Kiwimeat’s Kitchen

Well I’ve owned my new Audi for almost two months.

Enhancements started less than 24 hours after I picked her up!

Enhancement I
I had the APR Stage I ECU upgrade enabled the day after I took delivery. I picked in up on Thursday and by Friday afternoon it had the APR Stage I ECU upgrade redone by James at HP. Oh, and genuine Audi OEM rear mats installed.

I’m very happy with the Stage I ECU performance. Response is much smoother through the range. Still getting caught by surprise by the torque. Not that it is brutal like many other worked turbos, instead it is an almost silky rush. A few nights after installation, I moved out to overtake whilst in 4th and found myself moving really quite fast, quite quickly without any conscious effort.

Enhancement II
My second enhancement was to have the Audi OEM Satellite Navigation/Multi-media system retrofitted. The is known as RNS-E to most owners. It consists of GPS Satellite Navigation, Radio, Twin SD card slots for MP3 playback, Integrated Phone (if factory Bluetooth fitted - as mine is). It replaces the Double DIN stereo and fully integrates into the DIS and wheel controls.

RNS-E

Forthcoming Enhancements
Carbonio Cold Air Intake in the next week or so. 

I did my first Glorious & Nebo (SE Qld’ers will know what I’m on about) run in my A3 last weekend. Aside from the odd Sunday driver (45km on a straight in an 80 zone ) and a couple of idiots (hazard of those roads ) it was really good fun.
Really quite happy with the handling and the engine response .

On Monday night Ben & I graded to 6th Kyu. This is yellow belt in Seido Juku. A big OSU to all our fellow graders and karateka who came to support us!

Seido Juku

After just 10 months of Seido Karate we have advanced a Kyu on average every 2 months. However, acheiving yellow belt marks the end of our rapid advancement as the next grades require attendence at twice as many classes and at least 4-6 months gap.

Actually this is no bad thing as the number of techniques and kata we are required to know and become proficient in has grown alarming. If nothing else our 10 months of karate training has simply reinforced how much constant practice and polishing is required to achieve a basic competence, let alone the casual mastery that our Senpai (seniors) demonstrate.

OSU!