PACougar

I would only suggest it with a water/meth system, otherwise you'll probably loose power from all the heat.

Toadster

yup!

what's the recommended belt to go to on this sucker? I think I have some slippage

Toadster

is this the correct Gates K080496HD Belt to use?



that's 49.6" vs 51" (stock) - right?

Shifter

Do you hear it or how do you know?
Didnt exotic/shardul have a belt wrap kit they developed? Anyone know what happened to it?

Toadster

sometimes under hard throttle the car seems to 'back off' a bit and can't quite place the sound, but it's not squealing...

I figure I've put 7K miles on the car - not sure how old the belt is anyways - so a $30 fix is pretty cheap and good insurance if the belt is older

justinwrock

Plus it literally takes 30 seconds to change!


I keep a spare belt and the tools to change it in my trunk... LMK if you want to pop one on your car real quick.

zneB-sedecreM

What meth system/company would you recommend for use with the 55K? I'd want to get one that has been tested on our cars. Thanks a lot

streetspeeder

I'm new to the E55 performance and find it strange that I almost never see any Pulley/psi increase listed. if i get an EC blower pulley, how much more boost will I see and when.

JM2C

Toadster

supposed to be 1.5-2.0 PSI added using the S/C pulley

AKnight55

Smaller supercharger pulley is equivalent to about a 168-170 crank pulley. If you search you will find lots of info on that set up.

PACougar

http://www.aquamist.co.uk/ Take a look at there stuff. It's a progressive system that's mapped based on you're injector duty cycle rather then just opening up the flood gates when you hit a certain boost level. Plus once it's dialed in it's easy to tune for the Water/Meth.

adianaty

^ +1. Have experience with both types of kits and the aquamist is the only kit I would recommend for our cars.

KCE55

Hello MBworld, i am brand new to this fourm. I was hoping to get some feedback from you all. I purchased a stage 1 package from Eurocharged for my 2006 E55 and waited almost 2 months to get my parts "issues with their supplier they said" Well i finally got the parts "not what i origanaly ordered but was ok with the pullies they sent me 172mm vs 180mm. Had installed at the local Mercedes dealer and experienced a front main seal leak the following day. Mercedes took apart again and found that the milling on the pully was of poor quality and they had to take the groves off by hand with sandpaper which took 4 hours of their time. They called Eurocharged and they said that they have had some issues like this, yet this was not explained to me that this could be an issue when i purchased. Just courious if anyone else has had this happen? Car is done and the guys at EC worked with me do to the issues of waiting so long. BTW, the car runs like a bat out of hell....
Not slamming them just want to see if this was a one off or common with this companies products? I have a buddy wanting to do the same with his 2006 CLS 55 yet this has him a bit freaked out.

Thanks All

cij911

Something does not sound correct....I have had great experience with EC and everything I have ever heard about their service and products is solid. If you ordered a 180 and received a 172, why would you have even put it on ????

alextaylor29

Congrats and have fun!

KCE55

Jake who was super to work with said they did not have an ETA for the 180mm pulley, also said that the heat build up from installing 180mm pulley would be an issue thats why i excepted the 172mm pullies. I had the TCU, ECU, Pullies and Johnson pump installed. Jake said that the 172mm Pulley would be better for me for the fact that i did not have headers and the more eficent intercooler and that heat build up would lessen if i did this instead. My intentions for asking this question were to see if anyone had this issue of an oil leak after installing EC pullies. I got the car back from the dealer yesterday and all is good now yet it cost me 4 additional hours of labor to correct.

KCE55

Bro, love the video, i had viewd this some time back.

cij911

Other than the numerous spelling mistakes, I think I understand your post.

It sounds as if you were raped by the dealer. The pulley has nothing to do with sealing the engine, so if you really had oil leaks they were not from a pulley.

If you had oil leaks (e.g. from valve cover) and the dealer fixed, well then great.

chawkins2001

Find a good indy shop to work with, dealers are a joke. Enjoy the new found power.

BBBSS

He said the front main seal went. Does the pulley sit in the front cover? seal. I haven't torn into this engine enough to know what it looks like down there but usually a balancer will go through the front cover and through an oil seal. If that's the case it seems there was some sort of an edge on the pulley that cut the seal and caused a leak that they had to sand off.

adianaty

There is a front seal and the oil will leak, especially under boost, due to crank case pressure if the pulley isn't smooth.

KCE55

you are correct per my buddy who worked on the car that works at the dealership.

KCE55

WOW guess i was right!!! spelling ok with this response??

alextaylor29

Thank you sir, not sure if I'll do that again on that road, based on how hard I hard to brake. The rotors were literally glowing afterwards and I was consumed in a cloud of brake smoke. (160 MPH - 0 MPH in .2 of a mile) Amazingly ABS did not trigger so the brakes were still doing fine, it wasn't panic braking.

So I think my run was one of those, "Check that box" sort of life moments. Plus I'm afraid without a rail and new injectors I'll risk the motor if I do it again. Almost 13,000 youtube views though, how cool is that!

Thanks again.

Alex