While doing all this work we wanted to make sure that every pipe or anything else that had to do with the cooling of the turbos was not blocked or damaged.
There are two pipes that run under the coil packs. Could they also be blocked?
Of course they would be!
Drivers side was unblocked successfully but the passenger side wasn’t having it. After using a metal wire and trying to flush it, we finally saw water come out but not from the other end of the pipe.
The water was coming out under the coil packs. We thought we damaged the pipe when putting it under pressure.
To get to the pipe, you have to remove basically everything that’s on top of the engine including the coil packs.
Once removed, after looking at the pipe, I thought it was just blocked but I also noticed a tiny little hole and that’s where the water we saw was coming out from. I was trying to figure out how to maybe repair that small hole as I was inspecting the pipe.
As I started cleaning and wanting to check how bad the rust was as the pipe seemed to have some surface corrosion, it became clear that the pipe had massive holes but that wasn’t obvious at first because oh how badly blocked it was! There was nothing that could be done but to get new pipe.
Off I went to Mercedes to order a new pipe but seeing as the faulty pipe had corrosion, the other side must have had corrosion too even though we managed to unblock it so I thought it’s best I order both of them.
This was the good pipe
Nearly £300 for two silly pipes but it’s a V12 AMG, what else can you expect! The parts guy knows me by name and doesn’t even ask for a deposit anymore. He just says, I’ll call you once the parts are here Sam
As always, every time I order anything for this cars, I have to wait ages for the parts to arrive as it seems like they come from Mercedes in Germany. After waiting a few weeks, the pipes finally got here in the UK.
Looking at the condition of the metal pipes, we wanted to remove any pipes, hoses that had to do with the coolant system and make sure everything was cleaned.
Just look what came out from this pipes!
While I was waiting for the pipes to arrive and the car was in pieces, I thought I might as well order the ABC filter for both cars and new ABC fluid as that was another job I wanted to get done to the cars.
I ordered 20 litres of ABC fluid. I wanted to flush the system on both cars properly. If I’m not mistaken, the system has 5l of fluid.
The new coolant pipes were fitted and we started to put the car back together.
Once everything was on, there was more fun to be had……. Bleed the complicated system that Mercedes had designed for this car!
After getting all the air out, I took the car for a spin to make sure everything was good.
I have no words to describe the performance of this car! I thought it was fast before but by not having the auxiliary pump working before, it seemed like it had an effect on the performance. The car felt like it pulled even harder now, a lot harder. I had read that the auxiliary pump makes a difference on the performance of this cars but I never thought it would make this much of a difference!
It made my stomach feel weird when the car went to second gear and it felt like this thing would take off if it had wings! I didn’t think I had concentrated as much before as I did on the first drive because you approach things very quickly! The s63amg is a fast car too but the way I can describe the performance between the two is like, when I’m in the S65AMG, I feel like I can take on anyone ( although I know there are faster cars out there ) but it just gives you more confidence, the kind of confidence that’s makes you believe not many cars will be able to keep up with you…… Anyways, moving on.
With the car being completed and finished very late at night “again”, we said we’d change the ABC fluid another day as there was no rush for that to be done.
Very soon I had a reason to change the ABC fluid but this is a story for the S63AMG thread that I have updated
To finish off here, there was a car meet in Hayes, caraudiosecurity. I decided to take both the S classes but obviously I couldn’t drive them both at the same time. I called my brother and said, my bro, I need a big favour to which he replied, anything for you!
I said I need you to drive one of my cars to a car meet as I would like to take both cars there. His reply was, “ I thought I was going to do you a favour but I feel like you’re the one doing me a favour by letting me drive one of your cars”
. In less than an hour he was outside my house
We took the cars there and it seemed like a few people liked them. I was chatting to a few people and I completely forgot to take any pics. This was the only one I could find online.
Thank you if you read my super long post and your comments are always welcomed