Now this is ambitious. Mercedes quoted this guy $57K to fix his smokey engine, he decided "Screw that, I'll do it myself."
Wow... I'm only partway into the thread but his first post has all kind of ironical foreshadowing in it: This is going to be more of an ownership log than a build thread.
I think my favorite part of the first post was: "I just can't not buy it, even knowing how stupid the whole thing is." Been there, done that. Many times.
Holy fuck, I understand that it is an MB AMG 63 which means fucking expensive, but god dam almost $60K to replace the engine seems a little fucking ridiculous.
The only option they gave him was a new crate engine, period. And based on what he was saying, they priced it quite high, so probably didn't want to deal with it even if he wanted to.
Do you ever cringe when you think about what you did to a car when you were younger? Between 17-19 I had a '68 Chevelle SS396. For the most part, I did the car right: 475HP 427 cam, Hooker headers, Edelbrock tunnel ram with 660 mech secondary Holleys, Centerlines 15x8.5 in the back, 15x3.5 in the front, wheelie bars (It didn't really need them, it just looked cool), 4.56 12 bolt posi, 4speed w/ a V-Gate shifter, plus other wonderful 80's stuff. Now the cringe. The car was well over 500 horse, estimated to run high 10's/low 11's. It was built to get from point A to point B in a hurry, it was a real handful, especially since I decided the perfect steering wheel for this car was an 8" chrome chain steering wheel. Like you see on low riders. I have no idea what I was thinking.
The crime isn't that you put a chain steering wheel on there. Easily corrected. The crime is that you're not still driving that car.
Nonsense. We all know exactly what you were thinking because we've all been 16 year old boys at one point in our lives.
http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/30/mid-engine-chevrolet-corvette-c8-c7-zr1-spy-photos/#slide-4420674 Autoblog has more photos. Look for a new record in some category on the Nordschleife in the next two years.
Dodge continues to bring the awesome. For 2018 they're building an SRT Durango with a 475 horse 392 Hemi. It's 0-60 is 4.4 and standing quarter mile is 12.9. The roughly 5,510-pound vehicle will tow 8,600 pounds.
The original Bullitt stunt Mustang may have been found. Interestingly enough, it was sitting in a shop where the owner, unaware of the car's history, was going to have it turned into an Eleanor clone.
I don't have facebook so I couldn't look, but did that guy fabricate his own drivetrain for that, or did he swap something in? Even if the latter, that's fucking impressive.
I get the theory behind cross drilled rotors helping cooling, but does anyone have any opinion if they are better/worse on a 4WD then regular rotors? I need new rotors on my truck and visually cross drilled would be cool and I'm obviously not going to be auto crossing it and heating up the brakes. Is there any downside to them that I'm missing?
Good question. I have not heard of any downside to having them on a 4WD. Maybe if a pebble just happened to get lodged in a rotor and destroyed a brake pad? Pretty damn longshot to me. Hey it will be less unsprung weight.