MERCEDES BENZ KOMPRESSOR CRACKED

Got pics of fitting somewhere, but I tell you what, its a fucker on these. Not many suspension kits available for the car, and wanted it to be comfy as I do 600miles a week, and handle well as thats what I care about, so went for a Bilstein B12 kit. No prizes for guessing which is from what end.Īs you can see from the Brunters snaps, although the car handles way better than I thought, it was soft as fuck like all standard cars, so I needed to sort that. The rears were as good as the fronts when I bought it.

Then I took it to Bruntingthorpe and raped the shit out of it, open diff and traction control cant stop you when chucking it in at the top of 3rd.Ī mix of Brunters and road skids soon ended the life of the rear tyres though. I seperated it from the system and the car ran exactly the fucking same, just the boost gauge showed bigger spikes as you shut the throttle. Nobody had ever proved that, it was just what the 'experts' say, but was it fuck. The myth was that it was needed for under 1500rpm where the supercharger is disengaged as without it the car wouldnt get any air so wouldnt run. I did some testing with the supercharger bypass valve, this hallowed piece of machinery in the Merc world it seemed, and its fuck all, just an electronic dumpvalve, serves no purpose barring to lessen the boost spikes as you shut the throttle. So 30min later I had made myself an indiction kit with shit I had lying about.įucking the airbox off (massive K+N filter was added too) made it noticably quicker, and made it sound very, very, different. I gave it a service, oil, plugs, filter, and with the bonnet up I couldnt help thinking the standard airbox looked restrictive as fuck, but there are no induction kits available and seems 99% of Merc 'enthusiasts' in the UK know less than my mum and think fitting an induction kit to one is impossible due to the complicated inlet setup and bypass valve shit.

MERCEDES BENZ KOMPRESSOR CRACKED

Once I finished playing and went home, within a few hours I had fucked the chrome off and made the grille black.Īnd done the same with the rear badges.Īnd some pressed steel plates as the stock ones were cracked and fucked. Went really well, was surprised, and despite TC you cant fully turn off, and an open diff, you could easy skid roundabouts and sliproads and shiz.Ģ.3 litre 16v supercharged, 197bhp and 197lbft as standard, runs 7psi boost, and weighs about 1300kg. It was a fair step up from my last daily, the wankbox wrote off Punto you see in front.īeing a Sport meant the interior was decent and black with fake carbon shiz and white dials, rather then tweedy woody shite like usual. I half expected being red for the paint to be pink, but it was nice and red after a quick polish, right down to the gay headlamp eyebrows it had on it.

Considering you see rust holed base model shitboxes being sold for far more cash, I was happy enough. After spanging my Punto TD daily shitbox into a tree I needed a new car to do the 600mile a week I do, and in an ideal world it would've been a backup drift car as the RX7 is perpetually fucked, but I didnt have much money to spend, to say the least.īut the chances of that for the money I had were slim to none, but a random at work ebay bid proved me wrong, and for about the money a set of Rotas would cost, I had a 1998 Merc C230 Kompressor Sport, Manual, and pretty fucking tidy inside and out.

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