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Old 09-16-2009, 03:49 PM
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Hersh's Turbo CLK430 Build Thread

so im going to be venturing on the ~800 mile drive to Indiana tomorrow night 9/17 and will hopefully arrive on the morning of 9/18.... Most of the work will be performed by Max Hughes (Pro60modman on here) at River City Imports......I will be leaving the car with them for about 10 days while im on vacation....Max will probably be updating the thread with pics every so often since ill be in Miami and the western caribbean lol....heres some n pics to start out with and ill try to add a couple for kicks along my drive lol

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took off the 19 DPEs and thru the 18" winter wheels on for the trip....had to use a 20mm spacer to clear the brakes...my stock 17s clear with the spacers too so im takin 2 of them with me as spares......resprayed em from the gloss black & gold lips --> flat black

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WOW...good luck on the project and take lots of pics!!!
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GL with the build. Enjoy your vaca.
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GL with the build

I love the all blacked out wheels I think they make your car look meaner than the gold lips.
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I love the all blacked out wheels I think they make your car look meaner than the gold lips.
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The way your front wheels stick out with the wider rims on smaller tires that stretched look helps.

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Damm! I'll be following this for sure!

What kind of turbo is that you got there?'

I'm really interested in seeing how ya'll are going to tune this thing. I'd like to know details...
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lol thanks all...will def keep u updated

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Damm! I'll be following this for sure!

What kind of turbo is that you got there?'

I'm really interested in seeing how ya'll are going to tune this thing. I'd like to know details...
masterpower t70....gunna b tuned with the AEM F/IC-8...max would be able to elaborate on that...


2.5 hours till i leaveee...

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crazy! have a safe journey....

ur gonna blow up many trannies with the boost!
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keep us updated dude cant wait really
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only 325 miles left... makn prety good time... k bak to keepn my eyes peeld
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Stay safe out there man. and make sure you test drive the car for a few days before driving it back for 800 miles, because when i did my turbo about 4 years ago my tranny took a dump after a week and the main reason i didn't persu the project was the tunning issues. i would hate to see you stock in the middle of the road. so just do a few days of test runs and you should be good to go. also on your drive back what i would recomend doing is do the tranny reset so it comes out of it's current mode(our trannies are adaptive to our driving style) and get used to the drive with the added boost. best of luck and if you have any questions don't hesitate to pm me since i have alot of experience with turbos and a little with turbo on a clk. best of luck to you.
p.ss for the drive back lower the boost to the bare min for a safe reliable drive back and once you get back home change the pressure spring on your wastegate to a larger boost spring.
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thabks guyss ... just arrived about an hour ago... a couple hours early actually and with a 3.5 hr naptime lol...

vip thanks for that advice... ill tell him ta do the tranny reset for me and hopefully ill be able to change the boost level myself
but so wait... u had turboed ur clk320?
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Good luck Hersh, I wanna see vids when its done! It's gonna sound insane
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Making an extension harness for the MAF. Once it's dyno'd tmw the injectors, computer, wideband and intercooler go in.

Done, minus wrapping up the harness.
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Originally Posted by deyainrdy4ds
thabks guyss ... just arrived about an hour ago... a couple hours early actually and with a 3.5 hr naptime lol...

vip thanks for that advice... ill tell him ta do the tranny reset for me and hopefully ill be able to change the boost level myself
but so wait... u had turboed ur clk320?
Yes I did a custom turbo about 4 years ago if you search my old posts you can see pics of the turbo and the intercooler, mine had the tubo in the engine bay I had the exhaust pipe cut and re routed into the bay into the turbo, th reason why I took it off is because tuning it to be perfect and reliable for long drives is nearly impossible plus the trannies on these cars can not handle the boost. The closest I got the tuning was with the apexi afc, but there was still the issue of long drives for me, I go to vegas almost once a month and need my car as reliable as possible, plus the trannie on these cars are not that great, so I beefed my tranny a bit and still not good. Long story short I was aiming to boost about 11 to 13 lbs, but anything over 5 to 6 lbs on these cars is not reliable unless if u go with kleeman and their tunning stuff. So to me just having the blow off valve noise wasn't good enough soi scrapped the whole project, and some of the parts are in my garage collecting dust, lol
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Originally Posted by VIPclk320
Yes I did a custom turbo about 4 years ago if you search my old posts you can see pics of the turbo and the intercooler, mine had the tubo in the engine bay I had the exhaust pipe cut and re routed into the bay into the turbo, th reason why I took it off is because tuning it to be perfect and reliable for long drives is nearly impossible plus the trannies on these cars can not handle the boost. The closest I got the tuning was with the apexi afc, but there was still the issue of long drives for me, I go to vegas almost once a month and need my car as reliable as possible, plus the trannie on these cars are not that great, so I beefed my tranny a bit and still not good. Long story short I was aiming to boost about 11 to 13 lbs, but anything over 5 to 6 lbs on these cars is not reliable unless if u go with kleeman and their tunning stuff. So to me just having the blow off valve noise wasn't good enough soi scrapped the whole project, and some of the parts are in my garage collecting dust, lol
what year is ur car and what tranny does it have... its different from mine rite? and how long is a "long drive" and what kinda problems start occuring?

and can u link me to ur old thread...?

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