1990 Mercedes Benz 190E 2.6 Sportline

[rowdytoot]

HOLY CRAP that is an impressive shopping spree....

makes me look slack.....

quick, I must away to teh bay of e's to fix this situation! :D

[bahaimus]

Just dropped the turbos and manifold gaskets to Exotic Exhaust to have some flanges cut this morning.

Whilst I maintain your result could be more easily attained in other ways, I applaud your commitment and progress

Your recent ridicule spurred me into action.

[SELfor50]

I said,
NICE ONE BRUVVAAAAA!!

Great shopping spree dude. I'm guessing the big box of gaskets and bits was an Autohaus order? Love the USD rate atm.

Where did you get the adjustable camber thingys for the rear? A mate with a 201 would be keen to know I reckon.

[BigMuz]

Yeah I'm onboard now Clayto! Get into it!

[bahaimus]

Great shopping spree dude. I'm guessing the big box of gaskets and bits was an Autohaus order? Love the USD rate atm.

Where did you get the adjustable camber thingys for the rear? A mate with a 201 would be keen to know I reckon.

Yeah, Autohaus. I got John to quote for a lot of the stuff, but even with shipping from the US, he couldn't compete. I bought a couple of things from him though. And I left that pic off my post on the ozbenz forum...

This thread for the camber arms:
http://190rev.net/forums/showthread.php?t=38135

Yeah I'm onboard now Clayto! Get into it!

What could possibly go wrong :D

[Cal]

http://www.my105.com/listingdetails....50&exfeature=1

[bahaimus]

Slow...:D

[Cal]

It's faster than yours is at the moment!

[bahaimus]

For now.

[SELfor50]

Yeah, Autohaus. I got John to quote for a lot of the stuff, but even with shipping from the US, he couldn't compete. I bought a couple of things from him though. And I left that pic off my post on the ozbenz forum...

This thread for the camber arms:
http://190rev.net/forums/showthread.php?t=38135



What could possibly go wrong :D

Yeah, fair call. Dude I get a heap of common stuff from Autohaus, and he's cool with that. Where he comes through is unique hard to find parts.. Get's them direct from the manufacturer in the fatherland and at a very good price.

That EVO 190 looks pretty farkn nice. It'd be nice to buy one that was ready to go track prepped.... BUT... If you take your car, and spend $40K on it, it will no doubt go twice as fast.

It is nice though.

[bahaimus]

Bought more shit.

My gearbox has been paid for and is now sitting in a transport depot in Washington state awaiting loading into a container!

Oil drains for the turbos. I'm going to apply Tim510's rationale that using AN fittings will allow easier removal and refitting of components. It's going to be a track car, shit's gonna fail.


A heap of flange. I got a couple of extra head flanges cut because I could well balls up the manifolds. I was fairly happy that this lot cost $190 all up including new studs for the turbos.


I'm going to need camber up the front. I bought a set of universal camber plates, mostly for the spherical bearing mounting component.


The top of the strut shaft is tapered. So I had Ken Graham from Accurate Suspension turn down a lip on the strut and make me new nut to secure it all together.

I'll have to get some inverted cups made to hold them. They will sit on top of the strut tower and have an extra washer plate installed on the underside of the strut tower. They'll look something like this.




I also just pulled the trigger on an ECU to run all of this.



http://adaptronic.com.au/products/e420c.html

It was cheaper than I'd budgeted for an ECU. That will allow a bit more freedom of funds to look at a brake and wheel upgrade hopefully. Now I'm going turbo, I think I'm going to need more tyre under the back and more brake under the front.

[Gammaboy]

Should have a pair of these in the near future...

[bahaimus]

Should have a pair of these in the near future...

Will having these help? :D



Special thanks to Gammaboy for the finessing the drawings I had for these and putting me in touch with a CNC dude.

[JZK25]

Are those elbows in the background for the manifolds? They are a bit big if so.

[Euroboost]

Bumped into a bloke who used to be in the same building we had our IT company in with a genuine Cossie. Reckoned he loves it so much he couldn't part with it, although he thought our TTr was tempting him.