Can't wait to see where you go from here! Long time viewer here, and it's so nice to hear your honesty. I don't know where other TH-camrs get seemingly infinite funds to build cars over and over again. Absolutely looking forward to seeing the RS3 back at it!
Hey Adam, I also have a B9 S5. I have the TTE810 and have been going to a GREAT shop that specializes in Audis, super awesome guys and very knowledgeable. They actually told me that any hybrid turbo on this car runs great, no issues, ON PUMP GAS. They said don’t even think about doing ANY ethanol on hybrid turbo, it’s making cars blow up and have other problems. He said ethanol on stock turbo runs perfectly fine, and the tte810 on pump is also fine, but the moment you add any ethanol like e70 or e85 on hybrid is when major problems happen. He said the sole culprit of that was because of FUELING. It just needs bigger and better injectors. Currently, there isn’t really any good options but even with the RS injectors you’re going to have issues brother. I thought I should just share this information with you, maybe it’ll help or maybe not. I wish you all the best of luck and look forward to more B9 content!
I appreciate you reaching out and have heard the exact same thing except for the whole running ethanol period being the cause. A lower ethanol content and not pushing the injectors as hard I believe may still be safer.
That piston didn't fail for no reason. I think you're on the right track looking at the injectors. The piston squirter may also be a contributing factor. Also, as you said, 50-60C is definitely not sufficiently warmed up to boil off accumulated moisture. Patience is a virtue. Let the engine get up to full operating temperature (e.g., 90C or whatever) and spend some time there before before storing or before driving it hard.
RS3 owner here too. Yeah, with Ethanol, it definitely causes moisture to get into the oil and is certainly worth ensuring the car gets driven to proper operating temperature for an extended period to evaporate any water from the oil. There are videos out there that shows what happens to oil if you don't do this. The oil turns to sludge. Second to this, its worth changing th oil more frequently to ensure it's not beyond its optimal performance. I also run a tank of petrol/gasoline through regularly.
Love the honesty brother 🎉🎉 and also being responsible with your builds it’s always best to do builds within your builds than to do things to make others happy good luck with the builds.
In regards to E85 in the RS3 over the winter months. Would adding HEET additive to help with water and getting the oil temp up to 100 be a good plan? I'm Uniflex now, so I could try and start working in 93. It's in a garage and I've been on E85 for several years now, so far no issues. When I go to a hybrid turbo should I worry more about it?
We've seen a ton of direct injector issues locally on Stage 1 and Stage 2. I would recommend you flush your system more often than not just to be on the safe side. Leaving ethanol in the tank and in your fuel system for long periods of time isn't a wise idea.
@@VancityAudi appreciate it. I do my best to get the car out on the road any chance I get when it's not salty. I'm in the Midwest in the states so they salt a ton. When you say flush the system, you mean run a full tank of 93 through it?
@scottc78 ya, like get your fuel tank super low and then fill all the way up with 93. Then bomb around with 93 in it too. Adding some ethanol stabilizer might help as well when running ethanol all the time.
I'm sure it'll be less popular but my vote is to put the S4 back to stock and sell it for payoff. You have close to an 8 second Rs3 and a mk8 Gti. That'll help stop the bleeding on trying to spread money toward 3 cars that are that new.
I agree with you there. I definitely don't need 3 cars. I would very much like to accomplish what I set out to do when I initially got the B9 though, and that was to run a 9 second 1/4 mile pass.
Well, the good news is they're coming back! The RS3 is back in action. I have videos shot. I just haven't been able to edit any of them. I promise you that videos are on the way and you'll see more of both of these cars again.
I’m planning to buy my buddy’s 2019 s5 with less than 30k miles. Decatted downpipe, intake, and IE tune. I’m hearing so many bad things about IE in comparison to 034 so I don’t know if I should buy the car from him or not.
If nothings has happened to it yet, it more than likely won't. IE did a TON of extra work, making sure their tunes were safer than the competition after there were so many failures on this platform from all of the tuners.
Long time watcher but finally ready to pull the plug on a tune for my car. So for a Stock rs3 would you go IE or unitronic for a tune? I know you run unitronic in your rs3 and IE in you s4.
Sadly no, I won't be building the motor in the S4. I already have a much faster racecar in the RS3 and have no interest in building another. Thank you though!
