Jamie has some good info, but I think he's getting the cart before the horse. I still suggest starting with the basics. Check if you are missing fuel or fire. If you have both you could do a compression test. Once you get it going and the power is low, you can easilly check for a restricted exhaust by hooking up a simple vacuum gauge. If vacuum is low at high rpms, you either have a restricted exhaust or retarded cam timing. If you report back with results, I'll help you if you want. I'm intimately familiar with th 89 180E 2.6. That is the exact car I bought for my 82 year old mother last year. Although I personnaly don't care for 190s, she loves the car. I bought the car for cheap, because the shop said it had no comp in 5 and 6. The head would have to come off. No biggie for me, but I did my own basic comp test and found #3 no comp. Cyls $5 and #6 were fine. Before jumping to conclusions, I pulled the valve cover to do a BASIC visual. The visual uncovered a broken valve spring on #3 cyl. I applied an air hold, took a spring from a scrap 3 liter I had in the corner, and had the car running in an hour. Remember the basics.

Peter

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