Zhe Gestapo Cruiser - W124 Benz

[Blackmk3]

The new rims are great! Spotted them on Facebook

[loekaaz]

the cosworth wheels with smaller stretched tires and spacers and more slammage ... om nom nom ...

Don't know about that. I think these 17's are too narrow. They won't fill the wheel wells the way i'd like. even slammed.

Deal of the century on those 2.5 wheels!

It sure is!

You have a gorgeous W124. Your home built spoiler is superb. I would like to feature it on my W124uk forum. I went with a repro AMG on mine, wish I had seen your work before hand.

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Feel free to post it. I would love to see some others with it. Oh, and a link to the thread would be nice too.

love the color, but don't like the front lip and the fiesta fog-lights idea...

would suggest you to keep the body clean/oem+ without any ricer shits.

any plans for new wheels or you'll keep the EVO ones?

suspension?

Suspension wise: Yellow Speed Racing Shocks, and some coils cut off the current Eibach springs.
I'm trying to restore the EVO's right now. I will try to run them upcoming summer. After that, they will be sold. I already have a 500E owner lurking for them!
Eventually I would like to run some fat and staggered 18's or maybe 17's. Like 3SDM 0.05's or AMG Aero's. No disrespect, but I've seen too many futura's on w124's lately. So those won't be an option...

I'm still going to try the fogs I think. Just for the lolz. I Have a spare bumper

The new rims are great! Spotted them on Facebook

Yo Laus! Welcome! when can we expect your intro-thread??!!

[GtCoupe]

Feel free to post it. I would love to see some others with it. Maybe you can introduce it as a 'Dutch lip' ?? just for the credits oh, and a link to the thread would be nice too.

Thank you here's your link

[loekaaz]

^^Sweet! You're welcome

[GtCoupe]

Feel free to drop by and update us on any mods you might do in the future

[Blackmk3]

Yo Laus! Welcome! when can we expect your intro-thread??!!

As soon as the Golf is low enough

[Twannnd]

Cool wheels! But i think these aren't the original EVO wheels because the original ones are 8,25J. The original EVO wheels doenst fit on a normal w124.

But still like them under your ride!

[loekaaz]

Cool wheels! But i think these aren't the original EVO wheels because the original ones are 8,25J. The original EVO wheels doenst fit on a normal w124.

But still like them under your ride!

I know these aren't THE evo II wheels. But they are Typ EVO II wheels, also original MB and came as an option on W201 16v's and the 500E. And still... I would even pay this price for just the tyres alone

[loekaaz]

Took the 3.0 out of the 300E parts car today. I'm going to rebuild the engine if it's any good after ±290.000 km. So I will probably go for new bearings, piston rings, bolts, gaskets etc.

I got a lot of help and knowledge from my brother-in-law. Who used to be an BMW, Viper and Chevy racing engine engineer. So his presence was very useful. (He worked on a couple of engine swaps like that maaaaaad British E46 V10 M3: https://bimmerpower.wordpress.com/20...46-v10-e60-m5/ ).

Pic of the removal


please take note that I've done this only once before (and that wasn't my car). So I was pretty excited today when we finished

Oh, and using standard engine hoists is sooooo 2012...

[RobinBMWE28]

Although I'm a BMW E28 driver, I have to say this car looks very very good! Those EVO rims definitely makes the car prettier!

[Marsss]

looks great, sub'd!

[SD202]

thats a hell of a way to remove a motor ! whatever works. in to see the rest lookin good already.

[loekaaz]

Although I'm a BMW E28 driver, I have to say this car looks very very good! Those EVO rims definitely makes the car prettier!

looks great, sub'd!

thats a hell of a way to remove a motor ! whatever works. in to see the rest lookin good already.

Thanks guys!

Finaly got the engine stand plate ready and up to size of the bell housing. Now I can finally lift it up in the engine stand and clean this dirty bitch.

Also, I almost have my dad convinced to get a 2-column car lift. Makes my work a lot easier and saves costs on future maintenance with the rest of the cars. Sweeeeet!

I'll keep you guys updated!

[loekaaz]

Made some progress in the last couple of days;

Fixed the adapter plate of the engine stand. (It was Mopar/Chev only)


After that, I took the "Engine hoist++" to lift it up on the stand. Note how it starts bending, as it struggles to hold up with the heavy traight-six...


So I removed most of the bolt-on's to save some weight.



Aaaaaaaannd you'll end up with this... (so much cleaning up ahead... )


Next up is the removal of the cylinder head. I have to determine if I'll go for a full-rebuild of not.

Let's hope the financial Gods are going to spare me this time....

[FluidMotorUnion]

Looking awesome so far!

...Although the pictures in today's update aren't loading.