Palmer
Active Member
Following on from my previous thread - which has had all of the photos removed (thanks photobucket!)
A brief history:
I acquired the car approx a year ago. A bog standard looking mercedes W124. It housed a 3.0 OM606 turbodiesel, coupled with a large borgwarner S300 turbo, and a very mean 8mm dieselmeken fuel pump. The drivetrain was a 6 speed swapped from an E270 CDI, with a custom clutch and flywheel.
The car on this set up ran 562whp. It kept disintegrating prop doughnuts. So i sent it back for the large(st) diff with quaife internals, and heavy duty shafts. This made the car very scary in second gear, as it seemed to put down the power and access it alot easier.
I had such fun giving phenominally powerful / expensive motors a shock. Soon it developed a knock and without warning shot a rod at cruising speed.
I had a new engine fitted and took it off the road for winter. She was wastegated at 300whp on the dot, (362bhp) i personally thought it was more, but i guess its the delivery of the large turbo... nothing... nothing... 'oh god my face!'
I debated selling, and even advertised her for sale. Few bites but nothing major. Secretly i didnt want to let her go. There is just something addictive about a superturbodiesel. The old school diesel knock and rattles - yet the butter smooth revving throughout the range. These engines love to rev, and sound phenominal! Every one loves a big turbo spool!
I sent her off to my brothers business. She had the full AMG gen 1 kit (including ducktail) fitted and almost a full respray. 18'' geniune staggered monoblock wheels and the windows moderately tinted.
She currently stands as so:
Theres going to be quite a few updates in the close future - suspension, maintenance, a few more body tweeks and the one im most looking foward too - the priority valve (quickspool) manifold to help spool that big turbo up! I will also have a pump tweek and dyno at the same time. Maybe not as much as the test car ran (611whp) though! As i want to keep this engine...
A brief history:
I acquired the car approx a year ago. A bog standard looking mercedes W124. It housed a 3.0 OM606 turbodiesel, coupled with a large borgwarner S300 turbo, and a very mean 8mm dieselmeken fuel pump. The drivetrain was a 6 speed swapped from an E270 CDI, with a custom clutch and flywheel.
The car on this set up ran 562whp. It kept disintegrating prop doughnuts. So i sent it back for the large(st) diff with quaife internals, and heavy duty shafts. This made the car very scary in second gear, as it seemed to put down the power and access it alot easier.
I had such fun giving phenominally powerful / expensive motors a shock. Soon it developed a knock and without warning shot a rod at cruising speed.
I had a new engine fitted and took it off the road for winter. She was wastegated at 300whp on the dot, (362bhp) i personally thought it was more, but i guess its the delivery of the large turbo... nothing... nothing... 'oh god my face!'
I debated selling, and even advertised her for sale. Few bites but nothing major. Secretly i didnt want to let her go. There is just something addictive about a superturbodiesel. The old school diesel knock and rattles - yet the butter smooth revving throughout the range. These engines love to rev, and sound phenominal! Every one loves a big turbo spool!
I sent her off to my brothers business. She had the full AMG gen 1 kit (including ducktail) fitted and almost a full respray. 18'' geniune staggered monoblock wheels and the windows moderately tinted.
She currently stands as so:
Theres going to be quite a few updates in the close future - suspension, maintenance, a few more body tweeks and the one im most looking foward too - the priority valve (quickspool) manifold to help spool that big turbo up! I will also have a pump tweek and dyno at the same time. Maybe not as much as the test car ran (611whp) though! As i want to keep this engine...
