hyder

Car arrived yesterday. Here are some pics from my iphone when the enclosed trailer arrived.

Car was sold without AMG 65 engine cover and no longer has AMG tranny computer. Chris, if you want to sell these two items and any other spare parts, please send me an PM.

Things to do next week:

-Install AMG S65 engine cover and rear AMG brake calipers
-Transmission ECU flash
-Ship wheels off for refinishing

Again, please excuse the poor quality pictures. Will post some better pics after mods and an extensive 5-step Menzerna detail.

Hyder

tusabes

welcome to the forums hyder! cant wait to see what youre going to do with it!

CarboyS

Beautiful as always. In the meantime, Oxygen still owes me some high-res 1680x1050 pics

Oxygen

Hyder... I don't know what happened to you, never saw any other pictures of the car... wanted to see what you'd do with it.

I do not have the engine cover or anything else for the car, it was sold all in one piece. Someone must have raped it along the way. Poor thing.

Oxygen

Anyhow, I lied... I said I'd have a W221 S65 this March but I figured out that I'm a true W220 fan... so I bought a beautiful silver W220 S65 AMG same silver as my old one.

Vabene7

Not to be too personal, but did you use a broker or did you track this car down yourself?
I ask because someone I know has been shopping for a few S65's for customers....

ssonss1

Congrats, Chris! Post some pics of her

MRAMG1

Some how I knew you would be back in the fold soon Chris.

Good luck with her, and where are those damm pics already that we know and love from you

Fraser

Excellent!

How does it compare with your tuned S600?

Will be good to have your expertise (and pictures) back on here, assuming you won't desert us for the AMG forums

hyder

Will post some current pictures this weekend.

I got the Radenergie wheels refinished, installed AMG engine cover, Renntech TCU, new snow performance pump and controller, AMG 65 struts, complete front suspension overhaul, and rear 4-piston brake calipers (not installed yet).

Driving this car is like low-level flying. I have never driven anything soo fast or powerful. Just to give everybody an idea, the MPH display on the speedometer counts in increments of 10.

Hyder

ShangoAshe

damnn chris I want pictures of your beast!

same for you hyder

Oxygen

SICK! I am SO HAPPY that someone who actually cares bought this car and is continuing the life of that beautiful S600!

Enjoy it in good health man, that is one of two 600's in the country that I know of running around with AMG turbos.

Please share some pictures. Also... where are you located?

Oxygen

Not personal at all... I searched for a "perfect" W220 S65 AMG for a while and I finally found one... No broker.

Thank you sir! It's so crappy out... I will not have any nice pictures for a few days.

YES SIR! I am so glad to be back... my 2.0T Audi A4 was getting boring.

Well... it's quite interesting actually. I was expecting this to be pretty much like my S600 but it's not, this is a beast of a different breed.

First of all the AMG Drive Dynamic seats are incredible, it feels like you're sitting on air.

The additional half liter of displacement along with a very aggressive exhaust note and crisp throttle response remind you that this is an AMG product every time you touch the gas pedal.

The AMG ABC suspension makes the car feel like it's an SL.

I'll throw some quick ones up!

Oxygen

Here's a super quick YouTube preview.... http://youtu.be/xt5P_DpkPqM

Oxygen

Some iPhone pictures...

Fraser

Very nice! Looks like you've got the light interior this time around...despite the performance figures I didn't realise these S65s would be so different to a 600, let alone a heavily tuned one like your old 600.

Wicked exhaust note

Oxygen

I was a little iffy on the Alpaca Grey interior when I first saw pictures of the car, but it's actually REALLY nice in the real world. Just have to be careful not to let dirty people ride..

I don't know... maybe I'm buggin' but it just feels really different. Maybe it was the withdrawal from the W220 for the past 5 months.

abhatti55

Chris:

Congrats on the new purchase. I am Hyder's brother. The S600 is truly an awesome car. It has been fun getting her back to 100%. I wanted to ask you, do you know the status of the ECU tune? Was it flashed to accommodate the addition of the S65 turbos?

Like Hyder said when we bought the car the steering wheel shift buttons were not working. The folks at Renntech were able to help us flash a S65 file on the TCU and get us back up and running.

Traction: I am sure you will run into the same problems we are having and hopefully a Quaife rear end will fix that. Already spoke to Bruce and plan on doing that soon.

Any suggestion on the Meth injection: What mix were you using? Were you running meth while daily driving.

And finally...any other red flags you know of that need to be addressed on the car?

Oxygen

Unfortunately the car has not been tuned since the installation of the turbos. The turbo swap was done at Mercedes-Benz of Huntington and they did not want to be involved in the flashing. I did not get a chance to line up the tune. The turbos has slightly bigger turbine wheels/housings so they produce slightly more boost.

I am not sure what happened between here and you and how the engine cover and the TCU went missing...

I think you can do a Kleemann LSD in the 600/65, the Quaife will not fit.

Bruce and I were using a 50/50 mix with the meth injection. Only used it once while at MIR drag racing. Never for daily driving.

Only red flags I can think of is to check all of the ABC hydraulic lines. I replaced the HPE line and the pump but I remember there were some "sweaty" hydraulic lines by the transmission and by the rear axles.

abhatti55

Thanks for the help. So is there any tune on the ECU right now? I remember at one time it had a PES tune. What would you suggest to do as far as ECU programming goes?

Oxygen

It had a PES tune originally and the was retuned for the meth, also by PES.

I would suggest RENNtech since they built a SL600 with AMG snails.

ShangoAshe

looks sick dude!

congrats on your new purchase

rondocap

Awesome cars! Oxygen, when you can please do tell us about the driving experience you've found with the S65, compared to your S600 as well. Nice interior too, I have the same color on my S55. At first I preferred black, but you warm up to this and it looks great in person.

Oxygen

So far, so sweet! The ride is amazing, kind of tough to describe. A lot of power, you don't really have to press the gas to accelerate, it's like it reads your mind. The handling is superb.

Looks like I blew out the driver's side coil pack... misfires on cylinders 7-12. Poop. Got an appointment at MB on Monday, they said it should be fixed by 4:00PM on Tuesday.

Here's a little booty shakin for the time being: http://youtu.be/H0LqoqwfmwQ

classyS

oxygen - congrats on the W220 s65!!! i totally thought you as a baller would get the S65 w221 but these W220's look sooooo classy!!!

also too i wanted to say ive rode in both s600 and s65 stock and the s65 scared me in a way that i got addicted and now want me a W220 S65 even if it just sits in the garage!!!

to your previous s600 & your present s65 man.. im excited with your taste of mods to come!!

keep the pics coming please and thank you!!