SENT IT TOO HARD! Unusual C55 AMG Track Car! // Nürburgring

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00:00 intro/Specs
03:28 Lap
12:38 Impressions

[@raw-amg4396]

Misha drove the wheels of my car (clutch still ok)

[@TK-sx3mn]

godzilla of the Rhine

[@KontoVonMir]

Once the clutch slips like that it’s pretty much over. Yeah, you can still use it moderately at low temps, but the friction material is overheated and the flywheel is glazed. You might have 60-70% of the maximum torque you were able to use originally and beyond that it’ll start slipping again pretty quickly.

[@GapeGang]

What Konto said

[@smOOdiebOOdie]

Love your build man! Big fan and a sub since long ago! 😁👊🏻

[@stefanpetrov8]

Top car lad, my favorite shape C-Class. The curves lend themselves so well for a racecar.

[@Fabulousprofound168]

Next episode this will be a full DTM car 😮

[@SuperBubba01]

An ITC car would be so cool :D

[@lolly166541]

That was my first thought, seeing the Star like that on the Ring - really gives off old DTM vibes. Has to be overlayed to something like Thunder Love from SUNG....

[@kylem324]

Cool build. The way it accelerates over 120mph was greater than I expected.

[@99Lezard99]

i mean its still a big V8 in a 1250kg car.

[@kylem324]

@@99Lezard99 Yeah. Even at 400hp/tq at the crank, I wasn’t expecting it to be slow. It pulled quite hard at speed where drag is greater than weight.

[@ebf1003]

​@@kylem324it seems faster than a 1000hp gtr.

[@Ghousempc]

@@ebf1003because m113 make 100 more hp than torque. The engine also weighs less than a Honda K20 engine. All aluminum Single head over cam produced from 1997-2011. And 2003-2009 supercharged

[@kylem324]

@@ebf1003 🤣

[@Watts378]

11:48 - that was some serious skill at that speed 👌👌

[@sp33dou]

Not enough steering input to the left at 11:45 and almost hit the right curb after that. And can't blame him, as the stock steering in w202 is the most awful thing ever. I hope he doesn't drive any more w202's so we can keep enjoying his videos.

[@betteroffdeadd]

W202 deserves more recognition. Great cars. Better than E36 in my opinion, specially the front suspension (double wishbone).

[@raw-amg4396]

Agreed

[@fastdays_1]

We need more owners like him! great project car and I would suggest a period DTM livery as a final touch!

[@flurpoid]

Something like the Sonax 190e livery on it would look tremendous.

[@99Lezard99]

i love stuff like that. unusual track builds you dont see tonns of like bmw's. absolutely cool.

[@jimmythehat1000]

I like how you take extra care when overtaking motorbikes. I have noticed it in a lot of your videos. Cheers.

[@rv9990]

This car needs the Silver 'Warsteiner' DTM wrap!

[@toddthezondalover645]

I prefer the yellow livery myself lol

[@sp33dou]

What you portrayed at 13:00 pretty much sums up my experience with w202's. In the end of the day it shows that these cars were made as autobahn cruisers and not track cars.

[@JuergenGDB]

The paint on the Merc looks like the old Porsche Petrol Blue, but with purple flake. Pretty cool actually.

[@5ShotProductions]

What an amazing car, what an amazing lap, what an amazing video! 👏👏👏 Thx to Misha and the owner of this „crazy“ (in a good way!) car 🙏 I really like and admire people when they think „outside the box“ 👍 This dude thought: Wouldn’t it be awesome to build a Tracktool which is loosely based on a W203 C55? And then he started his journey and idk how many months or years he needed to build this car but regardless of that timeline we all had the pleasure of seeing a manual W203 C55 AMG track car! 😍🙏 Hell yeah, what a car 👏 Again, thx to all for this experience, I had a blast watching this video! Best wishes from Bavaria/Germany 🇩🇪, Philipp 👋

[@GD_Cheezy]

typo, its a w202. i mess them up sometimes too

[@5ShotProductions]

@@GD_Cheezy 😂 Oh my god, you are right! 🥴🫣 And the most embarrassing part is: I thought about it while I was watching the video and was very certain that this is the W202. But after the video was over and I did write the comment I forgot what I thought a few minutes prior and then… Sorry guys! It must be the age I guess 🥴😂 So correction: It is of course the W202 C55! Holy smokes, that was embarrassing 😆 But, another „comment writing excuse“: I‘m a BMW guy 🫣🤪 Thanks for pointing my mistake out and best wishes, Philipp 👋

[@mikhailblakhin]

My favourite shot from the cabin is during the main carousel, it seems like you're going on the rocket directly to the moon! Pretty nice lap as usual, Misha!

