I Made My Twin-Turbo V12 Mercedes Sound Like A FIGHTER JET With A Prototype Intake! CL65 AMG!
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In this video, I make my Twin-Turbo V12 Mercedes sound like a fighter jet with a prototype intake! I also fix the leaking ABC hydraulic suspension again and I repair a common wiring issue on the 215 chassis CL Mercedes. Oh and we also do CL65 AMG fly-bys, boosted launches and burnouts! Enjoy!
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Don't like those quad filters at all. I will leave the factory box and the beauty cover and maybe do a velocity cone on the entry side of the air box at the front of the car.
That car is beautiful man
@LegitStreetCars Hey Alex, regarding the leak on the banjo fitting, that seal can be fixed by putting in a copper washers designed for flares. They are called bubble flares, the lines are made of steel so it's hard to believe it's flattened but the washer should fix it.. Better to try than just buying new lines. You can also remove the old line and have someone re-flare the end, just simply cut off the flared end and make a new flare. Lastly, the end could just have junk on it, a good cleaning may fix it.
For your window issue do an update to the door module its a common issue
Next time save yourself buying new lines. Whats happening there is the suaged part has been compressed and now the thread is bottoming out before making the seal. If you sand a little off the front of the pipe it usually fixes it. If not sand a little more, sand the flaired part too and use a brake flaring tool with the appropriate end to re-flair it. This doesn't need loads cut off - its only a couple of mm total.
Perfect timing for another glorious V12!
Everyone needs a little V12 in their life. Literally just a little though as you'd go broke quick with a lot of V12.
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Nice to see you here 🤗
looking forward to watching your new V12 video next 👍
Love your channel
I really like what you’ve done to the car this far, especially fixing and keeping the ABC. There is on but though, the new intakes took something away from the V12 beauty.
I disagree I think it’s still beautiful but far cooler looking
I’m usually on board with anything Alex does, but even if he gets another 20 HP, it just looks way too Boy Racer. Finding better flowing air filters that fit the stock air boxes seem to be a more elegant solution to this amazing elegant monster. Maybe add stainless air tubes from the front to the air boxes. It needs the tubes anyway and that would add to the appearance and may also increase the resonance Alex is looking for.
He needs to trim the original engine cover to fit and build a box to capsule the filters and use the original cold air intakes to feed it
"There is on but though" wtf?
@@mwilliamshs *there is one
Do you know why 8 was afraid of 7?
For the door controls it is the main box behind the door panel that most likely has a corroded circuit board. Mine did and I removed it, opened it, dried it and oiled it. Works like a charm.
I have seen that exact thing on a 03 S class. Window was down in the rain. Replaced with used part from Flea Bay. Fixed. There's your problem lady! SMA reference
Oiled? With what? What does that do?
Finally! Thanks Alex, I really only watch your Mercedes content. I think you can find way more power on the CL v12 than previous tuners who just add heat exchangers/pumps. You’re best mod before you go to Dyno will be meth injection.
Every time I watch you with your cl 65 it makes me so happy that I sold mine! THANKS!😀
Loving the Mercedes content. What a complicated vehicle. Thx for cutting the pump open.
Talk about peugeot lol
Your CL65 AMG are the most anticipated videos for me!
Thank you for the ever entertaining and educational content!
No way I’d be willing to lose the carbon fiber cover and the AMG builder signature. Too boy racer for me…
Agreed! Close the hood, can't look at it.
I'm sure they could be modified to fit them back in. There is always a way
Totally agree
I’m super grateful for the ringing bell ! I was actually in Chicago a few weeks ago for a convention downtown. I wanted to look you up but I didn’t even know where to start ! I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning! You really inspire me ! Thanks for the content!
Alex, I love your videos. No click bait half done 'next time' stuff. You just say it how it is. Thanks for your content.
No clickbait? He literally said it sounded like a fkn fighter jet....
Eh, the idea of a new intake is good, but I think it is always more classy to be able to keep the engine covers and such. Plus, one of the luxuries of this car was how quiet it was.
Its a v12, I'm just waiting for him to make it sound like an F1, not enough people with v12s do it and they can sound pretty close to the f1s
@@Motorsportsgeek cringe
While that would have it's advantages, sometimes you just have to do things the ugly way to get results.
@@YungEagle3k What is cringe about making a v12 sound glorious instead of a vacuum cleaner with turbos?
