Motor swap
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Motor swap
i have a 99 clk 430 and i have a 2001 clk 430 motor im wanting to swap out will this go in or will i have any issues i will be using my 99 transmission any help or insight would be appreciated im also wondering if i can use the newer triptronic shifter with my trans or if it wont work
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Might as well stuff a 5.oL motor instead..
trans will need massive wiring harnesses/parts retrofits etc, for triptonic shifting...
totally not worth it....
then again I want to do a manual conversion and everyone else also said "totally not worth it"
trans will need massive wiring harnesses/parts retrofits etc, for triptonic shifting...
totally not worth it....
then again I want to do a manual conversion and everyone else also said "totally not worth it"
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1999 CLK430 (sold) 03 CL55
i have a 99 clk 430 and i have a 2001 clk 430 motor im wanting to swap out will this go in or will i have any issues i will be using my 99 transmission any help or insight would be appreciated im also wondering if i can use the newer triptronic shifter with my trans or if it wont work
If you were gonna get a engine swap, get yourself a 55 AMG one.
Paddle shifters has been a thought in my head for some time, I wonder if anybody did a paddle shifter conversion in their older CLK class, I mean it can't be THAT hard can it?
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No it couldnt be that hard to do. You would have to take aprt your shifter, find the switches for the - and + on the touch shift assembly, and then run wires to the steering wheel. This way the left button would activate the shifter circuit in parallel for a downshift, and the right would be an upshift. Really would be easy, hardest part will be runnin wires, drilling holes in the wheel to accept nice feeling switches.
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It has been done...and I was advised to do so by a Kleeman dealer here in Van Nuys CA 3 years ago but they have now closed and I'm uppset with that. He was telling me that I would be much happier with a 55 motor than installing a Kleeman Blower on my 3.2 because I would get more torque...and if I were to get an urge later on to install the Kleeman Blower set up on the 55 motor I would have a Monster that could kill a lot of top notch exotics. I'm not sure about all the nick nacks to make it all work but he said he would handle it all for a fair price and I trusted him to so because he had done this quite a few times already. To bad he's gone.
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1999 CLK430 (sold) 03 CL55
It has been done...and I was advised to do so by a Kleeman dealer here in Van Nuys CA 3 years ago but they have now closed and I'm uppset with that. He was telling me that I would be much happier with a 55 motor than installing a Kleeman Blower on my 3.2 because I would get more torque...and if I were to get an urge later on to install the Kleeman Blower set up on the 55 motor I would have a Monster that could kill a lot of top notch exotics. I'm not sure about all the nick nacks to make it all work but he said he would handle it all for a fair price and I trusted him to so because he had done this quite a few times already. To bad he's gone.
Can anything more be said?...you just got my heart racing CLK FAN. lol
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Ya that's F*** up! This guy was really cool and really new his sh+t. There just wasn't enough people installing Kleeman blowers here in the valley for him to stay in business. I really wish I would have had the money then to do the engine swap. All I had to do was buy the engine block and he would supply the rest because he had the parts. And this is another reason why I know that he knew how to work on Benz's because he had a w210 e class that had an American V8 350 cubic inch motor in it with a blower that was his daily driver. The car was a monster. I wonder where he's at now?
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1999 CLK430 (sold) 03 CL55
Ya that's F*** up! This guy was really cool and really new his sh+t. There just wasn't enough people installing Kleeman blowers here in the valley for him to stay in business. I really wish I would have had the money then to do the engine swap. All I had to do was buy the engine block and he would supply the rest because he had the parts. And this is another reason why I know that he knew how to work on Benz's because he had a w210 e class that had an American V8 350 cubic inch motor in it with a blower that was his daily driver. The car was a monster. I wonder where he's at now?
