darren_dallas

Had a fun day at our DFW ///M Club meet, which is now officially expanding into a DFW German Auto Club. We have Audi and Mercedes enthusiasts attending and bringing some great AMG and S-Line of cars for Merc and Audi respectively.

Had the opportunity to run against a modified SL55. Robert, aka bfnnrgn from MBworld.org forum, was kind enough to bring his VRP modified SL55 (550-560hp) and we got several vidoes of my modified M5 compared to his. We did both rolling starts and standing starts. Good fun and I hope you all enjoy. These were all conducted on a private road with no other vehicles on the closed road.

Robert has one fast SL55!

I'm not sure if these videos lay to rest certain preconceived ideas about either car line, or just add fuel to the fire for both sides. Regardless, I think both ///AMG and ///M have earned respect on both sides and it's appearant in these videos.

Car descriptions:

SL55 with VRP550 upgrade package -
Larger cranshaft pulley (more supercharger boost)
ecu tune
upgraded I/C pump (no faulty pump excuses here, this car is healthy!)
lower temp t-stat


M5 -
headers
ecu tune
underdrive pulley


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWRzOZPWfs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYSmfU9JrRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBRCEuXjyb0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qkNrFNNxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrnWwSPoxw


This is for you VRUS and JakPro!

Regards,

Darren

cls55

the links are not working.

BenzoBoi

+1

I want to see the outcome so I know what to expect LATER down the line!!!

bfnnrgn

I'm terrible at launching my car, sorry guys. I need some practice. Modded it just has so much torque it's crazy. I did better with the rolling starts. Most of the time I had ESP on and it would just bog, I did one run with it off and all I managed to do was almost get sideways. The last race with ESP off, you can hear my tires screaming.

It was a lot of fun, we traded wins back and forth. He won half of them and I won half of them. We were evenly matched, whoever got the jump was staying ahead.

The M5 exhaust puts mine to shame. It has such a nice growl while the SL55 is pretty muted.

Trying to get a dyno day in and run them back to back to see what they put down.

Edit: Hmm, I guess you can't embed youtube on mbworld.

2nd race, I was ahead on the first race but it got cut short by a truck in the way and video was just too long to put up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcrnWwSPoxw

Err, someone dropped the camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBRCEuXjyb0

I thought I had him...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYSmfU9JrRc

Not sure which this one is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9qkNrFNNxg

ESP off, bad idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWRzOZPWfs

There was another with me ahead but it was cut short by traffic. Just my luck.

ChicagoX

Awesome vids.

The M5 winds out crazy fast.....cool stuff.

AMG Rider

Nice vids!
Love both cars~

darren_dallas

That's called strategy on my part Robert j/k

Great fun once again! Looking forward to dyno day so we can put some numbers behind these videos as well.

Regards,

Darren

bfnnrgn

I think it's much more sinister than that... On the runs I did well on traffic would mysteriously materialize to interrupt us. Clearly Gustav was secretly controlling those cars from afar.

Ha ha ha! Nah, you beat me fair and square. I think I need to work on my launches...and put in a set of headers without telling anyone for next time.

darren_dallas

You're right. There are 2 runs specifically (I went back and watched the short videos of each) where you totally had me beat, but other things got in the way. The M5 gods were looking out for me mmuuaahh!

Rock

Very cool vids but I liked Darren more when he was one of the good guys.

J 2OOI

Great videos and great runs!!!

Glad you did runs from a roll and a dig!

Vic55

And we liked you better before we met you

darren_dallas

Doh! you guys are brutal

Rock

Okay, the respect mumbo jumbo is over. Prepare to be abused.

oldgixxer

There were six M5/6's all modded at the track last week and they ALL trapped very high&impressed the crap outta me on the big-end.

darren_dallas

Quick question folks...which is quicker, stock E55 or stock SL55?

mosesgolf

Funny, you should say that as I was thinking he became one of the good guys when he came over to the BMW camp.

J 2OOI

I have no evidence, but I have heard the E55 is quicker, maybe due to lower weight Probably close IMO.

Atleast you didn't ask which is quicker E55 or E63, please don't go there...

oldgixxer

That would depend if Enzom was behind the wheel of the E55 or not

Same engine,same HP,alot less weight for E55 so numbers say E55

V12Godspeed

The M5 just abused that SL..

Zod

nice runs glad you two seemed to haev fun

E55 RUSS

Nice vids... at least some fun and adrenaline

ROCKETW19

Great runs and damm your M5 sounds nice!

O/T but do you see why we get all fired up about gustva video of him in a stock M smashing the K4 car! You beat the SL pretty good but all it has is a pully and your M is modded. now switch that over to a lighter E class with 70 more HP! Just dont make sence does it!

Once again sorry for O/T great kills!

darren_dallas

I totally understand. Having been an AMG owner twice myself, I really know what these 55's can do. I do have a few videos of my M5 running against my friend and his E55. His E55 had Eisenmann race exhaust and mine had eisenmann race exhaust, an underdrive pulley and an ecu tune (which caused me to lose hp ). The results were astonishing to me as well. Here are the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqrjTd_lZEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz61fds9acs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTu4AnUsjYA

I know someone in the DFW area who has an E55 K4 and we've been trying to setup a time to meet and do some comparisons. We hopefully can do this in the next 30 days.

I have great respect for all the AMG line and still love the cars. Saw a beautiful CLS63 today at lunch and it just looked stunning!

Regards,

Darren

Jakpro1

Gosh those M's got some juice. Someday I hope to line up like that with an M.

OH, I almost forgot. Intercooler pump was probably not working right!!