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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 02:12 PM
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I'm getting sick of going back and forth trying to clear up bs you keep spewing. Whether you made it up out the "tuner" it's bs. I still don't know who you're talking about because what you're saying doesn't add up. You live in cali, I live in md. How cab the same person work on both our cars? No tuner has done mechanical work on my car that I can remember. There is no spesker wire in my engine bay, where is this supposedly? Please back it up with proof. Just say the person's name so everyone knows who talks **** behind their customers back and smiles in their face and so I know not to deal with this person.

I stand by every claim I've made. If I said the number I ran that day was with full interior then guess what? It was. I never claimed my last pass was full interior, if I did show me where I said that. I did run full interior before and was running deep 10s when I did. Keep in mind I drive my car to and from the track and I usually have to take the seats out to fit everything I need in the car.

I won't kero going back and forth with you and your baseless accusations. Either have the tuner chime in or provide proof. Otherwise you're just full of **** and nothing I can do to stop you from continuing to spew bs.

What has your car run anyway???
Jesus you're obtuse.... OE tuning
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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 02:18 PM
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Jesus you're obtuse.... OE tuning
He's NEVER done any mechanical work on my car nor has he tuned it or even seen the car in the past few years (definitely not after the Weistec sc)... how would he know anything about my car? He wasn't at the track either. Last time I heard he was not allowed back in the country... very reputable source.

And those are the facts. Have a nice day and keep my name out your mouth with your bs. You just showed everyone how he treats his customers
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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 02:31 PM
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It def wasn't OE Tuning, I know cause my car was in the shop in for routine maintenance and a bad strut and I wanted to see if I could squeeze some dyno time, but Ahmad was on the dyno all day with Jerry at EC dyno tuning it, as well as trying out different TCUs to fix the traction issue. This was about a year same time when I saw the car and he did the pass with the stock block, but I'm pretty sure he's still using Jerry since he was trying to bring Jerry out here to do a tuning day.
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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by AMG-Driver
My point was Race-Horses CL65 hit 190 MPH in 1Mile and this is with 640 whp and STOCK Turbos.All 55 I know of seem to hit a wall at approx.180 MPH in 1mile,no matter with how much mods. At higher speeds the V12 is pulling really strong...
Yes! another great point.. Also the SLR someone mentioned running 179-180 in stock trim is hardly a comparo to reg E55k or any 55k base model.. it has better everything huge top mount IC's better blower, carbon ceramic brakes saving ton unsprung weight etc etc & cost $500k & even now still used they run $350-$400k it's in an entirely dif league..

Add just ECU/TCU & basic cooling to 65/600 & they run 180 mph in the mile.. it takes a full stage 5+ E55k build to run 180 mph there isn't much else to be said.. The mile mark is indeed true litmus test.. It's funny the e55 crowd will argue to the death just like the bmw kats do about who can run faster in the twisty bits vs 1/4..

& For Ahmad to try & separate the SL65 dragtimes records from the CL65 etc is ridiculous, just happens to be hardly ANY properly modded SL65/600 models hit the track.. hell Clayton ECU/TCU only SL600 ran 11.02 @ 127 put a SL65 w/right mods/driver & see what happens..

The SL65 & CL65 have nearly exact same curb weight, same motor, etc etc just happens to be more track hounds preferred 4 seats vs 2 seat vert.. Hince they've recorded much more 1/4 records w/far better ET's Traps over the years..
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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 02:36 PM
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Originally Posted by blackbenzz
He's NEVER done any mechanical work on my car nor has he tuned it or even seen the car in the past few years (definitely not after the Weistec sc)... how would he know anything about my car? He wasn't at the track either. Last time I heard he was not allowed back in the country... very reputable source.

