This 11,000rpm Monster Is A Mercedes SLK Like No Other

This Judd V8-powered Mercedes SLK makes a tremendous noise in this hill climb footage
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Mad V8-engined ‘55’ version aside, the SLK isn’t the most butch car, is it? But, what we have here is no ordinary SLK. Far from it.

It’s been extensively re-engineered by German tuning firm Carlsson to take on the FIA E1 hill climb category, and it means business. It weighs just 780kg, has radically reworked suspension with wider front and rear tracks, plus a mad aero kit featuring a huge rear wing and canards aplenty. Thanks to the extensively altered bodywork, it develops 660kg of downforce at 150mph.

Our favourite bit though is the powerplant: it’s a 3.4-litre Judd V8 which revs to 11,300rpm and develops 620bhp. Factor in that pithy weight figure and all that downforce, and you have a car which is astonishingly fast.

Enjoy the noise, and the sparks!

Sources: YouTube, Engine Swap Depot

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Comments

Anonymous

Develops 620kg? Care to elaborate on that please.. Or is it a typo

05/19/2018 - 07:35 |
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GhostHUN

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Of downforce I guess
*edit: downforce is 660 so it was a typo.

05/19/2018 - 11:21 |
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Anonymous

I sometimes wonder if BMW have ever in their life thought of using car sounds like these as their inspiration for their exhaust note of the F90 M5.

05/19/2018 - 07:42 |
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CS55

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Well, the Judd V8 has a flat plane crank while the F90 M5’s V8 uses a crossplane crank. So, what do you mean by exaust note?

05/19/2018 - 08:04 |
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CS55

Now this car is really “sportlich”, actually “leicht” and well, still “kurz”. What a beast…

05/19/2018 - 08:08 |
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Robert Homann

In reply to by CS55

I see, what you did there

05/19/2018 - 10:07 |
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OliTheCarGuy101

Did you know that Carlsson have made a car called the Carlsson C25,i have a poster of it

05/19/2018 - 09:21 |
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Mark 15

Wow, good, very good 😯

05/19/2018 - 10:25 |
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Cool and good

05/19/2018 - 11:45 |
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Anonymous

Angry Merc SLK be like

05/19/2018 - 11:53 |
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Hast
05/19/2018 - 13:01 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Hast

meanwhile in alfa 155 ti V6:
Oh, time to upshift

05/19/2018 - 17:37 |
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Anonymous

Hill-climbing is probably the most ballsy form of motorsport along with rally.

05/19/2018 - 14:36 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Nothing can beat Isle of Man TT, but it probably is by itself in its own category.

05/19/2018 - 15:19 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Its tied with dirt trial, as the cars are pretty much the same

05/19/2018 - 18:03 |
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Tahingo

My phone’s speakers have just broken

05/19/2018 - 14:52 |
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Anonymous

i prefer the sound of a alfa 155 ti v6

05/19/2018 - 19:22 |
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