So I was bored today, it was nice outside, and I have a garage full of junk/spare car parts.

I took some extra 3" aluminum intercooler piping I had laying around, a couple silicone couplers, and an old 3" AEM dryflow filter I had, and made an intake for my C36.

Removed the stock airbox and the passenger side foglight (never use them anyways). I thought about leaving the foglight and removing the air duct for the brakes (AMGs only) but I thought it was a neat feature by AMG so I decided to leave it.

Fortunately there is a small hole that is perfect for some piping to go through that is underneath the airbox, it is perfect for a cold air intake. Get that filter out of the engine bay and out in some fresh cool air.

It took some finessing, definitely a tight space to work with, but I got it all together and I think it looks pretty good. Oh and I slapped an AEM sticker on it to make it look legit haha. The piping is pretty banged up so I might rattle it black some day.

Here are some pics.






I still need to fab up some sort of shield because the filter is definitely exposed to water if you were driving in a storm. Luckily it rains like 10 days out of the year here in Vegas. I still have all my OEM splash guards on the bottom side also, so it is somewhat protected.

As far as power, to be honest, it seems like maybe it lost a little bit of low end torque, but it seems like it gained a little in the high RPM's. I also did the MAF mod so that helps up top also. Oh and it definitely sounds better than the stock airbox when WOT!


Next step is to make a new crossover pipe that is all aluminum, weld on fittings on the valve covers and mount up a oil catch can. I want to eliminate the crankcase breathers from going into the intake. This setup also needs a much longer cone filter to actually provide any significant gains.

 

Lookin good. I have a very similar setup, except I have the filter where the air box used to be and a breather tube down to the foglight to make it a quasi-ram setup. I was reluctant to put the filter down there for fear that it would just gather all the gunk from the road and fog light.
You can see my half-*** heat shielding in the picture.

I do have to ask though, what is the MAF mod you speak of?

And if you beat me to making the aluminum crossover pipe/catch can setup, can I call dibs on your current 36 cross pipe? Mine has had the stock c280 since I bought the car and it's KILLING me. Can't find a used one for the life of me and a new one is around $700 from the dealer

 

+1 on the maf mod!
What is it??

 

I'm betting he is referring to a potentiometer spliced in like this:

http://www.fuelsaver-mpg.com/simple-map-maf-enhancer

 

Nah its not that, my bad guys didn't mean to get your hopes up.

I gutted the mesh and plastic grid on my MAF tube, since they cause a little restriction of airflow in the intake. I had a spare MAF tube to test it with, so I could always switch back if I wanted to. Just a free little mod you can do to try and gain a wee little bit of power.

Its a common mod for a lot of different cars, its just generally called the MAF mod.

It definitely has no ill effects so far, car starts and idles the same. I noticed a little better throttle response, and perhaps a bit more grunt on the low end. That is when I did the MAF mod with the stock airbox though.


My next mods will be to complete the custom intake, maybe get a set of those custom headers that are being made, and maybe tryout a water/meth injection kit and see how it works for N/A applications. Then wire up a Greddy Emanage Ultimate and do some tuning and make some real power. I know there is more power to be made with the C36 with some simple mods...

 

That screen is there to remove the turbulence before the air hits the MAF. I have read of others removing this screen but I truly believe that AMG would have removed it if it was a worth wile mod.

 

Perhaps so, but then that solution would have been to make a specific AMG part. I imagine that AMG also have accountants who may put a stop to certain engineering ideas.

 

I think Bosch put that screen for protection the sensitive insert, NO need for that extra screen, its already got the Balck screen, and its

enough for protect the insert, almost all MB models doesn’t has that screen,, you can put your hand in the bottom of the air mass housing

and pull some air with & without that screen, and see the results.........

ZAYED,,

 

I have removed the screen at the exit of the air box on my M113 but not yet tried removing the MAF screens. My seat of the pants dyno feels some difference

 

That’s goood,, remove that damn screen & keep flying..........

ZAYED,,

 

Think what you want but to me it was worth it. The mesh screen alone should definitely be removed, that thing is more of a restriction than its worth. The plastic grid piece, not so much, it flows plenty and is still smoothing out the airflow if that is what you're concerned about.

There is a definite improvement in throttle response, and a little bit of power gain down low, barely enough to notice, but its noticeable.

 

>>+1<<.......

ZAYED,,