A 400HP Chrysler Crossfire Track Car?
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- 400HP and 3200lbs. So why don't you see them at the track? Or, anywhere?
The Chrysler Crossfire was a joint venture between Daimler and Chrysler in the early 2000s. Despite being designed by Chrysler, it was built by Karmann and is 80% Mercedes SLK. The SRT6 was the performance model, making 330HP (20 less than the SLK had, despite having the same engine). It's light by modern standards, short, and quick.
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It is kinda funny how it sounds like a terminator mustang coming at you and then a 350z going away from you
Fr haha
That's exactly it
Lol
Theo looks like your little brother
Well the genetic test is in and SURPRISE
Hot V6s are criminally underrated, especially when the exhaust is done right and everything
yeah we have xr6 turbos in australia :)
"Bring your car to our show so we can take jabs at it for 15 minutes" - The smoking tire (when mike has a day off)
lmao id never expect a crossfire to be cool like this. kid has good taste. and the nrg carbon backs ! wow
I love seeing weird track cars like this
The Mustang II did not have ball join steering. My memory of cars driven in 2014 can be fuzzy. ZK
*recirculating ball, gosh dangit Zack get your shit together! Haha
@Power 2 Weight im sure u got better sponsors .. Oh wait u r a sponsor .. U damn lame get on a diffrent high horse
How positive u r .. On your high horse ?!!
I love hearing this thing. As an owner of a C32 amg ,hearing your motor from the outside is something you don’t get many chances to do. 😆
This car literally defines the car guy mentality. We can’t always get cool cars but we work with what we got.
All v8 e39 had recirculating ball. Including the m5
There is a Crossfire car club here in east TN where I’m from. Use to see them all the time carving up 129 aka Tail of the Dragon like 20 deep. Pretty cool to see and hear all of them together like that.
pretty sure they were holding up Matt Moreman in his 991.1 GT3 in an Obsessed Garage video right before he got rid of it
Richard Gao I’ll have to check that out.
That is the International Crossfire Owners Club they go there 2 times a year!
Where in TN, i have one and live in Tn..
@@sonyadempsey5154 www.crossfireforum.org/forum/crossfire-events-meets/81258-14th-annual-fall-tail-dragon-october-1-2-3-4-2020-a.html
I've got a Non supercharged manual with koni yellows and SRT sway bar and love how it corners. Overall fun car for what it is.
Imagine this with a hellcat motor
The 722.6 transmission is a pretty solid automatic. M112K sounds insane though! This thing is pretty cool.
The engine was rated at 330 but with the Chrysler intake mods it was actually around 370 horsepower! These cars with the overdrive supercharger pulley and exhaust run high 11’s in the quarter mile.
They were pretty decent looking. I think the price for what you ended up getting, completely killed it off.
They looked like the deformed lovechild of a McLaren SLR and the Audi TT.
I have to admire the individuality of this build. Was really nervous to see harnesses without a cage though.
Harness and no Hans is way worse
oscarlainz why? I believe you. I just want to understand.
@@mdcohen your body is fixed but your head is not, in case of a crash, it will break like a baguette
@@oscarlainz 100%
@@oscarlainz that sounds bad. also you have ruined baguettes for me.
I had one of these in 2008. Pulley/intake/tune and I was in the mid 12's. Crossfires were the only cars 350z's and RX-8's could beat in a straight line, so they were sorely disappointed when they happened upon an SRT-6.
So the 350z could beat them is a straight line? Mid 12 quarter mile?
@@nicholaswortman6454 they could beat regular Crossfires. Most people didnt know the SRT-6 existed, they thought it was an easy kill. Then they'd get dragged.
Mines a 2004 6 speed coupe. Some day, I plan to try a swap to either the SRT motor or a NA merc V8 as it will need an engine eventually. No real reason to sell it as it's not worth much, so I'll probably keep it going as long as possible, modding as things fail.
For now though, some good plugs and tires, K&N air, stripped trunk and headliner and anything else not essential, lightweight battery (maybe 80 - 100 pounds shaved off?) and replaced and upgraded fuel pump have made it exceptionally fun. I've put close to 30K miles on it coming to 190K total now. In almost two years only had the fuel pump go out and that's it. I kinda need wheels but these are extremely expensive to actually improve upon and they are still round so whatever. It is definitely a touring kind of car, not really a canyon carver but damn it feels good on the highway and can definitely corner even on the replaced but stock suspension, which is probably the stiffest stock suspension of any vehicle I've been in... to a fault really. I've heard people say they feel squishy and flexing a bunch. Maybe the roadsters, but the coupe feels pretty stiff all around. The steering is one thing if at all possible I will be trying to improve, but over all a blast to own so far for a $3000 car with 157K when I bought it. Slides around pretty good too >:)
I would think I would be the one to run into all the nightmarish issues I keep hearing about given the miles and two very uh.. demanding owners before me, another demanding owner. Oh well, cant hear it over the best V6 sounds ever in my experience.
The second worst type of steering? The E39 M5 uses recirculating ball and it steers pretty damn good.
19 and drives a sports car with 400hp. As a European this seems like an impossible achievement unless your parents are multimillionaires.
Well that's not that uncommon, actually.
Not uncommon at all. My first car was a 2010 Camaro SS 6 speed with 426bhp at 16. (Parents had it for a few years before I got my license and gave it to me.) I know a lot of teenagers in highschool and college with 350+ hp sports and muscle cars. Insurance is expensive, but there’s some ways to get around it. Charger RTs for example have like 370hp and are decently cheap to insure as they’re a 4 door sedan.
Millionaires? Why are your parents buying your car is the first question lol
@@Maroco918 i think the real question is why are you so triggered
@@Audfile triggered? Im not upset one bit lmao. Just asking questions, that no one likes to answer 😏
These cars are a blast to drive, and definitely underrated too. I have bout 350 crank on mine right now, hoping to bump that up soon
60s "steering box" = recirculating ball. You either have rack and pinion or a recirculating ball box. The differences in older systems have to do with how the Pitman arm and drag link(s) are arranged.
Zack does one take with long lost brother.
Zack, recirculating ball steering is a fancy ass name for gearbox steering. The mustang you drove would have been rack and pinion. Mustang IIs and foxbodies are rack and pinion. The two main types of gearbox steering are worm and wheel and recirculating ball. Recirculating ball is infinitely better than worm and wheel, but still not excellent. Worm and wheel is downright scary, that's what you get in old beetles, and some really early american stuff (pre-mid 60s ish). Like a C1 corvette has worm and wheel. But most wollowy old American cars rock recirculating ball gearboxes.
The KLAP IS BACK 🤣
I had one for a few years. The rear tires are very expensive. Also, oil changes averaged around $100. (Not at Mercedes dealership ) The oil was a weird weight, at least by American standards. Lastly the oil filter is mounted on top of the engine so you have to be sure if serviced that the filter is tightened properly, otherwise you will be replacing the super charger belts. (Not cheap)
David Houp If you take your car in anywhere to get an oil change you deserve to pay $100 LOL
So cool to see someone build something so unique.
Fun fact , I had one of these 👍 , and I did mod mine. Actually just simple bolt ons and stance mods. Then I had a child and needed a back seat . I do miss the only NA car I've ever owned
The Crossfire SRT6 is awesome.
Pulley and tune wakes it up nicely.
If im not mistaken, recirculating ball and steering box are the same thing.
I was waiting for Crossfire review since TST's day one.
Thank You Klapman.
This was my first car :D ... very comforting to see!
I always admire people who take an atypical vehicle and make it work 👍
One of the instructors had one of these at the very first trackday I attended in 2006; his was near stock, but looked lowered and probably had pads and fluid, and it was definitely quick!
I have an ‘05 6-speed manual roadster. I like it a lot.
A guy in my town bought one as a first car too, he still owns it over 10 years later. He keeps it neat and clean too.
J024 his boyfriend really likes it thats why he keeps it so nice
@@clcampbell85 Hahahah.
It's nice to see Daniel Tosh's serious side, never knew he was a gear head.
Yeah I've always liked the crossfires too! If they had been able to make em alil cheaper and put in a v8 theyd have had a good entryish sports car, love that supercharger whine!
Tavarish (long ago), had a project car SRT6 that he had a european merc 6 speed manual that fit. I don't think he ever got around to installing it. but it would have been cool
It was an sl55. He still has it but he’s got too many projects. The srt6 as seen here can use the nsg370 out of the NA cars
@@DrewZ926 Unfortunately they probably wouldn't hold up to the torque of a boosted motor. I have one in my garage currently, just wanting to find the inline bell housing to use with an M104 NA build for my 190E Sportline. But god damn those cars are so easy to work on, we had it pulled in 30 minutes with basic hand tools at the yard.
Gearbox from n/a motor + diff from automatic (longer).
I had a very similar vision ! I've always liked the look of these cars so much , and always wanted to see one modified ! This being the only one that i have seen i can say... the vision still lives! Well done !
“Looks like a dog taking a poo” -Jeremy Clarkson
alek wormuth this is a different model
He's a flog
Its true! No one forgets there first car! And like many wished they owned it to this day! Very cool car. Always have respect for someone modifying a car that unique!
“It has a lot done to the motor” has an exhaust and intake 😂
There's more to it than that. Pause the video when you see his Wheel Well page and you can see the list of things done to it.
Ignorance at its finest... Look at his wheel well
Only SCharger pulley can give You a lot hp.
I remember seeing a crossfire for the first time when I was young, it was a dark rainy day in 2007 (I remember because I had a barraki bionice I was 10) and I was in the back of my uncles cyclone. It was black, and had some sort of aero or active wing on the back and I was STAR STRUCK. Of course as I got older and got my first car watched top gear and just never thought the crossfire was cool again, til a couple years ago (I’m 23 now) and I first started thinking about and saving up for a small sports car.
Interesting car, thanks for the review. Have not watched a video from you guys in a long time, However I watched this video from start to finish because I was genuinely interested in how the owner made a Crossfire cool, which the owner did with a lot of hard work so hats off to him and 3 cheers.
I’m fairly certain even the mustang ii’s and foxes had rack and pinion steering...
Nicholas Arceri you are correct Sir
Especially that foxbody was an SVO, I own one and those were made to be the best driver focused mustang in the 80s...lol the guy just shit on that idea 😂
Yep. I was wrong. ZK
TheSmokingTire I was prepared to be wrong but was thinking of all the mustang ii front ends that are swapped into everything. Makes it even crazier that this crossfire has recirculating ball... great video, love the odd balls.
The guy who is driving likes to really hear himself talk and talk and talk...
I like it. It sounds nice and looks like it has pretty tasteful aero mods. No it's not the fastest car, but not everything needs to have 700hp to be fun. Definitely modded nicer than most other 19yr olds would do for sure.
Honestly feel like Mercedes should have used the Crossfire as a base for their A class hatch’s. This almost could be an A35 AMG
interesting build
6spd manual was available on coupe, sedan, and convertible Kompressor models.
This is the 2nd crossfire I've ever seen modded. The other one I saw was a heavily modded one with a custom widebody kit in Arizona. Yes, a widebody kit. Was actually super clean and well built. It was an older guy driving it to Taco Bell.
Give me a year and I'll show you your third haha
Check mine out in my channel
Such a Cool ride man, best looking crossfire ive seen! (see one every now and then here in aus) very unique! love it, and she rips!
"full race suspension" springs/shocks LMAO
I have a buddy at work that collects Crossfires. I'll have to tell him about this video.
Love ABD Racing! Used to deliver parts to them, and saw this car all the time!!!
Awesome build and can't wait to get my crossfire to that caliber... However, I most likely will be doing a build series with a turbo since nobody has really done a successful one yet!
I really want to see this done. It is going to be the first Xfire done with turbo. Great.
This is a great first sports car. I had a Grand Prix, then a Cummins, then I got a Crossfire my senior year. comparable a 350z but faster than all the civics, eclips, and other wanna be FastnFurious kids at the time. I had mine up over 140 on a pretty regular basis(lived in the country river bottoms).
Not compared it smokes those all day lol
Im making a track crossfire as well, when I order my hellcat motor to put in my R/T the 5.7 Cammed twin turbo hemi is also going in the crossfire. Things going to be nuts!
hey, am interested in your project and i was wondering if you could update your progress along the way or if you have already done it all then maybe a quick review video of what u have done etc.
It’s gnarly that is has an AMG V6 in there, bad ass
everytime I see its the new guy I change the video
nobody:
passenger: "Yeah!" "yep"!"
Beautiful SRT6. Best I've seen. Black is the only color for these IMHO>
Goodluck w/the sale! What's next for you?
Let me guess since you're young but with money...2008+ GTR?
Looks like you can pick up a slk320 with a 6 speed manual for about $4k. Same motor but without the super charger. Should be able to to a manual swap.
These came in manual. It's a mercedes commercial truck transmission that they put in the jeep wrangler but it's still a manual lol.
@@Shakshuka69 They aren't terrible in the crossfire either, which is shocking if you have ever driven a wrangler with the same trans.
@@RusnakAutoDesign I drive a wrangler with this trans every day lol. The engagement itself isn't that bad (its not cable shifted) but the throws are like 2ft long and it constantly sounds like it's full of marbles and gravel.
@@Shakshuka69 Lol, I've never heard any noise coming from my Crossfire's. It is not cable shifted but has an extension of some type from the trans and only has like an inch or less throw. Crazy how different the same trans can feel.
I have one of these with 440 crank hp. It will be for sale in the UK next year.
Its very very rare, any questions message me, ive had the car for 4 years so i know these things inside out. It didnt have 330 hp standard, it was 349.
My wife randomly started watching "the rocketeer" like an hour after I watched this
Row row row your boat. Life is but a dream
This man made lemonade out of lemons applause 👏👏👏
Mod what ever comes your way
I feel like i saw this car going into Maumee OH once and my grandfather attempted to get a picture and took a selfie instead...
