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All of your wraps seriously do look cool but I'd be careful about going overboard with it all. I mean, it's one thing to have an entire car made of CF like a Pagani, Mclaren, Koeineggsegegeggegegegegegeegggggegeeg, etc since they're actual CF (actually that's like the coolest thing), but I feel like you can only wrap so many things in fake CF before it starts to look tacky and you end up on a passerbyer's respective forum with a thread title of "Beautiful Benz ruined by CF wrap explosion".
Originally Posted by Mbm6f
Cool. No such thing as too much CF...
Well maybe.
Originally Posted by NYCSoiL
too much...
Originally Posted by ShazV6
Think its a bit too much.
Originally Posted by RichardCranium3
CF all the things!!!
Originally Posted by cenzo86
For his pleasure. It's about time.
Originally Posted by Cocheche
IMHO, it couldn't look more gangsta, but it's your car
Originally Posted by PJmak
I think you might be going a bit too far with the Cf lol.
Yep, he has beaten that poor Carbon Fiber horse waaaaaay past death. The meat is tenderized, and the bones are broken into tiny pieces!!
You do great work, and some of your mods are tasteful, but...
Let the thing rest in peace in horsey heaven, FCOL!
I'm a big fan of those rear vent louver/extensions.... those would be a good 3D printing project -
A really good idea would be to 3D print the insert plates with an actual grille pattern like the factory ones. The ones on the flics are just flat black. I thought about modifying them but figured it wasn't noticeable to be worth the time/energy. For $300 i was unimpressed with the quality.
1. Installed Weistec Downpipes over the weekend and made instructions in another post -since there weren't any. Waiting on stage 2 tune from AMR to start her up.
2. Also, finally installed the 2nd BOV spacer from turbokits.com. The location on the passenger side is just about impossible to reach. I had to take apart the entire front end (remove fluid bottle, removes hoses, belts, and brackets and lower belly pan to get to it. I personally like the sound (its totally subjective and many in this forum don't like it) but overall the level of effort for install wasn't worth it for zero performance gain. The write up on 450.com on how to do this is totally misleading in terms of how easy they make it sound.
Next mod was to order the rear flics for the c43 coupe. After much research I found the correct part number for the coupe is A 205 880 99 03. When they arrived I was pretty dissapointed at the quality of these considering the price $230.00. They were a gloss black and cheaply put together. I also didnt like that the block off plat in the vent was just a flat black vs having an acutual vent pattern like the stock inserts. I considered buying some screen material to insert in there or fabricating the piece out of plastic with a vent like pattern but decided it wasn't noticeable enough to bother. I did however decide to take the unit apart and overlay the original with 2x2 twill carbon fiber, which I think creates a nice contrast on the black paint and matches the carbon fiber spoiler on the rear. Here are install pics. Terrifying drilling the bumper of a brand new 50k car, but it all came out well.
I purchased the rear flics from mercedes and then sanded them down and carbon fiber laminated them so they weren't just black. They are expensive for what they are around $300.
W205C43AMGCoupe - It looks like you bought your car in Dec 2016 and you tuned the car in the same month. Did you put the tune on the car before reaching the 1000 mile break-in period? Just curious as I am dying to tune my GLC43 but I am patiently waiting to get my miles up first.
W205C43AMGCoupe - It looks like you bought your car in Dec 2016 and you tuned the car in the same month. Did you put the tune on the car before reaching the 1000 mile break-in period? Just curious as I am dying to tune my GLC43 but I am patiently waiting to get my miles up first.
The 1000 mile break in period is only necessary for AMG built motors. Assembly line motors are run in at the factory well enough.
Don't redline it to hell right out of the box but just a few hundred miles of varying rpms is perfectly sufficient to then be able to let her loose
Btw, I'm thinking of going GLC/GLE for my next lease. haven't driven one yet but I'm curious. How does it handle? Does it drive like an SUV or is it more nimble and feels like just a tall car?
I've built a few 1000hp boosted motors, and short of allowing them to come to operating temperature before being pushed too hard, I've literally gone WOT to redline within the first 15-20 minutes of run time, which then seats the rings to the cylinder walls.
This myth of slowly breaking in a motor for the first 1000miles is a carryover from very old days when bearings shed material during the first 1000 miles. Metallurgy has changed, especially with a high hp motor, to where you don't need to baby them.
Now, oil change intervals is different. I believe in using a quality dino break in oil for the first 10-15 miles, then switching to a conventional oil for the next 500 miles, then you're free to run synthetic and hammer away at it.
Btw, I'm thinking of going GLC/GLE for my next lease. haven't driven one yet but I'm curious. How does it handle? Does it drive like an SUV or is it more nimble and feels like just a tall car?
