Polo's B5 S4 Build

[gpolo]

Well it runs. Ended up being a fuel pump, wrap coming in the next few weeks with an interior overhaul hopefully.

[gpolo]

Its been a while but I finally got around to working on it. So here's the update.

Pulled the motor to swap heads, compression was non existent.



Pulled the heads



Found a small surprise inside




Thankfully no damage to the Pistons so I cleaned them all up while I was in there



New heads on



Motor back in place



And..... It ran. Keyword there is ran. Attached the accessory belt etc engine fired up reved itself to about 3k then died. Tried a new crank sensor no luck, found a loose ground, tightened that up, still no luck. After peeping around we think a wire broke in the engine harness. So this weekend should be filled with more fun. Wrap coming very shortly after the car actually runs.

[gpolo]

Way too cold to work on the s4 today, so instead I cleaned up the benz...to my suprise it cleaned up pretty well...here are the before's





and some compound, and polish later

[gpolo]

Made some progress today, took my last final so I had sometime to disassemble.







so the heads aren't off, but it's cold. tommorow I'll spend some time with it after work, and wendsday heads will deffinnately be off to assess damage. OHH THE benz got some love too!

[mike-81-240d]

Your the man <3

Hahahaha thanks, just been on all the usual benz forums for wayyyy too long haha.

[gpolo]

Floor rust: http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...es-mine-3.html

Seat rebuild: http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...dles-pics.html

W126 seats: http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w123...ed-560e-5.html

Your the man <3

[mike-81-240d]

What do you do about floor rust? And seats that lean and are low on foam? And the 560 sel seats fit rright in?

Floor rust: http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...es-mine-3.html

Seat rebuild: http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/...dles-pics.html

W126 seats: http://www.benzworld.org/forums/w123...ed-560e-5.html

[Kielan]

I'm glad that you decided the eliminator kit is the fall back plan. I too am hoping for you that you just have to worry about the heads though. Although a GT28 eliminator kit would be sooooo badass.

[gpolo]

Autohauz az, and peachparts (pelican parts now) fastlane. Say far away from autolite brand glow plugs. Go with bilstein HD shocks if you plan on lowering the 123. My rotors are zimmerman from Napa, nothing but good things to say about them. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. I'm on my fourth W123 currently, and restored my first two before selling them.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/Mercedes-Benz/index-SC.htm

http://www.autohausaz.com/

What do you do about floor rust? And seats that lean and are low on foam? And the 560 sel seats fit rright in?

[mike-81-240d]

Maybe this weekend I'll tackle the heads on Saturday and sunday, either way it's kinda sad i only got to experience it at 18psi which was 50% wwaste gate duty, even at that it kept up with a 440awhp sti, with two people with me. If anyone knows anything about w123's give me a quick schooling. Best place to get glow plugs? Shocks? Rotors?

I'll keep you all updated along the way

Autohauz az, and peachparts (pelican parts now) fastlane. Say far away from autolite brand glow plugs. Go with bilstein HD shocks if you plan on lowering the 123. My rotors are zimmerman from Napa, nothing but good things to say about them. If you have any other questions feel free to ask. I'm on my fourth W123 currently, and restored my first two before selling them.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/Mercedes-Benz/index-SC.htm

http://www.autohausaz.com/

[mrg7243]

GO holsets!

[gpolo]

Maybe this weekend I'll tackle the heads on Saturday and sunday, either way it's kinda sad i only got to experience it at 18psi which was 50% wwaste gate duty, even at that it kept up with a 440awhp sti, with two people with me. If anyone knows anything about w123's give me a quick schooling. Best place to get glow plugs? Shocks? Rotors?

I'll keep you all updated along the way

[SLC450]

Damn, hope it's just the head...

[royalife]

great build! but that last post..............damn

[gpolo]

So I was ready to order wrap, and a set of bBrides then this happened.





so timing belt randomly snapped, how? I got no clue. Plan now is to get the benz back up to speed and do the normal maintance, tear the heads off the s4 and proceed. Only optimism I have is that the car shut down at idle, hopefully the pistons see no damage. The heads will 99% need to be redone so they will get 2.8 heads with supertech valves to rev this whore out. If the bottom end was touched I'm gonna go balls deep and order a gt28 eliminator kit, re do the trans, interior, and drive it three years from now. Stay tuned to see a w123 get chopped, painted, and semi restored...semi