Evonne is back on the road and she has learned how to snarl! Watch now (14 min) | I show how Evonne (my E320 CDI W211) turned into a snarling performance machine and share how the control units were reprogrammed.
If there's any hint of government checks on vehicles in your area, you might skip this. If you choose to, you can simply punch holes in it with 3/8" wood drill bits and bash it out with a piece of rebar going through the sensor hole. Wear a mask to protect yourself from the dust. OR, better, you could find a straight downpipe to buy and offset the cost by selling that catalyst. Some will weld up their own downpipes. This guy: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.saleniuc is fabricating and selling them, I think.
By far the best sounding exhaust I’ve heard on an E320CDI. Hope you don’t mind if I follow your lead! We’re on similar tracks — I’ve got an black ‘06 that closely resembles an E63 after a rebuild due to my elderly (now deceased) father decided to drive into oncoming traffic on a divided road, and narrowly avoided hurting himself or others, but totaling the car. It was damaged more mechanically than body damage, and I replaced the front subframe and all the suspension (upgraded from stock, of course). The car looks and drives great now, but now time for engine performance mods. How are you liking the turbo and tune, now that you have time on it? Do you think it gave the gains you were expecting? It would be interesting to see some dyno numbers — Any plans?
Thanks, Mark Z! Sounds like a great project you have there. I'd like to see more about it, so feel free to link to photos and such.
Unfortunately, life has a host of distractions for me, lately, including two Kohler V-twin lawn mower engines that died very recently.
I've mostly parked the car to relocate the intercooler (done), replace the front bumper cover (done), replace the engine mounts (done and what a difference!), replace a glitchy accelerator pedal that was giving errors and putting the car into a semi-limp mode, paint a number of parts including the bumper cover (nearly done), replace headlights (redoing, the inexpensive ones I bought couldn't be adjusted), and get the boost gauge installed. I thought I'd be back on the road by now. When I do, I'll start editing and releasing content, again, and I'll gain some performance figures to share.
Now I'm going to Iowa for the weekend with a nephew's high school graduation. I'll get back to all of this soon.
Here's a couple of pics. It's dirty and I need to find a new E63 bumper for it. Someone ran into it and put a hole in it. They paid for a new OEM one -- it was a Suvneer Taiwanese copy, so I made out ok. https://ibb.co/1ZK39yJ
245/45 and 265/40. I had 275’s on the last set of wheels (CLS) but one wheel was bad, so picked these up cheap. I will probably order an intercooler and turbo this week. I’d like to do injectors as well, but think 100hp injectors are a bit large. I would like to max out the CP1 pump, which I’ve heard is over 350.
I like how wide those are, but would worry about the extremely low profiles. Midwestern roads have a lot of heaves and potholes. I'd destroy those wheels within a couple months.
I was worried about the short sidewalls on my wife's ML320 CDI with her stock 255/50R19 tires on a vehicle meant for winter driving. I went to 255/55R19 to get her a little more sidewall to protect the rims after getting one repaired. Having aggressive-looking all-seasons that are an inch taller looks a lot better on that SUV, too, without being overkill or causing any rubbing.
Very cool! I'm actually planning to build my own. https://bluewavestudio.io/shop/openauto-pro-car-head-unit-solution/ Even at the current escalated prices for a suitable Raspberry Pi I can build an open-source touchscreen system for a fraction of the cost. Of course I'll have to 3D print my own bezels to make it fitt, but I have the capability.
Yeah, I will. I hear you, on Google… We probably have similar views on what’s happening. Been aware and researching for more than a decade — gone deep down the rabbit holes.
Do you know the rail pressure your tune is set? I’ve found a couple of sources for the AMG nozzles for fairly reasonable. From what I’ve found, they flow only about 5% more at 1600 BAR but will flow around 30% more at 1800. It would be interesting to see what a stock nozzle will flow at 1800. I’ll post some of my nozzle research, if interested.
Perhaps it would be good to chat directly sometime.
Please do share your nozzle research. The main reason I didn't go with ETK's upsized injectors and buy the larger pump was because atomization winds up slightly less efficient (larger holes) and the fuel economy takes a hit. I really want to see this car get 40+ mpg, and with the way things have been cleaned up, I think it's likely to get there on the highway. Enough power to be fun and good highway fuel economy would be super-cool.
Eventually I'd like to go crazy on an OM606 effort. That's the Mercedes engine that can really deliver on horsepower!
Nice work!! - Regards, Tautvydas from ETK performance.
Thanks @Tautvydas, your tunes are doing well so far! I hope to have performance measurements to share soon.
I would be interested what you did to remove the catalyst. I am wanting to do the same on my CDI.
If there's any hint of government checks on vehicles in your area, you might skip this. If you choose to, you can simply punch holes in it with 3/8" wood drill bits and bash it out with a piece of rebar going through the sensor hole. Wear a mask to protect yourself from the dust. OR, better, you could find a straight downpipe to buy and offset the cost by selling that catalyst. Some will weld up their own downpipes. This guy: https://www.facebook.com/daniel.saleniuc is fabricating and selling them, I think.
