I Bought a BROKEN $100k Mercedes AMG for DIRT Cheap and Fixed It For 200 bucks!

yes welcome back to stay tuned I'm Tony Angelo and today we're about to buy a super red Supercharged V8 Sports sedan uh if you've watching the channel for a while I spent all my money on a NASCAR engine a while ago and I'm thinking this thing is so Dirt Cheap I can probably buy it rip it for a while and then flip it to make a bunch of that NASCAR money back uh we'll see what happens these cars are really special it's hard to find the deal is got to be the cheapest in the nation and this is what I'm looking at here this is a 2004 Mercedes-Benz E55 this car would have been like a 100 Grand when it came out and the dude that's selling it is asking 3500 bucks now a decent one and decent condition of these cars is about 13 14 Grand this one's high miles 200,000 miles on it but again he had it listed for 7500 or so for a while and I was interested at that price and recently dropped it down to 3,500 bucks just to unload it he said there's a problem with the throttle body uh but it does run and stuff so we're going to dig in see if we're buying a lemon or not and see what happens but uh I think he's pulling in now let's see what's good all right so generally decent shape bodywise uh it's got like a base model front bumper on it I can see it does have it's a real AMG it's got giant monster front brakes this is exploded couple of scratches and stuff nothing too crazy again this is like the cheapest one ever a little crack in the tail light you know if we could buy it get it running for a th000 bucks or so there'd be a lot of meat on that bone you know what I'm saying also I happen to have a bunch of performance parts for this in the back shop in my parts spins I don't know why but I do brand new ones we'll talk about it later all right so it definitely is not like a pristine car which I wouldn't expect for this price there's no paint on the grill it's got the wrong front bumper It's got like a base model front bumper on it it should have it should be like more of a like go down lower more of a front air jam and have these like cutouts in the side these are serious serious cars so this has a 5 and2 lit Supercharged V8 that makes 470 horsepower stock this thing runs and a/ quar mile bone stck these things are these are absolutely German muscle cars they are fullon hot rods and they're super Rowdy I don't know how to work on them I haven't figured that out yet but let's just get it fired up and see what it does another thing I found it's got a de holding the front bumper on that's not a great sign I don't love that part but you know it's not again this is very very uh cheap price cheap price for this thing so we'll see runs low 12 stock yeah it's got a new alternator on it it's got new tensioners he said he put new bearings in the in the blower it's got some wonky paint I would be surprised if it came looking like this the motor's definitely been apart at some point but we'll see see what it does I don't think old old Tony pelli over here whoever built this thing painted the valve covers orange but we'll find out it doesn't overheat or anything with that no okay so the issue really ring is just some kind of engine control with the what do you call the throttle bunny [Music] yeah check engine came right back for sure oh yeah now it's certainly in some kind of limp mode yeah not going to let us having any fun now yeah I felt it for a second for a second it felt pretty cool right you got a little taste of a little demo yeah it's definitely an Lim mode for sure I wonder what that misfire is I'm going to check the codes again and we'll see what came back but oh know feels pretty solid man I guess at this price I'm going to do it anyway all right we'll take it let's do it all right I'm an rock and roll I own this thing see what happens I read a couple of things online said like could be coils could be plug my heart says the motor's okay I don't know we're going to see what happens could this could have been a very dumb idea I run this thing for the first time uh you can see it's uh straight piped somebody took the cats out and welded in some aluminized and some stainless pipe here and there that's definitely why it's running some CAD codes cuz they're long gone but uh okay Good Start doesn't look too terrible under here secret for you guys yeah it's a secret don't tell the cops no huge leaks nothing wild no big holes in anything I don't know we're going to clean this sucker up and see what it does let's take a second to talk about lawn care for people that just don't know that much about lawn care which is me I recently bought a property for my girls to run around on and it's awesome it's got a big detached garage it's got a little playground it's got lots of trees but it also has lots and lots of lawn and I just don't know that much about lawn care which is fine because Sunday is going to take care of me like they'll take care of you Sunday makes a complete super simple lawn care