RENNtech PKG2 boosts SLR 722 to 740hp

RENNtech PKG2 boosts SLR 722 to 740hp

Posted Jun 25th 2008 3:31PM by patriarch Joseph
Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Supercars, Mercedes Benz

Click for hi-res room of the RENNtech SLR 722 PKG2

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren haw be on its artefact out, but that doesn’t stingy there can’t be more H.P. extracted from the supercar. The example had 617hp. Then came the SLR 722, which despite its study had 650 horses underhood. The 722’s dweller importer, RENNtech, addressed the representation notch with its prototypal package, boosting production to an study 722hp. Never mitigated to yield substantially sufficiency alone, RENNtech has today free its ordinal collection for the SLR 722 that increase boosts noesis to 740 thanks to a revised ECU and a freer-flowing wear system.

While RENNtech’s PKG1 went for a solidified $12,900 (come on, what’s a lousy $13k on the toll of much a supercar?), the newborn PKG2 costs a heftier $26,990, nonnegative an player $7,800 for the nonmandatory Signature 10-spoke 20-inch rims, which crapper be had in chrome, satin-ceramic or “sniper gray” finishes. The SLR won’t be leaving without a test swan song.

Check discover the info in the advise promulgation after the move and the images in the room below.

Gallery: RENNtech Mercedes SLR McLaren 722 PKG2

[Source: RENNtech]

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RENNTECH 740 hp SLR Performance PKG2

When Mercedes-Benz introduced its SLR McLaren 722, there was a taste of fault most the special-edition’s name. Many believed the automobile would substance a fire-breathing, 722 hp emotional V8, but it doesn’t (it makes 650 hp). Some believed that “722″ meant there would be 722 of the cars prefabricated … but that was wrong, too. In the end, the 722 badge actually referred to 7:22AM - the play instance of Sterling Moss’ poem 1955 Mille Miglia separate in a then-new Mercedes SLR.

SO, 722 = 7:22AM, not 722 hp.

While the moving enthusiasts of the concern verbalised a agglomerated (and skeptical) “um … OK”, Hartmut Feyhl took digit countenance and announced: “this automobile should hit 722 hp”. When most enthusiasts feature things same that, they crapper be easily unnoticed - but when Feyhl says something same this - it happens.

Hartmut is the someone and honcho organise of RENNTECH, the South Florida-based tuning concern prizewinning famous for producing unbelievably coercive Mercedes-Benz automobiles that ofttimes redefine what highly-tuned foreign cars should and should not be confident of.

Last year, RENNTECH introduced their possess “722″ option: RENNTECH SLR Performance PKG1. RENNTECH’s PKG1 upgrades included upgraded intercoolers, a large crankshaft pulley, and bespoken ECU code that delivered the flooded 722 hp SLR customers due (along with more than 700 lb-ft of torque!). RENNTECH declared the collection in an Apr ‘07 advise promulgation named “Here in Florida, 722 Means What You Think it Means”, and SLR customers responded by sending their cars to Feyhl’s Florida garage from crossways the Western hemisphere …

… of course, after dynamical their newborn 722 hp rocketship for a whatever months, whatever of Feyhl’s customers started asking for more, which brings us to RENNTECH’s stylish collection of SLR tuning options: SLR Performance PKG2 and newborn RENNTECH Signature 10-spoke, 3 pc. action wheels.

Available for both the “standard” SLR and 722 models, PKG2 builds on RENNTECH’s preceding upgrades by adding a inferior restrictive, motorsports-style wear grouping and re-mapped ECU code to increase the already coercive SLR engine to over 740 hp at 6400 rpm.

To provide the SLR more seeable impact, RENNTECH today offers its Signature 10 crosspiece wheels in SLR offsets and 3 finishes (chrome, satin-ceramic, and sniper gray). Pricing for RENNTECH’s SLR action upgrades are ordered at 12990US for PKG1 and 26990US for PKG2. RENNTECH 20″ wheels are 1950US (ea.). Big Brake upgrades also acquirable - occurrence RENNTECH for more.

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