Might be the only bagged C43 AMG Benz ever ?

[Amgcdi]

nice body and wheels

[mike-81-240d]

Looks bootyfull!

[SD202]

thanks guys! hopefully got a few more things in store for her this year.

[P78]

love it

[Bystrov]

i love the fogs david. awesome

[cus]

that tuck is sooo nice! just not a fan of the yellow fogs on it. but thats personal preference! top work

[SD202]

Did a little refinish on the lorinsers. Running em on and off for now because the tires are pretty shot but for a refresh they are 19x9 19x10 two piece lorinser LM1 wheels made by Ronal wheels of Germany. The offsets are +44 front and +38 rear Im running 20mm front spacers and 17mm rear spacers. so final offset is +24et 19x9 front. And +21et 19x10 Rear. I dropped the faces out and simply re-painted them white. And gave the lips a fresh polishing. I was debating changing up the color of the faces. but something about the white wheels i cant say no to.













decided to have a little photoshoot while the paint was fresh and clean !

[DinanDave]

Looking good as always man!

[SD202]

nice! were they hard to install? i'm thinking about studs because i have a stripped bolt hole and studs would make life easier lol

well if you have a stripped bolt hole you will have to fix that before you can put a stud in it. They are easy to install. Hard to remove. Something to do with the heat from the brakes and the loctite. dunno why but the fronts are always so much harder to break free than the rears. but all will have to be broken free after installation.

[siopaolover]

yupp ! I had them on the C280 got them from a friend who had them on his e36 M3 theyre the 90mm H&R studs. I have them removed right now. And they are a PITA to remove because you install with red loctite. and once it drys up it makes them so hard to break free.

nice! were they hard to install? i'm thinking about studs because i have a stripped bolt hole and studs would make life easier lol

[SD202]

i spy a stud conversion?

yupp ! I had them on the C280 got them from a friend who had them on his e36 M3 theyre the 90mm H&R studs. I have them removed right now. And they are a PITA to remove because you install with red loctite. and once it drys up it makes them so hard to break free.

[siopaolover]

Time to put it all back together with the poly bushings in

i spy a stud conversion?

[puzzlemaster94]

Well, this thing is beautiful. Subbed

[SD202]

Havent posted an update in a while that isnt on Instagram ! Just had to do mostly maintenance related things. so far. Since i got the car , Ive changed out the Oil, Radiator, and Upper hose, New coolant,Changed the completely shot and shredded Lower Control arm bushings out for Poly Bushings, While I was at it I went ahead and changed out the Tie rod ends, They were split in half..... This should have been done when I swapped the control arms over from the old car the first time but i didnt have any parts compiled. And wasnt sure what it exactly needed, These C43's and W202 mercedes that came with factory xenon and the AMG option had headlight wipers I never liked how these looked and since i live in Southern California there will be no use for them. I will never deal with snow on my lens. Unfortunately they are also headlight sprayers so i had to do a lil modification to the headlight washer system to plug those lines and keep functionality of the upper ones for the windshield. I have also had the resonator deleted and some shotty exhaust work ( holes ) patched up and she sounds and runs much better now ! The welding on the exhaust was the only job I did not do myself. Finally after all this I had a Little cash left over to fix another issue a dead fog light. decided to tint the lens yellow and added 3000k HID DDM slim ballast to em. The car is currently sitting on stocks for the "winter look" and i am refinishing my Lorinsers












Plastic trash bag wrapped around the pipe. That explains a lot








Tips all straight. They were sittin sidewayzzz when i got the car and held on with plumbers tape






random shot from Autofashions 7th annual VIP fest hosted at HRE wheels




a little bit of plastic filler for the holes.




Headlight Wiper holes deleted. fresh paint + clear











out with the old in with the new.





the Bag brackets were never painted just welded in raw. decided to throw down some flat black on em while the bushings were out and everything was unbuttoned.



Old and Worn VS the Brand New









Time to put it all back together with the poly bushings in



Then the fun stuff











This is totally unrelated but many of you know that im a paraplegic ( confined to a wheelchair & paralyzed from the waist down) I had been building a carbon kevlar straight spoke radial laced wheel set that comes in at a lil under 18 lbs as a pair, I believe. Thats with push rims and tires. They feel super light weight and i absolutely love them. I had the wheels media blasted & type 1 gold anodized. Well got them all built up and grabbed a new Jay brand J2 deep countour seat cushion and adjusted my seat dump forward and down 1 degree each and set the axles to 4 degrees negative camber

[SD202]

Wow, that was quick. haha

Yep, still have them.

Along with a few other sets of wheels. >_< Became even more of a wheel wh*re over the past few weeks. lol

what sets of wheels did you pick up ? Anything modular ? I want a new set of smaller wheels for the 43, trade me the auto coutures .