@@Motorsportsgeek Cringe again . . . It's a Mercedes not a old Chev .
Alex,
Thanks for keeping the promise of the diagnostic for the suspension!! I enjoy your good humor and brilliant repair work.
Alex loved this video, though it is a pain for you to go over so many things on your V12 Twin Turbo, but the issues you are finding and addressing is a huge service for your TH-cam community. Keep it up buddy!
Always look forward to watching your wonderful content. For the door repair, wouldn't it better to have the solder joint inside of the vehicle and door? The solder joint wont flex like the wire. As we saw from the previous repair the failure was at the joint. Of course, it's a lot more work to take the door and under dash panels off. For a longer lasting repair consider replacing the wire with the same gauge, but a higher strand count making it more flexible.
no factory harness uses solder connections
@@ezacher4634 Well there are solder points on the control module circuit board? LOL I understand what you are saying though
Would love to have a CL65, but those issues are crazy. I still wouldn’t have changed the suspension. However, it often makes me wonder why they don’t just do what Lexus does to make them last.
Money. Why build a car that lasts forever when they can engineer a car that constantly breaks so they can charge you a small fortune every year to get it fixed.
I finally gave up on Mercedes after owning 3. Switched to Lexus. Still have 2 Lexus SUVs, including a 1999 RX, which was special ordered. Would like to have the CL65, but not the problems it comes with.
Some cars are just more fun to drive than fun to own.
@@Rose.Of.Hizaki Or you finally get so frustrated and buy a new car.
To be fair this car is like the worse case scenario. I've owned my cl65 for just over 2 years and nothing close to this has happened. Only had a check engine light once and that was cause a vacuum line for the aux air pump was torn. Other than that it's been general maintenance. Replacing leaking abc lines, two in the front, one in the rear. Replacing leaking oil level sensor. And a new radiator (one of the plugs on the plastic end tanks was leaking so I had to replace the entire unit as aftermarket plugs didn't work). The turbos have a slight coolant leak that gets triggered when it's super cold out but I just top off coolant once every month and it's fine. New battery and tires obviously, but that's general maintenance.
Hey Alex thanks for the great content! For a new video idea could you go over dynamic seat faults and common repairs
Everyone I’ve talked to that’s converted to coil overs has absolutely regretted it. Even the mechanics that have performed coil over conversions say their customers hate the way the car rides. ABC is expensive but it’s an incredible suspension.
New airfilters make it look kind of a "cheap". Keep it classy, keep it OEM.
I agree. I like the engine covers too.
Yup they look trash and not much gain sound wise, at least in my headphone.
OEM looks low better
Agreed. Put it back to stock.
@@stevenduhaime1484 Stock airbox is consistent with the stock suspension. Keep it STOCK
So glad to see more content on the mighty Mercedes V12. I look forward to seeing the dyno results
Thanks for all the content brother. Keep that TH-cam grind up. ⬆️ 💯
Can’t wait to see what this beast does on the dyno. I have a 2007 CL600 bone stock and it absolutely destroys challengers and mustangs, i can’t imagine what this car will do. Awesome vid as always man
Watching you deal with this suspension makes me so glad we didn’t buy our car with adaptive suspension since we plan on keeping it a long time. That looks so rough.
there are many types of adaptive suspension so it doesn't mean that every fail
Only air suspension/hydro-pneumatic adaptative suspension is prone to failure
They’re not for people who can’t wrench lol
Ohhhhh that is so satisfying seeing someone else other then me solder wiring!!! Thank you sooooo much!!
Love this vid ... look forward to see more of this car
Many Thanks for the investigations to find original fault of the ABC system.
You're a top notch AMG technician, it's of course your call but I'd really enjoy more videos with you working on AMG cars. 🙂
Love your videos
aaand that is my birthday gift from you so thank you
My CL500 of the same vintage had exactly the same electrical issues on the drivers door wiring loom between the door at the A pillar starting to give up the ghost, very very common issue. Not too bad a fix :-). Glad you kept the ABC, amazing system! Thinking of getting another CL500 or 55 as they are just lovely cars (when working!) to sit alongside my 2010 XKR :-)
Love the channel and the content….had me hooked with the lightnin’
I have a volant cold air intake on my 02 Dodge Ram with the 5.9l engine. The intake comes with a plastic box and inside is a cone filter with a plastic tube that goes to the throttle body. I removed the box to expose the filter and i notice that the air temp was higher and heated up faster without the box. The air temp lowered way slower once the truck started moving and cruising. The cold air box kept the air temps from rising quickly in traffic and once the truck was moving, the air temps lowered quickly. I know how you feel Alex. If something isn't working on my vehicles, it feels cheap and junky to me. Even if it's a light bulb out. If it came working from the factory, i want it to work. That's a cool letter from the previous owner. I hope to make a book to leave with my car.
