But that's not what the word "uncommon" means. A brand new Ferrari is readily available and easy to find (just go to a dealer), but they are hardly common.

That's because it is an FD unit, adapted to the S5's harness.

You had an owner?

No it wasn't. Most of the FC's over here are Japanese imports, and mine is the only one I've seen with leather.

All Japanese FC's had rear seats, except for the Infini.

 

Regardless it is available for S5's... and it seems to work well. however they make it work I really don't think most care... as long as it works.
Right?

 

Damn you for posting that site!!!! I spent the better part of 2hours looking at pics!!!

 

Can we say FD motor? And STILL has an AFM

 

lol no problem I did the same thing myself and to the pictures above this post and how the hell are they using an s5 afm with a 13brew???

 

yeah yeah....=P

Cool, cuz mine is leather

I wish mine has rear seats

 

It's not "available" as in you order it from Apexi and it comes in a pretty box with instructions, ready to just drop in. The workshops have to rewire the S5 harness to make it work, and it takes quite a bit of knowledge (and expensive workshop time) to do it right. Just clarifying that.

 

that just looks liek he is using the upper FD manifold, the engine seems to be stock

 

That's not an FD motor.
Can you tell us why?
You do know that FD motors don't use AFM's, right?


-Ted

 

heheh. he was overwhelmed by the shiney. although it is mind boggling to see what that guy has in there with a factory ecu

 

that gauge cluster is badass.

 

oh I didn't even notice the belts on that engine. I was wondering if it was just an s5 engine. I guess I should have looked harder. like bingoboy said that is crazy what all he has with the s5 afm.

 

Ted, is there any benefit to running an FD UIM? How hard is it to adapt?

 

it is actually a Pain in the *** for the gains that it will give you... But it does look a hell of alot better.

 

I hate america for the emissions, I'd love to have a FD for $4000us.

 

I haven't done any back-to-back testing, but it's a pain in the *** to adapt.

FD UIM needs to be match ported to fit, and it gets really thin in a couple places.
At least one of the front bracket off the FD UIM needs to be cut off.
The FC stock oil filler pipe needs to be modified, or a stock FD short section off the center iron needs to be swapped in.
If you're using stock ECU, you'll need to splice the TPS wires.


-Ted

 

thats it? i thought it would be a lot harder than that? i don't think u would see much power with the FD UIM, i think most of the time, its just for looks.

 

To me it's not worth it.

The FD TB might have slightly larger bores on the TB, but it hasn't been proven to make more power.
It's kinda hard for me to make a good comparison between stock versus FD set-up, cause the two cars that did it are running Haltechs.
We'd need to retune both set-up's to have any helpful data.
I don't want to waste my time doing this myself.


-Ted