I'm not all that close Scott. We're up in Santa Cruz some 400+ miles to the North. We were just in the Palm Springs area staying over for a race at CA Speedway a couple weeks back (I am a motorpsorts junkie and racing photographer) and get down there a couple times a year, but no plans to be back 'till next Spring now.

Please do keep the board posted on your results. It is quite possible this mod will work as well as any and combined with a local muffler shop built exhaust system could get the same performance gains as the better marketed systems at a much more reasonable cost.

I have 50k trouble free miles now on my mods in the Audi 5000 turbo quattro (car is at ~190k) and the total cost was less than 30 bux (waste gate spring and the cost of a socket and blank EPROM) so I don't fear inexpensive modifications.

The most important thing is that all aspects of the engine are correct prior to doing any boost mods (no vacuum leaks or other issues and good overall engine and turbo health are key). Being able to easily revert back to stock code is important too.

One thing we were looking at in the Audi mods was to burn both sets of code into a larger EPROM and have a bank select "valet" switch to select which code to run on enginer startup, but that project never came to fruition. A lot can be done when engineering type minds come together on the net ;-)