Hi everyone,

Please take a look at my Benz at

http://4.33.23.93/benz

and let me know what you think of them. I would love to hear comments or suggestion on how the mods look.

Happy viewing,
Troy

-Sorry for the previous broken link - my server was down but that never usually happens

Very nice. Like the way the cold air intake is done also. Hopefully will try a similar setup on my 86 300E.

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Richie
1986 300E

Very nice. Like the way the cold air intake is done also. Hopefully will try a similar setup on my 86 300E. Like the car much better without the bra, though. Still a pretty car.

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Richie
1986 300E

Hi,

Just to let everyone know, my car sucks in outside air from the left brake duct openeing in the front bumper. I'm you saw the massive piping covering the K&N air filter, but didn't know where the car sucked in the air, but now you know. It really doesn make a big difference, especially at higher speeds causing the car to rev more at each gear and catch each gear longer.

Troy

Nice pics Troy, you obviously have a lot of pride in your ride!

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Dean Albrecht
"Lead, follow, or better yet, get out of the way!"E500 owners motto

Lookin very sweet!!!

Very nice car Troy. I knew I'd like it as soon as I could get to the pics.

The tube going over then engine, that is what a different air filter housing all together for a different K&N?

Great looking car!

Alon

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'92 300CE - Sold
2004 C240 - 744 - C7 Wheels - Android Radio
2002 C320 - 816 - Sport Wagon

That tube going over the engine is part of the stock intake manifold. The custom stuff is the "piping" that goes into the MAF sensor - in other words the polished aluminum intake piping is custom made and a KN conical air filter attatches to the end of it, but its covered by the huge black pipe that curves down into the bottom of the engine bay and extracts cold air from the left brake duct inside the bumper. All that I just described was custom done.

So you can get a visual idea of what I'm saying, here's a picure of the engine bay again:



It really works great combined with the custom exhaust work. A huge screaming/sucking sound can be heard under full throttle acceleration.

Hope this helps

Troy

Troy,

Very nice car with a good looking color!

I was a bit confused by one of the pictures of the rear I saw, but you probably have one of those typical US bra's over the front of your car?
Did you ever consider to replace the center lids on your wheels for the blue SLK ones?

What is next?

greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

Hi Steve,

I hope you liked the pictures. BTW, what size rims do you have? Well, I wish my car had the AMG bodykit or even a regular leather interior, it doesn't bother me that much, because it's not an AMG C36, and at least its faster than any regular C280 which is more important to me than if the car had AMG kit and everyone expects it to be fast, but its not - ew. I don't really know whats next - I'm trying to sell stock rear lenses to get smoked ones for 160 at Autoclass.net - I'm getting a dual sqaure tipped Remus muffler put in favor of the shoddy one thats on there. Other than that, I think anything else would be excessive and the car's getting older (5 years old), but hey - a supercharger would be cool if the tranny could take it - what are your comments on that about it being able to take it. Anyhow, I'm very satisfied with the car right now.

Troy
*Now, thats its been lowered, I realize the car could have taken 17 inch rims, but that just means more expensive tires, but polished EVOII would look cool or the 17" CLK 430 rim would look nice - Ideallly, the typical 17" staggered AMG rim setup would have worked (I assume) like the rims from C36.

Troy,

The rims I have for my car are 7,5x17". I have three sets of 17"ers: 1 set "avantgarde" ET35 which is shown on the picture, 1 set "SLK" ET35 which is shown on a picture in the everyone contributes thread & 1 set 5-stroke "styling E" ET37. This last set is new and will be mounted after the winter. I always run 215/45-17 Pneumant tires (they last 50-60k km).
Changing the taillight lenses will enhance the car definitely (in Europe you need to exchange all the three parts of the taillights, not only the lenses).

As far as I know the average "modifier-of-ones-own-car" I think you will come up with more mods for the future.
To be honest I do not know what the tranny can take...

keep up the good mods & greetingz,

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1990 300SL-24
1993 C250D with a minor 600+k kilometer
www.MBenzNL.com(the Netherlands)

Any noticable performance improvment with the Cold air induction. ? I am considering a Ram Air setup similar to what Donald has in his car. BTW that is a really nice C-Class. I really like that color, what is it?

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-1987 300E Smoke Silver
-1997 S320 Black on Black
-Soon To be E55 AMG
-27 foot Grady White Offshore Sportfish.

Hi CaptAlex300E:

Yes, there was definitely a performance difference with the cold-air custom intake. I noticed a difference when just the filter and polished aluminum intake manifold thing was done, but it was still sucking in hot air from the engine bay, but there is a definite difference now with the new piping. The car gets a little more out of each gear, and rev longer making it accelerate harder and faster. Also, its faster at all given speeds espcially 0-60, but still most improvement in speed is felt on the highway. Actaully, I've done all these mods to the car and never tested new 0-60 times and quarter miles times. I will take the car to a track in Febraury and get that done and post pics.

By the way, the MB color of the car when it was produced was called Mason's Grey (a metallic color, but now MB refers to it as Dark Grey Metallic-correct me if I'm wrong) - thanks for the compliment I really like it with the two-tone silver/polished rims - it would be awesome if MB made them in 17 AMG sizes. I don't see that color very often, once in a while on C-classes and a few E-classes, but I've never seen it on other Mercedes, except one new S-class that had it. Yes, by the more common "grey" Merc color is the brilliant silver or simply 'silver,' but so many E46 Bimmers at my school have that color, its not special anymore. Yes, I do like the metallic grey - its very classy, yet a sporty color at the same time, although I wouldn't mind a glacier white Benz like Alex's 300E. Actually there's another 1996 C280 at my school in my color and interior combo (realy odd, hey?) from Calif with leather interior and I sure wouldn't mind the real leather interior, but oh well. Well, thanks for the compliments and will post about the difference in the Remus muffler once its put on.

Thanks,
Troy

Troy,
Where did you get your car chipped at?

Nokia,

It was custom programmed by my mechanic. He tapped into the ECU and made it faster aross all ranges. Sorry that isn't of much help to anyone here, my mechanic just knows how to do those sorts of things. I don't know of anyone who makes a real "chip" for the C280.

Troy