Recent content by 190-v8

Congratulations on getting the car all together! The exhaust looks fantastic as well. Pierre

Thanks for the positive feedback Trollburger! This project has been "paused" for a while while we move and renovate our new (old) place. I have also been busy building cnc plasma tables as well. I am hoping to get back to the benz project in the next month or so. www.hotrodfab.com

I recently bought some 300e spindles, calipers, vented discs and steering arms. The stock 190e front brakes brakes have 10.2" solid discs and these direct bolt-ons are 11.5" and vented with larger calipers and pads. These are basically the same brakes that MB put on the Cosworth 16v 190e cars...

I boxed in and welded up one of the areas I cut open to allow clearance for the rear of the motor. I have a smaller patch to do on the other side still as well.

Pretty slow progress lately.. but I did manage to take the motor back out to finish boxing in the cross member where I cut it back to clear the oil pan.

Very cool build (to state the obvious). Keep us posted. Pierre (Abbotsford BC)

Another piece of the puzzle sorted last night....I got a great deal on a Snow Performance stage II water/meth injection kit! This will be used to cool the intake charge instead of an intercooler. Just about finished the manifold....A bit uglier than I would have liked welding wise...but...

Mercedes 190e mounts Using urethane Corvette C5 mounts with the stock 1uz ears.

Been pretty slow with the progress as of late.... I did trim the front of the plenum on an angle to clear the water jacket and bent a front "plenum wall". I found a cheap M112 snout on Ebay and am going to use that on the M122 to space the SC back more. Pretty happy about finding one...not...

Some welding progress - got the plenum fully welded top (inside) and underneath to the stock milled down manifold. I will position and weld the end and top plates on once I have my pulley offset figured out on the SC.

Been busy with other things as of late but got a bit of time to work on the manifold set-up that I was inspired to make from another poster on here :). I bolted the manifold to a flat steel jig to keep it flat when it is welded. The port opening have been smoothed pretty well - ready to...

Some more progress... Motor mounts are done, the cross member has got a big notch cut into it temporarily to clear the sump (will finish that soon) with a pipe section welded inside to reinforce, the front sway bar clears the sump and the steering rack clears the pan too :)

Well I was going to go with an individual throttle body set-up..... but this came up at an awesome price so it looks like I will be doing something else... M122 supercharger from a Shelby GT500 Mustang.

The 1uz stock mount location is very close to the same width as the holes in the factory MB cross member.... But on the cross member they are not the same height side to side or flat...at least on a 2.3l equipped car. I am replacing that area with 3mm thick flat plates sunken down to be level...

Flywheel bolted on torqued with new ARP bolts. I cut the "offending" bolt bosses off the steering rack and smoothed it a bit. This combined with the editing the front of the cross member should allow the motor to sit in the right spot. Also, I am hoping that since the rack is a bit higher...