2001 SLK32 in the 11's
 

I was just cruising around on MBworld and saw "LAZ" pointing out that he ran a 11.90 I believe with schrick cams and a pulley! He's on dragtimes also with a 11.9 and 12.2. maybe the cam is next??? (he did have kleeman rear lsd, but his 60ft. was like 1.8 so I don't think that is a huge factor?) I wonder what the cams would do for us? :confused:

http://www.dragtimes.com/Mercedes-Be...ag-Racing.html


Edit: after reading some more about the schrick cams they only make about 20 hp, a joke for the money! This guy must be hiding a bottle or something, he does not even list a tune?

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I know what they would do for us..............empty our wallets!!! Those cams are the MOST overpriced cam(s) I have seen. It's almost as horrible a price gouge as the $7000 ECU tunes for Mercedes 65 AMG cars.

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Wouldn't it be possible to work with one of the major cam companies like Crower to get some cam profiles out for us?

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My cams are NOT a seriesproductions, i order the tuffest cams you can get from Shrick. The idle is not the best but.....

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It's my understanding that "Lunati Cams" will custom grind a cam to your specifications at a reasonable cost. Maybe this could be a possibility.

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ya he has a mean little convertable over there, soon to be meaner :)


as for cams, if anyone can spec out what they want we can have comp cams make whatever

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I'd love to be proven wrong, but there's a lot of smart folks on MBW that claim the M112K and M113K engines' architecture isn't set up to allow for cams much hotter than stock.

http://www.mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=256920

FWIW, seems like one of the worst "cost/benefit" mods for our engines. OTOH, if you've already done everything else... I guess why not?

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It seems like most of the cams available for these engines don't provide significant gains. Some cars benefit from certain mods more than others; part of it has to do with how conservative (a.k.a. stingy) the factory was in this area. It seems like swapping out a set of cams on these engines would be pretty straight forward, so I could live with only gaining 15-20 hp. However, the price makes it completely unreasonable for most of us. I guess if you were right on the edge of an 11 second run (or whatever your personal goal), it would be worth it.:(

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Did you do any head work to accent the gains of the cam? I think a nice heavily ported set of heads, 5 angle valve job and a ported s/c would do some wonderful things when a nice big cam is also thrown in the mix.

I know it's a totally different car but on my Charger I did port/polish heads and a Comp custom grind cam together and picked up 75hp.

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Originally Posted by Moparrbust

Did you do any head work to accent the gains of the cam?...

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It’s been done by at least one adventuresome member…http://forums.mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=187627

Re: 2001 SLK32 in the 11's
 

I haven't pursued cams or any internal engine work... sorry if that was unclear. I was merely relaying the info from MBW; although it was specific to M113K cams, there isn't much room to increase lift. So, people have spent big $$$$ for 10-15 hp, with a revised tune... probably not worth it IMHO.

Your Charger - totally different story. Just like a Vette, 'stang, Honda, whatever... each engine design will be more (or less) receptive to an internal change like hotter cams. Unfortunately, our AMG engines seem to fall into the "less receptive" category.

Re: 2001 SLK32 in the 11's
 

that's 20 hp with stock parts, add your overdive pulley and ecu tune headers etc... and they will make more power.
I believe the stock amg and srt6 cams are really designed for N/A use, since the superchargers are turned off durring normal city driving.

unfortunatly no one has blue-printed the specs for the three or four cams, which are the Stock NA, SRT, AMG, NA Sport cams and the out of production SUpercharged sport cams..

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Do you have a tune? Besides the cams, pulley and differential what mods do you have? Awesome time by the way!!:D

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Track elevation? He could be negative sea level. Another thing not so obvious is that international tracks don't run a full 1320'. Most are at the 1000' mark. That's another reason the NHRA is leaning to changing all tracks to 1000'.

In any case it's nice to see someone running the car the way it's suppose to be.

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I´m uppdate my mods soon as possible on dragtimes.com, whithout telling all small secrets:cool:

Soon we are gona test the car in dyno, we are very curious on the power in the car.

But i can tell you i DONT have any bottle in my trunk!

PS. I want to thank http://www.tmchiptuning.com for the great tuning.

And more will be ready next spring.

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If his time was on a 1000' track, it's not really that fast at all. All of us can do better than that stock!

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I have a 10.39 at 1000'......I hope his time is really for the 1/4.....
I am hoping to get to the 11's with my latest mods and drag radials, no bottles. :D

MikeR

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The slips say 1/4 mile. I tried finding the track and elevation, but Swedish doesn't translate that well. I don't know what they call their dragstips but couldn't find the right word for Malardalen drag strip. Here is a you tube video. No guard rail, but does look like concrete. Mike you should be there with your mods. If your close just change to a needswings intake.

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Cant understand wy some cant belive my time!:confused:

The place we drive on is Kjula Airport. Its arrange race 5 times/year. This time it was Compettion "Malardalen Open" http://www.rodnkustom.se/mopen3_08.html

I only drive "Test and tune", Think you have it in US to.

The length in the stip is 1/4 mile or in Sweden 402 meter, i have not heard about 1000`:confused: :confused:

The timeslip:
http://www.dragtimes.com/images_time...G-Timeslip.jpg