I just got this in the mail the other day. It's a dead pedal to replace the one that Chrysler never installed. Myself, I think everycar should have a dead pedal. I want to get a piece of aluminum about 1 inch thick to use as a backing plate before I install it. I'd like to be able to brace my leg against this pedal without having to be so close to the wheel as I have to be right now. I'll have to look at it, but I'm going to try to pull the carpet back, mount the spacer, put the carpet back, and then mount the new pedal. We'll see how it goes!! Here's a pic.
You know what? I never even noticed the lack of dead pedal I like to drive with my left leg bent anyway. Where'd you get that pedal? It doesn't look like the stock pedals any, though. Let us know how it works out. Maybe I'll take a stab at it.
Sicks, Here's the link to the pedal. I tried to find something today to use as a spacer and I found a piece of thick plexiglass, maybe 3/8" thick. I'm going to cut it to fit and then double the thickness before installing. I'm going to try this Sunday to get it done. I'd really like to pull the carpet back and then I could make the foot rest shape almost anyway I want. Then it would be easy to atach the new pedal thru the carpet into the solid foundation. I'll try to take some pics as I procede. http://www.formymercedes.com/mb_results.asp?model=R170&class=slk-class&category=Aluminum+Pedals I looked at a bunch of pedals before I found this one and the rest are hit or miss on how they would fit. Thsi one is made for the SLK so the curve fits perfect!!
Well I haven't forgotten about the dead pedal install. I'm planning on getting it installed today or tomorrow. I did however get myself a new CAI installed. I've included some pics of the install so far. I'm also going to be wrapping the tubes with some DEI black header wrap. That should be done next week since it didn't arrive in Sat mail. On the Crossfire site a bunch of the owners, not the vendors, are having a bit of a pissing contest about who's intake is going to be better. They both increase air flow considerablely, so to me it's more a matter of appearance, and I like to twin tube design better. In person it looks wicked.
Disregard my previous post about seeing the motor. Because I see it now. Have you ever taken it to the Drag Strip ? If so, how quick did it run ? Thanks Chuck
With my zero experience at the drag strip the best I've ran before the CAI was a 13.4. I wasn't doing any big burnouts to warm up the tires or power braking it either. Put it in drive, both hands on the wheel, maybe brake it to 800-1000 rpm and then just hang on!! With traction control off. The intake should be enough to get me into the 12's.It added 30 hp to the wheels on a dyno. A lot of the SRT-6's are running about 13.0-13.2's. That seems to be about average. With an intake, pulley, and tune they are getting into the 12.2-12.3's. And of course, those times are all on street tires. I think within the next couple of months you'll start seeing high 11's, still on street tires. I'm also not aware of anyone with and intake and pulley getting any type of "good" tune either. Someone is going to have to put one of these on the dyno, run it, pull the ecu, tweak it, and then run it again till it shows better gains. They don't seem to be able to get enough fuel to even run the biggest pulley. On the C32's, with headers and a pulley they seem to be underfueled. The MB guys all seem to be missing the intake upgrade for whatever reason, and with headers, pulley, and tuning they seem to be stuck in the 350-370 WHP range. With just the intake, the guy who designed my setup dyno'd 336 whp. I can't imagine the injector flow being almost maxed out from the factory. Maybe the answer would be bigger, higher flowing injectors. As of right now, we don't even have a set of headers for this car!! Tuning is just starting to take off, so '08 should be a great, and expense, year for hp gains. And of course, these are only my opinions!!
