Hi Hedpe.

I'd have to agree with Snowman. I've got a W124 300CE-24 coupe with a stick shift. 220bhp and that is booked by MB at 7.5 Secs 0-62mph.

Top speed in my car? in need of a valve job and a ring job? also timing ajustment?

93mph- Mercedes 190e 8v 1986 5spd

I plan to get the engine rebuilt soon with my mechanically inclined friend who rebuilts engines for a living.

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1986 Mercedes 190e 2.3

Real measured top speed for a 1989 260E (automatic) with an engine in very good condition with a fresh tune-up.

209 Km/hour or 129.5MPH.

Speed officially verified by a man dressed in blue in a white/black car with little funny flashing lights on top.
(my brother in-law on a totally desert road)
JackD

The factory listed 0-60 time for my car is 5.9 sec. -- but I believe I have lowered that time to about 5.5 depending on the day. The car's speed limiter kicks in at 155 mph but I've never gone faster than 140 mph in it. That's plenty fast enough for thrills, considering the US speed limits. Car was rock solid, silent and utterly comfortable at that speed. The stock brakes were more than sufficient as well.

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Marc
C55: Evosport headers & UDP's; AMS crank; TVT thermo; phenolic spacers; Denso IK16's; EuroTech ECU; RennTech cf airbox w/ Green filters; Z06 catch can; Sprintbooster; Optima RedTop; Quaife LSD; AMG: shift paddles, 030 rear calipers & rotors; Rotera brake lines; Euroteck CF lip; "C63" rear diffuser; 18" SLK AMG Turbines (summer); 18" OZ Superleggera's (winter); K40 dual f&r radar w/ laser jammers; MB: digital climate control, iPod kit & mp3 CD changer; iTronic B/T for MOST.

When I worked for the factory I did 162MPH on the Autobahn in a new Carrera 4 .... it then started raining! Everyting of course came up fast but it was not as scary as one might think.

The really odd part is when I slowed down to 75MPH my wife asked me why we were going so slow!

Haasman

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'95 E320 Wagon-Went to Ex
'93 190E 2.6-Wrecked
'91 300E-Went to Ex
'65 911 Coupe (#302580)

Guys,

Just found a review of a 300CE from an '88 edition Autocar.

The 0-60 was 7.5 seconds, pretty good for a M103 engine.

Also the speedo was 5 mph optimistic from 50 to 120mph, so it's pretty safe to assume this applies across the range.

Bugger! that means the Skyline on the M25 (BBC TV last night) was only doing 195mph.................I thought I was witnessing history being made

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Paul Gibbons
'93 320CE
'73 Jensen Interceptor (Resting)
Giant Full Sus Mountain Bike

i can't believe this thread is still going, wow
i started it over a year ago and havn't checked it since

it is extremely off, my counting

i did it with a g-tech and my 500E with a g-tech, i can't remeber exactly what the 300SEL was, but i remember it was somewhere between 9 and 10 seconds

my 500E did a 5.64 0-60 and a 14.1 1/4 mile with the g-tech

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2009 C300 4matic

Owned:
2001 E320 Sport
1992 500E
1989 300SEL

Our 1998 C230 was "rated" by MB for 0-60mph in 10.x seconds. Last summer at the strip, we ran most runs in the 8.5-8.6 range, much quicker than MB wrote in their brochure. I wasn't too surprised, as MB does tend to be a little wonky with their quoted times.

My friend Kevin has a 1998 C280 with the M112 six, but it's hp is rated the same as the M104. He does have the advantage of the five speed auto and 3.07 final drive, but struggled with launching his car. He didn't have ASR engagement problems like an AMG car, but his car seemed to bog a little off the line. He still ran mostly 7.5-7.7 despite his problems. The car really pulled well past the 1/8th mile mark, and obviously the "open road" is an MB's real strength. He got one great launch with some wheel spin and good hook up after that, and if I remember right, it was close to 7.2 or so.

Our 1995 C36 ran mostly 0-60 in the low to mid sixes, again depending on launch. (The C230 takes NO skill, as it lacks the ability to raost it's tires... ) My wife had the best launches and when loading the heck out of the tranny, it would break into the high fives, but those runs were rare. 6.3 was repeatable.

The C230 runs into it's 210 km/h speed limiter.

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John Shellenberg
1998 C230 "Black Betty" 240K

http://img31.exs.cx/img31/4050/tophat6.gif

Does anyone have the published stats for the '93 600sel and the 93 sl600? I understand that one of the car magazines did a review/road test of the 600 sel when it came out, is anyone aware of what magazine it was?

Thanx in advance.

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Mithra

93 sl600
93 600sel

A mercedes is an inanimate object and therefore must respond to logic and reason.

The original poster asked for top speeds of older models. Gotta chime in with my bahn burner.

1985 230TE 5 speed (123). Top speed is a massive 111 MPH.


Chuck Chiasson

Michael, the E500, 5.1 SECOND. Was that at a track or G-TECH PRO ? This is very hard for us on the west coast to calculate. Every track out here could care about 0 to 60. I've found the G-TECH PRO to be very accurate.
Does anyone know of a radar device that can be purchased for this purpose ?
Do you race your E500 ? I hope you do, I call it educating the masses. Dan Smith, Oregon

old post i know but i was browsing to find the bhp etc for my new toy and didnt realize how rare my car is , im lucky to own a W124 AMG 3.4L 300CE lefthand drive ofc. gonna keep it for now but might sell for the right offer , im from the http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk its piccys are on there

my 86 300E got up to 134, havent tested the timing, i know that when its at 20-30 mph and u gun it it will get up to 70-80 in less than 5 seconds

Hey ive got 94 e420 can anyone tell me that top speed on it? 4.2L V8. I realy dont wanna go 155mph on public roads. At least were i live. My speedomitor sez 165mph dont believe it. Oh is there anyway i could remove the speed limiter? It's electronicly limited right? Can I remove that and the ASR?

guess you werent reading the part where one of the first few posters mentioned that its limited to 155

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