Anyone interested? Where are our true leaders out there? I am quite serious about this as I think a lot of people would be interested. The 240D would have to be stock. The course could either be at a Track, but maybe motorcross would be more fun, say across the Rockies or something, Extra points based on the condition of the car, the more mint, the more points. Stationwagons and automatics get a handicap. This would make a great family event. (uhh maybe I had one beer too many at lunch..)

Um, I don't think there is enough time...

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

I can see it now...

500 lap race at the Daytona speedway.

Start time: 8:00 a.m.
Expected end time: Midnight


Scott

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Scott
1982 Mercedes 240D, 4 speed, 275,000
1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (70,000)
1987 Porsche 911 Coupe 109,000 (sold)
1998 Mercedes E300 TurboDiesel 147,000 (sold)
1985 Mercedes 300D 227,000 (totaled by inattentive driver with no insurance!)
1997 Mercedes E300 Diesel 236,000 (sold)
1995 Ducati 900SS (sold)
1987 VW Jetta GLI 157,000 (sold)
1986 Camaro 125,000 (sold - P.O.S.)
1977 Corvette L82 125,000 (sold)
1965 Pontiac GTO 15,000 restored (sold)

Start at 9 am. Finish at lunchtime

Take your car to the drag strip on a "street night" and see what it will do. I've been to the Friday night street shootouts at the local dragway here but have never had the gumption to take the car out on the track. I think I will actually do it this spring when they open up again. Maybe everyone will get a good laugh out of it. They have all kinds of cars out there.

Scott

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Scott
1982 Mercedes 240D, 4 speed, 275,000
1988 Porsche 944 Turbo S (70,000)
1987 Porsche 911 Coupe 109,000 (sold)
1998 Mercedes E300 TurboDiesel 147,000 (sold)
1985 Mercedes 300D 227,000 (totaled by inattentive driver with no insurance!)
1997 Mercedes E300 Diesel 236,000 (sold)
1995 Ducati 900SS (sold)
1987 VW Jetta GLI 157,000 (sold)
1986 Camaro 125,000 (sold - P.O.S.)
1977 Corvette L82 125,000 (sold)
1965 Pontiac GTO 15,000 restored (sold)

If someone brings the snails, that will be a real race

I don't have the guts to bring a stock diesel MB to the drag strip. All those little Honda's would destroy it. But if their was say a super 603 sitting under the hood then I would go and try to hold in the evil grin.

I was watching a video on the net awhile back of an F250 or 350 with a highly modded Cummins in it. I think it pulled off a run in the 11sec range. Very cool the turbo sounded like a jet and their was tons of black smoke. I think someone in the crowd said something like "holy $$%^"

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Here's a link to a Cummins powered dragster article. 161hp per liter So that means 3 liters is good for 483hp and 2.4 liters is 386.4hp...... 0 to rebuild in 8 seconds

http://www.biodiesel.org/resources/3rd_party_misc/20041202_biodiesel_dragster_world_record.pdf

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

For bracket racing, an auto 240D would be crazy. Dial in 25 seconds and people will think you are sandbagging it. As long as you can hit your dial-in and get a good reaction off the line, you'll win. A really slow car is very difficult to race in brackets. Been tempted to do it, but now with the 617.952, I bet my 1/4 time is down to 20 seconds.

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'83 240D with 617.952 and 2.88
'01 VW Beetle TDI
'05 Jeep Liberty CRD
'89 Toyota 4x4, needs 2L-T
'78 280Z with L28ET - 12.86@110
Oil Burner Kartel #35

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b1...oD/bioclip.jpg

I had the same thought but you beat me to it this time.

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Section 609 MVAC Certified
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

I have seen some 240d's that were modified to accept larger exhaust valves and a T3 Turbo developing around 6 pounds of boost.

These cars can really surprise you...Bert

Anyone here play "42" with Dominoes ?
There is one version if you get a really bad hand where you declare " Nello"...
This means that you try NOT to win tricks... and your partner sits out that hand.

This is the thought which came to mind ...

There is a race track about 50 miles north of me called " Little River" .
It also has a place to camp during a weekend gathering....

I am sure that if a bunch of us showed up there and ' raced' our 240's or other Diesels .... these guys would think we were trying for the " slowest" award.... much like playing declaring Nello.

Randy and his tweaked four speed wagon would be an interesting baseline to establish for others.... and of course my 240 four speed would beat his wagon off the line...

this brings up an interesting question. Just how does one go about calibrating a calendar?

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

The problem is finding a slow stopwatch. Otherwise it's entirely feasible.

Peter4

with northern new jersey region scca for the friday and saturday after memorial day at lime rock. that is their drivers school wknd at least it was 20 years ago when i was there. you set this up and i am so there.

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[1981 300 td tdidi 165500 dark brown/palamino-Brownie-mine-3k miles of ownership
1983 240d 162+++ Anthricite grey w/ henna red interior and hella lights-wifes car-Red

the above two cars are for sale
and can be seen on the cars for sale thread here. pix also available.


240d-144+ Manilla Yellow w/ palmino interior-greasecar kit-Blondie-the college kids car

23" gt 21 speed still on original tires-still got the nubs
21" khs tandem