Wow impressive to see so many used parts reused to build what sounds to be a rather powerful engine I am guessing that the 1/4 mile time you have posted is without the turbo? Are you going to get the exhaust manifold ceramic treated?

How did you know the 3.5L diesel manifold would fit, just noticed you had to drill new bolt holes i assume that means the pipes line up as a group but just need to be shifted 10mm to one side? and more importantly which engine/model does it come from cause if i can keep the cost down and sell one of my dads cars he will let me turbo his 300SE which i think uses the M103 that your playing with there? And why only a MS1, did you have that from the previous engine?

Throttle body from a BMW....ewww but probably worth it MSII seems to be alot more capable for power production, i have a 450SLC running on MSII V3 with direct driven coil packs