First of all, I want to give a shout out to Mark from Lynchburg, VA. I had a few hiccups during the transaction, he was a very understanding person, picked me up from the airport, even filled the car up with a full tank of gas for my long drive home!!

Now, on to the car. It's a 1993 2.6 Sportline LE, with an M104 from a '95 E320, 16v getrag, 300TE ASD rear differential, 16v body kit, and more.
The car is super fun to drive. I drove it from Lynchburg to Yorktown, VA Saturday night, which was about a 3 hour drive, stayed with a buddy of mine overnight, and took on the 5 1/2 hour drive home to Bucks County, PA Sunday morning. The car made it without any problems, I already put about 700 miles on it since I picked it up.

I'll update this journal as I update/change around a few things on the car, according to a list that you'll see below.
And, of course, some cell phone shots from when I first saw it in real life.

List of things to do:
1. Euro headlamps
2. Euro amber corners
3. Evo-2 rear sway bar
4. Limo or 500e front sway bar
5. Check rear driveshaft flex disk, I can feel a slight "thump" when I put the car into a gear, feels like there's slack in the drivetrain
6. Diagnose the idle issue. (On a cold start, the car can't catch it's idle for the first 10-15 seconds, and sometimes shuts off when coming to a stop if the in-gear RPMs are below ~2000
7. Get Aero-1 17" Monoblocks, BBS LM, or Evo-2 wheels
8. Light tint
9. Debating whether or not to try and find someone willing to trade the LE interior for euro 16v interior. I love the LE interior, but the red might be a little bit too much.
10. Check the exhaust (I feel that there's a leak somewhere, and a slight ratte at low RPMs against what sounds like the heatshield.
11. Diagnose and fix the audio problem. Everytime the head unit is on, it gives of a static beep, I'm pretty sure it's a bad ground.
12. Replace the speakers, the some of them seem to be blown, would like to update the system a little bit.
13. Throw a GT35 on the car





UPDATE:

A friend of mine set up a dyno session last night at a local shop. They have a Dynojet 424x that used to read exactly on point and has recently been re calibrated so everyone who's car hasn't been modded since the last run seem to make exactly 10% less power. We did two 3rd gear and two 4th gear pulls last night, with not really any cooling down in between. The car put down 202whp/206wtq, which should realistically have been 222whp/226wtq according to the corrections.
I'll have a few better quality videos later.

Mercedes 190e M104 3.2 dyno run - YouTube




UPDATE:

Here's a run file from one of the 4th gear pulls. Variable valve timing is BEAST.




UPDATE:

One more video from the dyno day surfaced:
mini dyno day - YouTube

you can go a 100 easy, what kind of kit did you get/Also you got pictures?

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

I haven't sprayed it once yet actually, believe it or not. It's a Zex dry kit, which is part of my reasoning for not spraying it yet. I'll snap some pictures tomorrow.

I went with wet as my engine has no way to enrich fuel.You don't want a lean condition.Im spraying 1 part fuel to 1 1/3 nitrous.I'drather run fuel on the rich side.However no problem with plugs.Feels like a 340 Cuda in my days.
If you decide to check ebay for a wet adapter kit.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

That's why I haven't sprayed it yet. I'd rather rewire it to be a wet kit, I don't like nitrous backfires.

Here's some engine bay pics:

I love a engine I can eat off of.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

Thank you, I appreciate a clean engine bay as well.
Do you by any chance have details/pictures of your nitrous setup? I'm very curious, would love to see another sprayed M104 to get pointers for my Wet-kit conversion.

view my photos.I mounted my tank in spare tire well,so I can use the trunk.I ran nitrous line and wires next to brake lines.I drilled hole under rear seat for 2 wires in.I could get relay to function so its fused at the battery.I ordered a 40psi fuel safety switch to turn off nitrous if fuel pump,or filter failed.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

I have the exact same car in the diesel version. Same color, same body kit.

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Ben
1987 190d 2.5Turbo

Nice dyno numbers, is the engine modified ?

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190E 3.0-24v (M104 980) turbo @ 0.8 bar
1/4 mile: 2.483 / 13.540 / 175.17 km/h (street tires)

you tap your gasoline from scharder valve on fuel rail,big long nut,and unscrew valve with tire valve tool.I must rethink my transmission loss,eating rear wheel horse power.You say stock m104 rwhp 222? crank is 228.I figured a loss of 17%.

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

The M104 is stock, with the stock headers mated to the factory 190e exhaust. I was surprised by the numbers as well!

i love how the m104 still looks stock in a 190

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'85 190, unrego'd (prospect track car)
'87 190e, manual (kinda rare in australia)
'89 260e

Looks stock until you pop the hood next to a 2.3/2.6

or my ****ty 2.0

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'85 190, unrego'd (prospect track car)
'87 190e, manual (kinda rare in australia)
'89 260e