CL65 Mods
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From: Fountain Valley, California
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Originally Posted by AMG2GO
Looking at this engine and its dyno sheets, its pretty clear that AMG has extracted most of what is safely possible from this motor. There is a much larger margin on the 600 engine, and that's why you get much more power from an ECU upgrade on that car.
I don't know, I drive a SL600... or two of them, so I don't know much about the CL, but I do remember discussing this same issue with a 65 owner.
-John
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From: Boston
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Originally Posted by Lexani
Not true, AMG themselves limited the power of this vehicle down to 607, from a possible 700HP with NO modifications; and a cool 880 lbs of torque to compliment that. The only problem was, the car would melt it's own gearbox. So regardless of why they limited the power, you don't have to do much to raise it back to 700, I'm assuming just remove the limiter or something... and after that, you can mess with ECU to get you more power. And beat NASA to the next landing on the moon
-John
-John
Someone at AMG may have said the engine is easily capable of 700 or more, and that may have been published in C&D and R&T, but he was probably talking about the internals. As the engine is, the limiting factor for any steep jump in power seems to be the turbochargers, not a detuned ECU.