package that's perfect for people that just 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lawn and this will just help sort of revitalize what I've got going on here and what's really cool is if you go right now to their website and punch in the promo code stay tuned 30 you'll get 30% off your first order and that is a lot it's killer I'm going to get back to here make my lawn shine thank you to Sunday and go check it out it's it's a really cool product and let's get back to building cars that's what we like doing all right so first thing we're going to do is pull out all 16 spark plugs replace them see if this goes away it's got two per cylinder running off the same one coil each the two outlets if I recall it was two and four two and five that were banned [Music] [Music] [Music] who's rumbling up on us is it Zim B is it Zim and slim Zim slim Zim here this is new how you doing how you feeling what's going on this guy what up what the hell are you doing I don't know man I bought this like an hour ago you already look older dude I've been gone like two weeks and now we're going a German shop dude I don't know what happened this is it dude so this is the old battery secondary auxiliary battery I think that's what we're going to call it uh swap that out put going in in German auxiliary batter sign sign G I've been studying dualing well oh that it's all that it's all that Porsche time he's had we got some of the that seafoam yum yum juice right in I put 6 oz of this stuff in the crank case and I'm putting another 10 oz into the fuel system they tell you 1 o for every quart of oil we're going to gas six and put the rust in the fuel system that's what Tony said still that so this is how you replace a cabin air filter uh 2004 E55 [Music] AMG all right that'll be 200 bucks please reading those cloes anything in front you trying to move far no I'm not moving definitely oh we might have to drive it we might have to drive it yeah so we're showing cylinder six so it's showing something showing Cylinder 6 when you were sitting there but let's get going nothing now right a little bit of a misfire it's going to reset over time as it doesn't witness anything yeah all right we're out we put some fresh plugs in this thing it needs gas okay all right dude it just blew the tire okay pretty good pretty good pretty good pretty good pretty good good how's that misfire look I don't know if I can to see it SP Tire the whole time Noire there a come up Tony yeah this is nice slow down everybody slow down we have gone 2 miles we've gone 2 miles the SE doesn't work the radio doesn't work the battery protection thing is on we're 3500 bucks we already had the most but did you feel it spin the tires I sure did yeah I sure did I sure did about I sure did PA hot rods down and dirty this is one of them German hot rods good car good good Sol car solid man we didn't get a single misfire on that hell yeah she likes to be driven you know the kid let it sit for too long that's the you got to knock that carbon out of college yeah spent enough time with the pedal matted to the floor what's a college where is half of a t of in this car yeah and it still FES this thing rips I have it RI down somewhere man this thing is a rip Ripper dude I'm pretty sure that's saved in my notes in German what yeah we got to fix that for sure really oh there's a G35 behind us looking for trouble what you know about that son I love it because I never seen anybody doing it in a Mercedes on the street yeah this this was definitely owned at one point by just some old dude like cruising around not anymore wow it's cool I love this for dinner and got and we're running like a top so uh Tony won that bit SP spark plugs and spark plugs tightened all the way yeah they weren't tight a lot of them were like not that tight let's pull her in here wait I'm ready to dig back in my E55 I'm still kind of spinning from what's happened I paid 3500 bucks for this thing I spent an hour putting spark plugs in it we reset the computers and this thing is running like an absolute animal we've fired it up put miles on it no codes of come back nothing too serious we found a bunch of issues with it the seats broke the radio's broke whatever but I was so excited about this car um after driving it the other day that I immediately was like I think I have some Falcon Tires in the basement that would go in the rear of this thing and I'm just going to take it home and start cruising it around and I found a very big issue follow me a great way to support stay tuned and look fresh just to grab some of our merch there's a link right here and one in the description we've got our we're going to lose the shop shirt the original stay tuned Angelo's garage gym our stay tuned trucker hats and we've now got our down and dirty design which is one of our favorites in a long sleeve t-shirt in Garnet red and black reach out and grab one and if you're on the state tuned Pizza Squad premium membership level you get a sweet 20% discount so get