fd3virgin

i was at wawa. saw an sl 55 pumping gas. I left thinking when i will be able to get one oneday. Next thing i know he is barreling down my bumper and blows past me. I catch up to him at the light and noted the v12 badge. i am sure it was an sl 55 b/c the sl 65 would have destroyed me by a mile. i am fucked. I am running a t78 single turbo at 15psi of boost. After the run i checked the pfc and it was right around there. I maxed out of injectors though ( 100% inj duty). No boost leak, no excuses. Light turns and we go from a dig. Right away he is two cars ahead, i pulled a little bit in third but when we shut down at 130 he was still 2-2.5 lengths ahead. this was on a country road with no traffic either way at 11 pm.
wow, what a race. i wished i was tuned on race gas. I might be running slightly rich b/c ray @ pfs is sick of me blowing up my car. I think i would have taken him with race gas @ 23 psi. I am sure i will run into him another day. I will be ready with my procharged z06. I could use the 250 more whp & torque. kevin

Mr rx-7 tt

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What? You should have easily crushed him.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...-sl55-amg.html


493 hp @ the crank and 4411 pounds...

Yellow R1

You did not race an AMG SL55. You raced an AMG SL65. The 55 is a blown 5.5 (actually 5.4L V8). The 65 is a twin turbo V12 w/600Hp & 738 ft lbs of torque.

The 65 would make an interesting "race" according to your 1/4 mile time in your sig (pretty much dead even). I guess your car puts out significantly less power at 15 psi. You still should have been able to hang. Oh well - the SL65 AMG is pretty nasty once it gets rolling & its no slouch from a dig (they have excellent T/C). Who knows, he may have modded it. It's a 10 sec car with some Renntech ECU tuning (I believe ~ 890 rwtq with some Renntech goodies. With that much torque, it doesn't matter what he weighs - that is insane output).

See ya,
-Matt

fd3virgin

mabye it was the sl 65. i am assuming i am making about 410-420 whp at 15 psi. I never got the dyno sheet emailed to me. there was no crushing today that thing was quiet and deadly. kvn

FD WannaBe

I'm sure he was suprised he didn't pull 10 cars on you. He may know a thing or two about rotaries though.

evo2fd baby

what a bad *** car(merc).

RotaryDreamz

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i would pic the new sl65 over the lambo's or ferrari's anyday...

Mazda_Power

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Until you had to go around a corner... ha ha ha

elementFD

haha i dont know man Eddie griffon prooved the ferrari ENZO doesnt take corners to well haha http://youtube.com/watch?v=cNVrMZX2kms

Healing

^^ That's called lots of understeer, and not knowing how to avoid it...

Baller *** cars, those Benzs are. Drove a SL 55 myself...Got lots of power, but not fun to drive really. Still baller...

darkphantom

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very true. check out the results from the 12 car challenge. even though the benz has more hp than alot of the cars it sucked on the track

http://www.caranddriver.com/comparis...challenge.html

Gouki7

lol and after you crash it you have to stand around like you meant to do it