trip..... one being an S4 Avant that was doing maybe 55 in the fast lane with a 70moh speed limit..... just made me cringe.
the most amazing part is on both ways I arrived feeling alert and not sore or cramped..... the trip there was 14 hours including stops, the trip back 12.3/4, but I left at 2 am to miss traffic....
mileage was an avg of 13-14, but acceptable given the brisk clip....and a quart of Aces !! I ran the 100 Octane program the whole way and back.
overall the car continues to exceed my hopes, and surprisingly I'd even say it's a better road trip car then my old W12..... mostly because it's so much easier to get thru traffic with.
The exhaust note continues to evolve - hot it's truly growly and will burble and even seelingly backfire on a hard manual downshift..... but there's no drone. I can't say enough for the setup. It's hard to tell if the IC's add to the HP given the cool temps i had but they and the hoses were really preventive and for future mods.
hoping to give her a good wash and wax tonight. she deserves it !!!
hope everyone had a great New Years...
cheers~ :cheers::cheers::cheers:
so at 8pm I left for Houston - roughly 1180 miles according to mapquest and showing a trip time of 19 hours... 20 minutes into the drive the road finally cleared up and I was able to get on it and it was instantly apaprent that the " vaccum leak" was cured by the adjustment of the throttle body.... holy heck it would pull...... with a speed limit of 70 I set an agressive cruise speed and sliced through trafffic as needed. I have to again thank all those that steered me to the KW/ H-sports...... it truly transforms the car both visually but most importantly it's just aircraft carrier stable at silly speeds.
I got to Tallahasee and grabbed 5 hours of sleep and woke early to get a good start before the traffic..... had a nice wide deserted section of road on a downhill with clear line of site that allowed for a good top end run, I'll save the number but it was darn fast and the car was still pulling when I decided it was time to back off.... as well as stable and quiet.... returning to my cruising speed seemed like I was in a golfcart....
amazingly on both ways I encountered only 2 cars that wanted to "run" .... one a damn riced out Corolla, the other a sporty little new GTI that did really well at covering ground.... and other then in the Houston Metro I saw under a dozen Audi's on the trip..... one being an S4 Avant that was doing maybe 55 in the fast lane with a 70moh speed limit..... just made me cringe.
the most amazing part is on both ways I arrived feeling alert and not sore or cramped..... the trip there was 14 hours including stops, the trip back 12.3/4, but I left at 2 am to miss traffic....
mileage was an avg of 13-14, but acceptable given the brisk clip....and a quart of Aces !! I ran the 100 Octane program the whole way and back.
overall the car continues to exceed my hopes, and surprisingly I'd even say it's a better road trip car then my old W12..... mostly because it's so much easier to get thru traffic with.
The exhaust note continues to evolve - hot it's truly growly and will burble and even seelingly backfire on a hard manual downshift..... but there's no drone. I can't say enough for the setup. It's hard to tell if the IC's add to the HP given the cool temps i had but they and the hoses were really preventive and for future mods.
hoping to give her a good wash and wax tonight. she deserves it !!!
hope everyone had a great New Years...
cheers~ :cheers::cheers::cheers: