what ive learned in 5 years modding the beast(newbies welcome)
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I have the Kleemann header for 1.5 year in California.... no problem at all for the last smog check. You just have to know the guy who does the smog .... some of them are more mod friendly.
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Thanks for sharing your experience skratch77!! 
Interesting. Did you delete the primary cats and just running secondary?
I want headers, lolz.
I want headers, lolz.
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Here's let me help you out. It's courtesy of another member
http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...lip-15047.html
Apparently Angelo had swap a SLR engine in his E55.
http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...lip-15047.html
Apparently Angelo had swap a SLR engine in his E55.
Im done with this board
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I really didn't have to find anything, another member forwarded that to me. I'm not very computer savvy, but I know that document was not made today. Oh well back to selling your car again.
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Yes, I have the primary cat delete. The car sound really nice with the Kleemann Header. As long as you can find a mod friendly smog check place, it should be fine.
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If you can get them for 2k, buy them. I did some shopping and was looking at 2500 or so shipped as the best deal.
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https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/475062-bam.html
You have some explaining to do
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I just want to make a thread for new guys coming along that are dying to get more power out of there beasts and want to give them my personal opinions and results that I have and what I went threw to get the car just right.I've been there and done that and basically did all the hardworking and labor for you.
This is exactly what I would do to a stock car right now if I had the chance from all the things I learned building my car.
First thing if you read my posts from 4 years ago dissing a 180 pulley well guess what?I ****ing hate it again,its a volcano blowing hot inefficient air into your car.I don't give a crap anyway you slice it a 180 pulley is only good in 65d weather and after 85 out you are almost slower then stock at the 1/4 mile.
My car right now is back at the dealer getting a new torque converter because I fell into the numbers game ageing and melted the thing with all my torque and I have never had a TCU tune on my car,leave the TCU alone if you want your tc to last,a 180 pulley will wreck havok on your sc clutch and will jerk the car so hard you might actually do an endo when it engages or it sure as hell feels that way.
So that damn 180 in the long run cause a hell of a lot of grief and issues with heat and drivability.
82mm tb get ready for some fun!!!! If you are going to do this make sure its a tb that the blade opens and closes the same direction as stock.trust me driveability is night and day vs the Audi tb that opens opposite and when the car kills power with the tc system its not like you just choxkee the car out because the blade angle is opposite and you can feel a huge power jerk cut off with the Audi tb.
You need to also be prepaired to go threw hell with codes being thrown as some cars just are super sensitive to the tps % and even with zero leaks you might need to adjust idle speed with SDS.
If I were to do it all over again I would do a 168mm OEM crank pulley with no welds(throws off harmonic balance) a tune,kleemann or renntech and Kerman headers with the front carts cut out.this setup will get you right at 500whp and 550wrt and will be a blast to drive without worrying about heat soak or blowing up you torque converter or making you sc clutch engage like hell and make people think there is something wrong with your car.
I would not rec a tb,intake scoops or even a renntech air box as the gains are just not worth it.
This is exactly what I would do to a stock car right now if I had the chance from all the things I learned building my car.
First thing if you read my posts from 4 years ago dissing a 180 pulley well guess what?I ****ing hate it again,its a volcano blowing hot inefficient air into your car.I don't give a crap anyway you slice it a 180 pulley is only good in 65d weather and after 85 out you are almost slower then stock at the 1/4 mile.
My car right now is back at the dealer getting a new torque converter because I fell into the numbers game ageing and melted the thing with all my torque and I have never had a TCU tune on my car,leave the TCU alone if you want your tc to last,a 180 pulley will wreck havok on your sc clutch and will jerk the car so hard you might actually do an endo when it engages or it sure as hell feels that way.
So that damn 180 in the long run cause a hell of a lot of grief and issues with heat and drivability.
82mm tb get ready for some fun!!!! If you are going to do this make sure its a tb that the blade opens and closes the same direction as stock.trust me driveability is night and day vs the Audi tb that opens opposite and when the car kills power with the tc system its not like you just choxkee the car out because the blade angle is opposite and you can feel a huge power jerk cut off with the Audi tb.
You need to also be prepaired to go threw hell with codes being thrown as some cars just are super sensitive to the tps % and even with zero leaks you might need to adjust idle speed with SDS.
If I were to do it all over again I would do a 168mm OEM crank pulley with no welds(throws off harmonic balance) a tune,kleemann or renntech and Kerman headers with the front carts cut out.this setup will get you right at 500whp and 550wrt and will be a blast to drive without worrying about heat soak or blowing up you torque converter or making you sc clutch engage like hell and make people think there is something wrong with your car.
I would not rec a tb,intake scoops or even a renntech air box as the gains are just not worth it.
All of the above, and consider a ported 80mm TB, (normally PNP), K&N's or equivalent, replace the restricted left side intake pipe with a right side intake pipe, OS heat exchanger, LSD, light weight rotors. A looped rail (I prefer the 6 port SLR injectors) and you will have an absolutely reliable car that is probably 99% faster than any other vehicle with 4 wheels.
Last edited by AgSilver; May 11, 2013 at 12:18 AM.
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WTF! I just read this saga, and looked up his dyno thread because he deleted his sig.
https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/475062-bam.html
You have some explaining to do
https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/475062-bam.html
You have some explaining to do
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There are some odd individuals out there. Some people live to attempt and impress others even if it takes lieing to do it. I myself never understood why people can't be truthful and feel the need to lie about petty stuff. Like "my car was full weight and on pump gas" when it was gutted and on race gas for an example (this is a general statement, not referring to anyone) haha. 
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There are some odd individuals out there. Some people live to attempt and impress others even if it takes lieing to do it. I myself never understood why people can't be truthful and feel the need to lie about petty stuff. Like "my car was full weight and on pump gas" when it was gutted and on race gas for an example (this is a general statement, not referring to anyone) haha.
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WTF! I just read this saga, and looked up his dyno thread because he deleted his sig.
https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/475062-bam.html
You have some explaining to do
https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/475062-bam.html
You have some explaining to do
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Shocked!! OP is usually an upfront dude with his isht, speaks his mind when he has to about vendors and does have a strong car. The initial topic is right on point about what works and whats just a waste of money.