[@stevenpam]

W202 on Misha's channel? I couldn't hit "like" fast enough! 👍👍👍👍👍

[@yawningkitty457]

THe look on your mans face as you went down through fox hole was absolute gold. The pucker factor was strong with this one.

[@samuelgomez3311]

Misha is like an opposite average workshop... In a sense of the car always fails in front of your mechanic and here, cars fails when Misha's around the stuff 😂😂😂

[@Bassalicious]

What a freaking cool car. Nicely put together good sir!

[@aussieausdeutschland4245]

That colour is fucking fantastic, the V8 sounds mean as, the bike riders in the first half of the lap looking over their shoulders... almost like the Toecutter looking back is he being chased down by Max Rockatanski in the Pursuit Special. 😅😅😅😅

[@dielaughing73]

Last of the V8s!

[@TimsEnthusiastGarage]

man this lap was WILD, tons of super quick steering input kept that thing on the road. Awesome build. Love seeing this.

[@LeonardTavast]

Awesome camerawork as always! I love that you have a pedal cam for this manual gearboxed car.

[@lbmazdaspeed]

Just when I thought I couldn’t love Germany more! I find a video of Misha (the legend) in an “old school” AMG! Thank you for all you do to bring this type of experience and content! Truly enjoy it! I hope one day to meet you!

[@ImBarryScottCSS]

Given the obviously very large amount of work that has gone in to this car and how much of a handful it clearly is, I think that answers why you don't see many Mercs, they really aren't built for this.

[@spale999]

"so we shifted right before 6000rpm?" "yes" 1st and 2nd gear 6300🤣

[@dielaughing73]

I was 100% expecting that

[@SuperBubba01]

1250kg ist eine Ansage mit Ben V8 .. das ist toll.

[@user-nr5rc3sw3r]

Unbalanced Schrott

[@Petaretjehh]

Awesome car and lap! Admire the work he has put into it.

[@danielshinerock1526]

Amazing lap. A lot of skill involved in driving the Merc and Misha still msnaged a 8.30 minute lap. Well done!

[@dzontravolta3952]

Great project , would love to see more cars like this one ,on the track Misha 👍

[@dunkelheit843]

Very fun lap to watch, that guy did a nice job on that car!

[@155stw]

I love this car. Reminds me of the days of Thim, Lohr, Schneider, Ludwig. My guess is there is a small air bubble in the clutch line going to the slave pump. When it gets hot and expands, it can cause the clutch to disengage.

[@14mviews25]

this is true racing so raw and best performance by misha

[@Ramsi-Berlin]

Congratulations Mischa for over 1 Million subscriber's ❣️💪🏼 🎉 I'm waiting so long for this and I'm happy that's done 👍🏼 Love from Berlin 🇩🇪 Ramsi 🙋🏻‍♂️😘

[@BearX681]

Hats off to the Owner and to the Car! Brilliant kus foking brilliant! Thank you Misha!

[@bisondacierr]

This thing rips, love it.

[@benlowe7089]

Even as a BMW M driver I absolutely love this. Super cool.

[@TheProperMinter]

Pedal work is masterful Misha

[@xXxH8TERxXx]

original build with a nice roaring engine

[@gtsupreme]

That is absolutely amazing, true old mechanic car , you can well touring spirit in it , what you can not see in modern tuned up bmws

[@jackmillin]

That looked like good fun but a real handful!

[@Ramsi-Berlin]

I was full of adrenaline pumping during the lap ❣️😄 Awesome build and mind-blowing work Mischa ❕👍🏼 Love from Berlin, Ramsi 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@DiegoColafabio]

Beautiful car, congrats. I would love to see a new lap with all things sorted (clutch and gearbox, i would like to see a full manual race gearbox). Great car btw. Remember me the DTM class C car.

