*Mercedes Benz E55 kompressor + Headers ?

[Glenn@Marranos]

On behalf of Sonny...

As most of you already know i have been busy doing alot of developement on the mercedes benz range.We have been working closley with a company in devolopeing a set of headers for the E55 kompressor range and naturally aspirated range right up until the current C63 range,i will be posting this developement as we progress with it.We have here a 2006 E55 kompressor we basically ran it up on the dyno dead stock,it pulled a healthy 309rwkw's reapeating this figure 3 runs back to back,the runs were done in 4th gear.We then fitted a set of headers resulting in a healthy 334rwkw and a healthy torque gain.The vehicle was amazing to drive on the road,lighting up the tyres at 1/4 throttle with ease and the drivability in the low end and mid toirque was incredible,owner had a smile from ear to ear after the first drive.We are doing the mods in stages and logging the results as yet we are yet to tune this vehicle followed by a pulley kit if the owner wants more,the aim is 500 hp at the treads.We will also be testing this vehicle with a full exhaust as we are devolping one for it,will repost in this thread once the testing is done.Another thing i will mention is these headers certainly bring the growl out in the mercedes benz v8 engine without making it sound cheap or loud


Heres the link to the run when it was stock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sqydTyOmJY

Heres the link after the headers went on,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq59jWb6qaQ


Heres some pics of the biuld.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1567.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1583.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1580.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1596.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1595.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1597.jpg

Heres balancer we brang in from the states we will be testing on the naturally aspirated model,

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1590.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1591.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j187/hsvzclubbie/IMG_1593.jpg

[Dan_]

Very unimpressed with the stock headers. Expected more from AMG tbh. I saw this car when i was there the other day.

[Strick]

ah so it begins haha, nice work will be interesting to see the modification path and the results you can achieve

cheers

[NickS]

Looking good guys ... is this Chris's Merc ? Very nice guy, he delivered the Coupe 4 (without engine) home for me ... :thumbs:

[GTS Listy]

They are great those cars and good work ont he headers. Look like a tight fit. I went for a test drive a few years ago in a E55 and a CLK55 and boy the sound of those engines and exhausts are really something special. Especially the convertible CLK with the roof down. When i took it for a test drive I had no idea they were that much. He just said get in and take her for a spin. I nearly fell over when he told me how much money I was driving around.