stopped by motorwerks last night....
* motor is soo naked without the heads,intake,exhaust.
* cyls looked great, as they should with 24K miles.
* tops of piston has a little carbon but not horrible.
* just waiting on heads to get fin up p/p.
* then install heads, cams, blower, exh.
* dyno tune......
* then having thier paint/body man work his magic on it....
* as far as badging.... I'll pull all the rear emblems and go with the single "kleemann" in silver block letters. I can always add the amg later if desired, but I like a clean sleeper.


Awesome news hami..... but that just makes it THAT much harder to sleep at night waiting for this beaste.

if you think you cant sleep now wait until you get the car back. your going to be driving around all day and end up sleeping in the car

11/11/10 Update:
Heads Ported/Polished and installed.
PTE Cams Installed / Valve Covers installed.
Blower Installed.

Left to do:
Heat Exchanger
Decat primaries with test pipes.
Paint
Dynotune
Deliver to my hot hands.

congratz man I cant wait to see some pics and clips

im sorry or being lazy on my part but i've had soo much school work I havent had time to get any photos or even to get video clips but hopefully I will get some soon

enjoy its going to feel amazing to drive again

It takes about 250 miles for the ECU to adapt, Have them raise the idle 60rpm , in gear & in Neutral. You will have to have a hand full of steering wheel correction if you floor the cars engine at any speed below 80 MPH
OH BOY _PTEngineering

He is right about the steering wheel correction
I already had to do that twice

counting down the days to launch

you plan on going back to the track with your new power anytime soon?

I had plans and every time I planned it the track was closed cuz of rain
and now I dont know of any near by tracks that are open at this time

Update??

DaGuitarist - I'll call tomorrow for an update...... should be ready for dyno-tune very very sooon..... then after mechanicals/tune.... off to paint.

I chickened out on the matte silver paint..... and just went with orig paint..... I'll do a wrap later if I still dig the the matte look....... I shyed away from matte paint as it might be a fad which goes out of style in a couple years....

bbbbbb-blowers in...... tomorrow dyno tuning...... then paint... then to my hot little hands

So how do you like it?

Not sure yet....... havn't heard back on progress yet...... hoping it puts down some decent numbers though..... will keep you all posted.

congrats
dont go to wild with it

looking mean

Whats got to be painted????????

Shop called..... 1st pull with no tune...... 355rwhp 10:1 afr....... very fat...... they're tracing down a fuel pressure issue, before some performance tuning begins........ hoping for 430-450rwhp...... but we'll see. From what I gather anything north of 440hp is strong!

Wish me luck.

ahhh thats your car thats getting the work....sunil been heckling me to do the same.

Yes.
He's got a wicked little c230 with an e55k swap in his shop. Would love to take a ride in that beast.

damn these guys sound like they know what they are doing. I got an email from Sunil. I might have to stop by one day and check this place out when Im in town

He's got an slk55 inline right after me for another kleemann install. Everytime I stop by his shop he's got some serious hardware in there........ f-cars, p-cars, e55 wagon getting a tune.... on and on...... if (when) I do a 996 turbo it'll go there for the upgrades/tune.... they have a knowledgable p-car tuner there.

good luck

Thx buffy.

We'll see how much HP he can eak out of this combo with a safe tune.... a couple things holding me back from max HP....... ams shorty headers are not mid-length like kleemann headers........ and I bought an eaton blower vs the old style auto-rotor.

Hopefully the ported/polished heads and cams make up for some of that.

We'll see.

I'm getting anxious...... he's had my car for a couple months now...... driving the ML is just NOT the same

why is it taking that long??
my car got done in two weeks and I kept it there a week cuz I was to lazy to drive over and pick it up

Oh I'm not complaining, it's a long story of only getting part of the blower kit, then holidays, then tracking down a fuel issue.

Fortunately I've got an ML as back-up...... but man is it a snooze compared to CLK55-K.