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Originally Posted by CamelotShadow
Perhaps the cam &things are different in the 83 sec 500
I'd like to find specs
Have to vbe careful taking it to a mechanic
they could tune it to wrong specs
Even things like spark plugs
I'm not going to going crazy
but have to be very careful
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I would agree. It is better to find a mechanic who understands the difference between what the EURO cars need and the AMERICAN spec cars need.
Plus a car mechanic who likes and understands the W26 cars.
I think Enrique is a guy like that. My opinion. I personally like the NGK spark plugs for the 560SEC. A US spec car. What is nice, is that once it is tuned up well, and has good plug wires, normally you dont have to do it again for another 30,000 miles - a lot.
Its very possible to pull yours out, look at them and clean them, check the gap, and maybe put them back in. But new plugs aren't very expensive anyway
True, a Euro Mercedes, especially an expensive one when new, like a 500SEC, requires a leap of faith to start out with as one's first Mercedes.
This is my first - very possibly the last one,too as I like it.
You need the right parts, and sometimes for the Euros they are harder to get.
But Mercedes maintains a parts inventory for these so you ought to always be able to get them.
I am pretty sure the Mercedes Benz Classic center, down in Orange County, now would inlclude your car in its parts support network, and could help you.
You would have to call them
Thing is with the Euro cars, they are more rare and unusual than the US ones, and with goodies like the Higher compression engine, they are faster, and they have better console heater controls on them, and of course the euro lights and bumpers, and triangles on the best of them.
But the people who know Mercedes will recognize them and appreciate them and be envious.
The supply of them is growing smaller all the time