W213 E43 Estate Exhaust Upgrade and Remap

[Superleg48]

Looking for some recommendations for the above.

Not interested in Laptop Bois.

Must be experienced in the AMG Remaps. Exhaust upgrade would be nice, but second to the remap.

Thanks

[Scrump]

MSL Birmingham seem to be one of the most experienced AMG tuners.
I have no direct experience of them.

[Tall_Blk]

Interesting to hear your looking to upgrade the exhaust. I test drove one yesterday and the main turn off for me was it felt very muted

[Superleg48]

Tall_Blk said:

Interesting to hear your looking to upgrade the exhaust. I test drove one yesterday and the main turn off for me was it felt very muted

It is better in Sport+ but still feel it could be made a little more raucous, that said I don’t want to go too extreme as the waftability factor is a plus in my opinion.

[donkmeister]

Scrump said:

MSL Birmingham seem to be one of the most experienced AMG tuners.
I have no direct experience of them.

They are the boys for anything Merc related. I know people who have entrusted beloved and expensive metal to them and not regretted it.

I think they're actually an approved Mercedes service centre these days too.

[Percy.]

Interested to hear your thoughts on the car, both the C43 and E43 estates are on my shortlist for once my current A6 lease is finished.

I need an all-rounder dog wagon/skip run/cruiser/customer facing car and these appear to fit that brief very well.

[21ATS]

I have a 2015 SL400 which I've owned since new. Same fundamental engine architecture as your E43 although I think you may have some slightly different hardware (turbo's maybe?)

After about 6 months I wished I bought the SL500 instead.

Last year I was going to change it for something, but I'm quite attached to it so I thought I'd try a remap before swapping it. I'm glad I did. I found a company that were fortunately very local to me that had a reputation of specialising in the "400" series engines from MB.

These people https://www.roadrageperformance.co.uk/

A year or so on from having it done I'm still absolutely delight.

I was more concerned about torque than outright BHP numbers. I wanted it mapped to a comfortable, sale level rather then wringing every last bhp out of it and I didn't want pops and bangs. So he wrote a map for my requirements.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeqqTCn_fl/

All set up on a rolling road.

Standard (before) reading on the RR was 325hp 470nm
After 425hp - 655nm

It was like driving a completely different vehicle, the huge increase in torque filled all the pauses in the gearbox in comfort mode. It made the car a joy to drive.

Can't recommend him highly enough. It also looks like he's moved into better premises since I saw him.

Obviously my 400 engine was in a much lower state of tune than the E43 to start with, so I potentially had far more to gain.

Have a chat with him he'll tell you exactly what the safe limit is for your engine type.

Edited by 21ATS on Sunday 18th July 20:47

[irfan1712]

donkmeister said:

They are the boys for anything Merc related. I know people who have entrusted beloved and expensive metal to them and not regretted it.

I think they're actually an approved Mercedes service centre these days too.

I used MSL Performance for both my previous C63 and had my current W213 E63s mapped by them, and then later wet back for a set of downpipes and a map to suit.

Very knowledgeable and experienced with Mercs and AMGs.

My second choice was DMS, but either way im happy with MSL. Acid is the Gaffer there and he's a top bloke to deal with.