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One of the biggest concerns we have when working on our cars at home is ordering every part we need for the job and worrying if we picked the correct parts. Making an easy mistake like that slows us down and keeps our cars out of commission for longer than we want. That�s why at ECS Tuning, we have put together full Assembled By ECS kits for your car that comes with everything you need from the quality manufacturers you trust to tackle that service project stress-free.

We found the growing need and desire of our enthusiast customers to convert their Quattro cars to RWD for some smokey shenanigans. We designed & engineered an in-house solution that allows you easily delete your front axles and center diff without permanently modifying your Quattro system. We have test fit on our development C7 S6 & B8 S4 Manual with 0B2 409 755 L center differential. A part number cross reference shows our Center Diff Delete will fit Manual & DSG B8 S4 / S5 3.0T as well a Manual B8 A4 2.0T.

Unlike many appearance upgrades that require expensive installation and color matching, motorsport inspired Carbon Fiber Mirror Caps from ECS Tuning are an easy install and profound performance styling statement. No special fitting. No hassles. Pop the old one's out, pop these on and get going. This fast and easy styling statement complements any color Audi. ECS Carbon Fiber Mirror Caps will reflect your good taste and European sensibility.

Take advantage of the potential your 5cyl turbo has to offer in your RS3 with our Intake Adapter and Hose for the most efficient intake setup possible! This kit allows you to adapt our performance intake system to your big-bore inlet so you don’t have to pick between these awesome upgrades for your RS3.

Give your 3.0T-powered Audi an astounding bump in power and performance with minimal effort. The ECS Tuning Supercharger Pulley Upgrade overdrives your supercharger without overdriving any other accessories, which allows your engine to produce more power and improves the effectiveness of the supercharger. Paired with a Stage 2 software tune, your 3.0T can make up to an impressive 98 WHP and 95 WTQ jump, putting your Audi in an entirely different class.

Raise the level of style on your B8 A4 Non S-Line with the ECS Tuning gloss & matte black exterior upgrades. What makes your Audi pre-facelift B8 A4 yours? Is it because you have the keys, or something else? We believe it comes down to a combination of both your enthusiasm for the car and what you put into it. Whether that is a list of aftermarket performance upgrades, maintenance, or your energy behind the wheel is up to you. However, one of the easiest ways to set it apart is with subtle additions, ones like our brand new front lip or rear trunk spoiler to give it that little difference that makes it yours.

Looking for the most attractive and adjustable tip on the market? Look no further than our ECS Swivel Exhaust Tips! Featuring a unique swivel collar design that allows the tip to be adjusted in any direction to achieve that perfect fitment. Simply adjust the tip to your desired position and tighten the hex bolt to 14 ft-lbs (19 Nm) and the tip will stay where positioned.

Enjoy your B6 A4 with the most engaging, race-inspired, performance cat back exhaust system. Intoxicating exhaust notes fuel your desire to push your engine to its limits with every ounce of power and every engine revolution. Experience your driving passion with our ECS Exhaust System. This system gives a fantastic exhaust note, a drastic improvement over stock, while not causing significant in cabin drone.

Our ECS Tuning replacement harness connectors include all of the necessary pins and wire seals for a complete harness repair. Whether you have broken harness connector or a you need a complete wiring repair, ECS has you covered with the correct parts you need at a price that is affordable compared to OEM. Each connector includes an additional terminal just in case one becomes lost or damaged during your install process. Please reference original part number from existing connector to confirm fitment, prior to ordering

A superbly engineered, ingenious solution for adding vacuum-assisted accessories to your 3.0T, the ECS Billet Boost Tap Kit is even simpler to install and use. The aluminum tap replaces the plastic spacer between the supercharger and discharge tube, introducing two possible vacuum ports for your creative use. A set screw is included when only one tap is necessary. The boost tap compliments the ECS Vent Pod Boost Gauge arrangement wonderfully, making for an exceedingly advanced boost-monitoring system

Change the tone of your Audi S6/S7 4.0T exhaust with an easy-to-install upgrade from ECS Tuning! The ECS Tuning Center X-Pipe installs in place of the resonator located in the middle of the factory exhaust system to increase exhaust note and allow for better flow of exhaust gases.