And those are the facts. Have a nice day and keep my name out your mouth with your bs. You just showed everyone how he treats his customers
lol I will say watvr I want, it's a fact he tuned your E55 & saw ur clk in person etc etc Do you want/need me to fish up all the old posts you authored on the subject to prove it Again you're so fukn dense wth?? I didn't say or mean your latest tune was from him ONLY THAT HE'S WORKED ON YOUR rigs in the past & gave me that breakdown on the clk period.. PS more slander from you.. He's def in the US & allowed to travel anywhere lol he tuned my Range Rover Sport this year..

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Old Jul 23, 2015 | 04:24 PM
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Any update on your SL65? I'm going to rent MIR in the next couple of months, you should bring it. I can help you get some good times out of it.

As for thericker this is my last post in response to you. A) Jeremy has not seen my CLK in about 5 years and you have personally NEVER seen it. How would he or you know anything about my car or how it's run at the track? B) If I have speaker wire in my car prove it. It would be amazing that my car runs faster than any benz Jeremy has tuned with speaker wire wouldn't it? C) Look at this video with FULL stock interior and stock motor still working out the tune. Put it in slow motion, freeze frame, whatever you want and you can clearly see 2 stock seats. I drove the car to the track as is and drove home. Wish I had him film the interior. There's always next time. I will ask someone to film the interior prior to the pass since now I know people are gonna make stuff up to try to discredit what I do since they can't do anything themselves. Anything else you want me to film while I'm at it? My headers/exhaust are made of PVC pipe? My cars body is made of cardboard? Come on I know you 2 can come up with something better than speaker wire running my engine

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Old Jul 23, 2015 | 07:38 PM
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I haven't heard anything from the shop this week, but I'm gonna be in Tyson's Corner tomorrow at 3 pm for a meeting, so I'll prob stop by the shop before my meeting and see what's going on. I had a tire on the front wheel that got toast, which I'm surprised I even made it to the shop, but since it's in the front I was told if they got dyno time they can just pump air in the front right to get it on the dyno, but that was last week.

On a side note, anyone trying to buy a 245/30/20 Toyo TR1 tire good luck. I tried 3 vendors and no luck until the forth vendor. Looks like there's a nation wide back order on that size.

I wouldn't mind coming to MIR, but the last 3/4 track days had weather issues lol.
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Old Jul 23, 2015 | 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by V12TTenthusiast
I haven't heard anything from the shop this week, but I'm gonna be in Tyson's Corner tomorrow at 3 pm for a meeting, so I'll prob stop by the shop before my meeting and see what's going on. I had a tire on the front wheel that got toast, which I'm surprised I even made it to the shop, but since it's in the front I was told if they got dyno time they can just pump air in the front right to get it on the dyno, but that was last week.

On a side note, anyone trying to buy a 245/30/20 Toyo TR1 tire good luck. I tried 3 vendors and no luck until the forth vendor. Looks like there's a nation wide back order on that size.

I wouldn't mind coming to MIR, but the last 3/4 track days had weather issues lol.
Ok cool hopefully made some progress.

That sucks about the tire.

Nah I've run my car at the last few. But yea sometimes you can't control the weather. Will be good to run at the same track at the same time
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Old Jul 24, 2015 | 01:01 PM
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Any update on your SL65? I'm going to rent MIR in the next couple of months, you should bring it. I can help you get some good times out of it.

As for thericker this is my last post in response to you. A) Jeremy has not seen my CLK in about 5 years and you have personally NEVER seen it. How would he or you know anything about my car or how it's run at the track? B) If I have speaker wire in my car prove it. It would be amazing that my car runs faster than any benz Jeremy has tuned with speaker wire wouldn't it? C) Look at this video with FULL stock interior and stock motor still working out the tune. Put it in slow motion, freeze frame, whatever you want and you can clearly see 2 stock seats. I drove the car to the track as is and drove home. Wish I had him film the interior. There's always next time. I will ask someone to film the interior prior to the pass since now I know people are gonna make stuff up to try to discredit what I do since they can't do anything themselves. Anything else you want me to film while I'm at it? My headers/exhaust are made of PVC pipe? My cars body is made of cardboard? Come on I know you 2 can come up with something better than speaker wire running my engine

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Get it straight track star I said, he told me he SAW your clk while he tuned your then E55, & noted it BACK when he saw the CLK was w/out full interior it just had drivers seat & had some sort of crummy home speaker wire connecting some sort of MB elect NOT the engine just somewhere in the car. He had NO reason to lie get over it.

