drexappeal

Thanks, man.

This is the plan right now:
- Rear Tires
- Battery
- MBenzNL installs
- More custom stuff...

I set a budget for myself early in the summer, but I'm already close to it and will most likely be going over.

drexappeal

Hell yeah...Oh, forgot 'bout the mod you, me and mj had spoken about too!...

Damnit...so many, in such a short amount of time.

ctC230K

nice break shoes!

mig888

No kidding, I just threw on 07 tails :\.

drexappeal

Nice. Did you do the pin swap yet?

14cue

I hate Harry and now i hate you too.



looks great Drex! i saw Harrys' and my heart stopped!

drexappeal

I was gonna say, you should've had the insurance upgrade them when you got hit!

I still haven't tested the stopping power, but so far from what I can tell, it's awesome.

Harry Madan

oo trust me have tasted the shopping power, i took it out on the highway at like 3 in the morning this weekend and from 160Km/h + (about 100 mph) to 0. and the car did not even do a nose dive, and it stopped soo smooth, it was like wow, and then after that there was no fade, the rotors just got warm and the wheel were still cool. it was sweet. the only down fall is that there is a lot more brake dust on the wheels now, i seem to have to clean them ever other day. and cleaning the calipers are a bi**h u have to keep rolling the car forward to be able to clean the whole caliper. but they do shine up nice and look amazing when the wheel is spinning. (so many ppl on the streets stair at my wheels now, the look on there face is just funny.)

by far the best mod i have ever done. i like that fact that now my car can stop faster then it can go.


P.S hey drex, just a question, how much did u get ur grill for? do u like it? i can tell its different then most, its the true CL grill that is straight through to the edge without a border on the sides (right?) where did u get it from and did u paint it black ur self, did it have the chrome strips running on the grill?

spyderpig

awsome mods...
we've seen the picture over time, now much $$$$ cumulated over years???

FrankW

braking power doesn't have anything to do with nose dive. any time you brake the weight center is thrown forward to the front because of the momentum. therefore causing the front suspension to squash. if you didn't make the nose dive that means you were only "slowing" down from 100. it's not really a 100-0 braking.

MJ50

FYI, there is unofficial 15k club gatherings...
or is it official?

RES

Can we just not talk about it, I think we are going to have to enter a 10 step program.

drexappeal

Wow, it has shopping power too, Harry? Yeah, I've started to depress the brakes a 'bit more today. Lots of stop and go traffic (which helps with the break in). Needless to say, I'm sure they can stop on a dime without question. I actually don't mind the dust (don't think they're too bad), but there's still a lot of brake squeal (when lightly depressing brake pedal). I may have the shop add more anti-squeal paste when I go in to have the rear tires replaced. Now, I'm just waiting until I have time to leave my car with my tuner so that he can get some sleeper power out of it, so the brakes can be used even more effectively.

The grille? Well, it's the MH-Dezent grille (Expression is the same grille, also). It retails for $600+ (not sure the exact price). I got it used from OGGLE, who was moving and needed to part out his car. I immediately brought it to the body shop and they painted everything to color match except for the front star. I think it made the grille more aggressive looking than the grey slats (mine weren't black) and chrome strips. I also like how it made it look more integrated into the hood. Plus, at night, it gave that effect as if the star was floating.

Again, people always seem to think that my car is Black, but it is Midnight Blue. Color-match FTMFW (of course, as long as it's tasteful - too much color-matching looks tacky).

drexappeal

Well, if you look at my current mods link and do the retail costs, you'll see that I'm passed the $15K club.

drexappeal

Russell, with all the stuff you have, I think you're pretty darn close to the $15K club. BTW, you do realize it includes the stuff you got from Steve.

I'm assuming you mean a 10 step program for peeps that aren't quite there?

Harry Madan

my brakes has got no squeal, my brakes dont make a sound. so i dont know why ur brakes are make noises?
that grill look sweet i think i want to get me one too. but i dont think i'll do the pain match on my car, it would just not look right, what i would do is the same idea as the stock grill, with black back ground and chrome strips leading to and away from the stat with the bottom strip matching the car.
do u know of a website that i can take a look at this grill and price it out hopefully make an order. let me know. thx

drexappeal

Performance Products and Evosport sell the grille.

Harry Madan

Thx.

drexappeal

No problem, Harry. Be sure, when they paint the bottom piece that they take out the screws first!...LOL... Mine were painted over at first, so it took a little elbow grease to get them off to mount the bottom piece.

Also, make sure you mount the bottom piece on the hood, prior to connecting it with the upper piece. Now, another thing that I hope you know, there are no top mounts for this grille, so you will have to custom fabricate some, if you want the grille to be secure at the top. I have used Zipties just to secure the top portion of the grille.

Truth be told, the bottom portion holds the grille in very well, but I just wanted some security on the top mounts. I may, at some point, make custom top mount brackets, but that's gonna be a pain in the *** to do and I've been too lazy.

spyderpig

good to know thx

spyderpig

that explains how your ride can be that freakin secsy!!
even if i go all the way with my car i wont even reach 10k

Harry Madan

thx for the tip(s). that should be a grate help, i'm still debating if i want the grill or not, some ppl like my car the way it is they say its got an elegant/classy touch. and there are some ppl who think that i should get that grill and a flat hood badge. so i just cant decide what i should doo.

drexappeal

Thanks. Yeah, it's a lot of money, but it's also over a 3.5 year span and I loved the w203 styling even before I bought the car. The main reason I started to mod it heavily was because the w203 became the best selling chassis in the history of Benz and because there were so many on the road, I had to have mine looking unique, but classy. In fact, a lot of the $$ dumped into my car has been within the past 1.5 years. Before that, it was little things here and there. Lots of saving, lots of research...and now it's almost where I want it.

A lot of people would feel it's a waste of money, but I'm an enthusiast, so why not? I've got the cash to burn...might as well enjoy it. Another angle people would take is the fact that I could've bought a c32 or c55 by now. I actually have 2 answers for that: 1) Can't find a single C32 in my color code 904 midnight blue. 2) Can't find a single C55 in Diamond Black (Midnight Blue was discontinued when the C55 was released) and if I could, I'd have to re-do a lot of the mods (most importantly, rims would be $$$ to re-do).

So, there's a lot of logic into what has been done on my car (if we're simply talking about modding). Eventually, the performance mods will be going up, but that won't really be finished until I have another daily driver.

drexappeal

It's purely up to you. The ONLY reason I have this grille is for the MH-Dezent theme. Only way I would relinquish this grille, is to have a Brabus Rocket style grille, which would take this grille to make anyway.

I would get the DFWDude emblem, if you don't already have it. If you want to keep your car classy/elegant, that's all you would need. If you want to go for "aggressive/sport", go with the Mattig Grille (painted black) or this Grille (painted like you said you intended - just the bottom piece).

Another thing to consider with this grille - It doesn't really sit right on other bumpers. When I got my full kit, I realized how much better it looked with the new bumper vs. my old sport bumper. Others have stated similar sentiments (i.e. Grille looks better now than it did before, just from the bumper change).

FrankW

take the grille and mold it into the brabus style grille...wahahahah