Kleemann

A Kleemann SLK 55K S8 awaiting delivery. The car originated as an SLK 55 AMG and was modified to the S8 level denoting it has the best and widest range of performance products offered for a V8. A typical SLK 55 produces 350 horsepower; this one produces slighly under 600.

Kleemann A/S is an after-market tuning company for Mercedes-Benz sports cars, sedans, and SUV's. Headquartered in Farum, Denmark.

Kleemann's slogan is "Comfort Power," referring to its low-boost, high-output engines that create substantially power than standard Mercedes models. Kleemann vehicles also include structural and mechanical integrity improvements often lacking in tuned sports cars.

Any vehicle on the Mercedes lineup can be tuned in a number of ways from SLK roadsters to G-Class Wagons. Customers can specify custom seats, floormats, and interior fabrics as well as carbon fiber body kits, carbon front and rear splitters, and carbon interior panelling. Customers can order simple ECU upgrades that change transmission shift times and valve timing, or they can more aggressively have the engine bored and supercharged, install camshafts and high-flow headers. Kleemann also manufactures its own racing wheels, racing LSD's, racing suspension components, and multi-piston brakes. Kleemann can even install Lamborghini-style vertical doors on their modified vehicles.

Contents

1 Records
2 Innovations
3 Competing companies
4 External links
5 References

Records

In 2002 Danish race driver Jason Watt drove 338 km/h (210 mph) in a 607 hp (446 kW) Kleemann E 55K (W210 model) making it the world's fastest four-door car. http://kleemann.dk/site/Main/worldrecords Less than a year later a Kleemann tuned ML 55K clocked a remarkable 282 km/h (175 mph) on the Nardo Ring in southern Italy making it the world's fastest SUV. However, both records have since been broken by Brabus in Bottrop, Germany.

Innovations

Tuner working on a Kleemann Kompressor. On the left is the twin-screw type supercharger and on the right in the intake manifold with internal intercooler.

Kleemann is credited with being the first company to combine a supercharger, intake manifold, and an intercooler into one single unit atop the engine block known as the Kleemann Kompressor. http://kleemann.dk/site/Main/tuningproducts/kompressor This is markedly different from the "Kompressors" or superchargers found on Mercedes-AMG vehicles, although AMG has since begun manufacturing only twin-turbo engines. Kleemann also utilizes twin-screw superchargers instead of roots type superchargers of conventially belt-driven boost systems.

Competing companies

External links

References

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Automobile Engineering (Tuning) companies
Australian companies: FPV \| HSV \| Tickford
Belgian companies: Gillet
British companies: Prodrive
Danish companies: Kleemann
French companies: Renault Sport
German companies: Abt Sportsline \| AC Schnitzer \| Alpina \| AMG \| BMW M \| BRABUS \| Carlsson \| Gemballa \| Hartge \| Irmscher \| PPI Automotive Design \| Reiger \| RUF \| Steinmetz
Italian companies: Racing Dynamics
Japanese companies: Autech \| HKS \| Mazdaspeed \| MINE'S \| Mugen \| Nismo \| Ralliart \| Spoon \| STI \| TRD \| Veilside
Swiss companies: Rinspeed
US companies: GM Cadillac V-Series \| GMPD \| RDSport \| lingenfelter \| RENNtech \| Saleen \| SRT \| SVT
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