Here's How to Make Your Old Mercedes Howl Like a Pagani
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Here's How to Make Your Old Mercedes Howl Like a Pagani
Yesterday, our friends over at Jalopnik discovered the best way possible to modify your old Mercedes. Turn it into a Zonda.
They lay it out fairly easily. First, you need to find a Mercedes 600 from 1992-2002. Six-hundred-level Mercs use the same V12 block that was in the original C12 Pagani. Then you need to get your hands on a set of equal-length, long-tube headers. The effect of the headers is just staggering, for they turn your almost two-decade-old car into a screaming, evil-sounding Zonda! It’s wonderful. Don’t believe me? Listen to this.
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So this is on the v12 that's pretty much just two m104's next to each other right? What exhaust manifolds are they? Also I see a resonator or cat or something there, is that needed? Any more info on this lol.
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No resonators, no mufflers...a knocked out "cat looking chamber" and straight pipes off of long tube headers.
May be getting you 5-10% more power above 4K rpm, but without a little tuned back pressure you are losing the bottom end. May sound awesome, but a bit more show than go.
My 65 GT350 with long tube headers and 2 1/2 dual straight pipes sounds like a Big Daddy Don Garlits dragster....but it isn't..One has over 1500 Hp, the other has 500Hp...sounds the same but doesn't quite go the same.
May be getting you 5-10% more power above 4K rpm, but without a little tuned back pressure you are losing the bottom end. May sound awesome, but a bit more show than go.
My 65 GT350 with long tube headers and 2 1/2 dual straight pipes sounds like a Big Daddy Don Garlits dragster....but it isn't..One has over 1500 Hp, the other has 500Hp...sounds the same but doesn't quite go the same.
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How exactly is JonothonK the MBWorld editor when he doesn't appear to know anything about Mercedes?? The W140 S600 was produced from 1992-1999 and had the M120 V12 engine which, as one member pointed out, is basically two m104's sandwiched together. The next w220 S600 was produced from 1998-2006 with the M137 V12 engine (1998-2002) and later the M275 twin turbo V12 engine (2003-2006). The youtube video clearly shows a w220 and the MBworld article has a picture of a w140.
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