Steering box plebs rise up lol
How interesting
im this guys age, and when i was 4 or 5, seeing crossfires at the chrysler dealership had me wanting one ever since. Might build my own crossfire now that theyre pretty cheap 👀
PSA the engine makes the same power as the slk32. Mercedes did a lot of lying about the AMG motors hp in this period, because they only made one version of each engine and put them in so many cars. So, if you bought the S55, it was rated higher than the e55, even though they were identical internally, and used the same ECU. Some cars had slightly bigger exhausts, and they're all hand built, so there's variances, but they all dyno similar numbers...
Great for a first car ,,,,that’s a strong dedication to Chrysler Crossfire enjoyed seeing it 👍
Credit to you for creating this
Where are you guys on Kanan Dume in Malibu?
I had a white original SRT-6 with 485 bhp 380 rwhp with paddles, red seatbelts, ground control full suspension, killer chiller AC, pulley , tune, air, lowered. I started the www.srt-6.com website and registered 1000+ cars. Check it out. Car is now sold but very quick indeed. Fun build but that wing must be doing too much drag. We made a gold one too for track too. Redline is 6500+ if u do tune. Ground control, eurocharged and needswings are companies to use.
Very interesting car. Nice to see someone going in their own directions sometimes!
Really hope I still get a response but what’s the harness bar you use and do you know if I would be compatible with the base model
Luv crossfire looks when it came out
not 400hp....
Haxixe 13 330 from factory... his is tuned
Cesar Diaz no chance with a tune this thing is making 400 wheel horsepower
400 crank is likely but 400whp no way. His SC pulley is stock so even with the biggest crank pulley he ain’t getting 400whp
@@DrewZ926 There are pulleys on the market to get 400+ from the srt6, pretty common but the fact that 90% of the people owning one are in their 60s, nobody outside of the crossfire forums really knows about them
Absolutely. I have a c32 and have been running a 185 crank for 10 years. 400+ crank is fairly easy but cracking 400 to the wheels you’re really pushing the factory SC and generating a lot of heat.
Every time I see a Crossfire, I think of the music from the commercials for the game of the same name. It's always a good time.
You must’ve watched a lot of Nickelodeon
** you could in fact get the Crossfire in a manual. go to autotrader and check the manual transmission box. there are a few out there for sale.
Base engine you could, SRT6 didn’t have a manual option.
@@johngriffith7315 hmm that sucks then. think they did that backwards.
@@sadubone Thats AMG for ya
They’re manual swapping SRT6’s quite often now. There’s even a M113K swap with a 6 speed and 5-6 M113 swaps with the 6 speed manual. The misconception that the 6 speed manual trans couldn’t handle the SRT6 hp and torque was just that a BS misconception. Lookup Josh Chase at the Mercedes Sawp Shop in Cali. They’re even throwing the beefed up 722.9 7-speed autos in them too.
"It's got a bunch of stuff done to the engine"
*Lists literally nothing done to the engine*
I had one with 420 hp for 11 months. It spent 9 in the shop.
Never did understand the hate on these cars (cosmetically, anyway). I think they look great. In fact better than the slk. Other than needing a stick and more power, I think they’re awesome.
I like zack and Matt, I think they are a good pare
in the thumbnail the front looks like a skoda..
Thought that was the slowly but surely crossfire
He he, me too :)
They do come in manual in USA
Cool build. Nothing really unique about it besides the aero kit when looking at other SRT6 withing the community. But I'm sure he's not done with it so it'll be cool to see where he takes it.
Yes these came with a 6 speed if you wanted it and you can find them all over with manual trans
Mercedes higher-ups kept Chrysler from releasing a mid engine twin turbo 6 cylinder because they did not want to be out shinned
My dad has a very similar car to this. If only they could’ve had a manual trans that could handle the srt6’s hp. Does this LSD?
It's a gta5 fusillade :)
The rocket pack was destroyed. It was leaking fuel and went up in flames as Nevil Sinclair took off from the zeplin
That steering wheel looks atrocious LOL
Mercedes didn't take 20hp, it was a marketing/PR ploy not to piss off Mercedes owners. They could essentially have the same car in the STR6 for 10'000$ less. Actually the car has better cooling stock over the slk32 amg. 349hp for slk32 and c32, around 362hp for the SRT6. Tests have been done showing said differences. So many misconceptions about these cars. Mercedes didn't give a rats ass about Chrysler during the merger. Just look into the Chrysler MEfour-twelve story. A car that even by todays standards would be a beast.
Schade, dass der Fahrer die Strecke nicht kennt. Ich habe auch einen und finde ihn wunderbar!!