over there and get some gear on and we appreciate you guys like crazy thank you so much so after we got the car running obviously me and all my buddies jumped in it we had five mostly grown men in here this thing was hauling like a freight train we were screaming laughing having a good time but I knew that the tires were shot I just didn't know how bad they were and so again I came in and I was like I think I have some tires in the Bas and I could toss on these wheels and I noticed a little bit of a weird Edge on this wheel when I went to take them off and this is where everything went pretty sideways I if you see here this is the Hub of the wheel it's trashed I don't know if they drove it around with the wheels had come loose there's all this gouging inside the wheel it was definitely loose enough to rub on either a piece of the suspension uh the actual looks like it was probably hitting the wheel well here the Hub is trash but the biggest issue is that this wheel is absolutely no longer safe to go on any car at any time it's just fully mangled it needs to be strong it needs to be flat it needs to go on it Center itself this is just trashed so that my dreams of immediately daily driving this thing went right out the window and that's fine because I started looking for a solution and I found a pretty cool one really like this is something that the previous owner was definitely aware of when your wheel falls off you probably notice uh probably could have told me about it but it's all right no big deal keep on moving we got a smoking deal we're happy we're happy one of the reasons that the riding the ride the other night was so exciting is that this tire has absolutely lost a belt if you can see and that bumps up so again the whole rear end of this thing was just trying to kill us at every turn but it was super fun so we're going to all gouged up too yeah yeah nothing great here nothing good nothing good to see here so we're going to put on wheels that fit and uh have some fun with this thing so this stock wheel is an 18 these are 19s I dug around on Marketplace and found a couple sets of the stock Wheels cuz they're pretty cool but it just seemed impossible to get an actual deal done with a human being where I give them money and then they give me car parts in return so I got frustrated and I realized that APR has a pretty cool wheel that fits this car perfectly and it's a great price we're trying to keep this on the cheap so stock wheels were selling 800 1,200 bucks and we got to find something with the 5x12 European bold pattern and the right offset and the right center board but it turns out APR has just the thing and this is what I found uh this is a set of APR A1 flow formed Wheels in 1885 and 189 stock is 188 and 189 so a little bit wider in the front not a big deal and we wrapped these bad boys in Falcon fk510 Tires these should be a huge Improvement they're straight they're lightweight and actually they're Dirt Cheap right now the rears are on sale right now for 130 bucks a piece and the fronts are 281 so for about 840 bucks we got a full set of wheels I didn't have to fight with a bunch of guys on Facebook or have some kind of like you know bidding war with other people just bought them I just gave money to a machine and then these showed up incredible just trying to shore up these s skirts a little bit toss on these APR Wheels noticing that we're missing the little caps for the Hub but we'll live for now stay tuned supporters sent us uh weasel grease and weasel squeeze anti-seize and honestly it's pretty good stuff you know I've always been a big fan of poly Shore so if this is what he's getting into now to pay the bills I'm in it's good stuff go out and buy it wee the juice and APR sells the right Bolt which have like this ball socket at the bottom of them it's the right wheel style and the bolt and German cars use wheel bolts because I have no idea they want to make it extra annoying to put them on Big Money closing enough that's a pretty sharp little package right there spin that thing nailed it there it goes they all found their home looks good sitting on there all right before I install the wheel on this side I'm just going to take any of these little burs off the corner of this Hub just make sure the wheel will fit on and not get all mangled and see just a little bit extra material here I'm super recommend this the wheels will hold it on and the back of this little cone is actually intact so it'll it still will do its job does bounce it off everything like bumper car style big fan of wheel woles super cool please stay on yes yes thank you German guy who designed wheel bolts we're cool it's fine let's put it up I feel like we made that look easy yes all right so we just put new wheels and tires on a car that we're excited about about this is one of the great joys of carom being a car Enthusiast as much as I don't love that word but this is great I can't wait to see it down there come on and now I can start driving this thing which