1990 Mercedes Benz 190E 2.6 Sportline

[bahaimus]

I think Clayton made an appearance in the clip as well at 2:02 in the back seat - left of screen.

Hottest bitch you ever did see.

Cunt.

[Fatboy]

You didn't turn up today to collect your LS1 engine as agreed last night.

Cunt...

[bahaimus]

Yeah, I got busy all of a sudden.

So apparently there were less than 20 Australian delivered 190E's sold with the Sportline interior option (mine is a Jap import). So they're pretty rare and I never expected to be able to find one to put back in my car.

Well, today I managed to convince a guy in Sydney to sell me the complete interior out of a crashed Sportline parts car he has had for 5 years. And serendipitously my dad is driving to Sydney on Wednesday for a couple of days and can pick it all up and bring it back. His car is gonna be chockers but that'll save me a few hundred bucks in courier fees or petrol to go and pick it up myself.

[Cal]

Are you not putting a cage in this thing?

[stockymcstock]

I have a GT4088 that I would part with for cheap. 1.34 rear housing, 900hp capable - perfect for a 500-600hp V8.

Get into it you carnts!

You gotta get al to finish this so i can send him my datto for some LS1/VH45/1UZ loving

[bahaimus]

Nope, not any more. This is part of the two car strategy so I need to be able to put the kids in the back. They don't need monkey bars in the car......

[tim510]

will the interior be here for thursday?

[TT]

Are you not putting a cage in this thing?

no.. it is no longer a track only car, it will be a track/daily/road/grandparents/kids carting car with comfortable yet firm suspension and aircon and 2x12 JL audio subzbro and full interior with mini bar fridge in rear center armrest so you can have drinks while comfortably reclining in the rear seats while watching Finding Nemo on Blu Ray on 3 HD Samsung LED/LCD screens.


ahhhh.. while doing a skid obviously.

[bahaimus]

will the interior be here for thursday?

Nope, won't be here till late Sunday. There'll be plenty of shitty work to do regardless LOL

no.. it is no longer a track only car, it will be a track/daily/road/grandparents/kids carting car with comfortable yet firm suspension and aircon and 2x12 JL audio subzbro and full interior with mini bar fridge in rear center armrest so you can have drinks while comfortably reclining in the rear seats while watching Finding Nemo on Blu Ray on 3 HD Samsung LED/LCD screens.


ahhhh.. while doing a skid obviously.

Yep.

[bahaimus]

Fuck you rain. And more importantly, fuck you rising water table under the garage floor ruining my week off plans to make significant progress towards getting this shitheap to Al for fasts.

FUCK. YOU. CUNT.

[myliberty]

Progress pics from working bee?

[bahaimus]

Working bee cancelled on account of rising water issue in post above yours.

It dried out enough for me to be able to finish building the calipers and have a fight with the press over getting the new rear link bushes where I wanted them to be.

[bahaimus]

Nowhere near as much progress on my eagerly anticipated week off.

Brake calipers all reassembled and ready for install:



New poly bushes pressed into the rear suspension links:


I did some modding of the inner bush on the rear lower control arm, similar to the front control arms:




If you're interested, this was the Dremel bit I used:


New rear spring perches installed in the lower control arms:



New subframe bushes installed and original open diff mounted for Al to work out positioning of whatever diff is going to go in (thinking R200 presently):


Subframe all assembled and ready for a helping hand to reinstall!



New interior arrived this morning - it's a big pile of bits!

[BMWTurbo]

Nice work

Nothing like having a whole new swag of bushes in arms ready to re-install....

[bahaimus]

It could have been even easier - I bought all new arms that already had rubber bushes installed. But I had to press them out first to put the poly ones in. And being aftermarket arms, a couple of them were a bit shitty quality which is why some of the dirty original arms make an appearance in those pictures.