Hi! This is going to be a quick status update video on the CLK.

We put a lot of effort into building this car, but the progress isn't very visible.

We spent about a month worth of work on it but all you're gonna see is that the engine is now installed,

And the suspension is pretty much how it was before and so on.

So I'm going to demonstrate what we've done so far and what the next steps are going to be.

First of all we installed the engine. It was not a big deal,

Because it fit snug into its place with stock engine mounts.

This has been the easiest task that we've done on the car so far.

I said in the previous video that it was wired for a DTA ECU, which we'll convert to MaxxECU,

But we hope that we can use the existing loom and just have to change some connectors and such.

This job is going to get done by Hubdyno for us, so we won't touch the cabling.

We still have to finish some mechanical parts, at the moment the oil cooler is bypassed too,

The fuel system and nothing else is hooked up at the moment. We will quickly finish up these things before sending the car out to get the loom made.

After that we will be ready for the first startup and we'll hear what engine sounds without headers.

Let's take a look at a carVertical report of an SL Merc that was involved in an accident.

It was first registered in 2002 in the USA, and then after lots of usage it got imported into Hungary in 2022, so 20 years later.

Probably already in a damaged state. It has 69k kms in it, so it wasn't used a lot.

And here it says it got damaged in 2021 back in the US.

Let's take a look at the photos, but before that the price! It was imported for $14,000,

And for the last time it was listed for 13,000€ in Hungary. They didn't make a lot of money on the car.

A good little V8 SL500.

Here are the pictures from America, where we can see that the rear left of the car was damaged.

Nothing else really, no airbag got deployed as far as I can see.

And finally from 06.2022, here are pictures with Hungarian dealer plates, the car is in immaculate condition.

And then another group of photos and that's all.

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And then what we invested the most work into is the suspension,

Because when I originally presented this car, the front struts were just temporarily put in place as mockups with no final solution.

Since then we completely redesigned the front strut towers, because this suspension is made for the W204 C63 AMG and the two chassis are not compatible.

We had to drill new holes on the tower and we came up with a hybrid solution to mate the tower of a W204 with this car.

There was some welding involved and some fabrication.

This is ready and done, the first suspension is completed mechanically,

We still have some wiring to do and to finish the hydraulic part for the HLS to work.

But this part is going well. The first brakes are also properly installed,

Previously it was temporarily installed, but now it is all measured up and big brakes are properly installed.

This was the biggest progress we've made. The same applies for the rear as well, the rear suspension is mounted in place too.

There we had to do similar changes as in the front. We had to fabricate a top plate for the rear strut as it was completely incompatible with the W204 parts.

We've done that, welded in a plate that matches with the strut. The springs fitted easily, there was no hassle with that.

The suspension was a huge step for us, since we had to do everything custom,

And it takes a lot of them to think about it and to try different solutions, they might not work, then we we have one that works, put that into reality.

We are very happy to be past this part now.

Then we started mounting the gearbox into the car,

I will lift the car now and show you how that looks!

Our transmission is a 5 speed Samsonas sequential gearbox,

It is just mounted there to see if it clears the transmission tunnel and to see the mounting points.

It seems that everything is fine, we won't have many problems with it.

We also started fabricating the gearbox mounting console, this is still only halfway done.

When we're done with it, then we'll continue with the linkage and the spot for the shifter which will come up right here.

So this part is pretty much it,

We paired it up to our bellhouse,