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Originally Posted by LesBaer
It's all good man. I had '04 S4 years ago and loved it until I understood cars better.
Getting back to this car. I would check it out in person if you know what to look for, even if you put some of it back to stock. You're saving a lot of $ on mods, weight vs. a ZL1 and the mechanical LMS is better for the street than an ELSD anyway. The Maggie is 100x's better than the LT4 blower if you're planning to push it beyond stock boost levels. I'm a little surprised with everything they've done, they didn't coat their headers to help keep the heat in.
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There are a lot of advantages on my car over the ZL1 as you mentioned. The brakes being one of them, we have tested it against a new ZL1 A10 and from 125 to 0 it consistently stops 2 car lengths shorter and that gap only gets larger as the speeds increase.
To answer to your comment on coating the headers, these were one of the first sets Kooks made and we needed to give them feedback on the installation and fitment. The same can be said with a lot of components we helped prototype and fit with several manufactures.
From the day I took delivery of it until I posted it for sale it has been test fit, test and tune and dyno or track testing. I have only put about 1500 miles of personal use daily driver miles on it, all the rest are testing miles. This car is extremely well sorted out and very easy to drive at the limits and still returns around 24 mpg, not that fuel economy is important to me. Its an impressive car that's a lot of fun to drive. The longer it takes me to sell it, the more time I have to enjoy it.
Like you said this car is not for everyone, It has show quality Paint and Amazing Performance, I hope the future owner will be a car guy who can properly care for it. Whoever ends up with it will be getting a lot for their money.