** Evosport CLK63 Black Series Project **
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Hey I would like to ask a question regarding the pulley you have that you have done for your black series project. I am strongly considering doing my whole CLK up with evosport but was a little bit concerned about your pulley that I have had some bad experience with on my last car through using FAB DESIGN. I previously owned a SLK 55 FAB DESIGN that had an engine upgrade which consisted of a pulley system that brought my BHP up to 500 and torque was some where in the 600 range. Anyway to come to my point I had major problems with the pulley as the belt kept on shredding to pieces from being warn out after every 8-10 thousand clicks. Have you experienced any problems with your belts that you have put on your pulley. Back to the story I then found out that the alignment was slightly off and that is why the pulley kept on screwing up my belt all the time and then I would have to wait for weeks to get a new belt.
Can you Advise as I don’t want my car to be in the work shop all the time
Thanks for your help.
Can you Advise as I don’t want my car to be in the work shop all the time
Thanks for your help.
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I would also Like to know with the full upgrade with the exhaust heders and air intake upgrade etc... you have said it will provide you with over 600BHP if Im not mistaken. How fast would the Black Series be then from 0-60Mph & 0-100Mph
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Hey I would like to ask a question regarding the pulley you have that you have done for your black series project. I am strongly considering doing my whole CLK up with evosport but was a little bit concerned about your pulley that I have had some bad experience with on my last car through using FAB DESIGN. I previously owned a SLK 55 FAB DESIGN that had an engine upgrade which consisted of a pulley system that brought my BHP up to 500 and torque was some where in the 600 range. Anyway to come to my point I had major problems with the pulley as the belt kept on shredding to pieces from being warn out after every 8-10 thousand clicks. Have you experienced any problems with your belts that you have put on your pulley. Back to the story I then found out that the alignment was slightly off and that is why the pulley kept on screwing up my belt all the time and then I would have to wait for weeks to get a new belt.
Received your email as well. Sorry about your issues with the Fab Design pulley. I wasn't aware they made pulleys, or were they using someone else's?
In any case, all our pulleys for Mercedes are internally dampened and balanced. We have sold 100's of our 63 Power Pulley Systems and not a single failure due to out of balance pulley. The only 2 failures we have seen are a failure of the factory idler pulley, which can easily be replaced with an aftermarket unit. The bearings on factory idler and tensioner pulleys do go bad from time to time. Also, installation is important with pulleys, so make sure whomever installs the parts is capable.
600HP requires the carbon wheels which reduce enough unsprung weight to achieve about 25 rear wheel hp. We have not measured 0-60 times with the car. Going with a 305 rear R-compound tire will definitely help as you need as much traction as possible with that much power.
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Thanx a lot simon I really appreciate your quick response and once I decide what exactly I want to soop up my car I'll definitely include the pulley system you are offering. Regarding the wheels I would change them however I have already painted the stock ones I have black with a red line surrounding the rim like the one you have in one of your black series projects so I probably won’t change the rims.
I think it would be very nice to change the embalm of the Mercedes to the "e" evosport embalm on the back of the car and as for your current evosport Black series that is 600+ horsepower I’m sure it does o-60Km in aprox 3.5 sec.
Both ways I really admire your work and look forward to doing up my car soon.
I’d like to ask you how effective and how necessary or not it would to be to replace the open differential with the quaife limited slip differential and what would be the power gains.
Thanx again
I think it would be very nice to change the embalm of the Mercedes to the "e" evosport embalm on the back of the car and as for your current evosport Black series that is 600+ horsepower I’m sure it does o-60Km in aprox 3.5 sec.
Both ways I really admire your work and look forward to doing up my car soon.
I’d like to ask you how effective and how necessary or not it would to be to replace the open differential with the quaife limited slip differential and what would be the power gains.
Thanx again
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It's actually not an open diff. The car comes with a multi-plate locking differential with 30 percent locking effect in the overrun and 10 percent under traction. So you don't need the Quaife.
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We have never done a head to head comparison, although I have run against several F430's both on the street and the track. The great part about the CLK BS is that its chassis makes for a competent track car, and more people compare it to a Porsche GT3, albeit it has the power of a GT2 so you get a very impressive package.
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Very nice work, You guys have convinced me to finally toss in my keys for a Clk 63 Black Series. Coming from a 450 Rwhp Mazda Rx-7 (Fd3s) it was really hard to find a suitable performance replacement. This car definitely seems worthy as a track and street car.
Curious how are the paddles though, speed wise. I've always been a hardcore manual type
Curious how are the paddles though, speed wise. I've always been a hardcore manual type
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thanks for the reply. a little bit on the north side of what i was thinking but i appreciate it anyways, i'll probably just wait until someone does the one off ebay spoiler lol. at least im honest?
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Look what a little English birdie dropped off today:
19x10 Front, 17lbs
19x11 Rear, 17.5lbs
*No realize, the weight is all in the middle, so these perform like a much lighter wheel then even that
I know some people were concerned about the pics we posted earlier as they had a little yellow tint to the clear - well that was with the early production ones. These should match the car perfect!
thanks
Brad
19x10 Front, 17lbs
19x11 Rear, 17.5lbs
*No realize, the weight is all in the middle, so these perform like a much lighter wheel then even that
I know some people were concerned about the pics we posted earlier as they had a little yellow tint to the clear - well that was with the early production ones. These should match the car perfect!
thanks
Brad
