Patrick's 2014 S5 Build

[Patrick_S5]

Hi everyone, I picked up my s5 in January 2014, but have been too lazy to ever make my own build thread so here it goes. Big thanks to everyone on this forum for helping with this build and for answering my dumb questions.

2014 6MT s5 Prestige
Estoril Blue Crystal Effect
Black Optics
Nappa Leather Seats
Sports Differential
Adaptive Damping Suspension
Carbon Atlas Inlays

Mods:
GIAC Stage 2 with pulley
AWE Exhaust 92mm chrome tips (Thanks Danielle!)
AWE S-FLO Intake (Thanks Mops!)
Alu Kreuz (Thanks Barathon!)
CR-15 (Thanks u2nelson!)
H&R Sport Springs
20mm front spacers
25mm rear spacers
VAGCOM Mods (Thanks DirtD1ver!)
RS5 Grille
Headlight Corner and Foglight Vinyls
Valentine 1 Hard Wired with SAVVY
LED light swap
Akebono Pads
ECS Street Shield Skid Plate
Stock 19" Rims w/ Michelin Pilot Super Sports
034 Transmission Mount
ECS Short Shifter
Deval Carbon Fiber Valence (Thanks stingray84!)
ECS Diff Mounts
Brembo BBK
ECS Drilled, Slotted, Wavy rotors\
ECS Oil Dipstick

Mandatory current pictures:

Cell Phone Picture:






And now for the story of all the mods with pictures!

First picture of the s5, I bought it used in January 2014 with about 4k miles from these guys: http://www.motorcarswashington.com/w...inia/11604785/


Old car vs New Car


First Autocross bone stock


Tints before and after




Installing the AWE Exhaust in my friend's garage




RS5 Grill at the AWE BBQ


Vinyls, spacers, and springs installed (still needed to settle in)


Engine Bay Before Intake


Engine Bay After Intake


Putting the winters on in my friends garage


Putting dat quattro to good use






Getting the GIAC Stage 2 and pulley from Induktion, highly recommended


CPT Meet with the AZ crew


Prepping the car for track weekend: New Michelin PSS and Alu Kreuz install in my friends garage




Track Daze track weekend at VIR

[Patrick_S5]

Some random shots

[talkinghamster]

love it

[bergy12]

Great stuff patty, can't wait for some snow for us to go mess around in.

[blackbenzz]

Sick car! Made me want to go stage 2 after a ride for sure

[Patrick_S5]

Sick car! Made me want to go stage 2 after a ride for sure

Glad I convinced you! I couldn't post any of the pictures with our cars together because your rims are too damn fresh and make mine look terrible


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[blackbenzz]

Haha no worries! Your car looks great!


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[ES803313]

Love seeing guys putting their S5s to use in the snow.
I could never keep quattro in the garage, either.

[drumnjuny]

awesome pictures in the snow! have you taken it to the track at all?

[Powderhound]

Nice build and it looks like you're really enjoying the car: auto cross, meets, shows, track, and my favorite Drifting in the Snow! Good times, thanks for posting.

[Mops@Nemesis]

Very nice work so far, Patty

Don't discount your oem wheels... with a drop and some wide they fit the car very well. Better than many aftermarket wheels.

[u2nelson]

Very nice build, and great pictures. Really like the playing in the snow pics.

[audiiia5]

Are those stock s5 wheels? Looking nice !


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[NPuter]

Looks great!! How is the stock clutch doing with stage 2?

[Patrick_S5]

Love seeing guys putting their S5s to use in the snow.
I could never keep quattro in the garage, either.

I was astonished on how well it did with snow tires, there’s too much fun to be had with the Quattro in the snow.

awesome pictures in the snow! have you taken it to the track at all?

Thanks! I’ve been to VIR for a track weekend, there are some pictures of me at the track in the first post.

Nice build and it looks like you're really enjoying the car: auto cross, meets, shows, track, and my favorite Drifting in the Snow! Good times, thanks for posting.

Thanks!

Very nice work so far, Patty

Don't discount your oem wheels... with a drop and some wide they fit the car very well. Better than many aftermarket wheels.

Special thanks to you for all of my questions you’ve answered. I actually really enjoy the rims and I’m looking at bigger brakes as my next mod, new rims are far in the future.

Very nice build, and great pictures. Really like the playing in the snow pics.

Thanks!

Are those stock s5 wheels? Looking nice !


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They are indeed the stock 19s, as Mops said the drop and spacers make them fit the car very well.

Looks great!! How is the stock clutch doing with stage 2?

