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Originally Posted by rieger

Do I own a MB? You can say fortunately yes but unfortunately a 2003 E500. The first year and the worst year. Am I pissed yes but more so at MB's customer service and Schrempf cost cutting measures.
No I am not saying E63 owners are stupid I was just saying that chipping Forced Induction cars make a lot more Hp and chipping a N/A engine would be stupid so if someone was going to chip a E63 that wouldn't be the brightest thing.

You can still get a considerable amount of hp for a N/A engine if you chip a 63. Powerchip rates their chip as giving 30 hp and 27 torque. I mean, that's not that bad. I know it's nothing compared to a forced induction engine (I mean the 600 V12TT gets like almost a 100 hp). I even looked into a powerchip for my car, an e320, and it says it gives anywhere from 17 - 22 hp. I mean, if I can get 20 hp, that would be great and I would really like the added throttle response, that is my biggest problem with my car right now.

Ya, you can get more out of modding a forced induced engine, but you risk sacrificing the life of the engine that way and other components. I mean, I have heard many people have problems with their supercharged MB engines such as overheating. Even my uncle that works on MBs said when I was shopping for a MB and mentioned an E55, he said it would be better to stay away from the supercharged AMG. When we were shopping for a C class, he said stay away from the C230 kompressors.

Something funny crossed my mind. My friend has a mustang V6 which is a 4.0L that pushes 210 hp vs my car is a 3.2L that pushes 221 hp. I kind of looked at him like WTF??? Ya, few months later he bought a shelby gt500. Talk about bad hp/l ratio.

Ya, the 03s are nightmares. Really a dark time in MB history.