is awesome we got a little bit more work to do they're going to take this thing out and get get serious with it see what it can really really do I figure once it's got all four wheels that aren't falling off and new tires it should be pretty good it was pretty good before these cars are low from the factory they are all business so that's basically the same size Wheel and Tire as stock and it looks awesome it looks good real good I'm not going to sweat anything except torque it down and try to get the front seat bolted in work on the radio and then we're to take this thing out I can't that last part I'm very excited about the taking out of the car sweet all right the APR wheels and tires are on they look killer we're going to keep on moving down the road turning this thing back into a usable fun car on the super cheap uh the big standout issues still are that the radio doesn't do anything and the passer sheet does not work so I went out and we've bought a bunch of stuff secondhand on like eBay and Marketplace and I'll give you a tally of all the parts of the end cuz remember we started 3500 bucks 150 in spark plugs 840 in Wheels more money in tires but we're going to keep tabs and just try to you know make this thing Rock on the dirt cheap and see what an incredible deal what an incredible rible come up this has been all right so we knew that the passenger seat didn't work and I found when I lifted it up that the module was gone and then we found an incorrect replacement module in the trunk I went on eBay I bought the proper one I believe we're going to find out in a second for 48 bucks not bad this car has 85 computers but none of them seem to be more than a 100 bucks so that works as long as they're not all bad it's still a good deal I don't really know why any seat would need this much computer but this one looks pretty fancy I'm pretty sure that it will massage your butt while you ride which is more than I can say for most people yeah like all the regular seat stuff is up here up down left right the headrest moves it's got this whole other this is like the sensual keypad over here yeah this is the butt rubber 6000 all right this seat only weighs 900 lb all right so this is the wrong one that was in here and I I did the same thing when you look and you you see which ones are listed for this car there's actually two versions but if you line the pins up it doesn't have all these this I believe this is the correct one this will go here this six pin will go over here they're all very keyed so if they fit they ship these things go through this weird interface come back out here sits memory that's what it's called in German sits memory sit sits memory guess what that does this is the memory for the seat okay no days turn the key on still nopes oh there we go so we do have some power here not to maybe do something yep cool all right so we've made zero progress getting that c to move but I did realize that this battery is not only dead it's about half the size it's supposed to be on this thing and apparently they're pretty sensitive to that type of abuse so we're going to put in the proper size battery and see if it helps turn some stuff on this little cutie is not going to do it maybe that one will how about that it fits quite a bit better all right I have yanked the seat out there are apparently like is the seat bolted in sensors and other things so I'm going to try to manually manipulate this motor just charge it up I know that this one right here drives a gear that pulls the tracks forward and back all I really want to do is move this thing forward because it's like all the all the way Shaquille O'Neal sitting like N9 fet back move it forward angle it the way half I want to and then if that's cool I'm going to put the computer back in it connect everything as best I can I'll even hook up this little sensor we'll put it back in and see if it works but at least if it doesn't work it's in a position that I don't super care about it will this car then give you butt rubs no but will it plant you back in the seat when 480 horsepower are let set free yeah that one's more important I'm going to see what this does again it's set all the way back I'm just using a little DeWalt Jam Jam here they have you know a little more than 12 volts popping out of them should work just fine just need something to stick in this next one okay see it's moving the motor and it's just going the wrong way we hope how about that that looks to be a more reasonable position we can get to the bolts I want to make sure I can get in here bolt everything in make it Square where's the recline motor it's in the back seat here I'll pull it off and mess with it real quick apparently this is the dynamic seat that like hug you when you get in but if we can't get it working I'll just hug you when you get in don't worry about it all right so that motor there where are the wires going to that sucker we're going do this play the same game with this one I wouldn't recommend doing this