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Originally Posted by tjts1
If CF was somehow superior to steel Mercedes would have built the W123 out of it. Clearly its not.
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Even F1 cars weren't made of carbon fiber yet when they started making w123s. I've thought about the use of CF in a 123 chassis before. A full CF chassis would be much lighter, but you'd have to do something about the cast iron engine or the weight distribution would be horrible.
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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
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