Kevwood

After seeing several underhood shots of fellow members CLK's, it became painfull obvious that mine was in horrid shape.

So, removed the air-box, bagged and taped off the MAF, soaked the whole thing down with a citrus based degreaser (the citrus oil clings to everything really well and does, IMO, a better job than spray on solvent based products) and let it sit. After 20 minutes I sprayed it all down again and could see it starting to clean up. After 10 minutes I foamed the engine bay up with my pressure washer and let it sit for about 5 minutes they blasted it off. I then took a microfiber cloth and a very concentrated mix of water and soap (50/50) and hand washed every single thing under the hood getting into every nook and cranny. After an hour of so of this I again blasted it off and did a decent wipe down with another microfiber towel then tossed the air-box back on.

Not embarrassed to open the hood anymore;



I haven't hand detailed an underhood like this for years, it was a very relaxing way to spend the afternoon and now it matches every other part of the car

M-bENZ

Looks great Kev .

dynomite05

Looks awesome. I have one of those coming my way in the near future.

Kevwood

Thanks. Funny that the little things like this that no one sees are still very important to enthusiasts like ourselves. Besides, it's relaxing and adds at least 10whp

Np55

Can the E55 airbox be installed in a clk 320? or is it just for the v8 engines only..

Kevwood

I believe that Wes had one installed on his 320 but there were some fitment issues, shoot him a PM.

Np55

Is there any other ways i can do to make the airflow better? Ive heard of people removing baffles/fins in the air intake to increase air flow..

dynomite05

The 55 box won't fit the 320 without modification.

Np55

Any other ideas to increase flow? i really want to get some sort of induction noise happening...

Kevwood

There are a few guys out there with home-made air-intakes, buffyclk being one of them I believe. A set of BMC filters will increase airflow, my air-boxes didn't have baffles so there was nothing to cut out.

ark1tech

Hey Kev.. looks amazing.. what did you use to do the work.. I am definitely in need of cleaning my engine.

Kevwood

Thanks mate. I used 2 cans of citurus degreaser from Ace, my pressure washer with the standard Karcher car soap and a microfiber towel as a wash cloth with a bucket of 50/50 soap and water all in steps.

Nothing special at all, just time and attention to detail really.

ark1tech

ok awesome.. thanks

2MCHCAR

Looks great!

Kevwood

Thanks man but it's missing something... It starts with a K and ends with leemann supercharger.

bheng

^ lmao

next mod in mind?

Kevwood

Next mod is 4 corners of BBK, they should be here in a few days. After that...