[@simniels4380]

Cool car and even cooler owner! Nice bloke

[@Gobbbbb]

Watching the top cam reminds me of James mays lap on Top Gear in his 190E lol

[@thifech]

Always impressive driving skills. Of course the speed is insane, but I'm always hypnotised by the foot work.

[@andriesrombout4714]

As a biker myself it is nice to see someone like Misha actually looking out for people on bikes. I know that some dudes don't check mirrors while riding but as a car driver you probably miss out on 1/2 corners but if a biker goes down you probably missing out the whole season er worse and due to Nurburgring letting both on track the more protected racer needs to take care off the less protected out there

[@adrianvalbuena8158]

What a nice track car!!! well done Misha!!!

[@chadhumphries3970]

The channel with guy building this car is great

[@Vultus74]

Could you feel the missing of the back wing, looked like a fun round.

[@mgcharoudin]

YEP

[@stephanschubert3005]

I would say it was a „junior“ Lap with a senior Car 😉

[@johnmcdonnell81]

Great vid, love the car. Wonder how much slower my modified C230 Kompressor would be...the 'Ring is calling! 🙂

[@PAUCHEUNGBowieDAI-mb1tz]

A very nice car, the clutch needs to be checked, rear spoiler is required to reinstall as well next time

[@hanssaubermann6814]

Ich hab eine w202 Limo und ein s202 t-modell und diese Autos sind einfach alles andere als sportlich. Richtig cool was der Besitzer da gebaut hat 💪😎 Sah aus als könnte man da eine Menge Spaß mit haben 😀

[@shepardman993]

Whst a brilliant build well done the owner 🔥🔥

[@alexhentschel1080]

haha wow that was a wild lap. it seemed like it was taking every ounce of Misha's focus to keep the car pointing in the right direction. its one thing to see him send a stock m3 around the ring, its something totally different to watch him manage a totally raw, rwd v8 with no abs. too bad the clutch couldn't keep up.

[@toddthezondalover645]

I had a 91 190e and a 98 C230. This is my dream car.

[@ruiverissimo9549]

Amazing car...really good work... Just change the gear box...and still a beast on the track... I wish you return ...but with a wing in back side...and with another 6° gear box ...beautiful AMG Race Car.... 🇵🇹🇬🇧❤

[@NigeUK007]

Great Merc! Lovely to see something different.

[@volvo09]

That's an awesome car! I love it!

[@Digtoride]

Dtm vibes 🔥 awesome to have cars like that one in the channel Misha🤘🏼

[@TrulydaMoosey]

To think I never thought of Misha's footwork, and now, it's all I can focus on. Bravo!

[@coolguy_2997]

Then you need to watch the Honda civics episodes, that’s where the magic was :)

[@bits2646]

I do really hope more ppl will start using early 2000s mbs, or even late 90s in fact and we'll see many more parts as well, in fact by now the year to year c55 vs m3 vs rs4, the mb is the cheapest... especially vs sth like b7 rs4, which are notoriously expensive (and amazing, in fact my first car and actually still my fav RS..), and also rare to find a good deal, you need to really watch the mileage and condition with any kind of deals

[@YootubeUK]

Ah, that look and feeling of horror when you break something far from home! Good to see it revisited with improved shift linkage and uprated driven plate. Awesome looking car.

[@tony66au]

Awesome Lap in a Fun car :-) Nothing quite like an NA Benz V8 on The Ring, Shame they aren't supported better! Loved it!

[@AlexanderHolding]

Misha you're intense with those pedals! Good driver as always!

[@rcybergaming]

Sick car, cool owner, and nice lap

[@dearlove88]

So happy to jump on and see this can is on again!

[@lars.v9113]

Love to see the Mercedes star on the bonnet !

[@markparker2893]

This is a car I would have built on Gran Turismo back in the day…absolute beast shame the clutch went but the sound and feel is a pure adrenaline rush….wasn’t the 5.5 originally called the Hammer?

[@coolguy_2997]

Hammer was the old w124 with a 6.0 V8

[@markparker2893]

@@coolguy_2997 thank you wasn’t sure 🙏

[@pear7869]

what a beast of a car, love it

[@bradthx]

Huge love for the W202. One of the best cars Mercedes has ever made.