in the car with everything hooked up it's a bad idea but we're just powering the motors directly with no computers left in this thing I think okay that's probably good all right bringing it in okay you in the pins there you go all right so we are going to change out this trunk latch right here uh electronically in the car it just doesn't work anymore and these modules go bad sometimes so we're just going to swap it out should be hopefully quick and easy I have no idea never done this we're going to find out [Music] [Music] yeah so I was looking to see what the fuse was for the trunk latch uh and I checked the fuse it was fine but in another Forum post I saw on one of the Mercedes forums said that it's very common for these wires to either break or Fray or get damaged uh in the left side hinge here so I pulled half of this apart and I actually saw some butt connectors somebody had already had their way with this so I'm going to take these two apart and fix 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see you there no Okay cool so uh the radio infotainment unit in this car just shows you the Mercedes logo and you're like cool I own a Mercedes and then turns off very common thing but the issue is that uh to track anything down or troubleshoot it you have to get a fiber optic Loop like these guys which I ordered online and then you go to each component like the the uh satellite head unit you know the DVD drive and also the amp for the thing and you basically put a loop in each place and take them out of the equation and it turns on at any point and you know that that component was bad and you need to replace it or just leave the loop in if you don't care about satellite navigation like I don't we're going to find out what happens here there we go okay all right so that's the fiber optic guy okay these Loops are like 15 bucks online they're just little troubleshooting tools and now I'm going to turn the key and see if thing starts up yeah it's not to do anything so I don't think we're in good shape here all right let's keep going so I wasn't able to troubleshoot this one with the fiber optic loop I have instead already bought another one for 84 bucks they are in fact the same part number they both end in 42 and they're made by Becker whoever that is I'm going to stick it in and it's probably not going to do anything there you go okay that's let's see how under I'm not going back exactly how it came out oh very slim we'll see we'll see we'll get it close that's the that it I want to take a picture of This Disaster all right here we go now it says Tade malfunction I don't know if that helps us or hurts us all right well let's press more buttons I'll put a Kenwood in it or something okay something with like a power on a ground so after a couple hours of thrashing no major winds the electrical department except for Barb fix the trunk lat which is sweet but what's cool is I'm not going to count any of those dollars towards our finished cost our finished total I am going to add this little bumper guy we paid 12 bucks for this little tow hook cover boom so that 12 bucks and 65 in the back plus wheels and tires that's all we're into this for oh and spark plugs boom so this thing's running and rocking and ready to go we're going to take it to Englishtown Raceway Park get get it out on track and see how awesome this thing drives remember this thing was $91,000 brand new and we got about five grand into it yeah feels pretty good good morning I drove the E55 the cheap supercharged Mercedes-Benz home to my house last night from the shop it's about 10 Mi through PA back roads and let me tell you this thing is an absolute animal I can't believe they ever sold you a car with near 500 horsepower that came on 265 wide rear tires cuz boy this thing needs that and more it's an awesome car and today we get to put it through its Paces what's cool is that we worked on it a bunch last night to fix a lot of Electro Gremlins what's not cool is that we really only fixed the rear trunk but that's fine because it turns out you don't super need a radio cuz you you'd probably rather listen to this Supercharged V8 anyway it's fine what radio the trunk Pops I have no more codes everything is lovely here I think we're really what an absolute monster come up on this vehicle and what's super cool is we are heading to one of the greatest places on Earth Englishtown Raceway Park out here in Oldbridge New Jersey and we're going to see just how quick this thing is it you know well over probably 50,000 Mi cuz I'll tell you what feels like it's all there and then we're going to see if we can blow the tires off just see how it handles you know ripping around on the street is one thing but getting a car to an actual racetrack so you can push the limits a little bit is really really an eye opening experience cuz I I have have a feeling I think I know what this thing can do but we're really going to find out in a minute if you don't know Englishtown Raceway Park in Old Bridge New Jersey