Originally Posted by
MatchAG
You're right, if you take it off you might as well put a new gasket on. Hopefully the mating surfaces are still good and will seal fine with just the paper gasket and the V6 pump. Do you have forced induction plans for the future? I was thinking a V8 swap, with the SRT ecu to see boost and a low boost turbo would be all the power one might need with the V8. Not that you would necessarily "need" more power.
I ordered a gasket but I don't think it was the paper. Not sure. Reviews said it was high quality so hopefully it holds up and works well with the V6 pump.
Lol no one "needs" more power but yes, I have plans for something lol. Not sure if I wan't to mess with this motor anymore though. If I did, I would go bigger valves, bored and stroked with FI and replace all of the internals. Because of that the 55K motor or the 63 are looking more like where I wan't to go. The 63 being the better by far. It's NA and damn close to as powerful overall as the 55K. Not sure how electronics would work out on it but hey, everyone said what I did couldn't be done

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As far as how I would put FI on this motor is all up in the air. From what my research suggests the V8 AMG ECU's retain the remnant file for our key and cruise over circuit rather than CAN. So it would be a simple, swap Immo data with original and maybe play around in Developer of DAS. Now I say "simple" but I have ruined multiple ECU's learning this. I think the best idea would be to try that first, obviously with custom mapping from Eurocharged or something. If the car doesn't start then a custom SRT ECU with integrated drivers and custom files to control everything would be the way to go.
This is why I need to hurry up and move to Indy lol, so that someone doing this could bring the car to me and we can troubleshoot all the different ideas rather than sending them multiple times back and forth.
Once this is done though, for the people that don't have the tools or capability, don't fret. My welder friend and I are coming up with equipment to do this swap for people on the fly. We are making a foldable cherry picker and collecting the specific tools to the swap. If I have the ECU work done and he has the manifolds done, we can come to you and get the entire thing running in a 3-4 day weekend.-Just something to think about