Some advice on tuning please.
Thread Starter
Junior Member
Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 51
Likes: 0
From: Melbourne
C63 AMG W204
Some advice on tuning please.
Hi.
I've had my car for half a year now and I would like to get it tuned at some stage in the next few months. I was considering getting a full ipe exhaust, KN filter and a custom tuned, as my target is for around 330 rwkw. But a call to one of the tuner suggested that I would be wasting my money for the time being as they suggests to just get a secondary cat delete, KN filter and tune which would yield around 300 - 315 rwkw.
The reasons they suggest this is because I drive my car daily so is best to have a slightly louder exhaust rather than the loud ipe. The other factor they said was for the amount of money I would be paying for the ipe, there seems to be not much gains compared to the cat delete.
Anyway I've come from a background of owning only turbocharged cars so tuning was a bit easier, but with NA tuning it is quite tricky to get the best results vs price.
Hope you guys can have some suggestions.
I've had my car for half a year now and I would like to get it tuned at some stage in the next few months. I was considering getting a full ipe exhaust, KN filter and a custom tuned, as my target is for around 330 rwkw. But a call to one of the tuner suggested that I would be wasting my money for the time being as they suggests to just get a secondary cat delete, KN filter and tune which would yield around 300 - 315 rwkw.
The reasons they suggest this is because I drive my car daily so is best to have a slightly louder exhaust rather than the loud ipe. The other factor they said was for the amount of money I would be paying for the ipe, there seems to be not much gains compared to the cat delete.
Anyway I've come from a background of owning only turbocharged cars so tuning was a bit easier, but with NA tuning it is quite tricky to get the best results vs price.
Hope you guys can have some suggestions.
Last edited by SonnyAMG; Aug 23, 2016 at 09:31 AM.
MBWorld Fanatic!
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 2,575
Likes: 407
From: Olathe, KS
'13 C63 AMG P31
Hi.
I've had my car for half a year now and I would like to get it tuned at some stage in the next few months. I was considering getting a full ipe exhaust, KN filter and a custom tuned, as my target is for around 330 rwkw. But a call to one of the tuner suggested that I would be wasting my money for the time being as they suggests to just get a secondary cat delete, KN filter and tune which would yield around 300 - 315 rwkw.
The reasons they suggest this is because I drive my car daily so is best to have a slightly louder exhaust rather than the loud ipe. The other factor they said was for the amount of money I would be paying for the ipe, there seems to be not much gains compared to the cat delete.
Anyway I've come from a background of owning only turbocharged cars so tuning was a bit easier, but with NA tuning it is quite tricky to get the best results vs price.
Hope you guys can have some suggestions.
I've had my car for half a year now and I would like to get it tuned at some stage in the next few months. I was considering getting a full ipe exhaust, KN filter and a custom tuned, as my target is for around 330 rwkw. But a call to one of the tuner suggested that I would be wasting my money for the time being as they suggests to just get a secondary cat delete, KN filter and tune which would yield around 300 - 315 rwkw.
The reasons they suggest this is because I drive my car daily so is best to have a slightly louder exhaust rather than the loud ipe. The other factor they said was for the amount of money I would be paying for the ipe, there seems to be not much gains compared to the cat delete.
Anyway I've come from a background of owning only turbocharged cars so tuning was a bit easier, but with NA tuning it is quite tricky to get the best results vs price.
Hope you guys can have some suggestions.
MBWorld Fanatic!
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 6,775
Likes: 1,152
From: NY
E63S | X5
Secondary cat delete / resonator delete / Of the shelf tune (such as EC v5) and done.
I'd pass on the catback. $$$ + you're just going for a little sound and power which the above will get you.
Beyond that you're looking at headers which are really loud for a DD
I'd pass on the catback. $$$ + you're just going for a little sound and power which the above will get you.
Beyond that you're looking at headers which are really loud for a DD
