Not at all. Quite simply it is a mater of priorities. Many things that would not be acceptable on a production car I am quite happy to deal with in exchange for increased performance. I make no attempt to suggest that the changes I am making are aimed at the general populace. Increased intake noise.
Intakes make allot of noise.
Decreased low-end torque. As explained in the section on air intake location I will have to clean the air filter much more frequently. Rough idle and cold starting. I have no doubt that these modifications will create a rough running motor at low rpms and before it is up to operation temperature. Audi undoubtedly spent much time and effort to make the motor run smoothly under these conditions, I have no such plans.