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Old 11-27-2011, 05:05 AM
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El Diablo ...

So the car is wrapped now in matte black, loving the mean look it has now. Car is going to be lowered soon
What do you guys think?

Here is the mod list:
- Kleemann K4 Perfomance Upgrade
- Tune by Evolve
- Evosport Performance Rotars, Drilled and Slotted
- Evosport Phenolic Heat Spacer Kit
- Bosch Water to Air Intercooler Pump
- Modern Horsepower PTE Thermostat
- Interior by Fab Design, Custom job (one of one)
- 19" HRE P40 (Satin Black)
- Front custom front bumper
- Revozport Carbon Fiber Ground Effect Diffuser
- SL63 Rear Bumper
- SL63 Carbon Fiber Spoiler
- SL65 quad-tips (these were difficult to install)
- SL65 tail-lights
- Carbon Fiber side mirrors
- Front headlights painted as the SLR 722
- Front Grill in Matte Black wrap
- All logos are painted in black as for the K in red
- Brake calipers are painted in red


















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Looks great bro!

Need more pics of the interior.

Looks like you're going to have massive rubbing issues with those rear wheels when you lower it..
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Overall a win, needs to be lowered as you said but it does look like your wheel off sets are all wrong.

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badass for sure.

how much did you invest?
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Originally Posted by Havoc
Looks great bro!

Need more pics of the interior.

Looks like you're going to have massive rubbing issues with those rear wheels when you lower it..
Thanks buddy, I sure will upload some more pictures of the interior!
Ordered thinner spacers (these are 30mm) and they were the wrong spacers I had requested, got myself 10mm spacers for the rear, so i hope it wont cause any rubbing with the 10mm offset
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Originally Posted by 1995E320Cab
Overall a win, needs to be lowered as you said but it does look like your wheel off sets are all wrong.

Glad you liked it buddy! Got that covered up, thinner spacers (10mm rather than the 30mm) so I hope that wont cause any sort of rubbing. WHat do you think? Will that cause any rubbing?
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Originally Posted by jobe
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badass for sure.

how much did you invest?
hahahah thanks!!
shhh we're not supposed to tell
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Wow, very nice color combo! Just make sure you correct the wheel offsets please
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Very nice! Love the interior!!!
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Originally Posted by Maverick1975
Oh my god that is just disgusting! Absolutley love it
hahahah thanks man, glad you liked it


Originally Posted by Armadillo888
Wow, very nice color combo! Just make sure you correct the wheel offsets please
Thanks mate, I sure will!


Originally Posted by cfoster
Very nice! Love the interior!!!
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LOVE the interior....and you're right definitely needs a drop ASAP
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Originally Posted by SL55K
...thinner spacers (10mm rather than the 30mm)...
Can I ask you something ;
I'm a metric guy myself.
And I find that system far superior to the inch system that you guys use in the US.
Of course partly, since that's the system I grew up with.
But I strongly suspect even you guys find the metric system better, and a hole lot more logical and easier to work with!
AND faaar more exact!

So you're ending up using them both over there..!
Isn't that even more complicated?!

In this case, the spacers would probably be about 8/19 of an inch?!
Or perhaps 14/35, or 29/73..?? Say no more...

But here's my question;
So WHY kling on to the inches business..?

(OK, we use inches when it comes to car wheel diameter, I'll give you that...)


Nice car BTW!
Looks evil, and for sure neckturning!
I wouldn't lower it any more though!
Just thinner spaces.

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I'm a metric guy myself.
And I find that system far superior to the inch system that you guys use in the US.
...
But here's my question;
So WHY kling on to the inches business..?
The metric system is a communist plot to take away our American Freedom. We do like your 9mm pistols though.
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I can appreciate the amount of work that went into the car, so a thumbs up there. Just a little too much red on the interior for my taste though, with not enough contrasting elements.

Also noticed a couple things, not sure if it's just the pics, or if it was intentional but:

1. The driver side rear flap, on the arm that connects the center section pivot point, it's black....whilst the rest of it is red.

2. The driver side A/C vents are black, whilst the passenger side vents are red. That might just be the angle of the air flow directors?


I like the exterior mods though......

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Originally Posted by Benz-O-Rama
I can appreciate the amount of work that went into the car, so a thumbs up there. Just a little too much red on the interior for my taste though, with not enough contrasting elements.

Also noticed a couple things, not sure if it's just the pics, or if it was intentional but:

1. The driver side rear flap, on the arm that connects the center section pivot point, it's black....whilst the rest of it is red.

2. The driver side A/C vents are black, whilst the passenger side vents are red. That might just be the angle of the air flow directors?


I like the exterior mods though......
Hey buddy, first of all thank you for your kind comments, im really glad that you all appreciate the hard work on the 55!

Well, im not really sure what you're talking about on point 1. I'll post some interior pictures for you to find out, i hope that would help you out without the need of explaining too much. It must be the angle of the flow directors actually, the entire interior of the car was actually in red leather, as for the "panels" we all have in our SL55's, each panel is actually in silver (my car used to be in Designo-Diamond silver) as for the rest of the interior parts, they are in suade. Yeah i do agree that the red is a bit too much in the car, but its what I love actually, majority of the sports cars at home too have a full blown red interior. hahah to be honest lets just say the middle-easterns have a some-what of a different taste in our mods

Anyways, i'll be posting up some interior pictures, the pictures are actually what the cars interior really is (blood-red) no editing was done, and the interior was actually polished the day of the shoot (i requested a matte finish but the detailing company actually forgot that I had requested the matte finish on the interior) so yeah, the interior will be a bit glossy.

Thanks again bro for your kind comment, much appreciated
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Some interior shots, the photoshoot was taken a long time ago (probably last year or more) during the time the SL55K had the Diamond silver exterior paint. Its just a matte black wrap on the car







An old shot of the car with the front lip and the 20" RS-X Kahns <-- WORST purchase ever.
I don't recommend getting Kahns on a sports car, they look really different and yes they are extremely heavy and couldn't handle the amount of torques the car was producing.



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