hard to miss a shift with an auto.

 

Ummmmmmmmm.............have you actually READ this thread, or did you just skip to the last page and make a post?

 

skipped to the last page.

 

Obvious fail is obvious

 

I haven't been monitoring the board for a while... Just wanted to give a shout out to HDDP.

Great job brutha!

Hope to hook up with you at a NASA event here on the west coast sometime this year... $$ & Time meshing appropriately.

Again... great job... excellent HP numbers!

 

Hey buddy, long time ! Lot's to catch up on, but the major one is that I moved to Charleston, SC so I would love to do some NASA events with you, but I'm running in the South East Region now... And yes, I still have the Crossfire, but now I'm running a C6 Corvette most of the time. NOW THAT'S 600 HP OF FUN !

 

Oh yeah... Ready TO GO !

 

Glad to hear you are doing well... I'll have to PM you my number, although I don't think it's changed since the last time I saw you.

If you have it give me a shout.

 

HDDP!

Great to hear from you. A lot of us wondered what had happened to you. Nice to know you still have the car.

 

Can I ask how you removed the coolant expander tank? I purchased a new one and can't get the other one out. I have the lines and sensor off but it sees where the nipple attaches, at least it seems so.

 

This is an ancient 5 year old thread, but the tank is held in place with a barbed stud on the bottom of the tank. You just pull it up hard, spray WD40 onto the barbed spigot if you can feel it.
Easy peasy. (When you know how)

 

You are probably not on this board anymore but if we could drop a stock srt6 engine in a manual crossie with the flywheel, crankshaft and an upgraded clutch all from the c230 coupe. Then reprogram the stock ecu from the n/a or srt6 so it wouldn't interfere with the lack of a tcu. Or program a motec to emulate a functionning tcu through a piggyback setup. How does that sound?

 

Sounds like some fun could be had for a little less than a left leg 🧐🧐tell me more (3 years later) 😂

 

You can drop in anything that’s a similar year basically and I make ECU’s for basically everything at this point. I’ve done a bunch of SRT swaps into manual crossfires but you CANNOT use the C230 clutch or flywheel. They’re tiny and it will slip... a lot. You need to grab a crossfire flywheel and clutch either pre-‘05 or post-‘05 depending on your build date vs the engines.

Contrary to popular belief you can retrofit a supercharger from the SRT on to an NA along with its complimentary components. It’s not going to ‘destroy the engine’ or cost 3 ********* lol. It’s surprisingly common nowadays. For that I would build an ECU for you from a 32 AMG and you’d go to your favorite tuner and tell them what you did.

I have a Facebook page that I prefer inquiries through if anyone has more questions: https://m.facebook.com/MercedesSwapShop/

 

Great explanation Josh!