Avoid drilling holes in your bumper by using the ECS modular tow hook mount system. The ECS Tow Hook Mounting System doesn’t require drilling. This system mounts to your tow hook receptacle allowing you to attach a license plate, action camera, or even a tow hook.

Raise the level of style on your 8V with the ECS Tuning exterior upgrades. These quality pieces fit directly to your factory trunk or bumper to provide a much more aggressive visual appearance. Choose from beautiful hand laid carbon fiber material or gloss black plastic.

Keep your C7 safe on the road with our new Street Shield aluminum skid plate kit. Designed right here in house for your C7, our Street Shield kit tucks all your precious underbody components behind its 5052 aluminum plates to prevent any potential disaster from road hazards or anything else that might unexpectedly endanger your drivetrain. Don’t let the possibility of disaster eat away at your conscious. Take proactive measures and gain peace of mind with our new Street Shield kit!

Keep your C7 safe on the road with our new Street Shield aluminum skid plate kit. Designed right here in house for your C7, our Street Shield kit tucks all your precious underbody components behind its 5052 aluminum plates to prevent any potential disaster from road hazards or anything else that might unexpectedly endanger your drivetrain. Don’t let the possibility of disaster eat away at your conscious. Take proactive measures and gain peace of mind with our new Street Shield kit!

For many, driving a stick shift is more than just a rite of passage: it represents an understanding that some things are just better left to the driver and an unwillingness to relinquish any control over the driving experience. We feel the most connected to our cars when we change gears, so the first place to make that connection even stronger is right there on the shifter.  Our brand new Weighted Shift Knobs for your Audi or VW manual transmission are designed with the sentiments of connection, engagement, and satisfaction placed at the forefront of their development.

It’s no secret that Audi's suffer from weak, failure prone rubber control arm bushings. The stock rubber bushings are designed to allow significant movement of the front wheels and to absorb road impacts. This compliant design maximizes daily driving comfort and helps add to the “luxury” feeling of your Audi, but it also contributes to the numb, disconnected feeling that many enthusiasts complain about with modern cars. Introducing the new ECS Monoball Bushings! By utilizing a sealed ball joint, ECS achieved the ultimate in terms of low friction no bind suspension travel with no unwanted deflection, providing exceptional cornering response, and prompt acceleration and deceleration feedback; all while maintaining exceptional comfort and durability levels making these an excellent no compromise upgrade even for a street car.

Introducing the new ECS Tuning Thrust Arm Monoballs! The ECS Engineering team set out to design a solution that offers far superior durability when compared to OEM, requiring no modification and offering nearly instantaneous cornering and braking response for the absolute best road feel and driving experience possible. By utilizing a sealed ball joint, we achieved no bind suspension travel with no unwanted deflection, providing exceptional steering precision, turn-in response, and direct braking feedback; all while maintaining exceptional comfort and durability for street cars.

Take your docile, stock exhaust and replace it with the ECS Tuning in-house engineered Valved Catback Exhaust System! Our proprietary valved muffler design allows you to toggle between a mild-mannered, sporty Euro. exhaust note, with the valves closed, to a deep, aggressive sound with the valves open. Intoxicating exhaust notes fuel your desire to push your engine to its limits with every ounce of power and every engine revolution. Experience true driving passion with our ECS Valved Catback Exhaust System!

The stock throttle body is smaller than the supercharger inlet creating a massive restriction and directly responsible for power loss. ECS Tuning's in-house designed and engineered Performance Throttle Body Upgrade will do the trick. Designed with a smooth flow path in mind, we start off with a wire reinforced silicone inlet that resists collapse and is stepped in the internal diameter to create a smooth transition to the throttle body. We then went with a high quality OEM Mopar 80mm throttle body that is 10mm larger and has 30% more cross sectional area than OE. The final step is the cast aluminum adapter housing with port matched internal diameters to provide the smoothest flow path possible. On our test car equipped with IE dual pulley 93 octane 80mm throttle body tune, ECS exhaust (valves open, stock catalytic converters), ECS supercharger heat exchanger, ECS Kohlfaser Luft Technik Intake, ECS supercharger and crank pulley, we saw 415 HP and 385 TQ at the WHEELS. See below for full specs and detailed installation guide!

