Hughes 300CE TT - blown turbo

[manalishi]

(Note to self: you do NOT have time to take this on as a project!)

Here you go: MERCEDES CE AMG TWIN TURBO only 24 made,great project on eBay (end time 04-Oct-09 20:01:15 BST)

White, AMG kitted but rather poorly twin turbo 300CE. One of the original ones done by Hughes?

Spoke to another forumite who said that it was on Ebay a year or so ago, but didn't sell. Now it's a £1000 start and he's keen to sell.

 

[d w124]

It`s been for sale a few times.Shame though cos it looks nice,but very poor spec

 

[Dieselman]

You'd think he'd have learnt so spell Saarfend-on-sea by now...

 

[Mark300SL]

Might have blown a piston or 2 instead of a turbo
turbo is an easy fix, but a lown piston means hauling the engine out.

Its not far from me but I would be dead if I even thought about it.

Mark

 

[manalishi]

Might have blown a piston or 2 instead of a turbo

Funnily enough, that's exactly what someone else warned me about. I suppose there are squillions of 300E engines around...

 

[d w124]

Funnily enough, that's exactly what someone else warned me about. I suppose there are squillions of 300E engines around...

As far as i know on the original TT engines,there was work on the engine done to.So the pistons might be diffrent to standart.I stand to be corrected though

 

[bolide]

AFAIK standard pistons and shortened rods

Nick Froome

 

[Mark300SL]

AFAIK standard pistons and shortened rods

Nick Froome

Yes - the Pistons were stock and the rods were actually stock rods with the small end rebushed to drop the gudgeon pin by 1mm

I think it has probably done a couple of ring lands and the oil is from a lack of cylinder wall oil control. Its pretty easy to tell if you know what you are looking for and the seller will let you take a couple of hoses off.


Mark

 

[nick.ged]

with modern piggy back like the split second, or full standalone a std engine could be used, the lowerd comp was due to technology of the day being unable to control afr, so a std 12v engine could be used. ed in usa is runnin 350 bhp with std engine.

the explination of how the failure occured, along with the symtoms, points to a piston failure to me, the car is a good starter for parts for someone who wants to build a tt.

i would be tempted, but i've got other fish to fry!