He Adam, I also have a 2019 b9 S4. I was running custom tune on e40 blend. Had all the support mods besides the injectors. My cylinder 1 piston failed, the top of the piston is missing a chunk lol
I'm sorry to hear that, but thank you for sharing another cylinder 1 failure. What company made your custom tune? Did you happen to log your car previously to know what happened to it? What Stage were you running?
@@VancityAudi it was local Michigan shop, called VAST performance, I ran their custom tune on my b8.5 s4 before and had 0 issues. Unfortunately I didn’t log the car, I should have, my tune was equivalent to stage 2
@user-uu9li4ed8w oh hey Michigan guy here too! My old Sq5 had a Vast tune on it but with my new one went with 034 for ease of changing tunes. Mike still tuning for them?
I was changing my b9.5 s4’s spark plugs and found oil on the spark plug threads except cylinder 1. It’s been 3 weeks since I changed them and the engine runs and drives great, no oil consumption, do you think it’s just the VCG?
Hey Adam, I have a b9 s4 that I’ve had an Integrated Engineering stage 1 ECU and stage 2 TCU tune for awhile. No problems up until 3 weeks ago where I got a drive system malfunction warning and check engine light with an advanced timing code. Do you suggest I switch to 034? I sent IE a message and honestly lost a lot of trust in the reliability of that tune but idk where to go from here and I’m not sure if the $1250 is worth it to switch.
Have you reflashed to IE's latest revision that they released some time ago? That revision took care of any bugs they may have had. Have you inspected your plugs since the CEL? In my experience, a drive system malfunction doesn't necessarily indicate a software problem. It could be the car randomly having an issue. I've experienced that before, and after I key cycled the car, the CEL was gone.
@@VancityAudi Adam! Thanks so much for the reply. I reflashed to stock the other day and I noticed the issue still being there so I believe you are right. My strong suspicions are leaning towards it being a camshaft actuator issue (Cam sprocket I believe it’s called). I did make sure to change my plugs not too long ago and even did a few injectors on some cylinders that were misfiring in the recent past. I hope this solves this issue and I’m hoping to maybe do some preventative maintenance by changing my rocket arms to the newer revised ones while I have the engine opened up. What are your thoughts?
@@simonz5002any update? I’m planning to buy my buddy’s 2019 s5 with less than 30k miles. Decatted downpipe, intake, and IE tune. I’m hearing so many bad things about IE in comparison to 034 so I don’t know if I should buy the car from him or not.
If thats not a case of Karma!? I warned you in your comment section previously. That when running E. You must change your oil more frequently, every 2k. And that you must take it for high temp prolonged runs, to evaporate all the extra water from your oil. And you laughed at my recommendations. I do love the channel though. You do great work.
I still do laugh at your 2k oil change frequency. No one is going to do that, and that is overkill and a waste of money. A 5k oil change frequency is plenty. The recommendation of getting my oil temp way higher than I did, I absolutely agree with though, and that's why I discuss it in the video.
Your engines on the RS3 and S4 ARE under squared . That’s why it will not last. It will blow up eventually. Maybe longer billet aluminum rod? How about an engine swap? The EA825 engine from a RS6, S8, RS7 are squared. Its cylinder walls were sprayed with atmospheric plasma coatings. Not sure if the S4 and RS3 have the same implementation in their cylinder walls but seeing the cylinder walls from your video may proved it maybe applied. A real race engine are always over squared. Revs to 10K. I do like your principle about “off the shelf”. It proves how far the product last or how far the design can be pushed to failure. More power to you and good luck!
Not sure where you pulled that BS from, lol. These motors have lasted hundreds of thousands of miles for a f$ck ton of people without issue. They aren't all destined to blow up, lol. As I mentioned in the video and as seen on the channel, I'm constantly pushing the limits on my cars. This causes premature wear & failure in some cases.
I've yet to see any performance data from a full frame B9 showing it perform as well or better than a hybrid, so hopefully you're able to do that for the community.
basically you destroyed two very expensive engines with those tunes? all that we learned is "don't use unitronic maps" lol i know that you have best intentions but there's no proper tuning without custom tuning, every car and every engine respond different on same engine map. similar yes, same not.
