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.
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.
Nice work!! - Regards, Tautvydas from ETK performance.
I would be interested what you did to remove the catalyst. I am wanting to do the same on my CDI.
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.
Looks pretty sweet, minus the missing bumper cover, of course! AMG wheels on there look good. What size are those tires?