I drove the GLC43 first and I can tell you with lowering the driver's seat and finding a good position, it feels like I was still driving my c350 just a little taller. It's funny you mention like a "tall car" as when I pull beside other SUV's the GLC seems to sit a lot lower. With 21's on the GLC, the suspension is harsh even in comfort mode. You do feel everything but I am used to that since my previous car was lowered on H&R springs and I had summer tires. I can tell you that my GLC43 in Sport or Sport+ mode would and could out handle my c350 sedan. On Sport+ mode you have very little, if anybody roll and the truck just feels confident. You wouldn't be missing anything coming out of a c450 to a GLC43.
I also test drove the GLE43 (not coupe) and to me it was just too big and heavy. I still like to do spirited drives and though the GLE43 has the AMG suspension, I still felt the body roll and heft when taking the off ramp on my test drive. It also feels and drives like a truck vs. the GLC. If I had the money the wife would have loved for me to get the GLE43 coupe but $90K was a bit much. For the size of the GLE, I think the 63 version more suits that truck for fun.
You can't go wrong with either one but I have a 4 person family (which is really 3 persons since my oldest son's is hardly around) and I don't need the space/cargo room of the GLE. Plus I still have the boy-racer in me and when I am alone in the GLC I like to play around a bit. GLC43 with down-pipes and tune should be a fun truck. Not to mention RennTECH just brought out a lowering module which can manipulate the air-suspension and I can custom lower it to whatever setting I want without having to get coil-overs or springs.
W205C43AMGCoupe - It looks like you bought your car in Dec 2016 and you tuned the car in the same month. Did you put the tune on the car before reaching the 1000 mile break-in period? Just curious as I am dying to tune my GLC43 but I am patiently waiting to get my miles up first.
Yes, I tuned the car prior to 1,000 miles being on it.
I drove the GLC43 first and I can tell you with lowering the driver's seat and finding a good position, it feels like I was still driving my c350 just a little taller. It's funny you mention like a "tall car" as when I pull beside other SUV's the GLC seems to sit a lot lower. With 21's on the GLC, the suspension is harsh even in comfort mode. You do feel everything but I am used to that since my previous car was lowered on H&R springs and I had summer tires. I can tell you that my GLC43 in Sport or Sport+ mode would and could out handle my c350 sedan. On Sport+ mode you have very little, if anybody roll and the truck just feels confident. You wouldn't be missing anything coming out of a c450 to a GLC43.
I also test drove the GLE43 (not coupe) and to me it was just too big and heavy. I still like to do spirited drives and though the GLE43 has the AMG suspension, I still felt the body roll and heft when taking the off ramp on my test drive. It also feels and drives like a truck vs. the GLC. If I had the money the wife would have loved for me to get the GLE43 coupe but $90K was a bit much. For the size of the GLE, I think the 63 version more suits that truck for fun.
You can't go wrong with either one but I have a 4 person family (which is really 3 persons since my oldest son's is hardly around) and I don't need the space/cargo room of the GLE. Plus I still have the boy-racer in me and when I am alone in the GLC I like to play around a bit. GLC43 with down-pipes and tune should be a fun truck. Not to mention RennTECH just brought out a lowering module which can manipulate the air-suspension and I can custom lower it to whatever setting I want without having to get coil-overs or springs.
Sorry OP for thread-jacking lol.
Awesome! Thank you for being so thorough in your response. That is all pretty much exactly how I imagined it being in my head. Once the 6 month countdown hits on my lease I'll have to go test drive them all and see what is best for the situation I'll be in. GLC sounds like the choice as of right now
Here is a video of the AWE Track Exhaust+ Weistec Catless Downpipes. Sorry for the poor sound quality, I need an external mic setup for my go pro.[URL="https://youtu.be/UhO1AGRYdk0"]
-Added custom mechanical boost gauge. Had gauge made by speedhut and I made my own boost tap to get vacuum and boost off the manifold. I also custom mounted the gauge into the spot where the center vent was
Updated :
-Made a custom rear difusor from the factory coupe difuser, to fit quad exhaust tips. The difuser was made by cutting the original difuser and plastic welded and blended so there were no gaps to make it flush. The silver center portion was cut and then resused.
-102mm flowmaster exhaust tips were purchased. I had them welded so that they were staggered. I then polished off the flowmaster logos and painted the exhaust tips with a High heat black paint which has a slight flake in the sunlight. The exhaust tips are mounted straight to the end pipes of the awe track exhaust.
-Next mod: Modified the Mercedes add on rear flics. When you buy these from Mercedes the y come with a blank plate which covers the oem "fake" grill material. So when you your looking through the vent it just looks like a flat black cover. I didn't like this and preferred the fake grille material. So i removed the grill from the factory bumper and put it where the factory blank plate was with double sided tape. Now when you look through the end of the Flic you see the grill material instead of a blank plate.
Next mod: Making progress on cleaning up the engine bay. made another version of the engine cover with real carbon fiber and also made the rear bay plastic cover panel out of real carbon fiber.
04-15-2017, 05:55 AM
The meat is tenderized, and the bones are broken into tiny pieces!!