🤣 And the peanut gallery has entered the chat! 🤣 You have ZERO clue as to what you're talking about. Tuning had absolutely nothing to do with the failure in my RS3. You either don't understand English or are simply being a troll, seeing as I outlined the hardware that was failing & my mistakes that made things worse. Hundreds of people use the tune I was running with zero issues on hundreds of different cars.
@@VancityAudi you were as I remember on some super beta program with unitronic? You have iroz block, super strong, injectors were fine, and you melted a piston. What could that be I'm wondering 🤔... But well, if you say that I don't have a clue, and it's not tuners fault, just flash that map again when you rebuild your engine. Good luck 🤞
@@GocaKresic Helps to actually watch the video before you make ignorant comments 🤣 The injectors were NOT fine. I was NOT on a BETA program. This may blow your mind, but we WILL be flashing that EXACT SAME tune when we start testing it again, lmao. It's their standard TTE777 tune that hundreds of people use safely on multiple turbos available on the market.
![034Motorsport Stage 1 Tune Install & 0-60 Test [Audi RS3]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CrAnoxRY54M/mqdefault.jpg)
Hopefully, we'll see that b9 s4 break the world record.
I hope so too!
Can't wait to see where you go from here! Long time viewer here, and it's so nice to hear your honesty. I don't know where other TH-camrs get seemingly infinite funds to build cars over and over again.
Absolutely looking forward to seeing the RS3 back at it!
I've always wondered the same thing! Seems like so many other TH-camrs have bottomless bank accounts.
Hey Adam, I also have a B9 S5. I have the TTE810 and have been going to a GREAT shop that specializes in Audis, super awesome guys and very knowledgeable. They actually told me that any hybrid turbo on this car runs great, no issues, ON PUMP GAS. They said don’t even think about doing ANY ethanol on hybrid turbo, it’s making cars blow up and have other problems. He said ethanol on stock turbo runs perfectly fine, and the tte810 on pump is also fine, but the moment you add any ethanol like e70 or e85 on hybrid is when major problems happen. He said the sole culprit of that was because of FUELING. It just needs bigger and better injectors. Currently, there isn’t really any good options but even with the RS injectors you’re going to have issues brother. I thought I should just share this information with you, maybe it’ll help or maybe not. I wish you all the best of luck and look forward to more B9 content!
I appreciate you reaching out and have heard the exact same thing except for the whole running ethanol period being the cause. A lower ethanol content and not pushing the injectors as hard I believe may still be safer.
Thanks for the update Adam! Praying for healthy motors this year!! Best of luck
Thank you!
That piston didn't fail for no reason. I think you're on the right track looking at the injectors. The piston squirter may also be a contributing factor. Also, as you said, 50-60C is definitely not sufficiently warmed up to boil off accumulated moisture. Patience is a virtue. Let the engine get up to full operating temperature (e.g., 90C or whatever) and spend some time there before before storing or before driving it hard.
RS3 owner here too. Yeah, with Ethanol, it definitely causes moisture to get into the oil and is certainly worth ensuring the car gets driven to proper operating temperature for an extended period to evaporate any water from the oil. There are videos out there that shows what happens to oil if you don't do this. The oil turns to sludge. Second to this, its worth changing th oil more frequently to ensure it's not beyond its optimal performance. I also run a tank of petrol/gasoline through regularly.
Love the honesty brother 🎉🎉 and also being responsible with your builds it’s always best to do builds within your builds than to do things to make others happy good luck with the builds.
Thank you very much
Love the transparency! Hopefully once it’s up and going 9 sec runs all day!
Thanks!
Those special tools always are a pain. I remember waiting 2 months for one when I had to open my B8 A4
0:48 Queue Fast n Furious scene "WE GOT NO ENGINGES DO WE!!!"
Adam why no forget? With 034 kit b9? piston and rods
I already have a race car. I have no interest in building a second one.
In regards to E85 in the RS3 over the winter months. Would adding HEET additive to help with water and getting the oil temp up to 100 be a good plan? I'm Uniflex now, so I could try and start working in 93. It's in a garage and I've been on E85 for several years now, so far no issues. When I go to a hybrid turbo should I worry more about it?
We've seen a ton of direct injector issues locally on Stage 1 and Stage 2. I would recommend you flush your system more often than not just to be on the safe side. Leaving ethanol in the tank and in your fuel system for long periods of time isn't a wise idea.
