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When I first picked her up. 2012 C63 AMG with 94k miles. 3 owners before me. Clean title and car fax. I took her home for 22k out the door. She came modded with Benzworks headers, ROW airboxes with OEM paper filters and an HD tune.
I flew from Los Angeles to Sacramento to pick up the car. After making the drive from the dealership to my home, which is 400 miles, I instantly noticed that the rear suspension was blown. I was going to buy a set of coil-overs until removing the suspension and realizing the car came with KW V3s. So I decided to rebuild them.
I took the car to a local mustang dyno to see her true numbers. 1st pull was 435.80RWHP.
2nd pull came out to 441.48RWHP. After correction she made 461WHP. I did not save the photo.
I decided to take her to Irwindale 1/8 drag strip. I raced alongside my buddy with a 2010 C63 p30. My time was 8.038 at 92MPH due to a bad start. My tires kept spinning but I eventually caught up and beat my buddy.
Drove the car and was greeted by this horrific sound. Took the car to my exhaust shop and look what we found.
The pressure of the exhaust flow on my c63 was too much for this secondary muffler to handle. I replaced the dual inlet muffler with two single 18” magnaflow magnapack silencers.
I also had my exhaust shop remove weld in a 2.25” pipe to create an H pipe in the 2.5” exhaust.
The pressure of the exhaust flow on my c63 was too much for this secondary muffler to handle. I replaced the dual inlet muffler with two single 18” magnaflow magnapack silencers.
I also had my exhaust shop remove weld in a 2.25” pipe to create an H pipe in the 2.5” exhaust.
Installed a dash cam. Front and back camera. Decided to go with the BlackVue Dr 750 2-ch and a power magic pro (to be able to record video while the car is off).
I routed the wires both sides heading towards the rear of the car up the A pillar down the rear pillars. The wire to the rear camera ran through the left side heading to the rear of the car. While the power cable for the main dash cam ran back the passenger side towards the battery.
I tapped the ACC wire to the cigarette lighter fuse. I soldered an in-line fuse for the power cable of the power magic pro and for the ground I used the available grounding point on the left side of the rear fuse box.
Received the Killer Chiller gen-3 from Joe at Kincaid Performance, which is an intercooler chiller or “interchiller”. This chiller taps into the cars AC lines to cool the IAT of the supercharger and prevents the car from pulling timing.
After discussing my build plans for my c63 with Joe we both agreed that it would be best to go with their drag racing kit option instead of the Gen-3. I plan on running advanced timing with the added cooling.
I sent the gen 3 kit back to Kincaid Performance and placed an order for their Drag Race Kit.
Note: The Drag Race Kit has a bigger cooling thermal mass for the supercharger and recuperates 50% quicker than the gen-3. With the closed AC loop the IAT levels can get as low as in the 30 degrees. An added bonus. If you drag race your car, this setup won’t leak AC fluids on the drag strip when you race.
If you don’t want to pay the $1,100 on the race drag system, The gen 3 kit for $750 also has a drag kit option for $200 more.
Advanced Fuel Dynamics is having a 15% STAYCATION sale on their E85 kits so I decided to push the trigger on getting one for the build.
Gray at AFD was very helpful in answering all of my questions. Off of his recommendation alone, I decided to purchased the 775cc (rated for 850 hp) Fuel Injector Clinic Injectors for the E85 kit.
Gray pointed out that Interestingly enough the hellcat injectors work for the m156 cars and have passed several tests using these injectors on the C63 with e85 kits. He noted that the 775cc FIC injectors use EV6 connector type and he would make sure that my kit would include an MLK to EV6 harness.
The injectors were accompanied by a data sheet (chart) which is going to be useful when it comes time to tune the car. No more tuning headaches! Can’t wait for the Pro Commander E85 kit to get here.
This is an awesome build thread! Stoked to see it come alive!
Sidenote is there any drone with that exhaust setup?
Thanks Peter. There is no drone with this exhaust setup. I will be switching my secondaries with an X pipe and move the magnapacks downstream to change the tone of the exhaust. Right now the car sounds like a muscle car.
Received the Killer Chiller gen-3 from Joe at Kincaid Performance, which is an intercooler chiller or “interchiller”. This chiller taps into the cars AC lines to cool the IAT of the supercharger and prevents the car from pulling timing.
After discussing my build plans for my c63 with Joe we both agreed that it would be best to go with their drag racing kit option instead of the Gen-3. I plan on running advanced timing with the added cooling.
I sent the gen 3 kit back to Kincaid Performance and placed an order for their Drag Race Kit.
Note: The Drag Race Kit has a bigger cooling thermal mass for the supercharger and recuperates 50% quicker than the gen-3. With the closed AC loop the IAT levels can get as low as in the 30 degrees. An added bonus. If you drag race your car, this setup won’t leak AC fluids on the drag strip when you race.
If you don’t want to pay the $1,100 on the race drag system, The gen 3 kit for $750 also has a drag kit option for $200 more.
04-27-2020, 04:15 PM
