lizards on toast :: S4 Stuff. (personal)

2007-04-20 10:06:32.  The weather outside is freaking /beautiful/ this morning.  Slightly breezy in the low 60s, with lovely warm sunshine.  Of course, we’re all inside right now.  :]  The Boy is skooting around wearing my Chucks; on the wrong feet at that.  Oh, but he’s adorable..  The S4’s getting ready to have quite a bit of work done this next week.  New front axles, new windshield (was slightly cracked when we got her), new intake, and new rims/tires.  These rims.. I wish they could have my babies.  They’re 18×7 Enkei RS6s wrapped in 225/40r18 Falken Ziex512 rubber.  The Ziex’s are becoming my absolute favorite street/performance tire.  They perform well, and still have decent treadwear.

.  I don’t remember if I wrote about it before, but I picked up a VAG-COM cable and software about a week ago.  It took a couple days to dig everything out, but I know have a dedicated (P166.. hah!) diagnostic/tuning laptop.  The data-logging capabilities are awesome.  You can log (for instance) boost level, air-flow, injector pulse-width, timing retardation, engine and vehicle speed, etc. all concurrently, and output everything as a CSV file.  That makes it really easy to throw all the data onto pretty graphs.  So far, except for some minor coding changes to the door-lock controller, all I’ve done is tweaked the fuel enrichment under boost a little.

.  I’ll make sure to post photos later on.  I’m waiting until after this weekend, because a group of us is going out to Hot Import Nights near DC on Saturday.  Teckademics is supposed to have a booth set up, and it promises to be quite awesome.  I just hope no-one gets stopped on the drive down.

.  I suppose I’ll end this so I can post it.  Pictures later, I promise.

out.