1 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:42,900 Hi! Just so that we definitely don't get bored, here we have another project car, that we left unfinished about 5 years ago. 2 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,900 We have a chance the continue working on it now, so in this video I'll tell you more about what kind of a car this is, 3 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,000 What is our progress with it so far, 4 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,900 What the future plans are and what we want to use it for. 5 00:00:54,100 --> 00:01:01,100 This is a 2004 CLK55 AMG that I brought into the country about 6 years ago, completely stock. 6 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:05,600 It has a naturally aspirated V8 engine, called M113, 7 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,800 From factory it's a 360hp NA engine, paired with a 5 speed auto trans, and pretty long diff ratios. 8 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:26,800 It's a lovely sports car, sounds beautiful, but it's not really made for agressive driving. You can hammer it a couple times, has a good vibe, but nothing more really. 9 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,200 There was a Black Series version made out of this CLK back in the day, 10 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:21,800 We have a similar plan in mind, however we won't make an exact replica, rather a unique car. 11 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:29,400 The basic idea with this build is to make a car that is properly built for pure driving. 12 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:37,500 By that I mean there is no electronic systems getting in your way, the car isn't thinking instead of you, it doesn't shift gears for you. 13 00:02:37,700 --> 00:02:50,300 You are the one driving, and it can almost do what a modern day drift car can do combined with a little bit of comfort and usability. How we're going to do that, I'll tell you in a bit. 14 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:55,100 As usual, let's take a look at a carVertical report, about a CLK. 15 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:57,100 Here it writes this car has been damaged, 16 00:02:58,900 --> 00:03:01,400 It was first registered in America in 2005, 17 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,600 From there it went to the Czech Republic, and from there to Hungary. 18 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:13,700 Mileage is 200,000 kms (125k miles), there isn't much that happened to it. 19 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:19,700 Damage! The front had a pretty significant damage to it apparently. 20 00:03:22,300 --> 00:03:32,600 It was sold for $725, that isn't much. It is also a 5.5L CLK, but it isn't AMG. And here are the photos: 21 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,400 They wrecked the right front pretty badly. 22 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:47,200 If you want the check out your own car or a car that you plan on buying, use the link in the description to get a 20% discount. 23 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:59,100 Let's being with the suspension. The car got - it is not yet fully built in, just thrown in - a KW suspension that can do HLS and DDC. 24 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:18,600 HLS is Hydraulic Lift System, it can lift itself without affecting handling. This is not an air spring, it is hydraulic. You can lower your car and also lift it on both axles. 25 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:24,500 It is called HLS 4, you can also buy it for the front axle only, ours is for all 4 wheels. 26 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:33,000 If I remember correctly, you can use it up to 80kph (50mph), you can raise and lower it while driving. 27 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:46,600 For comparison, with a Lamborghini you almost have to fully stop, you have to drive really slow lift its front up and above 30kph it lowers itself back down. So this one's better. 28 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:57,200 DDC is Dynamic Damping Control, which means you can change the suspension's stiffness on the run. 29 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:14,700 If we were to put it into a newer car - this was ordered for a W204 C63 AMG - it would be plug and play, you just click it into the factory loom and are able to control it with the factory buttons to be in sport, comfort or street. 30 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:29,100 This car doesn't have the option, here you either use a phone to set and customize these options, or there is a dedicated button that you can use to cycle between comfort, street and sport modes. 31 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:39,400 My hopes are that with this suspension we will be able to achieve a usable setup for both track and street use as well with the least compromises. 32 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:47,700 In addition there is also a control unit and a motor part of the hydraulics to install, we have to make the tubing for the whole thing as well. @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073732485 9 0 511 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}.MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} 33 00:05:48,000 --> 00:06:00,500 We haven’t done those yet, so far we only tweaked the suspension to fit, because it is originally made for a different model. We needed some modifications for it to fit, but it looks like it is gonna be good and will work for us. 34 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:05,500 We'll talk more about the details of the suspension in a later episode. 35 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:13,300 The brakes are off of a CLS63 AMG, the front ones very relatively easy to fit, however for the rears we will need to swap out the knuckles. 