OCD's new 190e

[Dome]

Looking sick man, really love the wheels

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Well we've had a busy few months with this car! It finally made it's debut at Fueled Society in the UK earlier this month.

The hold up was down to us not being happy with the brackets. We set off using the Jay Marshall kit from BagRiders which for some reason just doesn't seem to work on UK and possibly all European models.

We tried to re-engineer his design and idea for our market but still found far too much bag rubbing/touching body issues so we started from scratch!

We're really pleased with the final results and how it all works. We've designed and created complete new LCA's up front with bag top hats, rear bag brackets and matched it to a customised BC Racing strut kit taken from their E36 platform but with our own custom camber top mounts for direct fit to W201's and shortened rear shock mounts to get a great drop

Anyway, I'll let the pics do the talking and if anyone from the USA is interested in trialling our kit please do give me a shout to sort a deal out

matt@onlychargeddubs.co.uk

Front Fully Up -




Front Fully Down -


You can see the angle the bag sits at isn't great, but when using the OE LCA's with brackets on them the bag twisted far much more and got pushed to rub against the body. It also wanted to rub on the ARB brackets.
From re-doing the LCA's we could bring the bag much lower and give it a better surface to 'roll' against when deflated. For now we're running with no front ARB but we will be looking to bring this in to production too, not that you notice when driving it

Rear Fully Up -



Rear Fully Down -



Again we created loads more room for the bag to sit in with no chance of catching anything

Just to add the brackets and parts will all be zinc coated when produced middle of next month. We've found from our other bracket kits that zinc coating lasts and ages much better than powder coating and doesn't make parts larger like powder does making them harder to install or work with.

And the car!






The build







Cheers

[panscraper_deluxe]

Do like....subscribed

[MercTastic]

That test fits got me drooling....

[loekaaz]

v6?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2n4TjAkQpM

Better go v8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M2J21CALqM

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Don't worry, it won't be happening anytime soone!

Think we'll just end up tidying the 1800 up nicely and keep it as clean as possible.

Certainly crying out for a tidy bah though.

Spent a while digging through your thread too dude, getting pretty worried about this bag setup now haha

Sure we'll figure something though

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

V6:

3-piece Bundts:

Wish I knew more about the gassers - I love the idea of a smoothed bay.

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Pizza and a late night last night for me and Joe, just ended up getting things cleaned up.

I'm thinking of semi-smoothing the bay, coolant and washer bottle deletes. Top fill rad.
And as much of the vac line stuff as we can, has anyone got any guides of info of what we can bin off?





And I've just been testing the wheels for it, can't wait to get these built up!




Front's still on OE shocks so it won't drop so much. Should be spot on when we get the now shocks on it. Back's ok, we'll just get something that's a little shorter and stiffer so we can ride it low.

Can't wait!!

Hopefully got something special for the boot coming from Specialty Suspensions too

[rice4life]

A v6 you say? How about a VG30DE?


Make it float in the engine bay like 1badg35's Z.

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Head's off....started cleaning the years worth of grime and muck out the bay too!

Crying out for a V6 of some sorts haha





Dirty head...

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Started on the head removal yesterday after we'd got the days jobs done.

My first play with a merc at all! Spent 8 years at VW but I was impressed with it. Nicely engineered. Kjet though which is my downfall on older cars haha



Should have the chain timing figured and sorted so I can get the head off and to the local engineers to get it checked over

[electricalbox]

sweet

[FRANKIBOY27]

gg

[Jorgen]

Oh lawwwd.

[matt_onlychargeddubs]

Cheers lads! The 18's is a big debate right now. We're not sure, but our mates are saying go for 17's but we do want to pull off 18's tucked neatly all round.

Joe's RS's in the pic are far too wide! The 9'5 on the back was tyre stuck on arch. We're gonna try find a set of mono 18's with decent offsets and see how it tucks them.

Then we can build up a special set of classic splits.

As for plans, just keep it tidy. Get it on the floor and build a sweet install to demo what we can do and show off some products the Uk air scene doesn't see.

We're looking to use the RidePro Big Red mani to get it moving air fast, just have some fun with it