@@VancityAudi appreciate it. I do my best to get the car out on the road any chance I get when it's not salty. I'm in the Midwest in the states so they salt a ton. When you say flush the system, you mean run a full tank of 93 through it?
@scottc78 ya, like get your fuel tank super low and then fill all the way up with 93. Then bomb around with 93 in it too. Adding some ethanol stabilizer might help as well when running ethanol all the time.
Thanks man
Hi, glad your getting the rs3 back running! i have unitronic stage 3 TTE777 and hit 672 whp on the dyno. How were you able to hit 748whp? Thanks
You have to remember that every single dyno reads differently because of a multitude of different variables.
I'm sure it'll be less popular but my vote is to put the S4 back to stock and sell it for payoff. You have close to an 8 second Rs3 and a mk8 Gti. That'll help stop the bleeding on trying to spread money toward 3 cars that are that new.
I agree with you there. I definitely don't need 3 cars. I would very much like to accomplish what I set out to do when I initially got the B9 though, and that was to run a 9 second 1/4 mile pass.
I miss these cars so much
Well, the good news is they're coming back! The RS3 is back in action. I have videos shot. I just haven't been able to edit any of them. I promise you that videos are on the way and you'll see more of both of these cars again.
@@VancityAudi Will the S4 be back? Please!
@sergius1298 as of right now, it's looking like it will be
I’m planning to buy my buddy’s 2019 s5 with less than 30k miles. Decatted downpipe, intake, and IE tune. I’m hearing so many bad things about IE in comparison to 034 so I don’t know if I should buy the car from him or not.
If nothings has happened to it yet, it more than likely won't. IE did a TON of extra work, making sure their tunes were safer than the competition after there were so many failures on this platform from all of the tuners.
Looking forward to some RS3 8Y content.
They aren't available in Canada yet.
@@VancityAudi Canada may get the facelift model?
@daveearnshaw6874 I don't except to see them sold here until next year or really late this year
Long time watcher but finally ready to pull the plug on a tune for my car. So for a Stock rs3 would you go IE or unitronic for a tune? I know you run unitronic in your rs3 and IE in you s4.
There is no doubt in my mind that Unitronic makes the most refined & smooth, yet fast OTS tune for the RS3.
Is there a way for us to sponsor the S4 build? IF the next step is to build the motor, then I’m in
Sadly no, I won't be building the motor in the S4. I already have a much faster racecar in the RS3 and have no interest in building another. Thank you though!
He Adam, I also have a 2019 b9 S4. I was running custom tune on e40 blend. Had all the support mods besides the injectors. My cylinder 1 piston failed, the top of the piston is missing a chunk lol
I'm sorry to hear that, but thank you for sharing another cylinder 1 failure. What company made your custom tune? Did you happen to log your car previously to know what happened to it? What Stage were you running?
@@VancityAudi it was local Michigan shop, called VAST performance, I ran their custom tune on my b8.5 s4 before and had 0 issues. Unfortunately I didn’t log the car, I should have, my tune was equivalent to stage 2
@@Mark_Isaev_damn, that sucks.
@user-uu9li4ed8w oh hey Michigan guy here too! My old Sq5 had a Vast tune on it but with my new one went with 034 for ease of changing tunes. Mike still tuning for them?
@@rafaelbatu7525 no, not anymore sadly
I was changing my b9.5 s4’s spark plugs and found oil on the spark plug threads except cylinder 1. It’s been 3 weeks since I changed them and the engine runs and drives great, no oil consumption, do you think it’s just the VCG?
Impossible for me to say. I've seen small amounts of oil on many a spark plug in my day with no serious issues being present.
Hey Adam, I have a b9 s4 that I’ve had an Integrated Engineering stage 1 ECU and stage 2 TCU tune for awhile. No problems up until 3 weeks ago where I got a drive system malfunction warning and check engine light with an advanced timing code. Do you suggest I switch to 034? I sent IE a message and honestly lost a lot of trust in the reliability of that tune but idk where to go from here and I’m not sure if the $1250 is worth it to switch.
Have you reflashed to IE's latest revision that they released some time ago? That revision took care of any bugs they may have had.
