New Ride - Rule 1 (First sports car)

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Edit: Added update and pics of first mods

Only have a couple hundred miles behind the wheel, but it's been a fun couple hundred miles.



Update: Driven about 2000 miles since the beginning of last December. It's been a really fun car so far...not outrageously fast, but enough to get a sports car taste.

Already had aftermarket exhaust when I purchased it, and I just installed an IE intake.







AgCPA95
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Very nice!
Buck O Five
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Nice stormtrooper/panda.
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TxAg20
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Nice! CPO'd?
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Hot damn!

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I bet that's a blast to drive.
PharmD4
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No actually... Got the full inspection and scheduled maintenance completed (along with records) and still some miles left on drivetrain warranty.
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As stated in the title, this is my first "sports car", so my reaction is probably a little inflated. But so far, it's been an absolute blast. Hugs the road and jumps out of corners, sounds incredible (aftermarket exhaust), and the DCT paddle shifting is almost instantaneous.

Figured I'd give it a couple of months before giving overall impressions.
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My navy pilot sister has a 13 in dark grey, manual 6 spd too. Parts of me hope she offers it to me before she decides to sell it. Beautiful car OP!
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That's kind of a joke. There's another recent thread about an Audi that was CPO'd.

Doesn't matter the sports car, although the S5 is quite a car, that fun factor doesn't go away.
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APR makes some products for the supercharged 3.0, as do other companies.

Tune
pulley
stand alone coolant pump for the intercooler system
new intercooler



DONE!
"The Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution was never designed to restrain the people. It was designed to restrain the government."
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Congrats to another Druggist!
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Thanks! Trunk is plenty big to drive shortage drugs all around my market! (Still no porsche though haha)
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I like where this is going...
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PharmD4 said:

Only have a couple hundred miles behind the wheel, but it's been a fun couple hundred miles.

As seen on the pavement...
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Very nice car!!
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What kind of drug dealer doesn't have rims on his whip?
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Update: Driven about 2000 miles since the beginning of last December. It's been a really fun car so far...not outrageously fast, but enough to get a sports car taste.

Already had aftermarket exhaust when I purchased it, and I just installed an IE intake.





Has a noticeable whine over about 3000 rpms, but nothing overbearing. Install was clean and easy.

Couple of random pics.



tmas
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Nice ride! I've been looking at these myself. Not many in the used market out there.

I want speed and room for 2 kids in the back. What else do you look at?
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tmas said:

Nice ride! I've been looking at these myself. Not many in the used market out there.

I want speed and room for 2 kids in the back. What else do you look at?
Here you go

2015 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E 63 AMG S-Model 4MATIC Wagon AWD

PharmD4
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This might work for ya...

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PharmD4 said:

This might work for ya...




That's beautiful.
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Nice ride OP

Had to come back and post here because I just got out of my brother in laws modded A4 (he did pulleys, a tune, work to the fuel system, and some other things). Things is an absolute rocket ship. He launched it at a light for me. Holy frijoles. I've never been in a big horsepower car with all wheel drive like that. Crazy. Surprised stuff doesn't break.
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Congrats, big fan of those cars.
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theJonatron
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if you really want to unleash some power, buy a custom tune.

right now your intake and exhaust are just noise making aftermarket parts. If you get a tune, it will make use of that additional air and give you more power without running lean. It will also make use of all the supercharger's potential.

I had a tune on my mazdaspeed 3 for 60,000 miles and never had a problem. I had a tune on my WRX for 20,000 miles and never had a problem. The mazda was hit by a truck and sent to the grave yard and I got bored of the WRX...expected much more than what it was.

GET A TUNE!!
It's fun to do bad things.
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That's the plan. Wanted to get hardware on beforehand.

Any recs on brand? Of course APR is popular, looked at IE and a couple more.
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