was like initially in the 60s just a drag racing Mecca a lot of people set really fast times here set records here um Shirley mown set a ton of Records here it's a really cool place and about 6 seven years ago they shut down the drag strip which is fine I know there was you know they had to sort of figure out how to how to operate in in today's world economically and decided we're going to lease off a lot of that land into one of the big auction houses but they kept the coolest part to me the road course which is sick it's like you know 3/4 of a mile long road course um with tons of twists and turns and they have turned the other half sort of the first quarter of the drag trip into a drift stadium so and there's two Motocross tracks so it's still 300 acres full of just radical absolute automotive Paradise this place is killer is killer and uh they let us have a lot of fun here which is super cool so I love it they're the [Music] [Applause] best got to wait for me a little bit I got it I got it excuse me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so we have landed somewhat unceremoniously here at English town Raceway Park uh again 300 plus acres of just Automotive awesomeness we're going to have a blast here today couple things we're going to figure out on our uh Dirt Cheap supercharged E55 number one about how quick is it it still run the same numberb as it did before I think we got enough room here probably do 0 to 60 and maybe Eighth Mile on an unprepped surface which is awesome then I'm going to see you know if I can push it through some turns maybe slide it around a little bit figure out how to turn off that traction control cuz it's definitely still working um but so far so good I've put probably 30 miles on this thing it's wicked good it drives awesome it feels really solid and for 3500 bucks I just can't believe how much car I have gotten my hands on so I'm very excited let's get behind the wheel and see if we can not embarrass ourselves okay Barb's in the car you can't see him I don't think but I promise he's there uh you ready I'm ready we're ready what do you think just put it in D and hit it we're in S Mode sure a little little love in the converter and let's see what it does not that maybe I hit the brakes hard cuz it was just going to spin I'm just going to punch it I don't think it needs any converter ready yeah okay let's just do nothing what was that that was 40 m hour why did it not make boost or something we're going to check on the car it might be giving us a little bit of a problem cuz like the big problem is there's no horsepower left I'm going to use it all up just entering the track there a big problem oh it's still on there belt's there yeah it's there blower belt that's good oh it's got a new alternator yeah that's not really relevant information all right let's try again you ready yeah all right I'm going to just try to hit it hit it that's we are flying 57 57 928 to the eth okay 928 that was also like a giant hesitation right off of cuz it just blew those it blew it TIR yeah we was L all right five what 5.7 57 okay that's something on a Dusty Old Road a Dusty Old Road not a great start 57 down quite a bit it's not running like it was last night we're going to see what we can do maybe just reset some stuff you know I can put this in maybe I'll put in sport mode oh or Cruise mode or something I can try it manually oh yeah let's try it in one all right here we go first run 0 60 and 57 we're going to try to do better I'm going to put it in manual mode are you ready okay try that see if it'll just melt now weird where's yeah no this would already be like melting annihilating tires so this is a supercharger with a clutch on it we're just going to try to disconnect the battery reset it and see what it does because it certainly is down big time onow I was really hammering on this thing and it felt good and then all of a sudden it was down a lot of power I don't know if it's got some weird lip mode or looking at a physical issue with the supercharger but the belt's on and it's still spinning and you know this car sort of the intention of it maybe was to buy it cheap fix it and then try to flip it you know I'll pay for that NASCAR motor that I bought so right now that's definitely in Jeopardy I may be stuck with this thing and I've already got you know five grand into it uh and it may not even be worth that so we're going to see what we can do see if we reset it if it comes back to life we'll be thrilled yeah okay all right kind of 10 the long way all right plug it in we are there yet I guess okay wait now let me go hit the brakes before you connect it for real yeah people say that like gets rid of any residual voltage in the system okay anything anything we can do that's a new one at least the trunk latch works it sure does bud great job there's making blower noises let's see what it does okay back to the track Road thing all right I'm not really hearing the blower and I'm not feeling the blower horsepower so