judging by what ive read probably safe to say you will make srt power maybe a little more if things are done really good and say you add an intercooler to that sts kit. then you also have other options such as intercooler spray and meth injection too. i think their kit for the nissan 350z made an extra 120 hp at only like 6 or 7 psi. (plus you get that cool turbo sound lol)

 

yeah i know a guy that has the sts turbo on a 02 ws6 transam. and that **** is crazy fast but he said it cost about $7000 dollars for everything but i dont think that he did anything just took it to a shop. but you can really hear that blow off.

 

Shop here in Indy can't even take a look for another few weeks, will keep posted....

Damnit.

 

yeah why are they to busy or what?

 

yeah i mean and labor is a tuff one to get a good deal on. i myself do all of my own work, however i know a lot of people dont have access to the tools and such necessary so it sucks, and shops will absolutely rape you on labor costs sometimes. your best judging by past experience is to find a shop that when they see it they look and say well this would be an interesting project ive never done this before and then try to use that to work out a good deal with them. however, i honestly think the only really expense would be to have some one tune the car because average rate around here is about 150 and hour thats why i have tried to make that a priority to study.

 

What's going on with the chucknorris guy?? How long tip he gets something up and running??

 

Yes, they are busy getting ready for race season.

This is why I am trying to talk my friend's shop into 'taking on' this unique project, but as you state, I am sure they knwo little to none about Mercedes tuning, so I will have to study up myself and perhaps enlist some help from the forum, but this is something we NEED to accomplish. Keep us posted on what you figure out through your reasearch.

John

 

yeah i have been calling mercedes places around here but they will not touch my car... any ideas?

 

all seems well the only thing is that it will hard trying to find anyone in a dealership type setting to really help out, because in past experience they either want nothing to do with it or they really dont know those aspects of the cars. i really think though that if anyone has acess to friends with shops or some one that can help with fabrication this could be easy, and along the lines of tuning either really study or just find some one who knows what they are doing when it comes to that. and anyone that is around me if anyone i would gladely try to help if i can find the time to, but as of right now im to far in debt to really get started on the project myself, and i have a buddys trans am i have finish first along with our personal race car, so im pretty tied up on the days i actually go home. but like i said if anyone can start on it ill glad lend any hand i can.

 

Thought everyone would find this fun...
I contacted Hennessey Performance asking them why they don't customize a Crossfire, You know since they do very unique projects. I was told they would love to create something with my car. Told me it would cost me $29,950 for a complete turbo set up producing something around 700hp... And then the last part of the email was,"Thoughts...?"

So if anyone wants to take them up on this offer, I'll give you their contact info. lol

 

i recently painted a roof on a 240 drift car for some guy that tunes. he was very interested to check out my car and the possibilties. after only a few mins of scoping out the engine bay he said he could definately create a turbo set up on this car. he sounded really confident and had a pretty genius idea about how to tune the fuel for boost. he talked of using a voltage clamp on the maf then drilling 6 new injector holes for smaller injectors that could be isolated and completely controlled by a seperate unit like AEM. only problem... lack of funds haha! he still calls me asking me when im ready to drop the car off but only in my dreams.

 

Much like everyone has said, I would suggest trying to find a shop that would like to do something like this as a 'pet project' or a shop where you could be like partners in trying to unlock this beast, they take care of some things, you pay for some things. Another thing to realize, if there is a shop that can nail this, I am sure there are others on the forum that would take their cars to them if they have a bulletproof design and implementation down. Just something to think about when trying to persuade a shop to take on the project.

Good Luck.

 

yeah but i drive my car everyday so i cant just drop my car off and let people take there sweet time with it. i mean i got 3 other cars but this is my everyday car...

 

yeah but how much did he say it would cost?

 

im not sure i like the idea of a voltage clamp though. i guess an experienced tuner and turbo builder would know if that would work with a second stage of injectors, but if we read back in chuck's concept of the supercharger didnt he try to use voltage clamps, and if you dont find a way to reset certain things on the stock ecu when you hit things like fuel cut ur going to be back down to one stage of injectors and everything and i dunno it just sounds like a mess of problems to me. seems to me that it would be easier to try and get like a split sec box to work and then have someone like tvt take off the different things like speedo limiter and fuel cut and such and then tune through the piggy back.

 

yeah i dont know which way i wanna go i have been looking into so much stuff the last few days but its really hard to find someone that will do anything i found one shop that said they would look into it but they said it would be like 5500 dollars and they dont know what kinda power they would pull or anything and thats just the start cost he said it would more then likely be about 10 grand or more but still no idea of power gains....

 

Damn, I thought I was coming up empty, that shop is trying to bend you over LOL. I hear you about the daily driver part as well, I just sold my daily so I could sink some money into the XF and drive it all the time, but finding time to leave it somewhere becomes tricky....

 

yeah i mean i got the money just i love driving this car so i dont wanna drive my nova jeep or truck around all the time that stuff is only fun when i wanna go really really really fast in a straight line one go off roading lol.... this car is just a great all around everyday car.... just wish it had a lil more ***** ya know?

 

I'm sure someone can make a turbo system work on our cars. I had an old 2.2 Turbo Shelby Charger and it was alot of fun. I think the only issue we seem to have is tuners say yeah I could make a turbo for this 30k later when can we start? No tuners want to invest the money to create a kit and no owners have a spare 20-30k for a car worth 14-17k to put a turbo on it and that's where we are. Any compnay that makes a Supercharger or Turbo kit for our cars would have alot sold if the price was say 2.5k to 3k I think easy. The cars are very affordable now and you have new owners as well as old looking for performance upgrades, either options at 5-7 pounds of boost would make our cars an instant contender with 350z's, g35's Mustang GT the run of the mill 13 second cars and that's not even intake tune exaust throttle body or some of our other options out there today. It's very possible with a base turbo/supercharger kit we would be able to build off that and create more performance options, intercoolers more boost better fuel management (getting more expensive of course but allowing those with a bigger wallet to really test the car) etc.

I for one would love to see this happen as I'm sure others would.

 

yeah i really wanna try doing something of my own but i dont know anything about ecus and all that **** so i would not know where to go from there and also i cant find a place that will tune it so what to do now lol