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Originally Posted by Hitman
Is it a 16v version or the normal 2.3?  I did the same with an E30 M3 some time ago, boy it was a nice project. In the end I had to seel the car with pain in my heart because I used it so little that I had to divert time from other things to get the car out for a spin and prevent it from rusting and wearing out in the garage  |
Just the regular 2.3L with an automatic transmission, unfortunately. The 2.3-16 are very rare over here, and the 2.5L-16 never made it to our shores at all. But since I'm only paying $350 to buy the car (plus repair costs) I'm not complaining. Someday though I may drop a more powerful engine into it.
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I agree that quality was better some years ago, MB did cars like tanks for duration, until they learned that selling a new model each few years was more profitable.
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They also learned a good way to enrich their service departments, which is why modern Mercedes are deliberately made to be hard to work on without specialized tools and training. By comparioson, that 190E of mine is proving to be a rather easy car to work on: Nothing very unusual about the design of components, and most of the fasteners are either standard screws or Metric hex nuts.