Sunir

Does anyone know about modding the supercharger internals on 55K cars? For example an upgrade package with modified veins or any other design enhancements relative to the stock supercharger internals design to acheive greater power/torque/efficiencies etc...?

Has this been done, is something like this available and if so where?

Forrest Gump 9

contact Larry @ theoldone.com he may be able to help

Exotic-metal55

Feed it with a rear mounted turbo and that will really help upgrade the S/C ..

Mrbig

Serious thou anyone have internal upgrades heads, pistons, rods ? Wouldn't they be a great help with power and cooling issues !!! Anyone know who can get this done ???

itsmeek

It's only a matter of time before people start upgrading the superchargers...when that happens, the game will change.

Sunir

The reason I ask is because I had a conversation with a guy at a Business Networking event Tues evening who had an '04 SL55, similar to mine...he told me about his mods and got me in contact with his guy who did all the work on his car...that individual told me about a SC internals upgrade that he claims they had done...the upgrade (parts from what I understand) are from some outfit in Germany.

I am still investigating and evaluation this...no solid information to provide yet...

blackbenzz

Please do alot of research before pulling the trigger. I was once offered this "upgrade" as well and it was just a scam by a con artist

madgoat

I wonder if there can be any porting done like they did on the 03-04 Cobra factory blowers

JAYCL600

turbos, end of thread.

Sunir

Good idea...give you a shout later lets compare notes...

Sunir

Do you mean...(1) get a turbo car (2) replace SC with turbos or (3) use a rear mount turbo to feed the SC?

hooleyboy

I spoke to Whipple, and they think they can do it. I really think the weakness in this blower is the rear bearings. Contact Whipple, You wont be the first one, and it may just show there is an interest if upgrading the AMG SC.

madgoat

I work with most of the blower companies out there. It definitely is a possibility. Their problem is they need a tuning solution that currently is not available yet to to do so.

Sunir

Lets say that it can be done (i.e by Whipple or whomever) and the rear bearing is modified as well as the vein design etc...then couldn't the tuning issue be handled by a custom dyno tune (figure most of the customers who would get this done have other mods and have probably gotton or are running a custom tune anyway)? Granted this limits the market because of the lack of a standard or canned tune for this modification.

madgoat

Just an FYI...Most supercharger companies do not want to sell a tuner kit without a programmer with a preconfigured tune made by them. I work with Whipple, Paxton (used to work there), ATI, Magnuson, STS, Vortech on their tuning solutions. All I can say is my E55 was tuned with custom tuning software that are along the same lines.. :-)

Full Throttle

This.

Two bb 67mm turbos would be stellar on the K55 engine.

Sunir

was that you at the first LET tuning day in earlier in the year...you got your car tuned and needed a SC belt from LET right? I remmember a black CLS 55 dunno if it was you...

Full Throttle

Nope not me, my car is going to euro charged in December for their stage 3+cams and full exhaust

blackbenzz

LMFAO!!! What happened to your buddies who build the quickest and fastest cars that were gonna build your car? Do it before Dec. 5th so we can finally get a run in

c32AMG-DTM

interesting info. Also - your E55 is tuned by DiabloSport? Are you the only one? Is it with their handheld programmer?

Tech-Tune

I've had my blower ported by: http://www.stiegemeier.com/porting.html but mine is a Magnuson MP112

I contacted the company for another project a few months ago and Bob (the owner) mentioned that someone was sending him an AMG blower to be ported.

Does anyone know anything about this? Would love to hear about their experience.

Mrbig

so they can port the e55 blowers ???

jturkel

there are several C32s with ported blowers. two or three i believe. one for sure is a Stiegemeier job. not sure of the other two, but i think they might be as well

Tech-Tune

I don't see why not.
Unfortunately I did one or two other upgrades simultaneously with the porting and cannot post solid data regarding the porting benefits.
Just figured I'd throw it out there for those who might be interested.

jturkel

if you port your supercharger, you will make it a little more efficient. however, in doing so, you will lower your boost and lose some power. you need to adjust pulley sizes accordingly to regain power and then some