GRIP IT & RIP IT

THIS SLEEPY BLOWN V8-POWERED ALL-PAW AUDI IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED!

- MARK ARBLASTER

AFTER purchasing it while working in the UK, Dr Dylan Wynne took his V8-powered, all-wheel drive Audi RS4 wagon on a driving tour of Wales, before importing it home to Australia, where he decided to boost its already staunch factory performance to V8 Supercar level and beyond!

“I was fortunate enough to be working for a few years in the UK,” Dylan recalls. “The UK was the cheapest place to buy this car, so I set off with my dad and we spent 10 days hunting for what we wanted in northern England.

“You really need to drive it to understand; it's an incredible touring wagon, corners on rails, and the sound of the V8 from start-up to 9000rpm is intoxicating,” he enthuses. “I managed to stay long enough in the UK to allow me to export it back to Australia without paying the crazy taxes on the car.”

Dylan's car is from the last RS4 generation to be offered in V8/manual form only (subsequent gens would switch to V8/auto and then V6/auto only). And what a V8 it is! In factory trim, the aspirated, 4.2-litre quad-cam mill belts out 340hp at 7000rpm, with owners encouraged to take them to a lofty 9000rpm! But as impressive as that is, the newly built, supercharged 4.2-litre that now powers Dylan's RS4 is good for 633hp at all four wheels on pump unleaded!

“At the time of purchase, the car's performance was cutting-edge, but 13 years on, I wanted to turn it back into an ultimate driving machine,” Dylan explains. “So, I went and had a chat to Tyson Munro at Autotech Engineering in Sydney and told him I wanted to build something with a bit more punch. I had an open mind about it, but it had to be supercharged, had to drive on pump fuel, and I needed to be able to drive the car anywhere.”