Joel's Stage 3 2000 Audi A6 2.7t 6Speed

[Joel]

So I've managed to go through a few cars, had a vf34 powered wrx for about 3 weeks, found out basically the dealer fucked me, so i managed to screw them over for money.

Still had my built integra, than had a jeep, than a 240, and some other shit in the middle of that, a VW golf.

But this whole time i had this 2000 Audi A6 2.7t 6 speed that I was daily driving. My rule with this car was I would not replace anything major until it broke.

I managed mostly to stick to this rule, but not fully.

I bought the car, it was BONE stock, with the addition of all weather floor mats.


It progressed and blah blah.

currently it consists of Borg Warner KKK K04 Turbos
Bosch EV14 60LB injectors
Deatschwerks 300LPH fuel pump
VAST Performance Tuning
VAST Performance Stage 4 Clutch
VAST Performance Aluminum Lightweight Flywheel
VAST Performance/ARD Bi-Pipes
VAST Performance 4" Intake With RS4 MAF
VAST Performance Electric Fan Kit
JHM Frontmount Intercooler
JHM Power Steering Cooler
JHM Short Throw Shifter
JHM Weighted Shift Knob
NewSouth Performance Intake Manifold Spacers
RAI Motorsport 3" Downpipes
Custom 2.5" Straight Pipes with dummy mufflers
Snow Performance Stage 2 Meth Kit
Samco Diverter Valves
Samco Upper Inlet (Lobster Claw) Hoses
Samco Throttle Body Boot
034Motorsport Snub Mount
034Motorsport Aux Coolant Pump Delete
034Motorsport 3" Wheel Stud Conversion Kit
KW Variant 1 Coilovers Lowered about 3.5" in all 4 corners
Hotchkis Sway Bars
Okura Engineering replacement Spider Hose Assembly with Oil Catch Can
19x8.5" ET35 VMR V713 wheels Painted BURPLE by Wheel Medic LLC in Columbus, OH
SEAT Cupra Leon R Front Lip
Diesel Geek Metal Skidplate/Belly Pan
Kenwood Excelon DNX-9140 Headunit
Sirius Satellite Radio
JL Audio 300/4 Amp for the doors
JL Audio 1000/1 Amp for the subs
(3) JL Audio 10w6v2 Subs in a custom 2.86 cubic foot box
Optima Red Top Battery for Chassis
Optima Yellow Top Battery for Stereo
0 Gauge wire for positive and ground through out the car
(3) 200 Amp Breakers in the car
200 Amp Tsunami Battery Isolator
Tsunami 2 Fared Cap
(2) Sets of Focal Access A165 Component Speakers in the front and rear doors
(6) Boxes of Dynamat throughout the trunk/cabin
Blinder M27 Laser Jammer
Hardwired Valentine 1 Radar/Laser Detector with concealed display in the center of the gauge cluster
AEM UEGO Wideband mounted on the steering column
AEM Boost Gauge mounted in a custom pod on the dash
Windshield tinted 30%, meters at 21%
Sides of the car tinted 5% meter at 0%
Rear Glass Tinted with one layer of 20% and two layers of 5%, all ontop of eachother, meters at 0%***** ALL WINDOW TINT DONE BY DOUG MIDKIFF AT FRESH DESIGNS IN ELLICOTT CITY, MD.******
Modified factory xenon/autoleveling headlights with 55watt DDM 3000K Low Beams
Modified factory xenon/autoleveling headlights with 55watt DDM 5000K High Beams
EuroTunk Insert
Clifford 50.7x Alarm with Smart Start and 5 sirens and 2 piezo horns.
Yakima Roof Rack
FK Badgeless Grill
ECS Tuning Stainless Brake Lines
PBR ULT Ceramic Pads, all corners
Centric rotors


theres a ton im forgetting too like routine maintenance but also a ton of aftermarket that i'm forgetting as well.


anyways, heres a bunch of photos of it through out the years on the different wheels and what not. i'll update it accordingly.



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1.5 days after i bought it. already had wheels on it

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first photoshoots

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with this kids turbo nsx and a good friends STi

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on the way to street life tour 2009

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on the way to Street Life Tour 2009

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[Joel]

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I have a thing with 3000k headlights, i love them

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My C5 and my moms B6

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Both those photos are taken at AMC movies at the mall at Columbia MD.





than one day i fucked up.


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i made a u-turn there, on my summer tires......in november.....in the rain, hit wet leaves and gravel while accelerating, hit the guard rail at 15mph. $11,000 later..........

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[Joel]

so i promptly grabbed a set of winter wheels, and got ready for winter.

well winter > joel

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76 inches of snow in 3 days i believe it was.

Now i smoked at that time and i ran out of cigs and beer. well that shit wasnt going to fly, so i dug my ass out.

On a trip home from ohio, i had another casualty.
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my high pressure headlight washer got eaten due to ice...and me going 90mph.......

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My first stereo setup in there, alpine MRP F300 and MRP 500, great for a budget setup.

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did a hardwood floor in the trunk with 2 12" JLs and a false wall

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some nice Focal Components

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Than my exhaust 2.5" Straight Pipes with modified dummy resonators.

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Hollow fake resonators

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Than came new wheels the following spring......

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gotta keep it dark as hell on the windows.

[Joel]

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Crusing on the highway

I have a thing wtih stickers, most people hate them, I dont care. I like standing out, and what better way to do it than with stickers. I've never gotten so many compliments on my car like when i have stickers on it. i miss a lot of them, but everything must change.

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My a6, and my and dmillers old s13. we both miss that car like hell, i traded him my integra for the 240.

