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C300 sport 2008
same thing happened to my cv boots saw my car smoking as if I did a 50mph rolling burnout haha.
if you come to soflo tell me, I’ll do free ceramic coating/full detail as a sponsorship deal
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W210 DRFT BNZ
Nah, I just had to take some time to unpack my head. I do it every year.
It gets hectic up in there every so often and I have to do self work to make sure I'm good to myself and the people I care about.
Every year it helps me figure out how to improve myself a little bit, this year was no exception.
It gets hectic up in there every so often and I have to do self work to make sure I'm good to myself and the people I care about.
Every year it helps me figure out how to improve myself a little bit, this year was no exception.
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W210 DRFT BNZ
I couldn't thank my team at FCP Euro enough for all the help and support I've receive from them. Parts, yes, but also emotional support and championing this build.
It takes a special kind of a group to green-light this kind of a project. Nothing but love to those folks.
Let's review what we begin with and where things stand today:
15 months of work, trial, error, frustration, and more work. It has finally come to a close and I'm feeling all sorts of emotional and sentimental.
Most mods underwent multiple revisions, some failed, some survived, what didn't work initially got reworked until it all met the high standard that my crew sets out for ourselves.
And while I'm sure more revisions are coming, some fine tuning is inevitable, this marks the day the vision I had in my head over a year ago finally coming out into the world where other folks can interact with it.
As always, if you want to keep up with updates and new silliness, make sure to be on the Youtube channel and the Instagram page.
It takes a special kind of a group to green-light this kind of a project. Nothing but love to those folks.
Let's review what we begin with and where things stand today:
15 months of work, trial, error, frustration, and more work. It has finally come to a close and I'm feeling all sorts of emotional and sentimental.
Most mods underwent multiple revisions, some failed, some survived, what didn't work initially got reworked until it all met the high standard that my crew sets out for ourselves.
And while I'm sure more revisions are coming, some fine tuning is inevitable, this marks the day the vision I had in my head over a year ago finally coming out into the world where other folks can interact with it.
As always, if you want to keep up with updates and new silliness, make sure to be on the Youtube channel and the Instagram page.
Last edited by jumph4x; Sep 20, 2018 at 06:57 PM.
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2018 E63s AMG (Current) 2011 CL63 AMG (Sold) 2005 CLS55 AMG (Sold) 2004 C32 AMG (Sold)
Congrats brotha on following through with your vision and to all behind the scenes. Plenty blood spilt, sweat, and beers drunk over this one. Excellent stuff
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Looks cool! Props on being able to commit and cut to achieve your vision. Takes a lot of "sticktoitiveness" to get all the way through. Kinda surprised you didn't juice up the motor more.
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W210 DRFT BNZ
There are a couple of reasons I left the motor to stand on its won mostly.
- The car does not need more power, it has glorious amounts of torque and initiating or continuing drift whether it's 0mph or 60mph is effortless
- I really want this car to be able to take a lot of hard driving abuse and last, the closer the motor is to stock the less things I touched, the less likely a failure of some sort
- California emissions. One of the project design goals is to maintain the street-ability, drive-ability and legal status of the car.
Having said all that, I can see a fixed 73mm pulley or something similar in the future. A couple of vendors have already approached me offering things like that. Time will tell.
Also: I went out drifting the car as it sits now on the 19th and people absolutely love it. Drift Prom Queen, nothing but love.
Wavetrac is absolutely wonderful for drifting in this chassis AFAIC. I actually prefer it to the welded setup, engagement is very predictable and firm, slightly more gradual ramp up to breaking traction which affords a lot of control.
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W210 DRFT BNZ
It was a pretty hot day at Sonoma Drift on Wednesday and after some aggressive runs (and waiting to stage again) I saw IAT reaching 150F and not cooling off fully before my next run.
This is going to the target area for improving the car further. I am in the planning/speccing stages of seeing how to best fit two compact 6" fans and wire a switch to the interior.
This is going to the target area for improving the car further. I am in the planning/speccing stages of seeing how to best fit two compact 6" fans and wire a switch to the interior.