What you gained isn’t worth losing the clean look of the engine bay with the covers
I love this beast!!!! It can’t wait to see it all done and clean, and i just know you’re going to make it sound amazing with a custom exhaust
So glad to see this Project completed!
I’d pass on the intake. It would be a shame to discard the AMG cover and carbon fiber trim just for some extra under hood noise.
I have a CL600, same car, not AMG. One of the things I like about is that it is extremely fast in silence. Adding sound doesn't suit these cars in my opinion.
Ur brave man with the ABC suspension. I would see them fixed one day then back in a few days after. It was common for customers to abandon these cars at the dealership too since the repair was ridiculously high. It was weird to witness
Love to grab me an abandoned AMG
Hydraulic hoses can be made by any good shop. Cheaper than Mercedes hoses.
Mad respect for following through on opening up that accumulator...I was very interested and looks like it was a bit of a sketchy operation but thanks for pulling through for us!
In my opinion the hot air intakes on that car just don't make sense. At least not in that configuration. Again just my opinion. The factory engine covers are more appealing than a tiny amount of Intake noise.
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I was looking at creating an airbox for the kn filter on my turbo frs. It is a very similar setup as the one on your trans am. But as you mentioned you better have a hot air intake rather than restriction in air flow. That is what was going to happen with the new box. This video saved me time fabricating something I don’t really need as the intercooler is big enough. Thanks Alex
Again a really awesome and entertaining video with some really interesting stuff that I learned a lot from once more! Thanks for sharing, Alex 👍👏🏻👏🏻😀
As for those intakes... man, that's a hard no for me. All that hot poorly filtered air going into that poor engine. No.
You add emotions to that engine as if it feels something. Engines love running hot, it makes them more efficient. It's why cars have thermostats.
But cold air makes more power, so you think that's good. Filtration could be better, sure
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Basically the same as in Norway 😢
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I love this channel. I've been driving my kids in a 400 dollar 2003 e320 for 2 years thanks to your videos. Lots of info and most importantly your honest approach to repairs/mods make these cars less overwhelming to own and maintain.
Love all the updates on this v12 beast! You just don't let anything discourage you. Love it!
Not sure I like the trade-off of the new warm air intakes over the cold air-fed factory units. Will be interesting to see if there is really much difference in power output. aesthetically, the engine looks unfinished without the covers though you might gain some cooling benefit to them being off. Really enjoy your channel. Well done!
Man I love that car… with you owning it and fixing it lol
Nice video. Nice job with the ABC leak and the wiring issue.
This is by far one of my favorite series!
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Yes!!! More Merc V12 videos. I own a 2005 SL65 and love getting to see what makes these cars so great, and a pain in the ass.
YES!!!BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!
Love the CL65 sir. What I don't understand is why you don't use flare wrenches on these fittings? Just an observation. A guy with all of your years of "mechaniking" should have all of the right tools, one would think.
Relatively large, non rusty perfect condition fittings. Why would you need to use a flare wrench on them? I’ve seen him use them a few times in videos. You don’t need them in this situation
Im sure the previous owner would be very happy to see the car being taken care of!
Not sure he cares. He didn’t exactly take care of it himself. Lol
Hoodie didn’t care 😂
Awesome vid! I see youre climbing in subscribers. I cant wait to see you at 1 million. You deserve it, youre content never disappoints.
Thank you for the sharing of inside of the 'gerenade". I owned 4 m275 & abc cars and it is 1st. time that this parts is leaking. Besides the track and ultra high speed cornering, the ABC is Absolute ultimate Suspension System, Period. Whem you ride abc, it doesn't feel so good maybe, but after that you ride car without abc, you can feel how amazing the abc was. For that intakes, I think the m275 is too mush sensitive for those modifications. Just a proper chip will give you more light start and endless power for all rpms.
