New toy / I missed this site!

[ConeKilrAutoX]

Hi all, been so busy with life, but I can finally be on here again! Envoy is still getting resurrected a little at a time. Trying to work on it with my father and our time schedules having been matching up lately. Crown vic is going up for sale soon because speed addiction is a TERRIBLE THING.....

That being said...I saw a CL600 mercedes for sale from texas for $23,000. I had a prepurchase inspection done and found and was quoted $35,000 additionally to fix it. Long story short, I priced out not getting parts from stealership and doing all my own labor and spent 4K on parts. I used the heavy repair quote to negotiate down to 7900 HAHA.

So I had to say keys..please. (enter whole new level of power...I almost had to change my pants the first time I really drove it)

80,000 miles. V12 Renntech tuned Twin Turbo 2003

 

[Aarkon]

Glad to see you back buddy and nice car

 

[dmanns67]

Glad to see you back on the forum Mike and great news about the resurrection plan for the Voy.

Beautiful 600. V12 twin turbo is insane I can only imagine that power. Looking forward to some videos.

 

[ConeKilrAutoX]

 

[ConeKilrAutoX]

Glad to see you back buddy and nice car

Thank you! It is truly awesome to be back on here. I missed seeing all the new inovations and mods and funny posts. I was/am working 2 full time jobs so time is sparse until things calm down in a month when I drop down to 1 full time 1 part time haha. Any way thank you! Whats up??? truck is looking beastly as always!!!!

Glad to see you back on the forum Mike and great news about the resurrection plan for the Voy.

Beautiful 600. V12 twin turbo is insane I can only imagine that power. Looking forward to some videos.

Good to BE back my man. whats new and whats new with the truck!? I am pumped for resurrection of the voy tooo itll just be slow going. probably going for an internally wastegated turbo. My dad took sparco seats out and I put power leather ones in haha...(difference of opinion of comfort/badassness) lol.

Thanks man....the CL is...STUPID fast....I have a lot of GoPro footage I will post when I get to edit it of me with other cars but here is a little chill video with non other than my friends caprice haha. (disclaimer ...the dog was not in his car the entire time we filmed.) I just talked about the parts I replaced so far and whats left and the rest is all experimenting angles wit hthe GoPro Enjoy haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhV99So0SCI

 

[Sparky]

What kind of repairs did it need that (should have) cost $35,000 to do? And holy crap you stole that thing.

 

[ConeKilrAutoX]

What kind of repairs did it need that (should have) cost $35,000 to do? And holy crap you stole that thing.

haha ohhh totally stole it. I said give it to me for what you put into it minus 75% of repair bill and I ll take it, the laughed sat on it for a month and then called and wanted it gone.

prices dont include labor costs at stealership ($110/hr)
-literally 8 pages of stored and active fault codes
Bold = needs done still

-New struts (hydraulic) $2100 EACH (I paid 600 with core deposits)
-New coil packs $2000 EACH (I paid $800)
-24 spark plugs ($650) i paid $85
-2 front wheel bearings inner and outer each side $550 Each (I replaced entire hub with new ECS tuned parts $400 total)
-fiberoptic stereo shot $850 I wired my own 7" touch pioneer and ripped out all fiber optics, removed stock amp and stuff and hooked into amp wiring after learning german and pinning it out LOL
-abs/wheel speed sensors front and rear $750 - I paid $200
-went into limp mode at full throttle - throttle position sensor $400 I paid $115 from ECS FIXED LIMP MODE
-leaky conductor plate for transmission - $3000 I paid $150 from ECS but will take a good couple days to do w/o lift
- no headlight ballasts ignitors or lights or retaining clips $3500 I did own HIDs and made own relays for HID, fog, running lights for under $150.
- transmission fluid filter change $250 I paid $75
Oil Change (9 qts!!!!) $225 I paid $100 for filter and 0w-40 mobile one and did that shit myself also!
- serviced turbos $2800 I did it myself
- leaky radiator still needs fixed $1200+ I got hose and radiator from ECS for under $400
-i put radar in, stereo, amps, sub, lighting etc in 1 day. took 2 hours to figure out how to get bumped off though haha

soo my labor alone was going to be $15000 or more . great bargaining chip I must say..thatll scare anyone trying to sell it haha. I could drink beer and stare at it for an hour and by simply taking stereo out save $110 an hour hahahaha