The Vivid Racing Audi A3 project car was a successful hit as we approached this car from the street function angle. With a clean look, great suspension, and just enough power to get us in trouble, this A3 set the standard for street performance. With parts from Rotora, JIC Cross, Agency Power, Status, Forge Motorsports,

Vivid Racing’s Project Audi A3 is coming to an end as we have just completed a photoshoot for Euro Tuner Magazine. What started from a picture in the Rieger Catalog, to a daily driver, and now one mean street machine, is wrapping up. The well balanced aesthetically pleasing Audi A3 2.0T was the perfect Euro

To add some more capabilities to our Project Audi A3, we recently installed the DICE iPod interface which works with the stock stereo unit. This kit connects your iPod directly to the factory stereo system in your vehicle through the satellite radio / auxiliary input on the back of the factory radio. Since this is

Vivid Racing recently installed the Forge Motorsport’s front mount intercooler kit on our 2007 Project Audi A3. The front mount intercooler kit includes new Samco silicone hoses which connect the intercooler to the turbo piping and throttle body piping. The larger length and width core is designed to provide an better cooling capacity. As tested

The Audi A3 was brought into the project car family to be built as a strict show car only. We wanted it to have an aggressive stance and be stylish. At the same time, we wanted the car to have some power and handle well. With the addition of the JIC Coilovers and Neuspeed sway

The entire reason we bought this Audi A3 almost a year ago was because of the Rieger catalog picture of the red A3. Seeing how that cars stance looked was truly something that impressed us. After spending some slow time adding the bits and pieces to make the car ride well and have power, it

Vivid Racing has a long relationship with JIC coilovers and our project cars. We install JIC on almost every project car for one reason… they work! Our list of cars using JIC include our EVO VIII, Pepsi RX7, Drift 240SX, Porsche 996C2, our 700HP Porsche 996TT, Subaru STI, and our new EVO X. But why

Our Project Audi A3 got some new stoppers recently from Rotora. These Rotora brakes feature the 4piston caliper with 13.1 inch 2 piece floating rotor. The new Rotora rotors are all black which look pretty aggressive. They feature the Rotora street brake pads and blue gel coated Rotora steel braided brake lines. To hype up

OK we finished testing the new parts in addition with the car already being Flashed. The car made an impressive 50ft/lbs of torque more then stock and 40 horsepower. The throttle response is a little slower from the large IC pipes, but the mid range to top end RPM power and torque is definitely noticeable.

Slowly but surely our Project A3 is getting some new mods strapped on. Already equipped with some IForged wheels and ECU Flash, we have added some air flow improvers. First we took our Agency Power catback exhaust system from the VW GTI MKV and installed that on there. Since the tips were short for the

Vivid Racing’s slowly but surely Project A3 got some new toys to add on. The all new IForged 1 piece forged Trak wheels in 19×8.5 flat black will be the latest edition. The 21lb wheels will be wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 tires (235/35/19) and installed on the car. Next we have some JIC

Since we recently sold our 2007 STI to a high profile customer, it was time to get a new toy to go with our WRX wagon project. While everyone waits for the amazing EVO X and STI, we had to get our fingers on something in the interm. Our criteria was this: 4 doors, automatic