HYPETODAY // '89 Mercedes-Benz W124 260E

[Earl]

I love Double K's. Great choice. Are you going for super tuck, or just a little tuck with the faces being very close to the fenders?

[hypetoday]

my ideas for 2014...



but at first we have to fight the rust.

[keenan]

i think you should put your evo wheels on there!!
good job with the build

[W124_Starship]

Wow great build been following it for a little now ...... noticed that you where up in heilbron would love to see the car some time im out in Wiesbaden

Mfg Lamar

[Concon666]

Love.

[hypetoday]

there is something new in 8.5x17! h*te it or love it. there is nothing in-between.





not mine, but i have the same now. color isn't final yet.

[hypetoday]

just some ideas... do you remember my evo wheels? maybe i will give them a go.

[Press22]

Just read through the whole thread, loving the car. Keep it up!

[neon017]

yes, but just in german. and maybe most of the pictures are deleted. there you go:
http://w201.com/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=48217

thx man and i forgot to say that your car looks SUPERCLEAN

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

thanks for the info, sam. another question. how tall are your bags?

SS-5s sit at 142mm with no air in them, 219mm max, 69mm min. I don't have my new brackets back from the welder yet to confirm, but my design is to have the bags sit at ~140mm at ride height in the front and ~160mm in the rear at ride height on my e-Level, perhaps 20mm less each for low cruise.

[m5 power]

Huge fan of these!! looking good

[hypetoday]

thanks for the info, dude!

[SD202]

just to chime in... I love my ss5's i run them all around on w202 and it is very simliar to 201 in the rear if not almost identical. I also had to sit the cup over a tad to clear the rear strut even with an ss5 its still a very very close fit. im talking like 2-3mm of clearance max

[hypetoday]

thanks for the info, sam. another question. how tall are your bags?

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

Uh yeah, I can see why that would be a problem. I've not noticed that same problem with my prototypes, but they exit the side into the front half of the wheel well, which gives the line a lot of flexibility and wiggle room. Again, I say this having had my car on air only intermittently, since I have yet to be happy with an adapter cup design.

I've been testing with SS-5s front and rear on mine, and as far as bags go, I REALLY like them. They're beautifully-made, and the internal bumpstop is a great feature. Up front, you'll have to make sure the adapter cup is long enough to clear the metal supports on the spring tower. My final design is 85mm tall, and I'm 95% sure the bag will clear.

On the rear, the SS-5s are extremely tight to the shock absorber, enough so that I had to completely scrap my first design. The bag cups you've got look like they have some side-to-side adjustability, so position the bag inward as far as it can go, and it should just clear the shock. Rolling-sleeve bags would have been easier to incorporate, but as you mention, they can have weird characteristics, so I have stuck with double-bellow bags so far.

One other nice thing about the Slam Specialties bags is that they offer really nice waterjet-cut mounting plates, which I have used. That's probably not an issue for you, since you've already got cups made up, but for anyone else, it's a huge time-saver, and they're all of $8 a piece.