Just a thought with the ABC system.. So...When you make threaded seal connections for extreme high vacuum applications, I use a simple .10 cent ACE hardware copper crush washer inbetween the metal to metal connections.. It's all the same and I understand Mercedes engineers are amazing, just look at the new EOS 580s, but could the problem be solved with a simple solution, that Mercedes did not do so they would get service money on their inovative yet shit ABC system?? Just saying!! Plus I feel the intake system you added looks and kinna is jenkie. Let it be what it is cold air boxes, with a beautiful engine cover. Also look at Bentley GT accumulators they may work better. Thanks for chopping it at the risk of your hand
just not a fan of this intake. Under the hood the car loses all its appeal. It looks like a civic turbo budget build.
Lol do you a v12 amg??
@@aleksantini1938 had 2 previous v12 Mercs. And a C63. Don’t understand the point of your question.
Don’t care your opinion sucks
@@directcIan 😂😂😂. Ouch. My feeling is hurt
Looks stupid
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I do trailer repairs and service, and hitch installs, at my work, and we always do solder and shrink for all our wiring. Much more reliable and durable. I would also have suggested you put had put the canister in a bench vise, and then use an angle grinder to cut it open. Much safer, and less chance of it binding and pulling your hand into the saw 👍
15:32 PCV tube, not secondary air injection tube - that's on the other side of the engine (and doesn't go into the intake!)
Great update as always.
Great job on this awesome car. Not a fan of that intake, looks cheap.
I bet Renntech or Kleeman have a cleaner looking intake? Maybe something that will allow keeping the coves for a clean look?
I agree with the so called cold air intake with a good inter cooler but with natural aspirated not so much unless the box that holds the filter is closed type. Thank you for you content and keep up the awesome work. As always be safe 👍
Love the videos on this car. Need more e9x N54 content!!!
Very ugly with that aftermarket intake. Love the original AMG setup.
I get your point completely about the ABC it’s a beautiful system and the only people that put it on normal coils are the ones that or aren’t good enough mechanic’s or are cheap and don’t have the money to afford actually driving these cars. Driving and maintaining these cars especially these older ABC cars just costs a lot of money. Not a fan of the filters these will help heat soak the inlet temperature fast and when older they are often very bad actually filtering the inlet air of any pollution like sand and salt.
My 1JZ has twin intakes with pods coming from each turbo (highflowed) and makes 550whp. Yeah, it could be sheilded (and I have one that needs some modification), but your explanation about having a good intercooler setup makes perfect sense Alex.
I have a CL500 and when I had issues with my door functions and other electrical things, I replaced the SAM module and that fixed everything
Those intakes are hideous
indeed they are, looks something a kid made in his room
That is a humongous HOT air intake you have installed. I bet you lose HP once that engine bay is heat soaked
Agreed, LSC will probably take them off after a bit.
That's why the intercooler is there. If it was NA then yes the cold air would make a difference,on a turbo car with an intercooler the intercooler cools the air before it goes into the intake.
Always great to see more videos on this car! Been watching since you bought it from Hoovie, and she's come quite a long way! Honestly, I'm not a fan of the new intakes, but at least they're a bolt-on deal that's 100% reverse-able. Would love to see dyno numbers to see if there's actually a performance improvement or not with the new intakes.
I'm sure they'd be fine as long as the filters are maintained, hot air or not. Not saying your cars are like this, but every used car I've run across that has those K&N cone style filters installed, more often than not the owner says "what do you mean they need to be oiled?" That's why I prefer just sticking with stock intake boxes unless there's a significant performance increase.
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Wow your close to 700k subscribers awesome soon you’ll be at 1 million 🤙🏻Good content Alex!
Another video packed with information that gets me thinking...
My thoughts and opinions on CAI... the straighter the path to the intake valve, the better. We want the lowest appreciable pressure drop, i.e. the least energy required to get air through the intake system possible. I havent taken a fluid dynamics course, but I know a few concepts... the velocity of the fluid loses its uniformity in a bend, and contributes to a pressure drop across the bend. Any tube will have some appreciable pressure drop across it, but the longer the tube and the more bends, the greater the pressure drop, especially in high flow situations. Large radius bends should be used if bends are needed at all. The thermal expansion is a factor, and it's inversely proportional to the number of oxygen molecules in the cylinder, but there are many factors which dominate that equation more than the thermal effect. (Air loses less than 10% of its density between 100F and 200F, for reference)
To make my point: I think if we make an intake like the Caprice has, where the path is straight, fairly short, open to the environment, AND can take advantage of ram-effect, there would be appreciable gain to changing the intake piping. But, to do all those things for a conventional intake, especially if the throttle body doesn't face the front of the car, it will take some serious design work and it makes more sense to spend that money on a tune or cams, something with real, proven benefit for a few hundred $$$. If you are developing a race car and chasing that last 2-3% horsepower gain, it might be worth it.
