Originally Posted by LantanaTX
Wow, I wonder how high the reserve is? He should be happy if he can get $30K. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this car. a Hemi under the hood is very cool. but the amount of work and expense to do this doesn't seem worth the trouble when a MB engine will bolt right in. A n/a 55 would save weight, last longer and out perform this egnine. The MB engine is lighter and in my opinion is better built. The car has a weird stance in the front, but looks like it has a rack and pinion steering which our cars should have come with. The 5.7 he used is nothing very special at 345HP. for the money he wants, he should have used a 6.1 SRT-8 engine. One thing this guy did do was prove you can put a Hemi in a Mercedes.
Hemi engine is cheaper to acqire, cheaper to mod, can make big power, easier to obtain a low mile donor and half of the engine is M-B anyways. There is a local(vegas) guy that did the 5.7swap into his base Crossfire about a year ago. I do agree that he should've used a 6.1 engine even though a 5.7 with heads/cam upgrade will make 6.1 power(if not more).