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OWNER SPOTLIGHT: LIAM BRYCE’S 10-SECOND S3

7th Mar 2019

OWNER SPOTLIGHT: LIAM BRYCE’S 10-SECOND S3

Welcome to a new regular feature on our Blog pages – ‘Owner Spotlight’. This section gives us the chance to showcase some of the more notable vehicles that pass through our workshop doors and see how the work Ecotune has carried out translates in terms of ownership and driving experience.

First up, we have Liam Bryce’s Audi S3 8P – a car most people in the UK performance car scene will already know for being one of the very fastest road-legal TFSI cars around…

AIMING HIGH

Liam’s gradually developed his car over time to the extent where it can now easily lay down 10-second quarter-mile runs on street tyres and whilst retaining a full interior.

This has been achieved with a heavily re-built version of that infamous 2.0-litre TFSI engine that now features forged Wossner pistons, ZRP con rods and sturdier bearings and studs to ensure it can take the extra boost offered up to it from its huge BorgWarner EFR 7163 turbocharger.

The S3 also benefits from RS3 8V fuel injectors that are fed by a duo of APR and VIS Motorsport fuel pumps, with fully bespoke calibration work on both the car’s ECU and TCU systems performed by Stan at Ecotune to get the most out of the setup. The result is well over 550bhp and 500lb ft of torque now being available at even modest levels of timing.

BOX OF TRICKS

When you’re playing with this level of performance, it’s always wise to bolster up your S-tronic gearbox to ensure it can handle all that extra grunt. It’s why Liam’s opted for Dodson Motorsport’s ‘Sportsman Plus’ clutch kit for his six-speed dual-clutch ‘box; the premium New Zealand-based offerings adding more strength and bite during those brutal launches.

USING IT TO THE FULL

Arguably the most impressive part about Liam’s car is the fact it still performs his day-to-day duties in the luxury, civilised manner it does in standard trim. “This is my daily car and it always has been; I take my kid to school, go shopping, and also drive 300 miles to the drag strip to do a ten-second run, then turn around and go all the way home again,” he explains.

LET’S TALK NUMBERS

Heading straight to Northamptonshire’s Santa Pod Raceway once the most recent batch of work was finished last year, you can imagine Liam’s delight when he managed a 10.6-second pass off the bat – a time that’s in a similar league as a standard Ferrari Enzo or McLaren 650S which should really help put things into perspective! “The next step is to build the head to let it rev out a little more and pursue some even quicker times,” he tells us as we ask him what the future holds.

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