I know it would be easy to ruin the cone shape, but I wonder how viable sanding down and reprofiling the flare fitting would be... You would have to set up a jig to get an even cone shape, otherwise it would likely leak worse even if it were smooth!
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Now that was a great way to open. Seriously good instruction.
Yes! More videos with the CL65
Awesome videos brother!! I'm always tuning in.. you give me inspiration to keep throwing money at my W210 E55 AMG 😅😅 love hate relationship/money pit but its my baby
You have slowly become my favorite channel. Been watching for 2 years or so, the firebird one
I could see the difference in the compression fitting very well Alex, great shots! I feel like it would be really cool to do a hellcat style halo direct air intake to the turbos on this CL, or you could almost delete both the inner lights for intakes! I don't know if I'd sacrifice the clean look for the minimal and kinda odd noise it makes personally.
A very sympathic guy with an positive attitude, i like him and his way solving issues
As always Great Work! Thanks for the content! Any chance you could show us specifically how to do a SBC brake flush? M113K supercharger Jet oil change? Airmatic repair/diagnosis? Thanks!
I also want to know if you ever had the cooling fan run on high for no reason on the E55? I have an example of a case study. My current issue. Wink Wink 😉
Love the amg vids
Been enjoying you series with the V12 CLS 65. For a possible next project you should consider a repairing at a budget V8 CLS, with a coil over conversion.
Alex, you can't imagine how much I admire the matter-of-fact presentation, you make repairing these cars even a die hard car guy would walk away from. And this car really is a knock-out!! We already know how much this beast tried to beat you up!!! LoL.....Congratulations! Great work. Terrific series..
I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but if you go on Amazon, they have soldering heat shrink connectors, all in one. They are pretty cool, you just heat em up, and they solder and seal all in one
Another great video, glad you decided to keep the ABC, so many people go with coilovers it spoils the ride. I still have ABC on my CL55 and SL55
one of my dream cars never knew it had a v12 engine & twin turbos I use to drive it in midnight club dub edition
@LegitStreetCars I did have the same issue with my driver's door on my CL55. It is one of the clips on that upper wood piece. It's the main power wire to it. I just ziptied mine to hold it in the clip. I haven't had another problem with it to this day. My abc system that is nothing but problems
Want would be the best cold air intake set up for 2008 SL 550
Great work on the car and keep the videos coming brother
My Jeep WJ 2001 has the same wiring issue, every couple yrs I have to fix the wiring in the door jam loom. Its a common issue in the WJ's. I also have it lifted and highly modified.
So happy for you that the channel is doing so well. You made the right choice becoming a full time TH-camr. I love watching you wrench on cars. Your passion comes through so well. Congratulations. My only criticism would be too many mid roll ads.
Thanks brother! I put in less ads then what TH-cam defaults too. I can't remove too many though. Need to pay bills
You could always download a add blocker
hose from ebay 4 inch stretchable from the Intake box with k and n filter to the removed fog light unit under headlight (naturally asperated)what a difference compared to standard....... great content stay safe😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍
Really nice video as always. That thing is gonna be a menace when its tuned.
It’s funny seeing your testing road is where I used to test out my cars lol
I had a CL600 with the ABC, when it started going bad I did a coil over swap. It never drove the same. The ABC is perfectly tuned for the weight of these cars (when it works)
I've seen people do swaps and not retrofit sway bars so it can be dangerous
Good to see a video on the CL....
Wow man, you guys must have sown terrific weather where ever you are…. For the year of that car and it being a Mercedes im amazed at how there is hardly any rusting man. Nice! 😯
My air strut went out on my E55 a few months ago and I went with the BC Racing adjustable coilover kit and couldn’t be happier!
Glad you kept the ABC system. Cant wait to see it tuned.