'73 mercedes 280, gas, blue.

[bobbyjones]

Bitcoin drop to $70, that sucks. anyways...

yeah it's alittle dusty but it idles smooth and starts right up after a new float and some bending of the vent reed. i'll check back sunday.

(don't mind that gouge in the driveway)

[SheaMoose]

That's a good start!

[bobbyjones]

the car made it to the stop sign about 20 feet from my garage. new part should be here by weds.

[TeckniX]

drinking + working on cars = never a good idea.
Always sucks when you're ready to take the miss for a drive and she wont move from her resting place.

[bobbyjones]

today my car started, stalled and would not restart. i removed the top plate of the carb and upon inspection i found the carb float highly damaged and out of adjustment. see last night i was partying a little to hard in the garage and i wanted to put the air cleaner on so i must have tried threading studs into the vent tube for at least five minutes before realizing its the vent tube. so bummer...i did drill a hole in the brass float, pushed out the crushed sections of the float with a small allen key and am currently trying to silicone the hole shut, i first tried soldering the hole shut to no avail. i was really looking forward to driving it this weekend. i fucked with it for like 4 hours today, i'm not happy about the problem.

[bobbyjones]

You should make a DIY with parts list for this carb conversion, looks pretty sweet.
The stance looks nice, really like your car, although I used to **** the frontend of it. How's the turn radius?

the carb. diy i will work on, but it's going to take some time. as of right now, i'm trying to find a shop that will give it an alinement before sunday, then the wife says i can take it out sunday morning. so unsure how its going to perform.

Love this build! big respect for making your own brackets for the bags i know how much of a nightmare it can be!

thanks man, your car is coming along very nicely as well.

Could this be more perfect?
Yes, maybe a little bit. But not much.

thanks i'm still working on the little bit part.

Read this all.
Just amazing!.
So much work for a sweet looking ride!!!!

thumbs up

Looking great....do you mind If steal some pics for my FB page? I'm learning that these old Mercs are precision machines, fixing a worn out part makes a huge difference, just like that carb

totally, i love your benz build up page, the french cartoon stuff is awesome.

It's soo pretty.
<3

your so sweet

I realy love mercedes, old or new,

and i realy, realy like this one! =D

thanks man.

[D.Gillberg]

I realy love mercedes, old or new,

and i realy, realy like this one! =D

[SheaMoose]

It's soo pretty.
<3

[A4crn]

Looking great....do you mind If steal some pics for my FB page? I'm learning that these old Mercs are precision machines, fixing a worn out part makes a huge difference, just like that carb

[JonnyBoi]

Read this all.
Just amazing!.
So much work for a sweet looking ride!!!!

[floatingdino]

Could this be more perfect?
Yes, maybe a little bit. But not much.

[lowbenz]

Love this build! big respect for making your own brackets for the bags i know how much of a nightmare it can be!

[TeckniX]

You should make a DIY with parts list for this carb conversion, looks pretty sweet.
The stance looks nice, really like your car, although I used to **** the fronted of it. How's the turn radius?

[bobbyjones]

so it looks like i might actually get to drive this thing this weekend.
whatever...
pictures:

the rear currently doesn't go all the way down cause the god damn wheel is in the way and i didn't want to hammer anymore. don't really mind where it sits.

i think the front looks really sweet, i don't know the offset ummm zero-ish.

and thats with the shock installed. kyb 343147 the rear shock out of the back or a 356 porsche and a 79 1.6l corolla wagon. weird that they both use the same shock.

this next part should really get it's own post.

my car never ran great, i had the solex off before and after inspecting it, it was garbage. so i went on the internet to find a new solex 4a1. it turns out that all solex 4a1 carbs are junk. so i search, and search, and i find the carb kit i want but company x wants $800 for a carb kit and will not sell the installation hardware separately nor let me see the installation instructions. so long story short, i get a holley 4160 carb of ebay for $120, spent $40 on fuel fittings, $20 on a choke cable and a little time with the drill press and boom. the car never purred like this before, it's like a whole new car.


suck it trebek

[bobbyjones]

Awesome car.

It would be awesome if you could make it up to Wolfsgart this year! At last year's there was only 5 Mercs, hopefully this year there will be more

http://wolfsgart.com/

it looks like a great time, but it's 6+ hours away. i'll keep it on the calendar but doubtful about driving up.

also i drove my car (well pushed it out of the garage) but once outside, started right up and after some adjustments it made a k turn and backed into the garage like a champ. i have pictures. see next post....