[@sturomain]

Worth perfecting cool track rig

[@rjc862003]

I wonder if maby the clutch fluid is boiling. seems like it recovered quickly. definately needs a shifter upgrade

[@Carl-ud3zs]

Looked like Misha really had to drive that one , what a brilliant build

[@FairladyS130]

What a bahnstormer, love it.

[@MrXispas]

Engine sound, The best!

[@bandindia6134]

2:50 wait.. he is holding the legendary equipment of any track cars.. ahahahahaha

[@Alwyshgh19]

This was a serious one!!

[@OscarTheSausageDog]

Love the pedal cam. Seems like a lot of pedal travel. Is that normal on a race setup? I've only tracked OEM cars.

[@rel04ding58]

Always cool too see these old Mercedes on track

[@Ramsi-Berlin]

Isn't "old" ‼️🤣 Or maybe I'm old ❔❕🤔 Okay... would I be a car, I'm get a "H" on the numberplate for history. I'm born 1974 😅 An old mercedes for me, is a W123, 118, or /8 ... but not that very modern C-Class 😂

[@nxthanmc292]

Misha I was recently invested into the c55 and was doing some research yesterday and now this pops up 😂

[@mgcharoudin]

Illuminati confirmed

[@ANDERZENAMG]

Long live the 6 speed swapped 55's! Cheers Misha for highlighting such an awesome build from Robin! Way to Rip!

[@poopyfakeprophetmohammedra4337]

Once engines die out ls2 swap them good fun classic cars old mercs

[@origaminefretami3480]

Awesome car

[@ToledoTechBR]

isso me lembrou muito tirar a carteira de motorista no gran turismo de play 1 e 2 que saudades !

[@poopyfakeprophetmohammedra4337]

My friend had a newer c55 v8 reminded me of his same engine note should've never sold it

[@bannerzone_UK]

Cool Car. Perhaps an uprated clutch needed. Shame there's not more Track Car Mercs out there

[@jonathanrice-exec11]

Man, I love C36s. Would love to build one

[@NayiMureyi]

06:35 - Misha Charoudin ladies & gentlemen. 🥶

[@flurpoid]

Mercedes from this era are awesome, and I seldom see them on track. Very cool (and apparently hot) car for sure.

[@sismofytter]

Awesome car 😎

[@RepsolRC211V]

Great gearbox

[@Jazeeti]

I have to say the motorbike at 7.34 looking back and swerving around the track is very dangerous if you ask me. Anyhoo the shifting could use a good upgrade. It seems kind of sluggish. Due to the big engine and rotating parts you should try anything to lighthen it. Lighter flywheel , lighter cardanaxle, better clutch haha and anything for the shifting system. I have to say i do like the car, its raw power and the weight reduction you achieved.

[@Gobbbbb]

I agree, a lot of riders on the Ring have 0 awareness around them and seem to make last minute decisions, rather than planning ahead. You could tell he wanted to move out but it was far too late. Don't forget Misha is used to LHD also which most likely doesn't help, but that shifter still seemed a pain in the arse. At least he didn't go down gears by accident haha.

[@roy-ic9hu]

Rob mate if your going back this yr ill be up for it again

[@raw-amg4396]

Yeah mate looking at late June I’ll let you know the dates

[@Mr_RoXxX]

This car ❤❤❤

[@stephenvendryes2910]

This beast looks like a real hand full. The thing was trying hard to crash them. Balky gearbox and crazy torque. Loved it.

[@SgtStash]

That seems like a lot of travel on that brake pedal. Is it just the angle or are your toes brushing against the steering linkage? I guess it would with the pedal box elevating your feet higher.

[@TracesAllegory]

I have a w202, I’m not sure if he changed anything, but the brake pedal does need to be pushed a little farther than most cars to activate in my experience

[@SgtStash]

@@TracesAllegory is that due to the way the linkage works or just a characteristic of the pedal? Can that be adjusted?

[@CDN296]

Props to him for putting a rare amg on the track and having to get parts from Australia 😅

[@UweCaspart]

Hi dude, nice to see ur c55 here too. Scraping seems to be a c55 issue :-)

[@DJRubenGAMINGTV]

what a beast

[@netmatrix75]

This looks like a DTM car. Amazing.

[@DYNANiK.official]

This one need the D2 Mannesmann Livery from DTM

[@NicolaasPhotography]

This car is such a joy to be a passenger in!