Performance enhancements for CLK

[the_player]

After thinking of maybe swapping the CLK320 (w209) for something faster (see my other thread on depreciation!) I was wondering if I were to keep hold of it for a while what I may be able to do to it to increase the performance?

I have looked at getting it chipped a couple of times but it appears the gains are pretty small (i.e. 10bhp) which I'm guessing is down to the fact that it is normally aspriated. The only other thing I could find was the sprintbooster which seems to get good reviews....

Any ideas - or are we talking mega money to do anything exciting with it ?



Ben.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Sadly options are limited, and expensive.

I would suggest the old-fashioned way to tuning would probably be best - starting with 'breathing'. Manifold/headers and exhaust with less restrictive cats (or cat delete) would be a good start. Add some air filters if you're feeling brave and don't mind buying MAF/MAS if worst comes to the worst.

 

[the_player]

Oh well - maybe I should just look into one of those sprint booster things...

 

[A210AMG]

Hello


On the American merc forum I'm on they do talk of superchargers...

Even on my ML350 someone has fitted one... pushes it over 300 bhp

OK so price will be high but depends on how long you know intend to keep the car against price to swap?

I don't know which model the w209 is, is it the latest one or older one in which case

Older one = CLK 55's sensible money now

newer one CLK 500's great value.


Depreciation in a way is accademic as it would be the price to change for one of these if you decided to do that.

The modifying route will I'm sure cost more as other bits will need upgrading...

 

[grober]

W209 is the the newer one. Probably best to buy an AMG V8 if you want a performance boost you will really feel. Tuning modern engines is pretty difficult to achieve while still retaining good drive-ablity, emissions etc. The days of twin choke webers, highlift cams and freeflow exhausts are long gone. The exception seems to be cars which are supercharged/ turbo charged as part of their original design. It appears to be relatively easy to increase boost pressure and together with an ECU remap to ignition and fuelling obtain a useful power increase thro the rev range. Insurance companies are some what lairly of this tho, being much happier with higher powered "factory spec" models which have appropriate suspension and brake mods to match the increase in power.