36 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:18,700 About the externals: the car will get an aftermarket Black Series bodykit, 37 00:06:19,300 --> 00:06:22,700 You can get these from the UK and from Poland, 38 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:29,400 They are pretty good quality, there are multiple versions. We already purchased one version, but we didn't really like it, 39 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:38,000 Because it was done so that the widebody section at rear clears the gas cap from under and the factory one overhangs several centimeters. 40 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:47,200 So the rear sits pretty high and it looks stupid, so we let that idea go and we are now looking for one that is more similar to the stock one. 41 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,100 It will never be an exact match, but you can achieve a really-really close finish. 42 00:06:52,700 --> 00:07:03,200 The interior is going to be simplified, but it will look a little bit like factory. The rear seats might come out and maybe we'll put in a half cage. 43 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:16,200 The front seats are not staying factory either, I plan to use a Recaro CS sport seat or a newer model year AMG's half bucket seat for better side support. 44 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,100 The dashboard, door cards, etc will all stay, but we will retrim all of them with fresh leather. 45 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:31,400 We will retain a couple of the comfort electronics, AC for sure, audio system as well. And pretty much that's all that we need. 46 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:42,800 What is a significant difference from the stock interior is that the small auto gear selector will be replaced by a long Samsonas sequential gearbox shifter will poke out of there. 47 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:55,000 We will also hide a hydro e-brake somewhere too. Mercedeses don't have a literal handbrake, you engage them by foot, so we need a totally different solution here. 48 00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:11,200 Here's the engine. This is also an M113, but there is a K-letter at the end, which means it has a compressor. In this configuration it has never been put into CLKs, they are either from W211 E-Classes, or W220 S-Classes. 49 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:31,200 So this is a factory supercharged engine with about 475hp. We have already made some changes to it, first of all the throttle was swapped to a bigger one, the supercharger pulley is now smaller and we removed the clutch from the charger, 50 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:35,500 Meaning it is directly driven, whenever you touch the throttle it is maximum power. 51 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:56,600 There are some bigger downpipes on it, but they are not the best ones, we might modify them later, on the other hand the coils are original, the injectors are stock. And as it is it put out 650hp and 950Nm (700lb ft) on a dyno, which is just brutal. 52 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:07,900 On top of that, the torque is being delivered totally flat from 3000-3500RPM upwards. It is gonna be a brutally strong motor, especially on the street. 53 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:22,300 It will stay very raw, we will put a MaxxECU into this as well, but somewhat in parallel with the stock electronics to retain the speedo and varius other systems on the interior. 54 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:29,600 This is why it's good that it already had a 55AMG engine from factory, at least they will be somewhat similar. 55 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:42,700 We'll put the AC compressor back on and after we're pretty much done with it. The loom has already been put on the motor, the charge air cooler and the oil coolers are already in the chassis, 56 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:49,500 So now we are going to put the engine in, hook everything up and relatively easily it will be ready for a startup. 57 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:59,700 We will have to touch the fuel system, because compared to the NA engine the new one will be close to double in performance. And the stock fuel system won't be able to handle that for sure. 58 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:11,100 And here's our gearbox, a 5-speed sequential Samsonas gearbox, already bolted to a V6 bellhousing, which bolts straight to the V8. 59 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:18,300 It is going to be mated with a 3-disk Tilton clutch, and a Tilton clutch bearing. 60 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:29,500 This box is definitely not going to contribute to the comfort, but I want to try this one first, because it will give a lot to the dynamics of the car. 61 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:42,200 As a B-option we have the diesel gearbox, we'd lose our pokeyness, but in return it wouldn't be so unbearably loud and so drastic to operate. 62 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:52,500 You put this one into first and it instantly hits once hard. On the street, I wouldn't want to sit through a traffic jam with it, but when going for a joy ride it will be fantastic for sure. 63 00:10:52,800 --> 00:11:10,700 And as a last possibility, we could use its factory auto, or maybe we could make a newer model, because the auto trans that came with it is this old, classic Merc tranny, slow as hell, but bullet proof. 64 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:21,800 We could also make it work with BMW's DKG gearbox, that would also get us great results, but it is important for me to have a clutch pedal and have a manual. 65 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:30,600 So this is how this project looks at the moment, I really hope that we can finish it in a short time, because I think it will become a brutally crazy car at the end. 66 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,500 We will make a video at every major step with the car, so make sure to subscribe to the channel. And I'll see you again next week. See you then!