You have great taste in cars.
Have you seen the Raptor Twin Turbo V6 190E? It is amazing.
Edit : I'll put a link for those who have not seen it.
You have great taste in cars.
Have you seen the Raptor Twin Turbo V6 190E? It is amazing.
Edit : I'll put a link for those who have not seen it.
In reply to buzzboy :
hey now, the only 190e that I like comes only in Black 
buzzboy said:Nice to see a w201 that's not black or "old man tan." What wheels are you planning?
If I end up going the EVO 2 route I'll be using these: Fifteen52 Tarmac Evo
Otherwise maybe AMG Monblocks or Penta style wheels.
OjaiM5 said:You have great taste in cars.
Have you seen the Raptor Twin Turbo V6 190E? It is amazing.
Edit : I'll put a link for those who have not seen it.
I have seen it. Really phenomenal car! My daily is an EcoBoost SHO. If you look past the cam phaser issues and some of Ford's questionable choices like the internal water pump, they are really fantastic engines.
The caliper conundrum:
I had mentioned before that I had significant difficulty locating a rear passenger side caliper from a 400E to use as a donor for this project, ending up with two drivers side remans. So, I went looking for a solution.
The 400E utilizes a 278mm vented rear rotor, while the late model 6 cylinder W124s (with the M104) and early R129s use a 278mm solid rear rotor. The only difference I could find in the calipers is that the calipers for the vented rotor cars have spacers bolted between the halves. Armed with that "knowledge" I hit up rockauto for a cheap right rear caliper for a '94 E320 and crossed my fingers.
Here the calipers are on the bench. 400E unit on the left and E320 on the right.
You can see the bleed screw is on the opposite side... All that was keeping me from using the 400E caliper on the car.
I split the caliper and pulled the spacers from the 400E unit.
Installed the spacers in the E320 caliper.
and the end result is the needed right rear unit, setup for vented discs!
The brakes are done with the exception of bleeding. All rotors and calipers are on, and I installed braided stainless brake lines from Garagistic.
The 400E rear calipers fit perfectly, although if I was upgrading the brakes on another 190E or W124 I would be happy to just stick with the solid 278mm rotor and more readily available calipers from an early R129 or post facelift W124.
The front brakes were a little bit more of a puzzle. I had intended to use 400E parts there as well, only to find out that they require swapping to late model W124 lower control arms (P/Ns 1243303507 & 1243303407) in order for the rotors to clear the area around the ball joint. Having just replaced the control arms on my car, I ended up going with early (pre '95) R129 front brake parts. These do "bolt on" to 190Es/early W124s and gave me 4 piston calipers and 300mm rotors, a big step up from the stock 190E brakes.
The only adjustment that I ended up needing to make was to shim the calipers out slightly in order to center them on the rotor.
I have a power bleeder, so over the next few evenings I'll try to make time to get the brakes bled. The 190E master cylinder might be a little undersized, so we'll see how much pedal pressure and travel the brakes require once the car is back on the ground and rolling. If needed, stepping up to a bigger unit will be a straight bolt on affair.
Very interesting factory solution, using the spacers. Very cool that it was just "that" simple for you.
This car seems to be remarkably easy to work on, and things are helped by Mercedes sharing a huge amount of architecture between models in the 80s and early 90s. Makes it easy to do this OEM + type of upgrade.
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