The darton price seems too good to be true. Are you sure its not more than that with machining?

 

That's just the sleeves. The machining as another $2000 give or take. For some reason I thought the sleeves were a little over $1600

 

Thank you for buying that car. It's been staring at me everytime I log on my computer. It's just so sad to see that car in that state. Please keep us up with the progress.

 

Yea I recall paying more than that.

 

Yes this is Binh's Powerhaus twin turbo CLS. I've just been informed that I am the third owner of the car. For sure I will keep the forum updated on the CLS since it is unique and people are familiar with it.

Whoever tried to buy it off eBay back out of the deal because it didn't have catalytic converters. They would probably bought the car and drove it into the ground (no mechanical skills). Updates are going to start off slow because I'm in Afghanistan until early next year (need the $$$).

Feel free to PM recommendations. The Darton sleeves are on Amazon for $1600 but I prefer to build a bottom end once and not worry about it. Just need to figure out the right combination of parts, have the place in Oceanside re-sleeve and a good shop to do headwork.

 

Oceanside? What place if you could let me know. Darton is in Carlsbad, which unless you have been there can be confused with Oceanside.

 

That's a good deal on amazon! If you want a built motor/trans I'd sell mine for the right price. Darton sleeves, carrillo rods, Weistec pistons, ported heads, arp head studs. Only a few hundred miles on it

 

Mr JJ

 

That's pretty! Makes me jealous.

 

What pistons & rods are you using? Are you changing the compression ratio? with my turbo setup, I don't want to raise the compression ratio.

Looks great BTW. Must be nice knowing you will have a solid bottom end.

 

Yeh baby!!!

Carrillo rods and Wiseco pistons.

 

Old engine coming out. Storing and wrapping parts properly so no foreign matter gets in is also very important.

 

Can not wait!!!

 

Nice build Rods look familiar. Hope you get to enjoy your beast soon!

 

Wow, I just read this entire thread.
Needless to say, is it because you all drive amg's you bash and banter one another?
or are all of you some F boys with egos bigger then your pencil down there?
Never in my life have I read something on a forum where as a collective group people have so much hate hahaha.

Everyones loosing sleep over these kompressor engines.... When the bi-turbos are about to blow the doors off......

 

A 924 sitting next to a.... Diablo?

 

Yeh, this forum can get interesting at times. I myself have contributed to the craziness. But, there is a lot of experience on this forum for the AMG platform. As time goes on, more and more of this experience is shared or leaked in the posts/threads. It is from the experience of others on this forum that I learned about Weistec, Darton sleeve and etc. I am hopeful - despite the sometimes personality clashes - that more and more of AMG knowledge and experience is shared.

I know there are and will be faster cars out there (even after this current mod). Spending for this current mod project does not make economic or investment sense. But, I wanted to keep my wagon longer. I am a family man with 3 kiddies (and improving golf game) and the wagon has great sentimental meaning to me. That is why I finally decided to not sell it but to mod it some more. I told Shardul that he could post pics of my build, so that others can see the progress and what is involved and in case there is another crazy AMG family man deciding to sell or keep modding.

As for this current project, I want to make sure I get to 17psi. After the ported heads and removal of restrictions in the exhaust, my max boost was at 11psi. After I get the car back, I will be heading to Weistec for a follow up dyno tune and possibly the 56mm pulley so that I can get to 17psi.

 

OP I have respect for your intuition and desire for your wagon. I one day plan on doing something extreme like this as well to my vehicle, but sheesh people hating like crazy and using profane language and always trying to get the last word in...

Just goes to show you how something as simple as talking about building motors can turn into a complete verbal catastrophe!!!

 

Any shop willing to have white floors and then manage to keep them that clean is probably a damn good shop.

Good luck, man! What's the estimated time to being back on the road?

 

Worst places I have ever worked were all about the show and not about the work. I worked in this one dealer that you were not allowed to have oil on your floor ever. Everyone spent more time cleaning than working on cars. There are only two ways to keep a shop looking like that. Do not do anything in it or charge a lot to have it cleaned at a higher rate than the mess is made. There is a balance between chaos cleanliness, and production.
My favorite quote that I have heard from several different managers about in ground hoists vs two posts is that the shop looks better when it is empty. Empty!! Can you imagine running a business that is based on having cars in each bay all the time and that is your concern.

 

What do you have to sledgehammer the **** out of the top of the firewall to make fit? The other supercharger?

 

LOL. I was experimenting with a mushroom filter a long time ago, with the stock inlet and sc. Never could make it work. After that and over time, that insulation piece back there just wore out.

Thanks. I was told the week of thanksgiving.

 

I cut out a big U-shaped section of that insulation. Once it started sagging like that, it would never stay up. It was just in the way all the time and looking dumb, so I cut it.

I've contemplated notching out that section of the firewall just to make the bigger Y-pipe easier to install.

 

pulled the head off the see what is going on

 

What # cyclinder is it? And is this engine still running? Very interesting