You need Mickey Thompson E/T Street Radials. Here's what I did with them in an SL600 with tuning and exhaust:

 

One word.... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

nice write up. great car!

 

I had a set of 17" Forgeline wheels made and I have Mickey Thompson Street E/T/s mounted on them. to date my best pass is an 11.29. I'm hoping to get it down into the high 10's in a few weeks at MIR. I have added a few new goodies since my last trip to the strip as well as cut about 250 pounds off the car.

 

anything new lately

 

the new sl65 bs apparently does it in 11 flat. not bad for stock equipment, but then again it goes for 300k

 

Where did you hear 11 flat for the SL 65 BS? I have heard 11.60's from multiple sources.

 

it was either road&track or car&driver. the new ones for this month. i read both of them this weekend. and the article on the sl65 bs notes 11 seconds. the information was not tabulated, however, so the figure could have been rounded down via casual writing. it was the euro spec BS btw.

 

jrcart, i know you have the mickey t's when you go to the track. but how do you launch the car so well to get the low 60ft. times. so you think thats all b/c of the tires

 

On Mickey Thompson I am now putting down pretty consistant 1.66-1.69 60's and on Pirelli Corsas I can put down consistant 1.79-1.80 60's. I would like to think it is my great driving skill that enables me to do it, but the reality is that any one of us or our grandmothers could climb into one of these cars and put down consistant 60's. This is by far the easiest car I have ever launced at a drag strip. The real secret is finding the correct RPM to brake stall from. My car likes about 2350rpm with the MT"s and 2100rpm with the Corsa's. If you over rev it two things happen, you will either have power cut by the torque limiter or you will spin up the tires too much. I encounter both problems depending on tires. The Mickeys need more revs so I can slightly haze the tires leaving the box, this allows me to keep the revs pulling upward as my distance and mph increase. On the Corsas it's a different story, obviously they do not have the grip of the MT's so it is much easier to have them go up in smoke, I had to adjust down on the launch and where I just mash the peddle to the floor with the MT's the Corsa's require me to roll into the throttle. I get about the same amount of tire spin/haze with both methods/tires, but the slower rolling into the throttle with the Corsas results in a 60' that is .100 or so off the pace of the MT's. Obviously I have to fine tune my launch for differing conditions at different tracks, but you would be suprised how little the luanch tecnique actually varies from track to track. I assume the cars awesome balance, and LSD have a lot to do with this as well. I have yet to make suspension adjustments for a "Drag Racing" set-up, all of these times have been done on a very firm suspension set-up from a track day at Road America, I have not touched a setting on my suspension since June. I would assume if I raise, soften the supension as well as slow down the re-bound I could improve my 60' times even more.

 

thanks for the response jr. i should be getting mine in the next couple days and i cant wait.

another question i had was, do you have clearance issues with your splitter and the car being lowered?

 

There was a White (possibly silver) Evosport CLK Black Series driving down Ocean ave in Santa Monica a few months back, was that this vehicle?

I also saw a Evosport CLK BSs in Beverly hills that looked a bit different?

 

Evosport has done 4-5 Black Series (maybe more), mine was the first one, but it would have been more than a few months ago that you saw mine, they finished my car and I picked it up back in Late February 2008. I think mine is the only one with all the goodies, some guys opted for the aero package but no roll bar or no Dymags and vise versa. There are several version out there and they all look good.

 

Believe it ot not, it's not much worse than stock. Some driveway transitions are a pain in the butt and take very careful navigating. I have a problem occasionaly with certain speed bumps in parking lots, but for the most part I can take the car anywhere without much concern.

 

They sound awesome as well, i use to live in south orange county and there were a few SLR owners out there and i must say the evosport clk bs' i saw sounded better imo

The retail sticker on the stock CLK BS is around $135k if i remember correctly but some can be had for $80k $90k right now from what i have seen

How much does the full EvoSport treatment go for that you had done and how long was the turn around time?

 

Heh, i didn't realize that amg left the rear AC vents in the CLK BS even though they removed the rear seats . . .

 

I spent about $40,000 on the original Evosport mods including the Dymag wheels and a new set of wider tires. I have since dumped a lot more money into it on new light weight seats and a crank pulley that they can also hook you up with, those two things will add an additional $9000 to the above mentioned $40,000. I would suggest contacting Brad or Simon at Evosport to get exact price quotes, I'm sure they have adjusted some of their prices over the past year, as you know the cost of everything has gone up it seems. Who knows, they might even be running specials or a sale and you might get it for less As for the lead-time, again I would contact them about 4 months to do mine, but keep in mind they had to fabricate everything for my car since it was the first one.

 

Yeah, around $40k is what i figured

I am not in a position to buy a BS just yet but i am looking into getting a 04/05 SL55 near the beginning of the year that i might want to have upgraded and from what i have seen renntech and evosport have the best kit in that area

 

Just a question on the headers.
Will they fit right hand drive vehicles? If not will they be available uncoated so they can be easily modified to fit?

 

I will have an answer to that question shortly. We just shipped 2 sets of headers to Australia and we're working with our dealer there to finalize the RHD changes, if any. So we will have headers for RHD shortly whether they just bolt on or whether we have to make slight changes to the design to make them fit.

These headers are not coated.

 

jrcart, nice to meet u guys at the track lastnight. The car looks absolutely sick! The night didnt work out too well for me. We had a little bit of carnage. So we had to call it an early night.

 

Nice to meet you too. To bad the back half of the track was not hooking up, my car was running well but a few close encounters with the wall made it a bit more exciting than I really needed. That track is almost dangerous, however the tech guys where the coolest tech guys on the planet, they told me they don't care if I run 9's LOL!

 

Ya some of the local guys were talking about that on Saturday. I wouldnt know though because I only ran one pass. and it was a 12.2 @72mph. LOL!

 

The track almost felt wet to me, must have been dew on the track out of the groove or something because it was just spinning the tires up something fierce down the track. My best pass of the night was only an 11.50 and that was N/A off the bottle, on the bottle I could only run 11.9-12.0 because of traction issues. It was not a good night, but I still had fun.

 

Just confirmed this morning from our Australia customer, the headers fit RHD vehicles no problem without modifications!