nobli

well im making a trip to Socal and figured it would be a good as time as any to look up some mechanics. any recommendations you guys have? or any meets going to be happening around wednesday or thursday? basically i would like to meet up with some people and get some opinions/ info. any and all help appreciated. im looking to make significant engine mods and some body work.

W203E35

PM me once you get here. We'll meet up with the boys. Just watch out for Patrick Lowkey, that foo likes to grab guys asses a lot.

For some reason every time at a meet he slaps my *** and says "good hustle" but I don't get it? It's not like I was playing basketball..I was just standing there

nobli

for sure, karo. looking forward to meet everyone

timmynabenz

HAHAHA karo!!

where in Socal are you coming?

tommy

Honestly, a 2007 C230 isn't worth trying to do engine mods on. You'd be pissing away a ton of money to get to +5 hp.
Your money would be better spent on bodywork like you want to do and working on the suspension and brakes.

nobli

i realize this as a few members here already gave me a rough estimate. i just want to keep my options open and know what parts to look for just in case.

Probably glendale, northhollywood, and then heading down south a bit to san diego for an ipala im looking at

W203E35

Perfect, I'm in Burbank and I believe thursday is a Cerritos meet that you can come along and meet the hoodlums.

If you are looking into making your car faster don't waste your time on Headers or ECU tune. I say you get down to business and boost it. A lot of members have knocked me on this but I am actually in the process of design.

Where to mount turbo? Where does turbo suck air from? Where to run the turbo up pipe? Need intercooler? Should I use the AEM F/IC-6 for piggyback or something else? What turbo should I get..I don't want to have the car boost on low RPM when I am cruising.

Soo many questions that need to be answered. But soon

zerocover

I've taken a look at the factory, cast exhaust manifolds (blobs?), a properly designed long set of 3-1 headers should give nice gains. Too bad no one sells them.

Then again with these engines I would prob be easier to just swap for 350 internals.

W203E35

Nice meeting you Nobli. The w203 isn't modder friendly. Exhaust , intake won't do anything. The kleemann headers are pretty expensive for what the gains are gonna be. Forget about engine swap (why ruin a fresh car), the kleemann supercharger is too expensive for the hp your car is going to gain. Once you upgrade that then you have to upgrade the suspension then brakes. These cars are not American cars where couple of boltons and your car wakes up. Couple of boltons and the car is still whatever. I don't know how you feel about BMW but you can trade in your car for a 335 or 135 and couple of mods here and there and you will run high 12 to low 13 all day everyday

I agree, but didn't bignaldo get them? I think they were from the 204 but same thing. I'm sure you knew this but you have the exact same engine as the C300 and the 300 is same as 350

zerocover

Do you have a link to these long headers? I've only seen shorties. I'm talking about some form of equal length 16+ inch long headers.

W203E35

https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...e-headers.html

Although this is for a different engine this still can be done to ours.

SoCalC55

If you're in OC drop by Hyevon Motors and Serge will take care of you

http://www.hyevonmotors.com/

nobli

nice to meet you all as well. ive spoken to both kleeman and rentech and neither one do anything for the 203 base model. thus im assed out. next time im out there ill give him a call.

c230kracer

Now we should all head up to Vegas

nrg_mike

That works for me! I'd go there just to get Thai food. lol

skittles

:drool: same here.