W201 v.2.0

[Exami]

Got 1 'ready' sample what do you guys think of it?

[MarkoE500]

i read both of your build threads good work! i've noticed any time you took pics though you never washed the car or anything you seem to do the dirty work only! Clean them up!! haha! But the exhaust looks great, if you do it right with a straight pipe you can catch some turbo whistle too :p

[Exami]

i read both of your build threads good work! i've noticed any time you took pics though you never washed the car or anything you seem to do the dirty work only! Clean them up!! haha! But the exhaust looks great, if you do it right with a straight pipe you can catch some turbo whistle too :p

You may speak for the black W201 benz? there is clean pics out there, but i just drive and trash that one, last time i washed that black benz is 6months ago.. Its made for to trashing and driving on rev limiter! , no not really i try to keep it intact so i can go work on my other benz in garage :P

But this build will come out as super clean one. so stay tuned!

not sure if this pic of the black benz never aired there in stanceworks.. superclean, last time i washed it

[Exami]

The roof is on fire!
Ok, so far things have gone somewhat smoothly.. but this time it goes south but there is way to fix it!

So i started patching up the sunroof... cutted piece to fill it, that went well..


Tapped it in


That went well also, then started the issues, continues to tapping until i endup with:


So i tried to stretch the metal with hammer..




Didnt get it good enough.. so i bought this:


New roof.. im going to only swap the middle part, take of the original spotwelds and redo those when attaching it back.. i hope this endups better than the previous roof 'fix'

[Exami]

Back to emissions
So its back onto exhaust manifold i made up my mind and i will not do it my self. i get more professional than my self work on it but on the other hand i needed to make a jig for the manifold + downpipe to make sure they both fit when the manifold is done.





So that was the spot i wanted the turbo in, give nice room for both manifold + downpipe, now making the downpipe, bought some piping..




So that is 'planned' not going to weld those until i get the manifold, just in case that i need to make some small adjustments or something like that.. you never know

[P78]

http://www.baureihe201.de/W201/lacke.htm

why did u delete the sunroof?

or did i read over that

[Exami]

http://www.baureihe201.de/W201/lacke.htm

why did u delete the sunroof?

or did i read over that

rauchsilber is the upcoming color, but i need to fit all the parts before i can take it to paint.. so i dont need to make more mounts or anything that sort after paint..

Yes i did delete sunroof, more room for head + helmet + less weight + less broken bits..

These W201 has pretty commonly issues with the sunroof, didn't work on this one and works poorly on my other merc also..

[P78]

oh never had problems with the one in mine

leaky sunroofs i only had with my vw's

[Exami]

oh never had problems with the one in mine

leaky sunroofs i only had with my vw's

Then it must be because of where i live..

[Exami]

There is no roof!
So its been a while from last update.. ive been gathering some motivation lately.. but i've been trying to push the project slowly forward.. here something what has happened..




not much.. but something..

[Exami]

Box of goods.


And from inside we find...



Glassplasted + painted <3

[a3 german]

so much work!! and good work...

congrats

[Zacne_4]

We need more!

[Exami]

Bearings
So after i got the goodies from paint i started to swap new bearings in.. still waiting for the 'splash guards' from paint.. or brakeshield depending where are you from..

Heres the parts that i got from paint:


Old wheelbearings out:



Also as you can see from the photos, all of the old grease out aswell, so clean start there..

Out with old in with new on left old bearing on right new ones, the old one was in pretty bad shape..


Assembled for waiting the brakeshield and break parts.


And heres the rear one, i cannot assemble it until i get the brakeshield.

[Exami]

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