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Hi! This is going to be a quick status update 
video on the CLK.

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We put a lot of effort into building this 
car, but the progress isn't very visible.

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We spent about a month worth of work on it 
but all you're gonna see is that the engine 
is now installed,

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And the suspension is pretty much how it 
was before and so on.

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So I'm going to demonstrate what we've done 
so far and what the next steps are going 
to be.

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First of all we installed the engine. It 
was not a big deal,

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Because it fit snug into its place with stock 
engine mounts.

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This has been the easiest task that we've 
done on the car so far.

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I said in the previous video that it was 
wired for a DTA ECU, which we'll convert 
to MaxxECU,

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But we hope that we can use the existing 
loom and just have to change some connectors 
and such.

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This job is going to get done by Hubdyno 
for us, so we won't touch the cabling.

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We still have to finish some mechanical parts, 
at the moment the oil cooler is bypassed 
too,

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The fuel system and nothing else is hooked 
up at the moment. We will quickly finish 
up these things before sending the car out 
to get the loom made.

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After that we will be ready for the first 
startup and we'll hear what engine sounds 
without headers.

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Let's take a look at a carVertical report 
of an SL Merc that was involved in an accident.

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It was first registered in 2002 in the USA, 
and then after lots of usage it got imported 
into Hungary in 2022, so 20 years later.

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Probably already in a damaged state. It has 
69k kms in it, so it wasn't used a lot.

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And here it says it got damaged in 2021 back 
in the US.

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Let's take a look at the photos, but before 
that the price! It was imported for $14,000,

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And for the last time it was listed for 13,000€ 
in  Hungary. They didn't make a lot of money 
on the car.

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A good little V8 SL500.

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Here are the pictures from America, where 
we can see that the rear left of the car 
was damaged.

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Nothing else really, no airbag got deployed 
as far as I can see.

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And finally from 06.2022, here are pictures 
with Hungarian dealer plates, the car is 
in immaculate condition.

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And then another group of photos and that's 
all.

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If you want to check out your car, use the 
link in the description to get a 20% discount.

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And then what we invested the most work into 
is the suspension,

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Because when I originally presented this 
car, the front struts were just temporarily 
put in place as mockups with no final solution.

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Since then we completely redesigned the front 
strut towers, because this suspension is 
made for the W204 C63 AMG and the two chassis 
are not compatible.

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We had to drill new holes on the tower and 
we came up with a hybrid solution to mate 
the tower of a W204 with this car.

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There was some welding involved and some 
fabrication.

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This is ready and done, the first suspension 
is completed mechanically,

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We still have some wiring to do and to finish 
the hydraulic part for the HLS to work.

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But this part is going well. The first brakes 
are also properly installed,

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Previously it was temporarily installed, 
but now it is all measured up and big brakes 
are properly installed.

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This was the biggest progress we've made. 
The same applies for the rear as well, the 
rear suspension is mounted in place too.

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There we had to do similar changes as in 
the front. We had to fabricate a top plate 
for the rear strut as it was completely incompatible 
with the W204 parts.

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We've done that, welded in a plate that matches 
with the strut. The springs fitted easily, 
there was no hassle with that.

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The suspension was a huge step for us, since 
we had to do everything custom,

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And it takes a lot of them to think about 
it and to try different solutions, they might 
not work, then we we have one that works, 
put that into reality.

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We are very happy to be past this part now.

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Then we started mounting the gearbox into 
the car,

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I will lift the car now and show you how 
that looks!

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Our transmission is a 5 speed Samsonas sequential 
gearbox,

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It is just mounted there to see if it clears 
the transmission tunnel and to see the mounting 
points.

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It seems that everything is fine, we won't 
have many problems with it.

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We also started fabricating the gearbox mounting 
console, this is still only halfway done.

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When we're done with it, then we'll continue 
with the linkage and the spot for the shifter 
which will come up right here.

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So this part is pretty much it,

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We paired it up to our bellhouse,