Originally Posted by S-Class Guru

Ha; I have a Corvette and a SE w126 with a baby 6-cylinder in my garage right now. So I have often dreamed of dropping an LS in the MB.
But I have never heard of anyone actually replacing an MB engine with something else, ever. Physically, it would certainly fit, but the interface of mechanicals and electronics could be challenging. There was a shop in Dallas years ago that did nothing but drop Chevy engines in Jags; but that was because the Jag engines lasted only a couple of years, and a valve job was more expensive than installing a Chevy crate engine with twice the power and reliability.

DG