'13 SL63 at dragstrip

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Aug 3, 2013 | 01:53 AM
  #26  
11.732. 60' was only 1.854. Temp out was 88 degrees and DA was 2650. Weighed the car on the track scale and it's 4045 lbs with 1/4 tank of gas.

Here's my 2 best. This was only my 2nd time running on DRs. Still have some work to do.

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Aug 3, 2013 | 07:50 PM
  #27  
Nice!!
Quote: 11.732. 60' was only 1.854. Temp out was 88 degrees and DA was 2650. Weighed the car on the track scale and it's 4045 lbs with 1/4 tank of gas.

Here's my 2 best. This was only my 2nd time running on DRs. Still have some work to do.

The reduced weight of R231 & new V8Turbo are def a huge improvement, in some nice negative DA & possibly drop 60' that's a low to mid 11 sec car Wickedly stout for a NON-Perf pack car on stock tune.. If you add ECU/TCU & again get some nice Negative DA & hit 1.70 60' or better you'll hit high 10's easy..
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Aug 4, 2013 | 10:57 AM
  #28  
Quote: The reduced weight of R231 & new V8Turbo are def a huge improvement, in some nice negative DA & possibly drop 60' that's a low to mid 11 sec car Wickedly stout for a NON-Perf pack car on stock tune.. If you add ECU/TCU & again get some nice Negative DA & hit 1.70 60' or better you'll hit high 10's easy..
I'm hoping to. Need to get the launch right. Off idle it just bogs. If I try to power brake the car starts to freak out if you get it above ~1200 rpm. I did not try launch control which iirc dumps the clutch at 3k rpm.
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Aug 5, 2013 | 12:51 AM
  #29  
Totally forgot I had this out there, but I used to have a 2006 SL65 which I took to the track. Funny enough it was also in August. It ran 11.9@118 stock. Here in TX the heat badly affects things. The SL65 dynod at 528rwhp.

http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...lip-16004.html

The new SL63 is a tad faster then.
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Aug 5, 2013 | 02:27 AM
  #30  
Nice..
Quote: Totally forgot I had this out there, but I used to have a 2006 SL65 which I took to the track. Funny enough it was also in August. It ran 11.9@118 stock. Here in TX the heat badly affects things. The SL65 dynod at 528rwhp.

http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...lip-16004.html

The new SL63 is a tad faster then.
Though I bet the 65 would be quite a bit faster (if both SL's weighed the same) as sl65 weighed nearly 500 lbs more than ur SL63 IE from your own data you said 63 weighed 4045 lbs & all in know, know sl65's weigh very close to 4500.

Be interesting to see real world test of new SL65 weighing closer to 4045 lbs (as v12 6.0 must weigh tad more than new 5.5 v8tt) in your hands same day/track etc, if indeed the old addage every 100 lbs is a tenth or 10 hp IE make 50+ odd more hp/tq
The Trap speeds are nearly identical but would the extra hp net another 4-5 mph & tenths etc

Edit: I just looked @ the slips, ya the sl65 should beat the new sl63 even w/extra 500 lbs (I've seen loads of stock sl65's run 11.5x in great DA etc) you ran the sl65 in 97 degrees w/3334+ DA vs sl63 in 88 degrees 2600+ DA though your driving is very consistant both different cars you hit 1.8x 60' & interestingly they both trap nearly identical in 1/8 & 1/4
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Aug 5, 2013 | 12:08 PM
  #31  
Quote: Though I bet the 65 would be quite a bit faster (if both SL's weighed the same) as sl65 weighed nearly 500 lbs more than ur SL63 IE from your own data you said 63 weighed 4045 lbs & all in know, know sl65's weigh very close to 4500.

Be interesting to see real world test of new SL65 weighing closer to 4045 lbs (as v12 6.0 must weigh tad more than new 5.5 v8tt) in your hands same day/track etc, if indeed the old addage every 100 lbs is a tenth or 10 hp IE make 50+ odd more hp/tq
The Trap speeds are nearly identical but would the extra hp net another 4-5 mph & tenths etc

Edit: I just looked @ the slips, ya the sl65 should beat the new sl63 even w/extra 500 lbs (I've seen loads of stock sl65's run 11.5x in great DA etc) you ran the sl65 in 97 degrees w/3334+ DA vs sl63 in 88 degrees 2600+ DA though your driving is very consistant both different cars you hit 1.8x 60' & interestingly they both trap nearly identical in 1/8 & 1/4
Would be interesting. The SL65 on the track scale weighed 4460 without me in it. I've put on a little weight since then, in a good way. 170 back then an 195 now. 4045 vs 4460. SL65 a hair over 400lbs heavier. I still have all my old timeslips and in Oct that same year the SL65 was trapping 120 and ET of 11.65, just never posted them on dragtimes. I would expect then the SL63 would be very similar later this year.
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