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This is one of my favourite photos ever taken of my car.
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Than the next winter hit....

[Joel]

oh before winter hit, i went to hyperfest 2010.

this was the only photo i have of my car from there.

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just after hyperfest, my stock clutch blew. 103,954 miles. Well fuck it, if were going to pull the motor, its time to go stage 3.

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Thats the motor waiting on a new set of turbos, clutch, and downpipes.

By the way, for anyone ever thinking of using clutchmasters, I will NEVER recommend them, my $1900 Clutchmasters stage 4 setup wtih flywheel is now dead after 16.700 miles... I now am putting in a VAST stage 4 setup.



But anyways next winter hit, winter 2010 and i didnt really take any photos or any documentation of my car, big regret.

I killed my winter 19's that i had, i bent 2 wheels and popped 2-$360 tires in one pothole....

My service writer at Tischer Audi in Silverspring MD, Evan S, hooked me up with a set of Factory Allroad Wheels and tires for stupid cheap. This guy has ALWAYS helped me out whenever i needed anything with the car. Awesome guy, awesome dealership, I CANNOT say enough about them.

the wheels wernt the prettiest but fuck it, they were functional and they sat pretty aggressively, i liked it. it was different

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around this time, i moved away from MD and moved back where i'm from, to Ohio, and proceded to dump ALL my money into the car the way i wanted.

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thats how quickly i wanted to get away from MD

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who wouldnt stop at teh house of babes where there sign says no fat chicks

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another random speeding photo

Oh yeah at some point i had a 2000 vw golf.
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Both cars were broken, that was at my old shop, Fresh Designs in Ellicott City MD. They did all my stereo and tinting work and a lot of other work to my car. Those guys up there are some of the best people i've ever met. Both on a professional level and as friends. The owner Doug took me in at the shop and always took care of me, including giving me a job and always being there for me for what ever I needed, I cannot speak enough about him and the head technician Chris who taught me more in the 16 months i was there than any formal education i've ever had. I cannot speak enough about them. There alarm tech Jeff took care of my car always too. Amazing people, Amazing shop.

At that point, the a6 was dead due to electrical fire, and the golf due to being backed into by an f150 with a trailer hitch. quite gay.

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A photo of my A6 with my room mates blue cbr 1000rr and good friends r1

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my good buddy anton helping me with my swaybar install. thats a metal skid plate were putting back in.

[Joel]

time for some fucking changes, its summer 2011

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Burple wheels, my old VMR V713s needed a refinish. so burple it was. Wheel Medic of Columbus OH hooked it up.

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My car at SoWo 2011 The best event i've ever been to.
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cleaning for SoWo

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For those of you who dont know, The blue noggy s4 belongs to Audi S4, aka eric on here.

He went to sowo with us, hes the fucking man, see you at hyperfest 2011.

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at our hotel
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dont be a fucking idiot, always have protection, V1 and trojans.

[Joel]

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at sowo

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racing in the mountains
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europlate care of olli

yes i was driving aroudn wtih no US plate on.

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my buddy anton driving



I came home from SOWO, I couldnt take the car anymore, i hadnt modded it in a few days


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put my 3000ks back in. love them so much.

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gauges



and lowered it another 1.5"


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My C5 a6 2.7t 6 speed, my roomates 1.8t B5 which is for sale, lowered and on rims, and his c5 a6 2.7t tip sitting outside, and the cbr1000rr and r1 in the garage..... plotting evil


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the last day i drove the car the other day.




this is how it sits today...

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This is why i will never buy another clutchmasters product.

oh and a motor shot for good luck......
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thats the car, love it or hate it, it will be forsale soon i believe.

[driveway]

That was like reading a book

[DMiller]

well... both our cars are out due to drivetrain issues, guess our curse is still alive lol

looking good man, keep it up!

[7ohnny]

i don't think i've ever seen or even heard of someone modding their A6 like that. Is there anything you didn't touch lol? Any plans on what you're getting next?

[Joel]

I know in the near future (next week) I will be picking up a Gixxer 750 and spraying that, and than i'm looking towards maybe trying to find a moderately priced higher mile S15 and maybe swapping in a single turbo 1j, I've been itching to 1j something, so any S Chassis is in my mind, or theres an LQ4/LS3 powered R32 that i know of thats for sale that im semi entertaining the idea of going after. We'll see what happens. I also wouldnt mind keeping this car and swapping in an LQ4 with a single GT42 and than strip the interior and all the stereo out and make it a sort of sleeper, leave the tint on the windows and just make it as light as possible lol Who knows. It'll all depend on my payments for this bike and what not.

[Nexus]

Nice Joel.
Where did you get your LCR lip? (LCR = Leon Cupra R) Mexico I gues, because they got Seat down there.

Got any video of your exhaust sound?

And I'm with you on the stickers. I got a stickers things too, people mostly hate it, but it's making it different!

[Joel]

I got it from a website called oempl.us there a pretty cool place I wish i could have gotten more rare euro shit. and yeawh i have some vids of my exhaust i'll post em.

[Audi S4]

You getting rid of the Audi. That means no more SoWo for you. And now just to clear things up, I might not be attending Hyper-Fest like I was hoping to. I just got the call I was not wanting hear. Damn phucking Audi...

[Joel]

I sold the car the other day supposedly, The guy gave me a deposit and i'll know wednesday if he wants it, if he does, i'll be delivering it to him the wednesday after ECB.

Hopefully it'll be gone. i'm tired of the car

[Vasfinest]

Dude Im digging those purple rims though, I like that car a lot

[Joel]

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