Have you inspected your plugs since the CEL? In my experience, a drive system malfunction doesn't necessarily indicate a software problem. It could be the car randomly having an issue. I've experienced that before, and after I key cycled the car, the CEL was gone.
@@VancityAudi Adam! Thanks so much for the reply. I reflashed to stock the other day and I noticed the issue still being there so I believe you are right. My strong suspicions are leaning towards it being a camshaft actuator issue (Cam sprocket I believe it’s called). I did make sure to change my plugs not too long ago and even did a few injectors on some cylinders that were misfiring in the recent past. I hope this solves this issue and I’m hoping to maybe do some preventative maintenance by changing my rocket arms to the newer revised ones while I have the engine opened up. What are your thoughts?
@@simonz5002any update? I’m planning to buy my buddy’s 2019 s5 with less than 30k miles. Decatted downpipe, intake, and IE tune. I’m hearing so many bad things about IE in comparison to 034 so I don’t know if I should buy the car from him or not.
If thats not a case of Karma!?
I warned you in your comment section previously. That when running E. You must change your oil more frequently, every 2k. And that you must take it for high temp prolonged runs, to evaporate all the extra water from your oil.
And you laughed at my recommendations.
I do love the channel though. You do great work.
I still do laugh at your 2k oil change frequency. No one is going to do that, and that is overkill and a waste of money. A 5k oil change frequency is plenty.
The recommendation of getting my oil temp way higher than I did, I absolutely agree with though, and that's why I discuss it in the video.
Then I do not feel bad for you in the least
@Corbots80 I never asked anyone to, so that's fine by me.
Your engines on the RS3 and S4 ARE under squared . That’s why it will not last. It will blow up eventually. Maybe longer billet aluminum rod? How about an engine swap? The EA825 engine from a RS6, S8, RS7 are squared. Its cylinder walls were sprayed with atmospheric plasma coatings. Not sure if the S4 and RS3 have the same implementation in their cylinder walls but seeing the cylinder walls from your video may proved it maybe applied. A real race engine are always over squared. Revs to 10K. I do like your principle about “off the shelf”. It proves how far the product last or how far the design can be pushed to failure. More power to you and good luck!
Not sure where you pulled that BS from, lol. These motors have lasted hundreds of thousands of miles for a f$ck ton of people without issue. They aren't all destined to blow up, lol. As I mentioned in the video and as seen on the channel, I'm constantly pushing the limits on my cars. This causes premature wear & failure in some cases.
Is there a Unitronic file yet for TTE855 or will you be running on TTE777 file?
They will be making one with me, like we were trying to do last year.
How long did you let the ethanol sit in the car without running and what was the concentration roughly?
E85 and months
Remember when the b9 was the daily
I’m going full frame turbo on my b9
I've yet to see any performance data from a full frame B9 showing it perform as well or better than a hybrid, so hopefully you're able to do that for the community.
Jeez that's brutal to see two empty bays
You're tellin' me! Haha
Pfft forget the V6, 4.0T swap that b9 s4! Pipe dream, sure, but maybe when the financial means come back??
No interest in wasting money on that car when I already have a daily driver and a racecar.
basically you destroyed two very expensive engines with those tunes? all that we learned is "don't use unitronic maps" lol i know that you have best intentions but there's no proper tuning without custom tuning, every car and every engine respond different on same engine map. similar yes, same not.
🤣 And the peanut gallery has entered the chat! 🤣 You have ZERO clue as to what you're talking about. Tuning had absolutely nothing to do with the failure in my RS3. You either don't understand English or are simply being a troll, seeing as I outlined the hardware that was failing & my mistakes that made things worse. Hundreds of people use the tune I was running with zero issues on hundreds of different cars.
@@VancityAudi you were as I remember on some super beta program with unitronic? You have iroz block, super strong, injectors were fine, and you melted a piston. What could that be I'm wondering 🤔... But well, if you say that I don't have a clue, and it's not tuners fault, just flash that map again when you rebuild your engine. Good luck 🤞
@@GocaKresic Helps to actually watch the video before you make ignorant comments 🤣 The injectors were NOT fine. I was NOT on a BETA program. This may blow your mind, but we WILL be flashing that EXACT SAME tune when we start testing it again, lmao. It's their standard TTE777 tune that hundreds of people use safely on multiple turbos available on the market.
First