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Originally Posted by kerry edwards
There were so many trucks and vans and their variations (buses and motorhomes) produced in Europe with the 616 that there was/is a very large market for making the engine a little more peppy. I talked to a gentlman on the ferry from Portsmouth to Roscoff who had a turbo installed on his 616 engine in his motorhome and was very happy with it.
Even when MB put the 617 in their trucks and vans, it was almost never turbocharged.
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Do a search...Mercedes made significant changes in the Turbo OM617......Internally. For durability reasons. Turbo a non-tubo OM617 and expect to grenade the engine well before its time.
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