NEVER TELL ME YOU CAN'T....
The c36 and the c43 have their great points and advantages over each other, but none are better than the other. Com'n now. Lets just oogle over OP's 202.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...est_drive.html
Remember I own BOTH!!!! C43 and a 99' E36 M3.

FYI "IF" I wanted to drop in a 5.5L in my C36 (which I never said i wanted to do in the first place anyways...) I would have to change out tranny, computer, harness etc.. but do not have to mod the chassis.
Do some research man before you get into these arguments. Ive had 5 w202s in my family and ive been researching them for probably 5 years now because they are my favorite cars.
Imho C43 is easily capable of everything an M3 does, its just a different feel and the fact that a C43 was a lot more expensive(because its a muscle, sports, and a luxury car all at the same time) only put it behind the M3
Been told many times to keep it on topic.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...est_drive.html
Remember I own BOTH!!!! C43 and a 99' E36 M3.
One thing I do not understand from that article is, WHY it has the 0-60 time at 5.9 for the C36? When the actual time of a stock C36 is 5.5-5.6!??
WEIRD.
Do some research man before you get into these arguments. Ive had 5 w202s in my family and ive been researching them for probably 5 years now because they are my favorite cars.
Imho C43 is easily capable of everything an M3 does, its just a different feel and the fact that a C43 was a lot more expensive(because its a muscle, sports, and a luxury car all at the same time) only put it behind the M3
Enough saying the C36 is only a c280.
BTW, I own 2 W202's currently, and have 3 more friends that own them aswell...

I guess you really don't understand that the C36 and C43 are BOTH amazing rare cars in there own ways, and that they are BOTH special in there own seperate ways. They drive TOTALLY different, and they act TOTALLY different, But one thing is true, they are BOTH AMG's, they are both rare/special, and BOTH are SICK.
End of Convo.
Last edited by BenzMaster19; Feb 4, 2010 at 02:48 PM.
The Best of Mercedes & AMG

I know I havent updated this topic in quite a while but it only seemed as though my wheels were spinning and im not talking about my car. Last thing i remember posting was something about tunning my car with a piggy back system. After much back and fourth i realized that my laziness was getting the better of me. So I contacted LET or Eurochrged(not sure which one is correct) and was suppose to be tuned February 2nd then three feet of snow delayed that. Then it was the 13th and another foot came down. Delayed again
Now it is set for the 6th of March.I have determined a few things up till now
1:

These 2 bolt holes go all the way through and created a boost leak since I first did the install. This is what actually allowed my car to run at perfect stociometric efficiency.
Once fixed it ran pig rich and barely idled. I created a vac leak then slowly took it away to allow for the adaptation to take affect. Now it idles and WOT the car does not let out. Problem is the AFRs are spotty. Tune here I come2: The high pitiched whining noise I was hearing is coming from my transmission front pump and will be fixed when the 55k trans goes in.
3: The paint on the charger and valve covers looked like **** after all the miles i put on the car so i removed all the paint. what do you think?

Now the official next upgrade will be the 190mm pulley. Go big or go home!! I will isolate the cooling sytem for the S/C to aid in the drastic increase in air temps the pulley will generate. Headers might be cutom if i am able to convert my steering gear box to a rack and pinion (manual or assist?) Otherwise Kleemann will be used.
OFF TOPIC....slightly
Blackbenzz was talking to me about the SLR intercoolers and I thought that would be a great application for my car. Priced them out at my price and they go for around $8000 a side
Needless to say they are out of the question. Then I started looking at the SLK55, E55 with the SLR engine swap and was looking at the picks and something caught my eye




It goes the same for the E55. He might have the internals but that is 100% not a SLR engine. I'm not saying he doesn't have a load of money because all the parts run higher than some AMG cars. No dry sump could be detected from the under shot. Oil filter is located under the car and the valve covers are are not suppose to have an oil fill port. Someone might have pointed this out but I haven't seen one. I serviced an SLR 722 in July last year. Lower pick is of the dry sump and oil filter on the real SLR

Ill post numbers and future updates when they become available.
Last edited by money-one; Feb 24, 2010 at 08:50 PM.

190mm


I know your car will be a BEAST when it's done. If you really want top mount intercoolers we can git er done (not SLR ones haha)
btw, you the guy at herb's?
That kind of speed would indicate a quarter of roughly a low 9 to a high 8. I would **** my pants if I pulled that off.
Where are you located? 55k
would still be awesome
I'm 45 min north of Boston, MA. I would love to do a 55K but the car is on a serious budget build until I get a house with a garage and/or finish my degree. It also may become my daily driver once the FordFocus lease is up. I plan on a simple 5.5L setup like you had. Simple turnkey N/A setup.
I would entertain putting you up somewhere interesting like Boston for the night, or maybe Portsmouth, NH if needed. Maybe make it weekend vaca for the girl/wife and yourself. I'v been told it's a one day job for a good tech with an extra hand.
I also live about 30 min from NEdragway which is supposed to be one of the best in the country.
Anyways.....cant wait for some drag times and vids of this baby










We both get tuned in about 2 weeks and then we can start hittin up the tracks