we're having problems that's all right okay all right so that's the blower there's a clutch in there hit it rev it turn it off okay so that's free Spin you can see that so this is one of the only blowers I've ever worked on that has a clutch in it like a big AC compressor but if you look here that is the compressor this is me spinning the blower and that's what's spinning the that's the motor is driving this pulley but they're disconnected current ly and then there's an electromagnetic clutch in there that'll turn on and make sure that the blower grabs and starts to spin hit it again Barb fire it up I do see it spinning I just don't know if has the load on it that it needs to one more it's in dyo mode for sure my hunch is that clutch is bad you think so it looks like they're not running the running at the same spe the same speed not looking great we're going to go to the shop and mess around we done Dumber things we sure have all right this is the plan we don't think we're getting blower dry because this has an electromagnetic clutch that we believe has failed lots and lots of people when they upgrade these things they just get rid of the clutch and have the blower spinning fulltime party mode all the the time uh because they are prone to fail so if you come over here we're looking at it like this this is connected to the drive pulley and this is the blower itself so what I'm thinking is we're going to put a couple little beads with a welder between this seam here the drive unit and the blower itself and see if this thing makes boost so we believe this is the drive side and this is the driven side and just a little couple beads of weld on here uh might get us down to party mode please work please work please work so we dug in a little more looks like we've got uh Steel on steel again we think that the blower clutch has failed and we're going to just remove it by welding directly across the blower and the drive pulley maybe I would think we're probably the first idiots to do this to a $90,000 Mercedes let's see [Music] oh yeah this will be epic if this works dude but at least like I said if it works I'll be thrilled if it doesn't at least we went down fighting it's going to work you good ready sorry I Barb all right that's it lug in the battery fire it up let's see what it does oh yeah I hear it wait you didn't do that before yeah we might have a blower now let's go oh my God this is the best where's the blower cover put that yeah hide this hide the welds I put on there looks the same you never know all right H the streets you want Dyno mode too uh no not for not yet let's just drive it and see if it makes any power all right we have welded the drive pulley to the driven pulley and our supercharger clutch is been defeated all right oh yes let go holy sh woo we are back in business yes oh that feels good wow that is that's fast this thing gets it this thing gets it oh my God here yeah we are in business this thing rips all right let's line one up [Music] ready what it say 526 520 all right there we go 188 880 to the eth 880 in the Eighth Mile that's what I'm talking about woo smell that yeah those are break I just hammered on yeah all right 520 spinning a little bit let's do another one yeah yeah we're we're flying now dude this thing is an animal we did 52 to 60 on this gravity pavement I'd like to see if we can get it in the fours but then we're going to have some fun this is killer what a win dude woo hell yeah what 514 514 this thing is a beast dude almost there I SP still spun a bunch of tires if this thing will do a 4 second 0 to 60 run on this dirty ass Road on this dirty on this dirty return Road what do you do in the what do you do in the eth 860 860 yo this is awesome this has been amazing I can't let's go have some fun on the course all right this thing's in dyo mode it's running 100% now I'm going to see if we can just take it out uh English town has what they call the Stadium it's like the first third of the old drag strip and it's set up for drift competitions it's like a big figure eight with a few different turns go out there and see we can have some fun with this thing see how uh all that's wrong you know our cheap supercharged killer does I'm going to put a helmet on because you know it's track Anything Could Happen [Music] [Music] [Applause] a pretty cool a a [Music] [Music] so that is it for this episode to stay tuned my dirt cheap supercharge Mercedes has been a compl complete animal what a huge come up it's still got a couple of kinks in it but it's definitely worth every single cent of the 3500 bucks I paid for it this car is mind-blowing I've been having a blast I think I'm going to send it one last time please like And subscribe we'll see you guys next time and let me know you know if you want to buy this thing in the comments let's make a deal I'm very negotiable a

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Id: g4oR7wCTnSo

Length: 51min 3sec (3063 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 19 2024