Gary

MBtech208, Have you had any experience with aftermarket upgrades to the 230K engine? problems?
thoughts? Any idea of the performance gains available with the pulley/chip upgrades? Thanks for any info. Has anybody done the upgrades, comparisons for the Wetteruer VS. Brabus?

linh

Gary...If you call the manufacture about their pulley kit, they all said that their kit doe not have any problem but that it not true. Here's some of the problem with the pulley kit upgrade. If you have the 5 0r 6 speed, the clutch will have slipping problem and also their is a bog/black hole at 3000-3500 rpm. That is what i know so far.

linh

Oh..sorry about that Gary. You have the C230. I were talking about the Slk. I know it had the same engine but different body so the configuration might be different.

linh

Gary..sory one more thing.... hehe!! Brabus kit is around $3000 for K1 and that also included the exhaust. But the exhaust don't give you any gain in hp, just sound like my Slk AMG exhaust. K2 will cost you alot more. Wetteruer kit only cost $1500. The pulley is what give hp not the exhaust.

dj-po

Lihn
The bog of which you speak is created by tubulence at the mass air-flow sensor. This only happens on the earlier models where the sensor is down low nearer to the intercooler. Go to your local dealership and get a new pipe to relocate the sensor next to the throttle-body. And I don't know if this is applicable to the slk, but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to check it out. Brandon @ KLEEMANN may be able to help you w/ the instructions.

Brandon @ Kleemann

The 2.3K engine is ripe for a bit of tweaking. Most companies (including KLEEMANN) provide a larger crank pulley to overdrive the kompressor for a higher capacity ratio to the engine.

Early cars (pre summer 99) have the mass air sensor located some distance away from the throttle body. In addition to poor throttle response this location proves troublesome when the boost is increased. MBZ saw fit to relocate the MAF closer to the throttle body in the fall of 99 (they also increased the boost slightly at the same time). Colder heat range plugs are important to keep the chance of detonation as low as possible.

KLEEMANN's pre summer 99 boost system is $1700 (includes MBZ factory piping for MAF, crank pulley, colder plugs, new belt, resized alternator pulley and crank hub) 24-230hp.

Fall 99 on boost system is $1000 (crank pulley, plugs, belt) 224-230hp.

The faster a positive displacement SC spins the more important reducing any pumping restrictions on the inlet becomes. Always upgrade to a free flow element of some kind (ITG, K&N etc). Either of these elements provide appropriate filtration (in terms of particle size filtered).

J Irwan

Hey there

Does Kleeman has any plan to make a supercharger kit for ^ cylinder Engine i.e: C36, C280, E320 etc..??

Please advise.
Regardz,

J Irwan

Brandon @ Kleemann

J Irwan-

KLEEMANN does have a Kompressor system for the three valve 112 engine. This system is configured , as required, for any displacement of the 112 engine. The C36 does not fall in this catagory.

Price for this system is $9500 for the unit, $1300 for installation. Installation of the kompressor system is available only through authorized KLEEMANN installers.

J Irwan

Thanks for the prompt reply Kleeman

Hoever As I understand Kleeman only make the supercharger for the new engine V engine V-6 2.8L, V-6 3.2L, and V-6 4.3L.

Do you guys have any plan to develop for the inline-6 engine
such as 94-98 C280, 95-97 C36 AMG....

Regardz,

J Irwan

todd

Does Kleemann have a website? The only one I found has some info on the WTC bombing in German?

Thanks,

Todd

Brandon @ Kleemann

The KLEEMANN websites are:

http://www.kleemann.dk

or

http://www.kleemannusa.com

Both links take you to the same site.

todd

Thanks Kleemann! Nice site

vadim

How about the ECU? Does it need to be upgraded as well or does the stock mapping work well with these upgrades? Having some experience with turbos, I would assume the ECU might try to squash overboost (as compared to stock) produced by the pulley-upgraded supercharger, or am I wrong here?

Thanks!

dj-po

The stock ECU automatically remaps itself. You just flatline it (remove power from the computer) and run it like you normally would and the unit resets all the parameters for air and fuel.

Let me tell you, it is sweeeeeet!!!

John

C230Kompressed

still the same ****?

mdp c230k

Kleemann no longer makes the pulley kit. You have Renntech, Vaeth, ASP and a few others that still make the larger pulley.

shadowlord

kleeman: do you know if kleeman is coming out with a w209 clk200K booster or sc kit? The current bhp is 163, is there a way to boost this to 230bhp. Thanks.

Joshua

OutOfAfrica

that happened with my kleemann pulley.

3* Kompressor clutches
1* Kompressor
1* Throttle actuator
1* air flow meter

OK so lets explain. This was over 5 years. I drive my SLK 230K like an F1.
With the extra boost the pulley put on the kompressor clutch caused the clutches to wear out sooner.
The extra boost also pulls more air through the air filter so if you're using a performance filter it has a tendancy to pull some of the filter spray into the air pipe, clogging up your intercooler. In my case as Merc didnt clean my intercooler like they should have this stuff made its way to the throttle damaging my airflow meter along the way. My ECU also eventually found away around the extra boost retarding the timing and my merc started pushing out the standard 167hp. I think the timing was retarded due to the use of 93 octane with the extra boost I do believe it would have been better to run on 95.
OH and the kompressor. Well it was a 9 hour run down to Cape Town only dropping below full throttel to full up with gas. By the time I got down the kompressor was cooked.

SO my SLK might have been a dud. Or it could have been the pulley. Hey maybe it was my disrespectful driving. Or a combination of all three.
And thats my story.

PS I've just got a CCoupe 230K 2295cc and the pulley on its way. Once you've tried it your hooked.