Our ECS Tuning 8V A3 Quattro Valved Catback Exhaust System was designed, engineered, tested and quality inspected by our Research and Development team in our Wadsworth, Ohio facility. Our proprietary valved muffler design allows you to toggle between a mild-mannered, sporty Euro. exhaust note, with the valves closed, to a deep, aggressive sound with the valves open. Intoxicating exhaust notes fuel your desire to push your engine to its limits with every ounce of power and every engine revolution. Experience true driving passion with our ECS Valved Catback Exhaust System!

APR Ignition Coils are designed to be a direct plug-&-play upgrade to factory coils, & provide greater energy output, ensuring a stronger & more consistent spark. The commonplace replacement of factory ignition coils with those taken from higher output Audi RS models, such as the 2.5T, is popularly believed to provide greater energy output. However, testing proves that they are no more powerful than the factory coils that are found on 1.8T and 2.0T engines. APR Ignition Coils increase energy output by 10%. They are a direct upgrade or replacement, & come with the coveted red housing.

HPA Motorsports provides no-compromise, proven, and tested performance parts for your VW or Audi. With their roots in building competitive cars for track use, HPA continuously develops parts for their race applications in-house in their CNC shop and provide their tested components to you to improve the driving dynamics of your European performance car.

Our ECS Tuning in-house engineered billet aluminum shift knobs have been carefully designed and tested to bring you one of the highest quality and greatest interior enhancements available. Our shift knobs will enhance the shifting experience and pairs extremely well with our short shift kits to give a full shifter makeover! OEM shift knobs have an average weight of 95g; the substantially heavier weight of our ECS Tuning shift knob will smooth out shifts resulting in faster engagement and a much better feel.

With the B8 A4 S-Line and S4, the understated styling is a selling point to casual commuters but leaves something to be desired with enthusiasts who want more aggressive looks. Our new Gloss Black Front Lip Spoiler changes that. Designed in-house by our Audi enthusiast team, this front lip is the wallet-friendly visual upgrade your B8 A4/S4 needs to improve its presence anywhere you take it.

The engineers at ECS Tuning have designed a direct fit dual exhaust x-pipe cross section to balance exhaust pulses and increase expulsion of exhaust gases from the engine. Installation of the Center X-Pipe increases the factory exhaust system note exponentially giving a more tuned European sound. Installation can be easily performed with the vehicle lifted on your own driveway. Our installation PDF, walks you through the install to ensure a perfect fit to your OEM exhaust. We've even included a complete set of clamps to make sure everything is properly installed without leaks.

Nothing shows off a car’s performance potential like striking visual upgrades with an aggressive twist. The factory rear diffuser on the pre-facelift B9 S4 leaves something to be desired in that department, which is why we set out to produce an affordable, attractive, and motorsport-inspired improvement for the rear lower section with our rear diffuser! This new Gloss Black Rear Diffuser follows the factory lines and accentuates the performance nature of your B9 S4 while staying affordable thanks to its vacuum-formed plastic construction.

After nearly half a decade of in-house engineering, testing and retesting of multiple iterations of prototypes, across a wide range of modified vehicles, we are excited to give you our best clutch kit yet! Our kit is engineered to reliably hold up to 450 ft/lbs of crank torque and feature specifically selected components for performance and daily driving styles, while retaining easy commuting characteristics and enthusiast-minded control and feedback!

Remember the days of old fighting games when you�d hit the ol� Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start combo for a bunch of extra lives so you could beat the game stress-free? Sometimes, that�s more fun than doing it on hard-mode. Why work harder when you can work smarter? That�s what we did. We're ready to help one of you lucky enthusiasts unlock a real-life cheat code: this BMW F22 M240i 6spd powered by the already legendary B58 paired with an M Performance LSD. See the full build list we threw at this car below!

Upgrade your exterior styling with the ECS Tuning Carbon Fiber Rear Diffuser. This diffuser was engineered and designed in-house to add a more aggressive appearance to the rear of your vehicle that matches with the factory appeal of the Audi B9 S4. An exclusive design only available through ECS Tuning, this rear diffuser will be sure to catch attention and turn heads. The diffuser is crafted of high quality hand laid carbon fiber to achieve it's world class appearance and durability and provides an aggressive and sporty style that's sure to set your vehicle apart from the rest.