Worth the wait

Stock oem replacement SC is just shy of $5k


WEISTEC PLEASE GIVE US AN UPDATE

theeddie

id like to see $6999

02S430

totally agree with you, the 07-11 63 engines its worth it, but we already have a super charger in. i agree numbers wont be much greater, but thats only my opion

which is why they should make the price competitive, why would you spend more on something that might be only a little better then the stock. dont get me wrong im not knocking Weistec buy if you do your HW you can get modds for cheap keep surfing the classifieds on this forum

gaspam

fwiw, the 2007 audi RS4 s/c from APR is $15K and the 2006 bmw m3 s/c from vfengineering is $14K which are cars from same time period as ours are, so i dont expect a mercedes after market s/c to be much less then rivals.

and whipples for mustangs can be priced much lower cuz they know they are going to sell 50,000 of them since +500,000 mustangs were produced.... not the case for MB e55's... they might sell 100 of these kits so prices are going to have to be a lot higher than whipple to make decent profit margins on waaaaaaaay smaller number of sales qty that they will have compared to a whipple kit

02S430

ok but you missed the point and im not trying to argue with you, but those cars didnt come with a supercharger already stock, which can be bought as previously stated for around 5k if it broke, this thing alone better put out serious numbers with out need for any other mods to be worth it

gaspam

it is speculated with this s/c from weistec that it will boost hp 100-150 so lets do the fuzzy loose math.

to get to those levels with bolt on you would need LT headers + pulley + TB ($8K per ec site) and if you had someone install it would probalby run you $1K due to headers since you would have to modify exhaust, so $9K cost of bolt ons to get to theoretical HP of the Weistec S/C...

just for the shear fact of convience the weistec would be more then all the bolt-on's total cost , plus with the weistec you get a new improved intercooler

sure would 10K s/c on a benz be cool- yeah.... is it likely, no... the shear lack of number of cars and potential sales market alone pushes the price up drastically...

gaspam

ok here is better example for you then... the audi s4 b5 comes twin turbo from the factory... replacement ko3 oem turbos are $2500 ... the car cost about $8-10k these days.... the aftermarket turbo kits for these cars are $7-20K so 77% to 185% of the value of the car.

same example can be said for toyota supras turbo upgrades

so basing price of HP upgrade on current cars market price is kinda irrelavant

02S430

you can get those parts way less on this site from someone parting out if you look hard enough for it

emoving

So the $5k plus I just spent on the Kleemann stuff and the install is !

GregMB

I assume you've got cooling mods wrapped up in that $9000 number (?), but probably not a looped fuel rail... add another $1500, and the "conventional build" for +150HP is closer to $10,500...

I've probably missed other costs too, but this is the essence of how I think the Weistec kit will compete. It's already got a larger TB, new fuel rail, it's liquid cooled to control heat soak, includes their own tune, etc.... If you're already deep into mods ($$$) it will be hard to justify making this move, but for a guy with stock or near-stock E55 this could be a price-competitive option.

Some actual Weistec data would really be helpful right about now....all the speculation gets tiring after a while.


-G

02S430

lol no what im saying is if this supercharger is in the 13-15k not including install on a car that is worth about 20-25k, and god forbid your car is in a accident, and your car is totaled out and you wasted $ installing it and taking it out. now you might say well i wasted 5k putting the parts in but thats still not close to the 15+ you might have spent putting it in.

02S430

I agree. It makes think if I should mod further or not

emoving

I would knock my ins. adjuster out, strip the car, give him some sniffing salts and continue with the total out estimate!

02S430

lol you get what im saying though, im guilty of it too, investing so much in to an older car is risky especially when its easier to get totaled out in an accident

emoving

Like I said, I just dumped 5+ in mods in mine but its a hobby not an investment! Weistec, bring it on!

komp55

What he said. Anyone thinking these cars are an "investment" is an idiot. Drive it, enjoy it.

02S430

ok investment was the wrong word to use, its definitely a hobby and i enjoy it. just sucks when things out of your control ruin it

CharlyE500

Then you should go for K3 and K4 + fuel rail = $6K instead of changing SC kit !

Das Geld 2

E55 N/A=354 HP
E63 N/A=507 hp

Enough said.

Why do you think it's going to reach E63 with S/C numbers?

e55amgrocket

The place doing my fuel rails is extremely interested in doing a whipple kit for these cars. Their big concerns are how many will sell to justify the R&D to build the kit and the pricing of the Weistec kit if it comes out. They also tossed around the twin turbo possibility but that would cost more obviously. They manufacture complete bolt on turbo kits for a lot of companies already. What price would you all be willing to pay for a complete bolt on system?

GregMB

It doesn't work that way typically.....

First, the company builds "one off" Whipple install for a rich customer.... Does all the development work, makes all the mistakes and figures out how to make it work properly.

Then they take it to the track, prove it can run "the number", and run dozens of passes without porting the oil pan in the process...

If all that works out, maybe it's worth creating a formal "kit" based off the parts from the development mule. (aka: the rich guys car)

Unless the company is already a well-known Mercedes tuner, I doubt anyone is going to hand over $10,000 in advance for the promise of something awesome later on....You gotta build it FIRST.

You'll get plenty of people on this forum telling you they are interested in a product at $xxxx price.....it doesn't mean anything until you've built the product and are ready to take orders. I'd bet that less than 10% of the people who were "interested" can be counted on to follow through with an actual order.



-G

e55amgrocket

Your partially right. Their big concern is when you think you will sell 150 units and end up selling 25 and just break even. There's always a huge market until its time to spend the money and actually do it.

urbamworm

7-20k? How do you go from comparing the price of upgraded turbo kit vs supercharger when you are adding in the price of a fully built engine and buying 2.8 heads and building them among tons of other stuff like tube turbo manifolds, downpipes, exhaust, intercoolers, labor etc, etc, etc, etc............... That is a terrible comparision.

We are not building our heads or buying different ones, or our block, not buying headers, exhaust, etc, etc.

If you are going to try and compare than at least compare correctly. The bad to the bone Tial 770 turbo kit with inlets and fueling for the B5 S4 is $7900, that would be more "comparable" to a supercharger and tuning we would get. All that other "supporting mods" stuff doesn't fit in this equation.

theeddie

I have long tubes tune pulley H/E and I'm noy even close to 10k spent. Im maybe high 4's with labor

people need to realize you dont have to go and spend 10k for kleeman and i bet most everyone on this board knows this. so if they price this over 6k it will be crickets on the telephone. I would guess they would move maybe 25-35 units at 10k + now at 5-7k i could see them hit 100+. plus how long would it take for someone to reverse engineer it and come out with a more affordable version?

02S430

exactly my point before