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GMPX
November 21st, 2007, 04:41 PM
Ebay motors item # 110196569275

Cheers,
Ross

5.7ute
November 21st, 2007, 07:07 PM
The dollar must be taking a real pounding over there.;)

SV8346
November 21st, 2007, 07:49 PM
so let me see if i can get my eyes around this, there saying you will gain 10hp for $2400................WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for $2400 over here we can gain 120+rwkw on a standard LS1

GMPX
November 21st, 2007, 08:29 PM
Yeah, or $240 per Hp, still, if you are driving a Benz, you can afford it right?

Cheers,
Ross

Afterhours Performance
November 22nd, 2007, 05:01 AM
Thats not even the worst of it, check out some of their products for the v-12 biturbo cars!! I worked @ a Benz dealership for a few years and you woud not believe what people are willing to pay for very marginal gain. One year we installed a cat-back on a Sl600 that had advertised gains of 10HP, 2 pieces of pipe a resonator was all there was to it. Retail price of $3900 + Install. Once we had one car out there with it, we had another 20 in the next couple of months, just because of the new tone and "power":roll:

Garry
November 22nd, 2007, 06:01 AM
Rice for the wealthy ...

joecar
November 22nd, 2007, 06:07 AM
I'm amazed that a wealthy person would waste money like that...

Afterhours Performance
November 22nd, 2007, 06:14 AM
The really sick thing is performance stuff is high, interior wood and trim can be astronomical in some of those cars. $1500 natured cherry radio bezel, $4500 wood center console pieces. It really never ends

Afterhours Performance
November 22nd, 2007, 06:17 AM
Stuff like that used to make me sick when I'm having to save save save to a buy a $1800 tranny to get my truck back on the road

joecar
November 22nd, 2007, 07:41 AM
I know someone who was charged $800 [by the MB dealer] for a wheel re-alignment on their S55 coupe... :bawl:

and the alignment was still wrong... :bash:

ScarabEpic22
November 22nd, 2007, 08:14 AM
Holy crap!! 3295 for a CF airlid?? Man, thats a lot of dough.

TAQuickness
November 22nd, 2007, 09:18 AM
Well that's cool. Just so hapens I have a quart of dark-absorbing headlight smoke for a late model Mercedes. I was going to throw it out, but now I'll put it on ebay with a reserve of $8,000.00 euro's.