Although the following versions have never really done it for me, I have always had the way the pre-facelift R230 Mercedes-Benz SL looked out. Perhaps it is because it came out as a car enthusiast in a formative time in my development, or maybe it really looks so good as I think it does that, but I loved the design of the R230 when it was new, and I still love it today. If that makes me old, I don’t care. The problem is that Mercedes has never offered a manual transmission option that really damaged their enthusiastic attraction.
Mercedes would of course tell you that the SL is a big tourer, not a sports car, so the automatic was suitable (plus, it would allegedly not have a manual transmission when the couple can handle the SL). Yet I am willing to bet that I could not get an old R230 AMG with a third pedal, even if SL’s are traditionally powered by the oldest old men.
Although we have never received a manual R230 from the factory, our friend Matt Farah recently had the opportunity to manage a manually-destroyed Mercedes-Benz SL55 AMG, and it looks like an absolute riot. Matt even enjoyed it so much that he would “be the video waved AMG cars the next big thing.” Serious.
Less money than you would expect
The SL55 that you see here is commissioned by a man named Oz, who happens to be a doctor. A doctor who owns a Mercedes SL? Shocking, I know. After buying the car, the cool Dr. Oz him to Bad rat garage in Las Vegas To have the exchange done. The transmission comes from a Chrysler Crossfire, that, as we all know, the same manual is found in the old SLK. They then added a clutch disc from a European diesel bus and a customized flywheel, while the rest of the Build of the Plank uses Mercedes OEM parts, including a pedal box from a European C-class that originally came with a manual.
Playing everything together nicely was reportedly not easy, but with the help of the people The Mercedes Swap storeThey actually let it happen. From what Matt says in the video is the only thing that doesn’t work, the start button in the Shift button. Furthermore, it almost feels like an OEM car and even got an Apple CarPlay update for the infotainment system that actually looks pretty good.
Are there any disadvantages? Certainly. Allegedly the Shift promotion feels more like it came out of a C-class than a $ 100,000+ AMG, the flywheel could be a bit heavier, the clutch is a bit too close to the dead pedal for the preference of Matt, and the distance between the accelerator and brake pedals is not ideal for whole-at-ato shifting. Yet he claims that it is “much, much nicer and better than when it was stock.”
The craziest part is that the exchange was not That Expensive, all taken together. Including the costs of the car, look at around $ 40,000 all-in. We are talking about new, loaded camry money, but you get a 493 hp AMG V8, a retractable top and a manual transmission. That is really not bad. Not bad at all.
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