Audi TT RS by FolienCenter

Posted 18th March, 2013 in Audi | Leave a comment

Eppelborn-based aftermarket specialist FolienCenter has released details of its Audi TT RS project car.

Visually this Coupe wears the company’s new aluminium-look foil on its hood, radiator grille surround and rear wing, while the factory wheels have made way for a set of 9 x 20-inch Audi RS 6 alloy wheels wrapped in Hankook S1 Evo tyres. A Bilstein B16 coilover set-up provides the require drop in ride height.

Thankfully, when it came to improving the car’s performance, FolienCenter called for assistance from the guys at LOBA Motorsport, who fitted their racing-spec LO500P turbocharger unit, which currently sees service in the Pirelli World Challenge GTS cars. An uprated intercooler, high-pressure fuel pump, optimized ECU software and Milltek exhaust system equipped with HJS high-flow sport catalytic converters were also thrown into the mix.

Those tweaks see output from the 2.5-litre five-cylinder engine jump from 250 kW (335 hp) and 450 Nm of torque to 374 kW (501 hp) and 563 Nm, allowing a new 0-100 km/h time of 3.6 seconds and a heady top speed of 320 km/h (198 mph).