My buddy picked-up a super clean '08 S65 AMG with RENNtech tune & airbox which should net around 670hp/840lb+. We decided to do a quick run (2nd gear pulls from 40mph to ~115mph).

I let him take the hit and the E55 pulled the entire time...1st time I've heard my supercharger whine We both let off when the E55 was 1 car in front.

 

What the heck just happened here?

 

Did the the guy driving the S65 even press the gas? This match up could us a do over, both cars in 2nd gear 3 honks and punch it.

 

S65 is a fat pig and weights 500+ pounds more.

 

I assure you he was on the gas. There is a sign on the median when the road straightens out we run from, he jumped it a bit. A fellow Viper owner who decided like me to add an AMG car to the stable.

We are little fish compared to the TX2K15 roll races going on now...but still fun!

 

An ecu tuned 65 will run high 10’s at nearly 130mph. I’m sorry but a stage 1 or 2 E55 isn't going to touch that car, especially from a roll.

 

Your car looks sweet rolling

 

hmm my dad has a bone stock sl65 and I'm planning on running him. Pretty similar mods except I have headers. I wonder how that will turn out

 

Weight doesn't matter as much on a roll, especially in the higher speeds. With the power that S65 is supposedly putting out, it should have walked the E55 with it's mods.

 

You're telling me an ECU only W221 S65 runs high 10s? Bull****.

 

I believe the S65 in the vid was not a w221.

 

I saw a video a while back of an 06 S65 running 10.9x @ 129 at a track in Sacramento.

At PBIR, I see tuned S65's run 11.1x all day long on drags.

 

what do you think it is?

its plainly a 221

 

ECU tuned SL/CL 65 will hit 10s all day, but an S ehhh, High 10 maybe once in awhile, but not constantly like the other 2, the weight of the S keeps the car bogged down, but it will do 11s all day not trying at all. It's still impressive for the size and weight of the car. Once the car is moving the car just hauls on a roll

 

4400 lbs (including driver)/600hp=7.33

5200 lbs (including driver)/670hp=7.76

There's no surprise who wins in the video. Hell he even said he let the S65 get the jump.

 

Low 11s in a W220 S65, not a W221. It's alot heavier.

 

Some guy where I lived had one, every time he saw me he would step on it. I got tired one day and told him try it. It had a renntech tune and some sort of exhaust work he told me. Well, let's say it wasn't even a match so I highly doubt it runs 10's... This was when I had my Ctsv lol

 

I knew it would be close and honestly though he may pull me. All the reason to go out and find out.

I've been thinking about doing the WannaGoFast 1/2 mile in May. Both would make the "heavyweight" class and simply another reason to go have some fun.

 

God the W221 is beautiful though. Especially when facelifted. Perfect interior and exterior, ay better than the new W222 which looks like an alien spaceship inside, terrible interior, not traditional, looks cold and clinical whereas the W221 has a very luxurious and cosy interior with a pretty much perfect design. I guess the outside of the W222 isn't too bad....actually it's gorgeous It's only the inside that's turd. The W221 is timeless though, it really is the best S class ever made. It's a boat though, it weighs twice what a 747 weighs

 

sorry I got confused between the models...

 

No way the original poster has 600hp with just the mods in his sig.

Also, you forget top compare s/c vs. turbo. Turbos should pull harder at speed.

 

If the 65 is tuned indeed, check to see if his intercooler pump is dead or if there's Air in the IC system. They're hard to bleed without the proper MB tool. Then watch his taillights get smaller and smaller next time you do a roll on race!

 

At the crank? Why not? He has a supercharger pulley, could be a very small one, he has a tune, he has split cooling. Why couldn't he be making around 480whp?

 

We talk about whp around here so much, I had that on the brain.

 

Oh, gotcha