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Jim B. · #11 07-17-2008, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by tonkovich

hey jim. hello again. spoke with mr. mb (i.e. enrique) and am planning an early morning high speed run tomorrow to uh face the music. drama queen that i am - hey i do have a girlfriend, its an expression - i am hamletizing is that a verb? madly beforehand. do think you are correct tho twice over seem to recall 12 in town and 15 to 18 on highway, and enrique mr. mb is the "man", many "sources say"

Enrique will take very good care of you.

I am off to the shop right now to pick up my car, which just had the AMG headers, downpipes and two new catalytic converters put on it, and have been told it is now a TRUE dual exhaust, though smog legality in California may be now questionable.

When it is on the lift we will look at it and it will be explained exactly what was done. There was a LOT of custom fabrication apparently.

www.toplineautomobile.com is an ultra high line tuner that took on this job, very expensive but work of the highest quality,mostly late model Mercedes, Rolls royce, Maserati, BMW and Lamborghini tuning, but the owner has personally had three W126 cars and still owns 2, and the shop is very familiar with them and what they need.

Original hp was 238 for this (560SEC) car in California emissions trim.

The OEM new W126 Remus muffler I found in Manhattan that I put on it earlier in the year at this shop, guarantees an extra 2+ hp on the dyno.

These new AMG headers should put another 215 hp directrly to the rear wheels.

So: about another 27 hp in the car now makes 265 hp =/-

What all this will sound like, perform, like and increase or decrease MPG remains to be seen....

Maybe in a month or less I will know the answers definitively.