A 400HP Chrysler Crossfire Track Car? 

It is kinda funny how it sounds like a terminator mustang coming at you and then a 350z going away from you

Theo looks like your little brother

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

Hot V6s are criminally underrated, especially when the exhaust is done right and everything

The Mustang II did not have ball join steering. My memory of cars driven in 2014 can be fuzzy. ZK

"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)

All v8 e39 had recirculating ball. Including the m5

Imagine this with a hellcat motor

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. 😆

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.

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.

They were pretty decent looking. I think the price for what you ended up getting, completely killed it off.

This car literally defines the car guy mentality. We can’t always get cool cars but we work with what we got.

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.

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.

Zack does one take with long lost brother.

“Looks like a dog taking a poo” -Jeremy Clarkson

I have to admire the individuality of this build. Was really nervous to see harnesses without a cage though.

The 722.6 transmission is a pretty solid automatic. M112K sounds insane though! This thing is pretty cool.

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.

The KLAP IS BACK 🤣

not 400hp....

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

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.

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.

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.

If im not mistaken, recirculating ball and steering box are the same thing.

That steering wheel looks atrocious LOL

"full race suspension" springs/shocks LMAO

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

It's a gta5 fusillade :)

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

"It's got a bunch of stuff done to the engine" *Lists literally nothing done to the engine*

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)

I’m fairly certain even the mustang ii’s and foxes had rack and pinion steering...

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.

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!

“It has a lot done to the motor” has an exhaust and intake 😂

They're All good ones, even my little NA.. Yes that one has horsepower but NA owners think theirs are good ones too...careful buddy.

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

I have just now come across this channel. And I know this is years old but two things - I own a tuned SRT6 roadster myself and it still today turns heads wherever I go and can outrun most modern vehicles 2) the host is as obnoxious as can be, has a minimum amount of knowledge on this vehicle or AMG vehicles. And what's worse, basically insults Theo every chance he gets. It's literately sad that a channel with this many subscribers knows so little about cars but in particular what he is sitting in - the M112K engine was one of the best AMG engines ever built together with the M113K that came after (same engine but two cylinders more). This guy is the perfect example as to why the Crossfire was so misunderstood and also the reason why you can purchase these with low miles still today for an amazing price. Put $1500 of tuning parts in (Needswings cold air intake, smaller pulley, ECU tune and split cooling) and you have yourself a monster on the streets and a vehicle of which roughly 2500 were ever built.

I have an ‘05 6-speed manual roadster. I like it a lot.

Mercedes higher-ups kept Chrysler from releasing a mid engine twin turbo 6 cylinder because they did not want to be out shinned

It's nice to see Daniel Tosh's serious side, never knew he was a gear head.

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.

interesting build

in the thumbnail the front looks like a skoda..

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?

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.

I have a buddy at work that collects Crossfires. I'll have to tell him about this video.

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...

M Y M O P A R I S B E S T M E R C E D E S

So cool to see someone build something so unique.

everytime I see its the new guy I change the video

guy said track car and followed it up with maganaflow mufflers and full exhaust and headers and full exhaust

How interesting

My wife randomly started watching "the rocketeer" like an hour after I watched this

The Crossfire SRT6 is awesome. Pulley and tune wakes it up nicely.

This was my first car :D ... very comforting to see!

Dosnt seem like 400 whp

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).

He should consider a ZF8HP swap with a turbolamik TCU.

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.

Steering box plebs rise up lol

Mod what ever comes your way

Wat? So cool.

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

I was waiting for Crossfire review since TST's day one. Thank You Klapman.

I always admire people who take an atypical vehicle and make it work 👍

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...

I had one with 420 hp for 11 months. It spent 9 in the shop.

nobody: passenger: "Yeah!" "yep"!"

If you’re 100% Caucasian zack won’t wipe his hands after a handshake 😂

Why you so rude, didn't have to say that you have a coffee maker, that was so bad

Love ABD Racing! Used to deliver parts to them, and saw this car all the time!!!

Definitely not 400whp 400whp stacked pulleys fuel and cooling mods and big manifolds with crossovers tuned by Vanos Vtech

Thought that was the slowly but surely crossfire

The rocket pack was destroyed. It was leaking fuel and went up in flames as Nevil Sinclair took off from the zeplin

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.

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.

I know a guy building a turbo v8 crossfire - rollcage and all - Hopefully it wont kill me

There is no difference in HP between the 354hp SLK32AMG and the srt 6. Only marketing. proven !

I like zack and Matt, I think they are a good pare

"like a Bentley"!!! Either the kid was very naive about cars or Chrysler had THE greatest designers at the time. Given that Chrysler is now owned by FIAT, I'm going with the former.

This man made lemonade out of lemons applause 👏👏👏

They do come in manual in USA

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.

So much modifying of this car but don't fix the steering issue why. Nice to see this car never the less

Why'd he mount his splitter rods to the body and not the chassis....? For road course, auto cross, and time attack vehicles you definitely want to have those chassis mounted for maximum effect.

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.

it does not sound like a 350z

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.

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.

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 👀

Site is still down 😢

Warum redet er soviel, obwohl das Auto schon alles gesagt hat??

He tried to sell this...