I've been driving a 300hp Urs4 for
the last eight years, and the ar completely blows it
away!My car is a 2002 6mt black, with premium and
cold weather pkg.
My goal for the car was to build a fun versatile
daily driver. We live 'edge-of-the-grid' in the coast
mtns. of british columbia. We have rough roads, lots of
rain, lots of snow, fog, wildlife etc. We DO go off-road
frequently. We need to be able to tow snowmobiles or
dirtbikes at times, and potentially a lightweight camper
in the near future. For all these reasons the allroad
was the perfect starting place (and conversely why an
s4/rs4 wouldn't be). Downside is weight.
The ar needs power, brakes and swaybars to become a
'fun daily driver'. I chose the O.CT stage 4 kit as it
was engineered as a system, and had more emphasis on
torque than peak hp. We wanted grunt force not a peaky
wind up. Our goal is NOT to be for-ever tinkering on the
car. Due to our location especially, reliability is
crucial.
The O.CT kit fit the bill due to it's overall
simplicity, big flat torque curve and it's performance
relative to it's cost. In the end we have relative power
to the b5 RS4, in a package that is more suitable to the
weight and end use of the allroad. I don't feel the need
for even more power in the allroad, as I believe
reliability would suffer. If we need a sportier car in
the future, we'll buy a sportscar. As it is, the ar
outperforms nearly everything on the road anyway. We
love this car. It suits our lifestyle perfectly. If I
had the choice I wouldn't be tuning at all - this is
just the car I wish audi would have built in the first
place. As they didn't... this is what we did...
