The audio is currently on hold until I sort a few bits out...but it is working

- not sure if the link will work as YouTube are moaning about copyright!

Next up I wanted to freshen up the bodywork a bit...a friend of mine wanted to use my car as his wedding car, and I HATED the amount of swirls all over the car etc...so I decided to wet sand the car





Unfortunately I didnt get too many pics of the paintwork before hand...but below are the ones I did get












You will have to tune in tomorrow to see the results

I only managed to get the bonnet and the roof done as I ran out of time...but heres the results

As said, before it was like this all over












Wing shot - Before


During


After






And ready for the wedding










Randoms

amazing job on the wet sand

Sneaky pics of the wheels 9 x 20 and 10.5 x 20, 235/35 on the front and 255/35 on the rear...this is subject to change to 235/30 and 255/30 when they need changing...for a reason I shall disclose later lol





For those who follow us on instagram (teamspb) and facebook (teamspb), keep quiet LOL! You get a special insight as to what we are upto!!

Proper pics...

























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Whats up with the tiny tiny rear tires? Going Hellaflush? Thats too bad.

Got lows??


LOL!

You guys havent tried to lower a CLS to this extent lol...theres a reason for the 255 rear tyres...and to be honest, once ive spaced the wheels outwards, I will probably go for a wider tyre when they need changing.

Tyre width means nothing to me...I find tyres look silly when they buldge outwards on a low car...the whole thing about having a low car is to still get the rims out the arch as much as you can...with the camber and the arch design, wide tyres = tyres fouling on the inside and possible outer arches

And BTW, my everyday ride height is EXTREMELY LOW!

Some AMG 8pot brakes for the front, and 4pots for the rears!

These have been painted rather badly by the previous owner...for now ill be painting them silver...if they dont turn out so bad, ill keep them, otherwise ill powder coat them at some point...

I ordered some AMG decals from eBay in a carbon lettering...they turned up and looked great! A simple discrete mod!

The 8pots are off most of the AMG ranges and are interchangeable....these have come off an SL. 8 Pads in total for the front calipers! This should mean some AWESOME stopping power!

Some of you may remember my 6pot AMGs on the Focus...well they look tiny in comparison!





Heres the manky new brakes! They even came with OEM Mercedes pads, virtually brand new!








Stripping the paint


The discs are Pagid 360mm x 34mm drilled on the front, and 330mm x 26mm on the rear...the originals were 312mm x 28mm on the front and 300mm x 22mm on the rear! I swear by these discs and they seem to out perform the likes of EBC, Brembo, ATE etc that I have tried in the past!

Are those my calipers? lol. Sorry

Yes these are the ones I got from you...I knew they would need some work but I didnt realise they would be quite that bad LOL! No harm done! I knew what was involved so please dont feel bad...

Also, do you have many calipers come up for sale?

Time to upgrade the brakes!!

The standard rear setup - 300mm x 22mm discs and single pot calipers, the new AMG setup - 330mm x 26mm discs and 4-pot calipers with OEM Merc pads!



Dirty rear arch lining




strut


Time for a clean!


Old vs New




























Test fitting the rims...bit of a teaser!

those calipers cleaned up nicely! waiting for the non-teaser pics

Wow! How did you get every strip of paint off? I need to re-do mine lol

Onto the fronts! Now these were not as straight forward as the rears! Alot of work involved! 1 thing I didnt mention is the brake fluid was changed as well to DOT 5.1 throughout the whole braking system!







14inch discs!










You can see the AMG Carbon decals properly


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Oh and yes, the hydros are now on!!!


Thats the lowest setting, and its now laying frame - the bottom of the chassis (the plastic covers), are touching the floor!

Nitromors paint stripper then high temp paint...if it doesnt withstand the test of time, ill take them off and powder coat them

Why doesn't anyone make a front lip...a flat one like on your Focus? It is like a splitter.

I would like to see that on an AMG front end.

Pictures of the hydro setup in the boot...it all fits in the spare wheel area so no boot space whatsoever is lost...







High setting


Medium height


Low








Laying frame!!!

What is the box in the center? I've not seen that in hydro setups before?

When the wheels first went on...













Then we spaced the rears out as I wanted a wider stance...think we done well with the spacers! This is with HEAVY camber on the rear...














Just higher than normal driving height (I have it around 15mm lower all round)

the new wheels, brakes and suspension look great...love the stance! props on bringing this project together so quickly; seems like just the other day your ride was stock

Some more pics

Bit of an update...

The car was at PassionFords nights at Ace Cafe (one of its first outings) and got some GREAT feedback! Namely people could not believe how low and how close the wheels are to the arch on the rear lol! Its always a great feeling when you go to a different make of show and people are taking lots of pics and giving another car lots of attention!

We went on from Ace Cafe to Wembley and took some random photos on my phone (not great)













The next outing for the Merc was Modified Nationals the other week. The car was on the Scene:Status stand in the arena! I was only told 2 days before the event that it will definitely be there so I had to rush and clean the car and get some form of install in the boot!...Regardless....we made it!

Until I see a 3-wheel I'm not satisfied.

not fan of that look but it cool