As requested by several board members-

 

i called AI design (car tuner shop in ny somewhere...), a kleemann authorized shop and spoke to Gil about it. he said they have done the alloy pulley upgrade and it is $1175 total (which includes the labor)... hmmm...

here's their info for those of you in the area.

AI Design
64 Marbledale Road
Tuckahoe
New York 10707

TEL.: +1 914 779 9000 International
FAX: +1 914 779 5889 International
E-MAIL: INFO@AIDES********
WEB: WWW.AIDES********


the question is, does the alloy pulley kit come w/ a new badge... say CK230K???

 

Unless Long Island has expanded, AI is between Mt. Vernon and Harrison, which is on the mainland, not the Island.

Might be worth a trip, just to see the current projects that they have going on. Website shows some pretty cool customizations.

 

ah, my mistake! microsoft streets & trips let me down...

i just called and they said they're near some place called yonkers...

oh, and gil said they're doing a c230k today.

 

What are they doing to it? Is it Lil' Romeo's second ccoupe that he can't drive?

Though, I just found out that I need a new headgasket for my crx, so looks like my money will be diverted to project #2 for awhile.

Don't tell me that you've never heard of Yonkers?

 

Tuckahoe is is between Yonkers and New Rochelle, and just north of Mount Vernon. All of which are immediately north of the Bronx.

 

i've heard of a movie called Lost in Yonkers... but if you ask me about any NY city other than manhatten, i'm basically lost... i fine tuned my MS Streets and Trips search and i can see where all of the places are in relation to manhatten.

they're doing a pulley upgrade on the c230k... i'm tempted! very tempted!

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i called kleemann again and they're sending me more information and they told me there is a place closer - west chester, pa (and i know where that is :p)

 

They told me about that place when I was giving thought to the leather/alcantara seating surface combo (mmmmmmmm...gotta love that!). I forget the name, but that should work better for you. Why don't you go ahead and get the Kleemann (and yes, I knew how to pronounce it - 5 years in jr/sr. high school - there isn't a soft sound in the whole language) pulley kit? You know you want it. Come on, everyone's doing it. People will think you're cool. (trying to get you to do it, since we need at least a couple of gineau pigs for every mod out there).

As an aside, do you know who starred in "Lost in Yonkers"? That's right, Mercedes Ruehl (from "The Fisher King", "Married to the Mob" - love that movie)! Talk about weird, huh? Circle of life and all that...

 

Kleemann...do you have any spec for the supercharger kit for C200 Kompressor?
will it be available in alloy type aswell? or we use exactly the same thing with c230?

 

4 cylinder Mercedes-Benz Intercooled Supercharger


Do you have any info on this for the Coupe? like price, hp increase?

 

cw203-

Ring pulley will give 200hp, alloy pulley will give 207 on the 2.0 litre.

sal-

The 4cylinder intercooled kompressor system is for EU delivery cars that come without kompressor from the factory. No cars come to the USA this way. We do not sell the 4 cyl system here in the USA.

 

Thanks. will you guys be making beefed up superchargers for the coupe?

 

Kleemann,

any chance to get the pulley kit in Australia??, could you also post the torque increase result from the kit?

Thanks

 

Hi Young,

Who does the Kleeman installations in West Chester, PA?
That's my town and I didn't know anybody here was doing that.
You never know what is going on in your own back yard!

 

In Chester County, PA:

Union 7 Motorsports
510. E barnard Street
Unit 51
West Chester, PA 19832
610.701.0717 tel

best method of contact, email:
union7@erols.com

 

Hi Kleemann can u take a look at the Performance brakes thread and help me out there.. plz...

 

Im on my way over there now.

 

kleeman posted the info. and i called them to get more info but the guy wasn't familiar w/ the pulley kit. he said he'd email me back the info/pricing but never did... let's just say, based on purely the one phone call, that they did not inspire much confidence... i may be totally wrong, but let me know how your experience w/ them is.

 

Hey Young, Gil from AI design. The pulley kit that we spoke of the other day was a total success. The customer was suprised with the outcome of the upgrade. The real difference is that instead of just acceleration you now feel a real pull through all the gears. It's a painless upgrade even for the wallet for what your getting in HP gain. My client has done a before Dyno test and is getting a after test next week, let's see what he says.

 

Kleeman, it looks like you have a real good quality pulley system. Im new here so I have a couple of questions, I hope there not to stupid. Do you have a Canadian distributor selling your products at all, I was unable to see any on your site. Would I have to order all the way from Colorado. My last question is, have you had any thought to designing and selling any other performance parts such as Header, Cold Air Intake, etc? I have been looking for an online retailer that selling performance parts for the C230. Thanks for your time.

 

QC1, as a Kleeman dealer there isn't much more than the pulley kit for the c230 as far as engine performance upgrades. Feel free to contact me a gil@aides******** if you have any further questions or call me @ 914-779-9000 and I'd be glad to help you out in obtaining any performance needs.

 

Kleeman is supposedly getting a dealer up in Vancouver, but he doesn't have one in Toronto (the acting capital of Canada).

Go figure. =)

 

aigil, thanks for the respose, I wil contact you soon

 

hi gil! didn't know you'd be here! welcome to the forum

 

I forgot to ask. Which Aftermarket parts are there and where can I get them. I found the Rentech site, but there kinda pricey and it seems the increase they small amount of HP increase they list is not worth the cash.