Polo's B5 S4 Build

[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?

[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.

[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

[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]

Your the man <3

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

[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!

[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]

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]

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