Thanks! As long as we stay away from launching, the clutch has been doing fine. It sometimes slips if you don’t get the shifts right when driving aggressively but nothing too bad

[Mops@Nemesis]

Special thanks to you for all of my questions you’ve answered. I actually really enjoy the rims and I’m looking at bigger brakes as my next mod, new rims are far in the future.

Always here to help! A 380mm BBK would be the taa-taas.

[jrabakker]

Nice build! And one of the nicest colors out there ;)

[noshadow]

damn that's beautiful

[sonictuning]

This build rocks!!!!! The snow pics make me want an S5 now!! Very clean, big fan of how you made everything low key and clean. Great job!!!!

[Patrick_S5]

Always here to help! A 380mm BBK would be the taa-taas.

In due time, looks like a new clutch may have to be in order before the BBK

Nice build! And one of the nicest colors out there ;)

Thanks! It seems that we’re twins!

damn that's beautiful

Appreciate it, your photography is amazing.

This build rocks!!!!! The snow pics make me want an S5 now!! Very clean, big fan of how you made everything low key and clean. Great job!!!!

Thanks, it’s really great to be able to beast the snow with this machine, join the club!

Updated the mod list as I forgot several

[Patrick_S5]

Finally put the Short Shifter and transmission mount on. I don't think anything will be as easy as the transmission mount was to put on.

The short shifter changes everything as it is a big feel of the car to me. Itwas quite the headache as it seemed that I aligned it wrong and didn't have reverse when everything was back on. Anyone else have this problem?I also had a screw break on me in the process. Major kudos to ECS for helping out in a very timely manner to remedy this situation.

Also purchased diff mounts from ECS because that video was too good... well done guys.

[mousewei84]

Very nice pics and mods! You mentioned you were tracking in VIR guess we are not that far. I am interested in some of those mods (exhaust, Alu Kreuz, grille) Any recommended shops? Did you order all stuff online and install it with your friend? my car is stock and I am quite new to mods world. Thx!

[Brick Oven]

Great pics! It's like watching the montage in the beginning of Up; the car's whole life flashed by in five minutes!

I want your buddy's two post lift...

[Patrick_S5]

Very nice pics and mods! You mentioned you were tracking in VIR guess we are not that far. I am interested in some of those mods (exhaust, Alu Kreuz, grille) Any recommended shops? Did you order all stuff online and install it with your friend? my car is stock and I am quite new to mods world. Thx!

Thanks! I’m located near DC, it was quite the drive to VIR but well worth it.
Grille you can do in your garage without a lift. I ordered everything either online or from AZ and put them on myself. You’ll definitely need a lift for Exhaust/Alu Kreuz. The only shop work I had done was at S2 Dynamics for my springs. Tell them I sent you.

Great pics! It's like watching the montage in the beginning of Up; the car's whole life flashed by in five minutes!

I want your buddy's two post lift...

Thanks! It’s like a story that I hope to keep building on.
The lift is amazing, he’s actually putting a 5.0 in a miata currently, very excited to see the end result.

[FaceSmA5h]

Love the way estoril blue pops at night. Great build Patrick!

[Vanimal]

Highly jealous of that Estoril blue, I have the deep sea blue pearl. Close but the Estoril certainly pops more at night without the sun needing to be out to pull my metallic out of my DSB. I really like the look of the titanium rotor oems on the darker blue, compared to say sepang more than i thought.

I've been debating wether to pony up and buy some OEM RS5 used rotors. Or satin silver Avant Garde 580's brand new.

Those rotors in 19"s even look good with springs!


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[Vanimal]

PS: Your estoril blue AT least also gives me a idea to go ahead and get my window trim wrapped in black for sure! Along with the RS5 grill in gloss black ill be adding along with it once the weather breaks. :)

I don't get a chance to see many deep blue colors on here with rim options etc. Thanks! Now i can't decide to go with the AG 580 in satin silver or the titanium RS5 rotors in 20". I have been debating now for 3 weeks

But that estoril blue is a color of BEAUTY! I was actually looking at a b8.5 S4 to add to the stable with the S4 that was estoril blue! They would look good next to each other.

[d.p]

You’ll definitely need a lift for Exhaust/Alu Kreuz. The only shop work I had done was at S2 Dynamics for my springs.

Don't need a lift to do either of those. I did AK, sways and exhaust with just a jack and stands as I am sure many B8 guys have.

[Patrick_S5]

Bump -

This beauty is now for sale! Time to sell my first baby to get a 4 door car for my second baby :)