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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:21 PM
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Default Re: Need Proof of AMG Engine - For a Bet

See Automobile Magazine :
"The SRT-6 shares an awful lot in common with the outgoing SLK32 AMG, other than just the engine and gearbox. The dual control arm front and multilink rear suspension are virtually identical, although they are tuned in this application, with firmer damping and much stiffer spring rates. (They have gone up from 303 pounds per inch front and 337 pounds per inch rear to 451 lb/in and 480 lb/in respectively on the coupe.) The brakes, too, have come in for attention, with vented discs all around (the stock car has solid rear rotors), bigger front discs, and dual piston calipers in place of single-piston items."

Also see AutoWeek (June 21, 2004): "The 18-valve V6 is straight out of the AMG version of the previous SLK. Why reinvent the wheel, was SRT's logic. Hence we get the same helical supercharger from IHI."

And this from Motor Trend (August 2004): The "amped-up version of the Crossfire called SRT-6, ... employs the supercharged V-6 out of the old SLK32 AMG."

Sure is time for that free oil change...
 
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