Same thing I posted on the 1st page this was brought up... Try reading what people type..
Maybe you fixed it cleaned it up? & ya I made it up You know exactly who I'd be talking about, who do we both know that's worked tuned both our rigs??? I wasn't going to bring him into this but 1 thing you need too straighten out I'm not making krap up etc this was told to me verbatim, the car was stripped w/no interior & had home speaker wire either in the loom or connecting other electrical systems in the car (not to the stereo lol) I didn't broach this to put you/your rig dwn

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Old Jul 27, 2015 | 11:25 PM
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So here's an update so far, still waiting on the dyno. There's another car currently taking up space at the moment.



I'm sure people in the east coast recognize this car by now. From what I've been told it still needs at least 2 more days of tuning so back to just waiting till I can get some dyno time.
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Originally Posted by V12TTenthusiast
So here's an update so far, still waiting on the dyno. There's another car currently taking up space at the moment.



I'm sure people in the east coast recognize this car by now. From what I've been told it still needs at least 2 more days of tuning so back to just waiting till I can get some dyno time.
We all sitting here and waiting and waiting....
We all hope that you reach the target....
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Old Aug 4, 2015 | 08:05 PM
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Great time, getting close to a 9 second pass. Good job Speedriven.
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Sikkkk 1.4x 60' @ 10.24 is movin' chk the rwhp rwtq to get this done... Obviously has GT30 kit
Way to go Marcin! nice work very impressive!

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Old Aug 4, 2015 | 09:43 PM
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It said Garrett turbos on drag times
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It said Garrett turbos on drag times
GT30 is a Garrett turbo.
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I know, I was just confirming what Thericker had suggested.
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That's badass

We need more people running their cars like this
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Old Aug 5, 2015 | 01:37 PM
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Yes not to mention he ran @ Firebird in AZ in July eeek.. Guarantee if he had ran the same 60' ft in early November cool air & say 500+ or less- DA that run would've been 9.9x-9.8x @ 140+mph.. As you can see the run he made he hit 105+ in 1/8 but barely turned 129.750 mph in 1/4 the heat obviously killed a ton of power..

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I was talking to Phil today, the owner of the SL600, he told me the first setup he did was he had a buddy did twin Garret GTX 4294 turbos and Speedriven tuned it, but he had some problems at the high RPMs where the car would die off. But he's having the car shipping off to Speedriven next week for even bigger turbos with the whole kit this time being built inhouse with custom built engine.

As an update on my car I'm picking it up either tonight or tomorrow depending if Jeremy at OE tuning gets the final tuning done. All the issues like high IATs, messed up fuel trims, etc is all fixed now.
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Also he sent me a text early today that the run he did on the 30th wasn't his best pass, that same week on Saturday he ran a 9.975
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Also he sent me a text early today that the run he did on the 30th wasn't his best pass, that same week on Saturday he ran a 9.975
Holyfuk!!! That's a new World Record For the SL600 or SL65 for that matter the CL65 platform too Wow! What were the rest of the splits etc

If this 9.97 is legit, it smashes ALL these records.. And just think what it'll run in kool negative DA!! vs july in AZ...
http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...ag-Racing.html

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Why is the 9 second pass not posted?

Do you know what DR he used?

Does he still have ABC?

If he can trap 140+ who knows how low it can go with a 1.4-60ft

Is the car full weight?

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So the car is running gtx 4294's and not built by speed driven. Thanks for the correct info. Gonna fly after its done.
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