BenzoAMGpower

On my way home from the ghetty at like 4:30am last night, I was on 137th when some dropped silver CLK430 was pacing me. I looked over to him but couldnt see the driver because of the tinted mirrors. Sure enough, I know he was gunna run my C43. We paced each other at 30mph for a while and then he punched it first. I dropped my C43 from 4th down to 2nd gear and punched it. I gained back the jump he got on me within a few seconds. As I got into 3rd gear, I pulled about 1/2 a car and kept it there the whole way till we shut down at about 110mph. Now that was fun. Its races like that that leave me with a smile on my face for the rest of the week. What was interesting was that both pack 4.3L V8s (though mine is AMG tuned), but I doubt he knew that. The CLK430s are supposed to pull off low 14s in the 1/4 if im correct. Im pretty sure whoever in that CLK was surprised they got beat by a W202 chasis.

Bottom line... W202 + M113.43 owns W208 + M113.43!!!!

It is weird because i read in Magazines that the CLK430 does the 1/4 in 14.2 seconds and the C43 does it in 14.4!!!!

MB AMG

Great story! AMG kicks ***!

Benz916

A clk430 can't pull 14.2. I would say more like 14.7-14.9. I ran a clk430 in my brother's prelude who pulls a 14.7 and we beat the clk430. He's auto so no room for "oh i missed 2nd gear" "i burned out too much" etc. Anybody out there who has ran there clk's at the track? What did you guys pull?

Improviz

If you beat one in a Prelude, I'd say that the guy in the 430 probably left his traction control on, which kills them off the line. Two friends of mine, one with a stock '01 6-spd S4, the other with an '02 CLK430, did repeated runs some time back: from a dead stop, the S4 would edge out the CLK by a few lengths due to its AWD launch, but from repeated 5-100 runs, the cars were *dead* even.

Benz916

Maybe he did have traction control on...I'm not sure. But also with the S4, that car requires a good driver to launch and shift....the driver can make a world of a differance in a race. But until i see or hear someone tell me what they pulled at the track with a clk430...I still don't believe it can hit a 14.2 or even a 14.5. Thats just my opinion. Nice chattin

Improviz

Here's what they got in their test of the CLK430:

0-60: 6.1
0-100: 14.6
1/4: 14.5@99.5



Also, as I said wrt the S4, they did *both* 0-100 and 5-100 runs, for precisely that purpose: to determine which was faster from a stop and from a roll.

Benz916

14.5....pretty good....I really would not have expected that, but I guess its true. Where did they hit a 14.5 at....what track....in cali? I go out to the sacramento raceway.

Improviz

U might check their website & see if they have a contact page; they might be able to tell you.

If you take one to the strip, run with traction control off, and try power-braked launches; launch with revs as high as you can manage, but if your wheels spin for more than 10 feet or so, lower the launch RPM & try again...that spin will extract a large penalty from your ET!

Have fun!