c300 perfomance upgrades? headers? exhaust?
10-24-2010, 11:19 PM
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c300 perfomance upgrades? headers? exhaust?
i heard not much u can do to the motor> i was told k&n air filter... helps.. i recently saw headers for this car. what will this do for my car..what about a chip..?. i no its cheap but i took the factory x pipe on car and ran straight pipe to the resonator and i left them on but gutted the resonator and left mufflers on.. it sounds good. wat will make it sound better and better perfomance? i am not trying to have my car sounding like a honda lol
10-24-2010, 11:36 PM
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i heard not much u can do to the motor> i was told k&n air filter... helps.. i recently saw headers for this car. what will this do for my car..what about a chip..?. i no its cheap but i took the factory x pipe on car and ran straight pipe to the resonator and i left them on but gutted the resonator and left mufflers on.. it sounds good. wat will make it sound better and better perfomance? i am not trying to have my car sounding like a honda lol
10-25-2010, 08:15 AM
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I was told by the AMG guys that the ECU tune would change the sound a bit due to the more aggressive timing. I am waiting until I go in for my next oil change to get tuned but has anyone that has had their ECU reflashed noticed a more aggresive/changed sound?
10-25-2010, 12:17 PM
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i heard not much u can do to the motor> i was told k&n air filter... helps.. i recently saw headers for this car. what will this do for my car..what about a chip..?. i no its cheap but i took the factory x pipe on car and ran straight pipe to the resonator and i left them on but gutted the resonator and left mufflers on.. it sounds good. wat will make it sound better and better perfomance? i am not trying to have my car sounding like a honda lol
K&N filters, free flow mufflers and an ECU tune will give a HP increase.
10-25-2010, 02:32 PM
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yea it was a little unclear.. my buddy said he left the resonators on.. but gutted them.. and ran straight pipes from the headers to the resonators.. it sounds a lot better than stock.. unless he is bull****ing me... i did see where he ran straight pipes off the headers . if i remember correctly the car from factory has a x pipe in front of the resonators. he removed that and straight piped it to the resonator and left the mufflers on.. it does sound good.. not raspy or like a suped up honda.. is he bull****ing me when he said he gutted the resonators? why didnt he just take them off>
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10-25-2010, 02:35 PM
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thank you... i was short on cash with the exhaust so i did what bunch people did on you tube... i didnt take off my resonators i just gutted them out and i straight pipe car from headers to the mufflers. wat do you recommend or have done.. and two more things..where can u get a ecu tune and wat do after market headers do..?
10-25-2010, 05:22 PM
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I got the powerchip tune and put some cone air filters on my C350 and the car is more responsive, it is noticable, but its not night and day as though you are driving a totally different car or anything.
I'd recommend the ECU tune by powerchip though, esp for the current group buy price.
I'd recommend the ECU tune by powerchip though, esp for the current group buy price.
10-25-2010, 06:45 PM
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thank you... i was short on cash with the exhaust so i did what bunch people did on you tube... i didnt take off my resonators i just gutted them out and i straight pipe car from headers to the mufflers. wat do you recommend or have done.. and two more things..where can u get a ecu tune and wat do after market headers do..?
10-25-2010, 10:27 PM
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yea it was a little unclear.. my buddy said he left the resonators on.. but gutted them.. and ran straight pipes from the headers to the resonators.. it sounds a lot better than stock.. unless he is bull****ing me... i did see where he ran straight pipes off the headers . if i remember correctly the car from factory has a x pipe in front of the resonators. he removed that and straight piped it to the resonator and left the mufflers on.. it does sound good.. not raspy or like a suped up honda.. is he bull****ing me when he said he gutted the resonators? why didnt he just take them off>
The x-pipe alone will give your car a more deeper sound in the 3,500-4000 RPM mark
10-25-2010, 11:28 PM
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yea it was a little unclear.. my buddy said he left the resonators on.. but gutted them.. and ran straight pipes from the headers to the resonators.. it sounds a lot better than stock.. unless he is bull****ing me... i did see where he ran straight pipes off the headers . if i remember correctly the car from factory has a x pipe in front of the resonators. he removed that and straight piped it to the resonator and left the mufflers on.. it does sound good.. not raspy or like a suped up honda.. is he bull****ing me when he said he gutted the resonators? why didnt he just take them off>
10-26-2010, 02:13 AM
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The resonators ARE an x-pipe, so putting an x-pipe in front of the resonator is pretty stupid and pointless. The reason people delete their resonator for an x-pipe is to eliminate the sound dampening and increase flow. I can't even tell what you are talking about here honestly. So when he straight piped from his headers, did he delete his catalytic converters? If all he did was drop the resonator and gut it, he wouldn't need a straight pipe anywhere.
thank you... i will talk to him tomorrow and tell him what you said......
10-26-2010, 12:03 PM
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Lol, it sounds like maybe he just gutted out the resonator so that it is a "straight pipe". The terminology is just off. I doubt that anyone with a brain and knows a little bit about cars would never straight pipe from the headers to the resonator... The car would throw an error code for bad O2 sensor, right?
