1978 450SLC Super beater/lemons race car - Page 11 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

rwd4evr · #**151** 01-08-2018, 03:23 PM

Stay down south. Most people up here are self absorbed *******s, Wilmington is dangerous drug wars. They aren't joking about "murder town usa" Cancer rates are ridiculous. i'm on 7th street peninsula industrial area and pretty safe. Across the creek and over the bridge is straight ghetto. Maybe a visit you'd enjoy. But id kill to be off the grid with all my cars and a shop in the woods.

greazzer · #**152** 01-08-2018, 03:34 PM

LOL ... I was raised on 6th Street between Washington and West, and then parents moved to Collins Park which was not a cake walk either back in the day. So, yes, I would never go back there to either area. I fondly recall the East Side vs. West Side gangs shooting it out ... I was one of three white guys in the downtown Wilmington area and would just love walking from St. E's, through Little Italy down to Del. Ave., to Washington Street at 9PM after a game vs. walking down 4th Street, through Madison, then up 6th St. if it was still light outside. Either way, not the safest thing to do day or night. At least after the first 50 or so fights folks left you alone because they realized you hit back, and hit often ...

Maybe out in Hockessin or Montchannin. That surely is still a nice area ???

97 SL320 · #**153** 01-09-2018, 08:32 PM

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Well it's been a while since I've updated here. Haven't done too many modifications to the car since the first drift oventt. I did make some solid rear sway bar bushing's and cut the little trapezoid steering stops off of the control arms to get some more steering angle.

You need some sort of stop on the steering, the box might be damaged by hitting internal stops. Moving stops to the pitman arm would probably be better as they will be consistent regardless of suspension height.

rwd4evr · #**154** 01-10-2018, 08:37 PM

It still stops on the a arms. Just not on that chunk that's gone now. The horns on the steering arms are still there.

fonzi · #**155** 01-10-2018, 09:53 PM

And it’s not as if you don’t have about 10-15 r/c107 steering boxes laying around either.

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rwd4evr · #**156** 01-11-2018, 10:25 AM

Yeah tons of them! It needs a rack conversion anyway.

rwd4evr · #**157** 08-05-2018, 01:48 AM

Just a little update. The car is getting a lower mile long block with all new chain, guides, and sprockets. The original was still running pretty good but had a bad oil leak i couldn't fix in the car. The clutch had the rivets break in the hub, so i pulled it all at once and welded up the sprung hub and balanced it. the v8 cars have an oddball 21x26mm 10 spline shaft that no one makes a performance clutch for. Going auto crossing next weekend and drifting the week after. I'll tery to get some pics up of that for future tinkerers. I'm going to be moving to a new shop sometime in the near future, slightly bigger and way nicer. Motor-head/drifter neighbors too, and a high performance machine shop like literally 150 ft from me. SO excited. Buy some parts from me!

ngarover · #**158** 12-22-2018, 10:59 AM

Jason Birch. Warning.

birchsgaragemb@gmail.com Phone number 302-268-5885

He goes by rwd4ever on several forums.

His little YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTTzrnX2bx6LXtPuG8YEFSA

Thats his email address. His Name of course Jason birch. I paid him thousand bucks for a manual transmission that he never sent. I have all the emails back and forth, plus all the receipts of payment. I've given him a year to try and make it right. But, I've had enough.

This is a warning to everyone not to do any business with this person.

I can show all the PayPal transactions. Unfortunate it been to long for me to recover my PayPal cash.

rwd4evr · #**159** 12-22-2018, 11:57 AM

My apologies Cory. I didn't intentionally rip you off. I honestly completely forgot about it in my move to my new shop. I've had alot go on in the last few months. It's on a shelf waiting to be pakaged. I wish you would have checked with me before this but I understand your frustrations. It will be packed up today and shipped . Again I'm very sorry.

rwd4evr · #**160** 12-28-2018, 04:01 AM

Jason Birch. Warning.

Go look at this if you want to know what actually happened over the year since the deposit was made. I will take some blame but not at all how it was presented here.

Back. To my thread I rarely update these days.

rwd4evr · #**161** 03-05-2019, 11:41 PM

That was handled in days, before New year's I think. He was supposed to let it be known. Oh well whatever. All. Is good.

Drift season approaching and I've got some coilovers I'm modifying to install on the car. Hope I can squeeze it in with ten other things going on.

fonzi · #**162** 03-06-2019, 09:11 AM

Well, to help vouch for you, Cory didn’t seem to be in a big rush when I was handling your affairs while you were on vacation. He was going through a divorce himself and had put all his projects on hold. Maybe he ultimately decided he didn’t want to do the manual swap, or maybe not with a 4 speed, and then tried to get a refund as the best thing for his life at the moment, and then got frustrated. It’s not like he couldn’t have reached out to you at the moment he wrote that email to let you know exactly what he wanted most, either his money back (tough to make happen after it was spent and gone) or you to ship the trans ASAP. As I understand it, you finally shipped that trans within 48 hours of the badmouthing message above. Too bad he didn’t come back and fix it. Lesson learned in time being the enemy of the deal. Get it done fast before one party or the other changes their mind or gets frustrated. I’m guilty right now of not finishing and shipping a guy’s custom bbs rs wheel build. He gave me a $500 deposit, and due to the sale price, I want them to be 100% perfect. I offered his deposit back when my dad died (declined that offer), but nearly 6 months later now, I still haven’t shipped them.

We all do this on occasion when there’s a significant amount of work that must be done to get the deal done. It’s not always easy finding the time. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

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rwd4evr · #**163** 02-27-2020, 11:32 AM

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t walgamuth · #**164** 02-28-2020, 11:40 AM

Brilliant choice of Lemons car! Any departure from stock other than making it usable seems a detraction to the reliability to me though. Does it really have to be fast?

fonzi · #**165** 02-28-2020, 12:17 PM

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Brilliant choice of Lemons car! Any departure from stock other than making it usable seems a detraction to the reliability to me though. Does it really have to be fast?

I’m not sure Jason still wants to use this car for lemons. He’s been using it as a drift and autocross car though. He did have one welded diff have its bolts fall out though. But that was after daily driving it for quite some time I think.

https://youtu.be/eZec3sZ52IE

https://youtu.be/AYWCcz0z6-0

https://youtu.be/OhcakkGGBW8

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