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So when are you fitting the supercharger? Seems rude not to given the newly installed latent capability😂

More detailed write up: https://www.classicjalopy.com/2025/03/m117-crank-pully/

This is the old flange. The guy who did it does this mod to American V8’s that get a supercharger. It puts too much load on the...

Fwiw in an engineering sense I think a dowel pin is better than a woodruff key. The key will always bear the load on two edges in the...

I know Nick very well & he loves his car! Using the wrong oil with no zinc is apparently the cause along with no oil changes for an...

Wrong vin? Surely it has to match what's on the firewall, no?

It'll be in the mb data plate on the radiator support (or wherever 123s have it), but as a coded manufacture datablock, right? Don't...

none of my older ones have, but the Australian delivered ones have the compliance date.

I see. However, most Benzes I have seen pre this time carried the date of manufacture. I guess I am just 100% suspicious.

Wasn't required until start of 1982 per ADRs:

Went to visit Team Global Express today. Picked up a nicely wrapped present from a wrecker in Victoria. Nothing special [sighs forlornly...

365g/min = 487cc/min assuming a middle-of-the-rd specific gravity of fuel of 0.75g/cc. If anyone has measured a D-Jet (ideally 117.983)...

Well that video provides the answer to Dr. Bill's question... the gauge to the left of the tacho is a boost gauge.

In fact, pausing the relevant shot: Can be taken as an indication of a 6200-6400rpm redline and 2.2-2.3kg/cm^2 target boost pressure...

Does anyone have a copy of the mag mentioned at the start of this thread?