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Hey guy's, my brother is a tech at a Mercedes dealership and he told me a story that I had to share with HMT. He said that some guy brought in a fairly new supercharged AMG (like a sporty version of Mercedes) complaining of a loud "thud" noise whenever he would be at a stop and then mash the gas pedal to the floor. The tech's checked the car out and brought it for a test drive and then back to the dealership. They determined that the problem was the car had so much power and tourque that when the guy would floor it from a stop, the tires would grab the road and the rims would spin inside the tires!!!

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holy torque hubs batman :o

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hahaha thats funny .....tell the guy to get some bigger rims and tires :P

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Tell your brother to tell the owner of the car to get some rim screws!!!lol

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Yeah that's pretty nuts. Those Supercharged AMG 5.5L V8 motors make 493 hp @ 6100 rpms and 516 lb-ft @ 2,750 - 4,000 rpms. The 5.5L V12 motors make 493 hp @ 5,000 rpms and 590 lb-ft @ 1,800 - 3,500 rpms. That's some nice power for a stock luxury car.

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i want one

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i saw a new v8 kompressor. the car was pimp, and i'm sure it was very quick. i want one

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my neighbor owns a kompressor >:( , as well with the dude with the n-sex ;D ;)

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AMG isnt no joke. my grampa has one of those AMG mercedes benz and that thing hauls ass...no wonder they have hella wide tires on the back end. but his is the roadster model...but seriously..those things can lay some numbers down at the track...if im not mistaken the most powerful AMG can do 10.3 on the quarter mile stock. you should see some of the tires they put on those things...high performance tires baby! i see them come thru my job all the time. i just dont like the sport a matic shifting but hey...i guess they dont want you to bust the drivetrain with 500 horsepower and a manual.

lewis

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That sounds like a customer I had one time with a twin turbo Supra. The guy came in complaining about a bad vibration, after some check out we figured out he had twisted the drive shaft, from all the hard launches at the strip. I have worked on some fast cars but I have never seen a driveshaft twisted like this one, it looked like a dish rag. Just goes to show you what boost can do.

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i've broke driveshafts off.. pft twisting.

i've twisted one completly apart about 6 inches from the joints

well not quite 6 inches.

https://www.homemadeturbo.com/jbliss...driveline1.jpg

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My brother is actually working on buying one of the new kompressors from Mercedes. So if he does, we'll get some 1/4 mile times out of it and I'll let you guys know. lol ;)

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Do they have new mercedes kompressor's or something? The ones on the mercedes website have little 4 cylinder engines and you couldn't pay me to drive one of those ugly ass kompressor coupes. The 4 door isn't that bad looking though. I would rather get a high end mercedes instead of the cheapeast one they have though. If I was going to get a cheap luxury car I would buy a Lexus IS300 and turbocharge it.

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the kompressors are supercharged

believe me, the new v8 s/c ones are pimp. they look great and i bet they're pretty fast

i watched a car show on ESPN this mornin. they did a test between the 03 viper srt10 (80k) and 03 z06 vette (50k)
the viper ran 12.1 and the vette ran 12.5 with street tires on both.

but of course they said the vette will out corner and brake the viper over and over.

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I don't understand how the vette will out corner the new viper. It has over 1 lateral G of grip. The new vette has .98g. The skidpad doesn't lie, neither does a slalom which the new viper won as well. I'm not sure about the braking but the reviews I read the new viper uses a vette for a bitch.

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you heard that? well these guys tested them. the only time i've seen a viper pull 1 full g on a skipad was a 300ft one

the numbers come out about the same, .98g for the vette and .97gs for the viper. but the vette always comes out on top in road races for some reason... traction issues maybe?

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....rticle_id=2834

btw stageII not the stageIII which is 750

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those z06 vettes don't play... 12.5 and awesome overall performance.

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car better haul ass for that much money :P