since no one is responding to my other threads, thought i would post this:

raced my business-partners' 2006 SL55amg today over lunch, guess who won..... ....TWICE

SRT-6 baby!!!!

pulled by a little more than a car-length! 58degrees outside, and the 6 is loving it!!! (hard to get my 452's to hook though)

SL55: stock
SRT-6: sprint booster, ported y-pipe, NW intake, Code3 phenolic spacers

 

Smack that as$!
Way to represent!

 

452s? what is that? not your tires

 

I believe he has Falken 452's.

MikeR

 

yes, falken 452's. lots of spin if you don't heat em up on a cold day.

 

Your partner must feel good about spending $100k for a car you can trounce with an $18k Chrysler. Hope it came out of personal and not LLC funds.

 

Fixed it for you...

 

awwww idk about better looking i love my crossfire but the SL55 is one SWEET looking car

 

Yes it is, but you see SLs around my area all the time, and the SL55 AMG doesn't look different enough to distinguish for the SL550 from a distance...

 

18,000 cause we make it that way....this is a car that is worth alot more than $18000....

 

Congrats - always fun to run other makes/models with other car enthusiasts. SL55's tend to be high 11's or low 12's @ around 118+... while that's a bit quicker than the SRT6 or SLK32, it's close enough that it should be a drivers race IMO.

As for the "my 18k car beat his 100k car" - I had to laugh there. If at the end of the runs, the guy had said "jeez, I didn't realize my SL55 was slower than your SRT6 - want to trade straight up?" any sane person would take that trade in a heartbeat. Point is, there's always someone faster. There are older civics and integras that would destroy any of us in a race, and they're probably worth $3-5 grand. There's always somebody faster... and yes, sometimes with a less expensive car.

 

you should have told him to race for pinks

 

This statement kinda irks me, I spent $30,000. plus I had to trade my loaded 2004 Limited in on it. Not all of us bought them after the market fell through the floor. Some of us would have even paid far more due to our love for the car.I still see mine as a $50,000. car
Mike

 

very nice , what kinda hp does the 55 produce....

 

I bought my roadster new. It was worth every penny I paid four years ago but I half to recognize the value the market places on a used Crossfire. Hence my comment.

PS - I paid $21k for my SRT6 and think I got a bargain.

 

AMG 5.4L V8 Kompressor = 500ish crank hp stock. pretty easily modded to 550+, and heavily modded M113K's top out around 700ish crank hp, I believe.

 

thats a beast!

 

Yes sir - pretty stout. The funny thing is, that's even the "baby" of the SL AMG options. The top dog is the SL65 with the biturbo V12. If you feel like it, check out the new SL65 Black Series from Mercedes' AMG site... it's insane (and currently my wallpaper )

 

SL55 -- I suppose he blamed it on a "bad I/C pump" You can tell him not to spend $4,500 on a tune and pulley from one of theGerman tuners, but it's probably coming.

 

I got to race with SL 65 Black...not against him, but saw his quarter times, had me by a whole second...car is awsome...but I told him it cost him at least 175K to get that second on me...really nice kid, hopes he's there next week...I will line against him and his 700 hp + nox car...25K vs 200K...