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Nati Beastcat's E55 Cream Puff build

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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 08:17 AM
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Nati Beastcat's E55 Cream Puff build

Hello,

Thought I'd say hello now that I'm jumping to the dark side and joining the AMG crowd after years of torque-less BMW's! I made the offer on this beauty last night and it was accepted. I'll be picking her up in the next week or two.

2004 E55 AMG with just over 20,000 miles on the odometer. Here are the goals for this car: 500+ HP 550+ ft lb of torque and looking to have it run in the 11's in the 1/4. Not really sure whats needed to achieve this but thats why I'm on here......

plans are:
-All new pulleys
-tune
-belt wrap kit
-new I/C pump
-new heat exchanger
-Intake
-headers
-cosmetic goodies (e63 bumper conversion,trunk spoiler,diffuser, wheels, all new badges)

I'll just update this thread as the progress starts


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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 08:53 AM
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Congratulations brotha. She is a beauty, and you should reach your goals without even breaking a sweat with these cars.

Let us know how we can help, nice gain from our pulley and tune combo

https://mbworld.org/forums/s55-amg-s...hp-94rwtq.html

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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 08:57 AM
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11's ? buddy you need better goals lol

You can be in that number with drag radials and good auxiliary water pump alone. (since it has very few kms I can bet the pump isn't

updated , and good weather)

There is a tune/pulley sale - Gains are showed 70-80 rwhp - Eurocharged has it on sale (there is a thread about it - cheapest hp gain)

Everything else is on expensive side but true gains are through Headers- long or short , Crank pulley, FSP (fixed super pulley)

and appropriate cooling to go with all.

But this FSP pulley has a catch (you need to watch your IATs and have some sort of Logging continuous).

Finally

Welcome ! I also, picked E55 over 06 M5 when I test drove both

Enjoy in good health
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 08:57 AM
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Very nice! Welcome and congrats!

11s are easy with light mods. But running 10s is much better.
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:25 AM
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Welcome aboard!!!

Your time with BMWs has conditioned you to have low expectations for performance!

As mentioned, running 11's in an E55 requires very little effort or money. If you're building for 500WHP I would expect that a very low 11-second is where you'll end up. With perfect DA and drag slicks (if that's your thing) you might even crack into the 10's......

Ultimately, you will be seduced by the brutal low-end torque of the E55.


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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by BI-Performance
Congratulations brotha. She is a beauty, and you should reach your goals without even breaking a sweat with these cars.

Let us know how we can help, nice gain from our pulley and tune combo

https://mbworld.org/forums/s55-amg-s...hp-94rwtq.html
Thanks! Seeing all you guys with these bad *** E55's at the Timmayfest really got me motivated to make the move.

Originally Posted by GregMB
Welcome aboard!!!

Your time with BMWs has conditioned you to have low expectations for performance!

As mentioned, running 11's in an E55 requires very little effort or money. If you're building for 500WHP I would expect that a very low 11-second is where you'll end up. With perfect DA and drag slicks (if that's your thing) you might even crack into the 10's......

Ultimately, you will be seduced by the brutal low-end torque of the E55.


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New goal low 11's
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:36 AM
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Welcome. Your old and new rides look clean!
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 09:45 AM
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I also made the jump from a BMW, E46M3... it had headers, tune, intake elbow, etc... I made a WHOPPING 190lbs/trq lol

You have made a very positive change
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 10:39 AM
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Welcome buddy, shes a beauty and you will love the tq... might need to stock up on rear tires lol Enjoy man
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 11:16 AM
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nice! congrats!
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 11:52 AM
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Welcome buddy, shes a beauty and you will love the tq... might need to stock up on rear tires lol Enjoy man
Looking forward to getting started. I'm getting an extra set of wheels and tires. Not sure what I'm going to do with them.
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 12:27 PM
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Welcome! Great choice in vehicles, you are going to love it!
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 12:51 PM
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 01:38 PM
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Welcome to the better side! The BMW was modded tastefully! Best of luck on your new mods and I wish you many happy miles filled with smokey burn outs! :naughty
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 01:56 PM
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Nice Find... That looked like my car a year ago, you should see her now See my mods over the last year.. She will go 10's
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 02:22 PM
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Nice Find... That looked like my car a year ago, you should see her now See my mods over the last year.. She will go 10's
dang.... lmao gettin it done
EC/Tune/Kleemann Pulley, Smaller SC Pulley, Belt Wrap Kit, MBH Long Tubes, TTM 82mm Ported /Polished/ Shaft Grinded TB, Looped Fuel Rail, 550 Inj's, EC TCU Tune, E63 Exhaust, Quaiffe LSD, FTP H/E, Johnson CM30, NeedsWing CAI, Star Lowered, Split Cooling, 1 Stage Colder Plugs, DCT Steering Wheel w/Paddles, E63 Front End/XY Lip, 19' Forgestar F14's, JL Motoring 2 Wing CF Diffuser, JB Speed Rear Wing, 35% Tint, Red Calipers, 6000K Led's, CF/AMG Door Pins, Akebono Pads, ....
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 02:45 PM
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 03:14 PM
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welcome ! go for 10's and a high trap speed !
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 08:15 PM
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Old Oct 25, 2013 | 10:02 PM
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Old Oct 27, 2013 | 05:31 PM
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nice looking car, you get it out of ohio? I think I might know who you got the car off of.
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Old Oct 29, 2013 | 11:00 PM
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nice looking car, you get it out of ohio? I think I might know who you got the car off of.
Yes, I don't pick it up for another week actually leaving for disney and ran outta time other wise it would be in the garage already
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Old Oct 30, 2013 | 09:28 AM
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Congrats! She is definitely a clean one.

My Eurotek diffuser is yours, just let me know when you're ready
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Old Oct 30, 2013 | 10:45 AM
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Congrats! She is definitely a clean one.

My Eurotek diffuser is yours, just let me know when you're ready
Ok cool. That one is a direct replacement right? Not the carbon cover version.
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