By far the best sounding exhaust I’ve heard on an E320CDI. Hope you don’t mind if I follow your lead! We’re on similar tracks — I’ve got an black ‘06 that closely resembles an E63 after a rebuild due to my elderly (now deceased) father decided to drive into oncoming traffic on a divided road, and narrowly avoided hurting himself or others, but totaling the car. It was damaged more mechanically than body damage, and I replaced the front subframe and all the suspension (upgraded from stock, of course). The car looks and drives great now, but now time for engine performance mods. How are you liking the turbo and tune, now that you have time on it? Do you think it gave the gains you were expecting? It would be interesting to see some dyno numbers — Any plans?
Thanks, Mark Z! Sounds like a great project you have there. I'd like to see more about it, so feel free to link to photos and such.
Unfortunately, life has a host of distractions for me, lately, including two Kohler V-twin lawn mower engines that died very recently.
I've mostly parked the car to relocate the intercooler (done), replace the front bumper cover (done), replace the engine mounts (done and what a difference!), replace a glitchy accelerator pedal that was giving errors and putting the car into a semi-limp mode, paint a number of parts including the bumper cover (nearly done), replace headlights (redoing, the inexpensive ones I bought couldn't be adjusted), and get the boost gauge installed. I thought I'd be back on the road by now. When I do, I'll start editing and releasing content, again, and I'll gain some performance figures to share.
Now I'm going to Iowa for the weekend with a nephew's high school graduation. I'll get back to all of this soon.
Here's a couple of pics. It's dirty and I need to find a new E63 bumper for it. Someone ran into it and put a hole in it. They paid for a new OEM one -- it was a Suvneer Taiwanese copy, so I made out ok. https://ibb.co/1ZK39yJ
https://ibb.co/gZN6Gt3
Looks pretty sweet, minus the missing bumper cover, of course! AMG wheels on there look good. What size are those tires?
245/45 and 265/40. I had 275’s on the last set of wheels (CLS) but one wheel was bad, so picked these up cheap. I will probably order an intercooler and turbo this week. I’d like to do injectors as well, but think 100hp injectors are a bit large. I would like to max out the CP1 pump, which I’ve heard is over 350.
I like how wide those are, but would worry about the extremely low profiles. Midwestern roads have a lot of heaves and potholes. I'd destroy those wheels within a couple months.
I was worried about the short sidewalls on my wife's ML320 CDI with her stock 255/50R19 tires on a vehicle meant for winter driving. I went to 255/55R19 to get her a little more sidewall to protect the rims after getting one repaired. Having aggressive-looking all-seasons that are an inch taller looks a lot better on that SUV, too, without being overkill or causing any rubbing.
Mark, have you seen this? I’m going to order one in the next couple of days… https://dynavinnorthamerica.com/collections/dynavin-8-radios/products/dynavin-8-radio-navigation-system-for-mercedes-e-class-2002-2009-cls-2004-2010-most-adapter?variant=42568442708186
Very cool! I'm actually planning to build my own. https://bluewavestudio.io/shop/openauto-pro-car-head-unit-solution/ Even at the current escalated prices for a suitable Raspberry Pi I can build an open-source touchscreen system for a fraction of the cost. Of course I'll have to 3D print my own bezels to make it fitt, but I have the capability.
As far as Android is concerned, I actually go pretty far out of my way to avoid Google and their minions by degoogling my phones. I actually did a video on this, and I'm going to be covering some more independent, open-source, un-cancellable efforts in the near-future. https://open.substack.com/pub/artofdiesel/p/degoogle-phone?r=17xbrk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Dissident voices need to be heard, or it's simply not a free country, anymore!
Still...please share how it goes for you! Come back here and share your experiences!
Yeah, I will. I hear you, on Google… We probably have similar views on what’s happening. Been aware and researching for more than a decade — gone deep down the rabbit holes.
Do you know the rail pressure your tune is set? I’ve found a couple of sources for the AMG nozzles for fairly reasonable. From what I’ve found, they flow only about 5% more at 1600 BAR but will flow around 30% more at 1800. It would be interesting to see what a stock nozzle will flow at 1800. I’ll post some of my nozzle research, if interested.
Perhaps it would be good to chat directly sometime.
Please do share your nozzle research. The main reason I didn't go with ETK's upsized injectors and buy the larger pump was because atomization winds up slightly less efficient (larger holes) and the fuel economy takes a hit. I really want to see this car get 40+ mpg, and with the way things have been cleaned up, I think it's likely to get there on the highway. Enough power to be fun and good highway fuel economy would be super-cool.
Eventually I'd like to go crazy on an OM606 effort. That's the Mercedes engine that can really deliver on horsepower!